64 HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 
The English bishop, James Bellord, in his “New Catechism of 
Christian Doctrine” writes as follows : 
Always be kind to dumb animals. They are useful to us and very faithful 
and they deserve good treatment. They have very little of the pleasures of life, 
and we should not take away the little they have. We are like God to them : 
so we should act like God, doing good and not evil to the poor animals. 
Archbishop Luis Martinez, in speaking of animals, remarked : 
Creatures are ours to handle as we would touch the strings of a lyre, to intone 
a melodius song to God. That is the way they were used iu Paradise. Man 
was king of creation : he could dispose of everything on earth. Adam before his 
sin had a profound sense of order and he used creatures as a stairway to lead 
him to God. 
Msgr. Ronald Ivnox in an unpublished meditation once said : 
We were all fellow passengers long ago in Noah’s ark and we can never be 
strangers to one another after that cruise. 
Before we say anything else, we must remember that they are meant to be here, 
and they have undergone a heavenly scrutiny and have been declared very good. 
(Gen. 1:20, 21) 
St. Bernard tells us that Christ was put in the crib between the ass 
and the ox that He might preserve men and beasts. 
That gifted writer, Leon Bloy, said : 
And precisely because animals are the most misunderstood and the most op- 
pressed by man, I think that some day God will do by them something beyond 
our imagination, when the day comes to manifest His glory. 
Father Aloysius Roche, modern author and publicist, wrote : 
We must try to decipher in animals the signature of the Creator. 
And the same author on another occasion in his book “These Ani- 
mals of Ours” wrote as follows : 
We must take our stand in front of these animals of ours, first and fore- 
most in an attiude of respect and understandind — we must approach them with 
the reverence of St. Francis, who looked at them with attention, with patience, 
with sympathy, in short, with the eyes of a brother. The church by settiug the 
seal of approval on his life surely implies that his behavior to the lower animals, 
is part and parcel of the Franciscan message to the world. 
Father Keating, a distinguished member of the English Society of 
Jesus, in his pamphlet “Kindness to Animals” writes : 
Like man they are created for happiness after their sort and according to 
their capacity, and we are bound to do nothing deliberately to impede their 
destiny. 
Msgr. F. Davis in a sermon at St. Chad’s Cathedral in Birming- 
ham said : 
Clearly man ruling this world in place of God must respect the nature that 
God has given to animals. He must not abuse these gifts by doing wanton 
violence to their nature and causing them unnecessary suffering and hard- 
ship. Some sufferings belong to the life of both animals and man, but nothing 
can justify the infliction of needless sufferings on animals by man. 
The foregoing I have set down to show that God is the Father and 
Creator of the animals as much as He is our Father and Creator. 
He is their absolute owner and Master. He loves them tenderly 
and dearly. He lends them to us and adjures us in our use of them 
to do as Lie himself would do. 
As we look around us and observe the recklessness and abandon- 
ment, the callousness and cruelty that is the general lot of animals 
