The sun., 1897-10-31

can never recompense them for what
they are losing in spiritual training, for
the spirit needs its methods and timo
for practice quite as much as the mind
or body.
I think . child who learns the princi.
pies Of spiritual concentration is better
equipped for the battles Of life, even
without education, than the most learn.
ed ,naterialist. He who learns how to
look into his own spirit and finds its
close connection with deity will obtain
more useful wisdom than the greatest
bookworm who ever lived and believed
only in human intellect.
It is the mother who should be the
first spiritual teacher. She need MOI
necessarily teach her child creeds, bu,
let her train the young mind tendril to
cling about something greater than hu-
man intellect if she wants to confer q
lasting benefit upon it.
The need Of the day is a religion
whose cornerstone is kindness to all
created things. Nothing more horrible
can be conceived than clergyman and
a schoolteacher attempting to convey
moral lesson by killing animals in the
presence OF sensitive women and chill
dren.
A clergyman recently illustrated to
his congregation the evil effects Of to-
bacco by killing two cats in his pulpit
with nicotine.
A schoolteacher caused q panic by
chloroforming u cat and then dissecting
it in the presence Of the children, many
OF whom tainted or became hysterical.
If this is modern orthodoxy, it Ger.
tsinly is not Christianity.
No man has tho love Of God or the
spirit of Christ in his heart who could
even sit still and witness such an act
without protest. No woman is fit to
be teacher of the young who could de-
liLerately take the life Of any iuoffen.
sivc animal. She is monster at heart
and worse than brute by nature
No religion is Of any value or
worth in the world which does not
teach sympathy fer and kindness to ami
mails. They are just as much part of
Gods system as we are. Henry Bergh
has done more to evangelize the world
than most clergyman who have preach
cd creels to us during the last 30 years.
The woman who can take the life Of q
happy little animal and proceed to dis
sect its warm body III the presence Of
young children is most certainly "de.
generate and her influence is perni-
cious. ri
That is not the sort of "window"
through which the growing generation
should regard life.
The precise location of cats spinal
cord is not necessary knowledge for any
child to obtain, especially at tho sacri-
fee Of kind and sympathetic feelings.
We need missionaries from India to
convert such women and such clergy
men to q more humane and divine re.
ligion.
Wealthy women, women with mil
lions Of money, would never think of
asking seamstress to sew for them and
take thanks and compliments as pay
ment. They never imagine it settles the
confectioner's account if they tell him
the ices he served their guests were de-
licious yet not infrequently they ask
the services Of self supporting young
musicians in their homes and consider
the compliment Of the request sufficient
payment.
A young woman who is striving to
support herself in New York with her
really wonderful voice has during the
last month sung by request in the
homes of two millionaires, people whose
names are known wherever civilization
extends, and no reference to relnunera-
tion was made by either hostess. One
Of these ladies is very liberal in her
gifts to the paupers and to the churches.
Would it not be wiser charity to help
q talented and proud young girl to sup
port herself honestly?
l understand these cases are not in
frequent. Women Of large means and
prominent social position often consider
the compliment they confer upon a
young artist sufficient remuneration for
services rendered, but $40 or $40
check would 60 farther toward paying
board bills than compliments.
If wealth helped more people who are
striving to climb, it would not be obliged
to assist so many who are down.
A little more thoughtfulness toward
the struggling, and there would be less
need of aims for the crushed and de-
feated. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
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