PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 thing men and women and poor, little, innocent 

 children, through no fault of theirs, are hilled. 

 And others by the most trifling thing escape. I 

 have seen the meanest and wickedest person 

 have a splendid and beautiful day for their 

 funeral and I have seen the friends of the Lord 

 poor and the good Christian people almost 

 frozen to death or drowned in burying their dead. 

 The great moral question with me is, was this 

 earth gotten up especially for the benefit of /Aen, 

 or was it only an after-thought. The revolution 

 of the sun, moon and stars are perfect to a 

 second. But when we come down to the law 

 governing our little Earth we all imperfection, 

 one law creating, another destroying. It is noth- 

 ing but a war of the elements and a law of des- 

 truction between every living thing. There is no 

 safety or security in any place or thing. It is 

 said what a beautiful act of Providence it was 

 that He created one set of animals and birds to 

 keep one another set down or the world would 

 be over-run with them. This is about the way 



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