Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-10-20

important audiences in our own coun-
try and some in Europe, but had never
met with just such a reception before
We said, you have been talking
about Agassiz this evening. the great
teacher whose name looms above all
other teachers, like Mt. Washington
among little hils. Perhaps you are
not aware that Agassiz was a firm
believer in some form of immortality
for the lower creatures. Perhaps you
are not aware that hundreds of thous-
ands of cattle, sheep and other an
imals are taken out of our cattle
trains every year dead or in dying
condition, and that any gentleman or
lady in this hall is liable on any day
of the year to be eating the poisonous
meat of these suffering creatures, and
that the only effective remedy is to go
down to the roots and teach kindness
to animals in all our public schools"
There was no more laughter. We
spoke nearly an hour. Not person
left his or her seat till the close. Then
they flocked around us and told us
that it was the most important matter
that had come before the convention
and the superintendent of the Wor-
cester public schools wrote our Sec
rotary that he never heard man say
so much in the same length of time
in his whole life as we said that
night.
Another adventure was when we
sat through the whole convention of
the great Rock River Methodist con-
ference at Chicago and finally secured
a whole evening to tell them how on
the long summer days, when the
church bells were ringing, and the peo-
pie were gathering to pray for Gods
mercy, tens of thousand of cattle and
other animals were standing in those
stock yards within sight of those
church spires and sound of those Sab
bath bells, from Saturday night until
Monday morning without one drop of
water. At the close of our address
we received unanimous standing
vote of thanks from the whole audi.
ence, filling the floor and the galleries.
A third adventure was at the bi.
ennial Unitarian conference at Sarato-
ga where at the previous conference
1t was impossible for us to get a hear
Ing. We determined that at this next
conference we would speak to about
thousand Unitarians gathered from all
parts of our country and though the
committee decided that they could not
give us moment of time, the COM
mittee was over-ruled. We carried out
our plan successfully, were thanked
by many of our audience and invited
to speak from several Unitarian pull
puts, in one of which, at Washington,
ID. c., we had the pleasure of address
sing some time later a very large and
Important audience.
A fourth was at the great Mary
land Evangelical Sunday-school Con-
lvention held at Baltimore Every seat
In floor and gallery was filled, prob
ably two hundred clergymen on the
platform and no entrance except by
ticket. They refused to give us one
minute to speak of the Importance of
Teaching kindness to animals in the
Sunday-schools of Maryland, but as
told in our "Autobiographical Sketch
es,' Dwight l.. Moody put us onto
the platform in the seat reserved for
himself and gave us chance to tell
our story to an audience which could
not have been more attentive if we
mad been an angel from heaven in
stead of only an Angel from Boston.
We might mention other adventures
In which we had more or less diff
Guilty, but the foregoing are enough
to show that we have not always had
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