P10NE[i.R HUNTKRS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 thing men snd women and poor, little, innocent 

 children, throu^^h no fault oi> theirs, are killed. 

 And others by the most trifling thing escape. I 

 have seen the meanest and v/ickedest 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 v/ith me is, v/as 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 v/e 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 v/ith them. This is about the way 



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