138 British War Dogs 



Milton says : 



" Discord first. 



Daughter of Sin, among the irrational 

 Death introduced, through fierce antipathy : 

 Beast now with beast 'gan war, and fowl with fowl, 

 And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving, 

 Devoured each other ; nor stood much in awe 

 Of man, but fled him, or with count'nance grim 

 Glared on him passing. These were from without 

 The growing miseries which Adam saw." 



How different is the picture of creation, as shown forth 

 in the first chapter of Genesis, when love reigned supreme 

 between man and beast, and when that understanding 

 must have obtained, which is graphically described in the 

 Book of Wisdom (Apocrypha) : 



" God made not death, neither hath He pleasure in 

 the destruction of the living. For He created all things, 

 that they might have their being ; and the generations of 

 the world were healthful ; and there is no poison of 

 destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the 

 earth." 



It would be as well if this generation awoke to the great 

 obligation placed upon it, of bringing this happy condition 

 to pass once more. That it will have to be done sooner 

 or later, there is no question of doubt, and God's immut- 

 able laws, which grind " exceeding small," will, meta- 

 phorically speaking, reduce to " powder " that mental 

 attitude, which resists the mandate. 



Love for, and the protection of animals, should be 

 taught in all schools, and the churches might easily take 

 a more energetic attitude on this point, than they have 

 docte in the past. 



So far is this from being done, however, that we find the 

 children instructed to assist in destroying whole com- 



