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of the Antediluvians, Sodom and Gomorrah, Egypt, 

 Canaan, Nineveh, Babylon and Persia. And later 

 on, consider the history of the once proud and pros- 

 perous nations of Greece and Rome, which were 

 permitted to continue for a thousand years and 

 then were blotted from the face of the earth. 



The cry of the oppressed may be unheeded on 

 earth but it is heard in heaven. God is just ; and 

 if justice reigns, then the unjust must sooner or 

 later suffer terrible retribution, for " Vengeance is 

 Mine ; I will repay saith the Lord." 



Sporting at the sacrifice of suffering is a relic of 

 barbarism, and how any refined sensitive human 

 being can engage in such amusement is more than 

 I can comprehend. What may be called sport, to 

 one of God's creatures becomes intense suffering 

 and death. 



The wholesale slaughter of birds to furnish orna- 

 ments for women's hats is another feature of 

 wanton cruelty which deserves the condemnation 

 of all good people. 



When a woman is wearing the form of a beauti- 

 ful bird, with bright and lovely plumage, its feet 

 clinging as it were to the limb of a tree, its wings 

 spread as if about to soar to the heavens, and its 



