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^'^\i> .. Spirituality .. Sidney H. Beard ciy

Our National Degeneration Robert H. Peris, M D., f.R.C.S., Eng. 99 A Call to Higher Living Rev. J. Todd Ferrier loo

Editorial Notes ...... H. Beard 102 — Sidney — The Need for Realization— The Awakening: of —Christendom The Way of—the Cross \ Respectful Challeng^e Religion and Sanitation The Friendship of Animals—An Interesting: Event — Religious Education—Light from beyond the Grave—A Startling Admission.

First of the The Step , Stairway

A Crisis in Roman Imperialism Arthur Baker, M. A. laf

A Visit to a London Hell Alfred Harvey loS The Order of the Golden Age.

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Sidney H. Beard (Provost). Barcombe Hall, Paignton. Robert H. Perks, M.D., F.R.C.S., Kng., Femdale, Paigaton. Macdesfield Rev. J. Todd Ferrier, Roselle, Paignton. Harold W. V^histon, Ovetdale, Langley, The ahove ccnstttuU the Executive Courtdl,

Frances L. Boult, 9, Greencroft Gardens, South Hampstead, N.W. Eustace H. Miles, M.A., Klng'8 College, Cambridge. Ihs Rev. Charles A. Hall, Melltleriggs, Paisley, N.B. Rev. A. M. Mitchell, M.A., Vicarage, Buitoo Wood, Lancashire. Nelson Dundee. Rev. Arthur Harvie, 11, Birchfleld Road, Northampton. Rev. ^Walter TWalsh, 4, Terrace, The Kinross N.B. Lydia A. Irons, Milan, Spokane Co, Washington, U.S.A. Rev. H. J. Williams, Rectory,

Bon. Secretary .- Robert H. Perks, M.D., F.R.C.S., Eng, Ilfracombe. Hon. rreo3«r«r; Hon. Auditor ; Charles N. Foyster, Sidney H. Beard, Hon. Solicitor: Geo. Co2ens Prior, Portsmouth. POUNDED. 1895:— and Health and Life a and To proclaim a message of Peace Happiness, Purity, 'T'o advocate the adoption throughout Christendom of bloodless and Power. natural diet, because the practice of eating the flesh of animals

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The voices we might have heard will speak to other Spirituality. ears that are more sensitive. The faces we might have seen will become manifest is the one thing- that, above all others, is to other eyes that are less dim. Spiritualitydesirable and needful for us. The glory that might have shone for us will be If the high purpose of our revealed to others whose understanding and vision is less / ,^ lives is to be ful- beclouded by earthly mists. filled, if they are to The veil that hides from us the joy and the wonder yield us real satis- of that Higher Realm to which so many of us aspire, faction, and if our and which might have become transparent to us, will mental and soul remain we shall suffer loss opaque ; and thereby, and culture is to become bondage to material limitation and misconception, though in any true sense we inight have enjoyed clear vision and freedom. complete, we must Instead of being nourished by the mystic ' bread of win possession of the food that has ever sustained the Israel ' life,' spiritual this quality. of shall husks and the rich wine God, we languish upon ; Without it, of the Kingdom will be tasted by other lips than our own. nearly all the other ^^ '^i ^-^ things that we may For of mind and heart is the essential gain will crumble Spirituality qualifi- cation for the and transcendent life —for the into dust, like the bodies overcoming true understanding of all real phenomena, scripture and we have worn for a time, when we go hence. revelation. And we shall awake on the other side of the veil, It is the without which no ourselves rich "wedding garment," guest poor, though we thought ; weak, though of Heaven. and we can be admitted to the marriage-feast we thought ourselves strong ; ignorant, though It is the passport to the inner mysteries of the Kingdom thought ourselves wise. of God— in a sense, it is that itself. shall be amidst multitudes in yea, Kingdom Lonely we ; strangers For the soul learns to know God desire unsatisfied and un- truly spiritual by a far country ; with e.xpectation means of sensation, and thus to in har- fulfilled. spiritual pulsate 's -»i -^i mony with the Infinite Heart of Being : And not only in the realm beyond will our loss be To apprehend the wondrous symbolism that so largely apparent if we fail to attain and possess this pearl of constitutes the language of the higher planes, and which, for we shall miss the mark and come short is the to the of all sacred great price ; consequently, key interpretation of the prize of our high calling in this world also. writings : Poverty of experience will be our portion—notwith- To respond to the music of the spheres and to the eternal of the universe and to send standing all our religion and our religious exercises. great love-song ; Misapprehension of eternal verities will characterize forth corresponding vibrations to other souls. And thus and for its our minds in spite of all our mundane knowledge and it is prepared for the celestial citizenship, academic lore—for spiritual things can only be spiritually higher service and ministry. as the scales ot discerned—and only by those who are spiritual. Its soul-vision becomes developed The angels we might have entertained will pass our materialistic misconception fall away, and it begins to not threshold, and enter dwelling places that are more con- see with that intuitive perception which does depend will visit other souls are more genial ; they who responsive. upon any physical organs.

"Those to whom the Earth is not consecrated, will find their Heaven profane." 98 -* The Herald of the golden age.

