varying problems of life, that man by the travail 
of science is trying to solve. 
Why man takes pleasure in killing the things 
God takes pleasure in creating is a question diff- 
cult to answer. There is no honor nor glory in 
destroying life. Humanity, sickened at the 
wanton slaughter of the innocent, cries out 
against it. Let life be sacred for all to whom 
God has given it! Differ as we may, justice to 
all involves obligations that should be universal. 
All who are interested in the development of 
character and refinement in our children should 
generously encourage the study of nature in early 
life. A man’s ways are usually too fixed to be 
influenced, but the child, more easily interested, 
is often led up to the highest interpretation of 
nature — the elevation and preservation of life. 
The way to secure nature’s fine influence on man 
is through the child’s impressionable heart. 
Parents do not fully realize the force for evil 
concealed in an inherent taste that prompts a 
child to hurt or kill — a taste, growing unchecked, 
sooner or later develops, if not a cruel, a heedless 
character, having no sympathy for suffering or 
regard for life. Such a character sees not the 
glory in heaven or earth, for he sees not with 
loving eyes. 
A child’s environment for the first year of life 
is adjusted by the parents, who are thus made 
directly or indirectly responsible for the impres- 
sions made on the undeveloped mind, whose in- 
tuitions frequently hold a truth not recognized 
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