The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-06-10
FARMVILLE VA, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1904

uflInn lOnhNS, our SoNEStcIH anu sohA- i
stresses. that make the day, "a well as
the night. vocal with music. The fowls |
Of the barnyard and the cattle OF the |
fields-they, too. are worthy Of their /
hire. The bone and muscle and brain /
Of man come from their flesh. Even
the humblest creatures are sometimes |
Of great value to man.
Again, assert that we should honor
the Humane Society Of America be-
cause / sometimes think that the birds
Of the air, as we'll as the beasts Of the
earth. may have an ardor Of affection
even greater than that Of man If that
loving power Of the heart IS ever al
lowed 20 develop. / believe that dog
can love as q man can love l believe
q horse can love as a man can love,
and a bird also. We should be very
careful lest we trample upon the
hearts OF the dumb brutes, as some Of
MS too often trample upon the hearts Of
men What a dog love as a man
l0yesi Absurd" says some one. Is II
nbsurdl Have you never heard OF a
dog dying from grief because his mas
ter diedi My father once had a noble
greyhound. When he went far away
from home that dog became 80 lonely
without my father that be refused 10
eat. and literally died from grieving FOR
his master. Absurd Did you never
see a dog grieving among the chief
mourners at n funerall Again and
again we tried 20 drive Beauty little
sky terrier out Of the room Of death.
but he would not go. Under the casket
he lay. hour after hour. Mournfully
he went from room 10 room after the
undertaken had carried the precious
burden away to sleep among the flow
crs. For days and weeks Beauty was
hunting He was always hunting, He
was hunting for the dead. Have you
never had a Beauty In your home1
Isit absurd 10 suppose that the horse
and the dog. and even the bird, cannot
love as man lovesl Then why did that
/ little pet of Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks,
I the wife Of the vice president Of the
/ United States, give frightened cry
and fall of her perch and die when
/ her mistress one day lost her patience
aud cried ont 10 the feathered singer,
/ 10 whom she had never before spoken
a cross word: BE still tell you,
be stllm An, those who have had low
ing pets know 10 some extent the
height and the depth Of their sffec-
tlons! You should be kind 10 the dumb
brutes and the feathered companions
OF your lives because in a sense they
can love as we ourselves can love.
But. lastly, we should be kind and
gentle and loving toward the dumb
brutes because God loves them, and
what God loves we should not despise
1 used TO think that God created
this world for man. I used to think
that all other worlds were merely
empty. burned ont worlds Ike the
moon. ! used 10 think that the other
worlds were not worth the decorating
and upholstering because man was not
there. But now believe all worlds are
created as our own world was created
because God loves the beautiful and
has declared that everything he created
in the universe was good. Yes, God
hath made everything beautiful in bis
time"
God loves the lambs He made the
sheep's gentlencss the symbol Of di-
vine gentleness Christ was led as
sheen dumb before his shearers, and
rs lamb M the slaughter he opened
NOT his mouth. God made the horse
and saw that he was good. On that
great day Of the triumph Of righteous
ness over sin Jesus, the eternal con
oueror. shall come riding down the
heavenly heights upon the white
charger Of victory. Oh, my friends, II
God created the beasts Of the fields
and the birds Of the air nd the ish Of
the seas and saw they were good We
should be kind and gentle and loving
toward them all. From the dumb crea
tures as well as from the sweet voices
NJ the woods we may learn some Of the
best lessons Of Christian love.
God bless the Humane Society ol
Americai God bless all those men and
women who are taking of the crue
collars CALLING the necks Of the horsel
suffering with sores and unhitchins
. horses that are hobbling along on de
q csved feetl God bless the Christlik'
movement which makes men treat thei
T dogs at least as kindly ms they woul'
treat their human enemies God bles
all movements that would respect IN
inalienable rights Of the sheep and tn
horses and cattle which stood abou
the manger on the night that Jesu
+. was bornl God bless all those wh
would nationally and with Christlal
feeling translate to the human hear
= the commandment Of my text whicl
j saws. "Thou shalt not muzzle the o.
e when he treadeth out the corn|