It is conscious of sounds that once it could not spiritual tendency, faculty and sensibility—except to a influences that once it could not sense. that is hear ; of degree merely elementary. And thus it is enabled to realize the coming glory, Natural Law is such that carnal food inevitably tends trans- to for as a man so more and more distinctly, as the veil grows more produce carnal-mindedness ; eateth, diet in parent. he thinketh. Blood-stained results the eclipse of spiritual vision—in dullness of apprehension—in weakness and of soul. Many of us have longed with intense yearning to know, bondage Neither can we nourish our minds by experience, something of that mystic City of God which successfully upon " and trash the aimless has no need of the light of the sun" and the brightness superficialities literary ; upon gossip — and with which — even of which can only be portrayed by veiled imagery that trivialit}- worldlings aye, religious — for the because have dwelling place of souls that have washed their robes and worldlings are, time, content, they " not realized are made perfect—where there shall be Night no more :" an3-thing higher. If become must strive To understand the hidden meaning of its golden streets, we would spiritual we to live the even amidst the distractions of this mun- its river of living water, its trees of life, its radiant glory, spiritual life, dane existence. must of our — its eternal harmony and peace. We become purged dross the Fire of the Divine Love and thus But we could not bear it yet. The vision would unfit purified by ; prepared for of and us for life in this mundane sphere with all its material the sacred work ministry the manifestation of limitations and trials. the gifts and the fruits of the Spirit. We should desire with such intensity of aspiration to We must seek, by consecration, faith, prayer, and escape from our exile in this prison house of flesh, before fasting (of the true sort) to enter that Inner Kingdom our appointed time, that it would not be well for us. which was revealed by the Great Teacher ot Nazareth. thus Our spiritual evolution must first be accomplished, our Thus, and alone, may we, whilst dwelling upon the wills be perfectly blended with the Divine Will, our Earth, hope to reach heavenly and spiritual plane and At-one-ment be made. enjoy communion with that spiritual aristocracy of per- And it may be needful for us to realize that a soul fected souls who constitute the true and universal "Church in environment of and whose will furnish one of the chief which is unspiritual could not breathe that ; Christ," society the atmosphere is too highly charged with spiritual energy, sources of that joy "which God hath prepared for those the love-vibration is too intense. who love Him." Sidney H. Beard. Those who are still incarnate—even though they be ^v ^^ ^^ and evolved—can only be permitted to spiritual highly Immortal Life. see it from afar. The intensity of vibration that is awakened by close proximity to spiritual beings of the Immortal life is something to be earned order is so that it would soon destroy the highest great By slow self-conquest, comradeship with pain material body. And patient seeking after higher truths. The potency of the Radiance that emanates from Spirit We cannot follow our own wayward wills, And feed our baser cannot be adequately revealed by human language. And appetites, and give " Loose rein to foolish tempers, year on year, it is indeed true, in this sense, that, Our God is a " 1 And then Lord, me ; believe !" consuming Fire." cry, forgive And straightway bathe in glory. Men must learn But as we grow in spirituality and become, by spiritual God's system is too grand a thing for that.

accustomed to such sensation ; as we experience, higher The spark Divine dwells in our souls, and we as it to the celestial conditions get acclimatised, were, ; Can fan it to a steady flame of light it becomes increasingly possible for us to realize some- Whose lustre gilds the pathway to the tomb And shines on or else what of the glory which "eye hath not seen, nor ear through eternity ; it till it down to heard." We become able to bear it. Neglect glimmers death, And leaves us but the darkness of the grave. We must, therefore, be patient for a while, and seek Each conquered passion feeds the living flame. to so with the Divine Spirit that in us there co-operate Each well borne sorrow is a step t'wards God. the work" of Transmutation. may be accomplished "great Faith cannot rescue, and no blood redeem And thus it may become our privilege, ultimately, to The soul that will not reason and resolve. in this the Lean on with reveal to those around us world, fact that it thyself, yet prop thyself prayer ; is Who calls it no is for the children of men to live, consciously, (All hope prayer. hope more, possible Sends prayer footsore forth o'er wastes ; and even manifestly, as sons and daughters of God. weary While he who calls it to hope gives wings prayer. ) f^i ^^ ^"^ And there are of " spirits, messengers love, Comrades ! We are the children God! And if He Who come at call our of to fortify strength ; we shall be like Him. Make friends with shall be manifested (in us) And them, and with thine inner self ; Cast out all bitterness and everyone that hath this hope in him, purifieth himself." envy, hate, And the mind's fair tabernacle Without such of body and soul, of keep pure. purification thought hands Shake with grief, give greeting unto pain— and of heart and life, spirituality in real purpose, anj- Those in soul angels disguise ; and thy glad sense is impossible of attainment. From height to height, from star to shining star, We cannot nourish our and mental on climb and physical organs Shall claim blest ^Immortality. gross and carnal food and yet reasonably hope to develope Ella W. Wacox.

"We are here to forge the instruments for immortal service." -* The Herald of the Golden age -^ 99

point to a frugivorous diet as that most suitable to man, as Our National Degeneration, a nation we have adopted a dietary largely carnivorous, with results that prove too clearly to those who can see, that a Natural Law cannot be violated with impunity. The effete salts contained in animal tissues act as slow, but sure poisons upon the bodies of those who consume them, producing gradually, first, serious functional distur- bance and finally, grave organic changes in the bloodvessels which are the structures by which the blood is distributed to the various organs, and which regulate such supply as is necessary in the respective cases. This supply being inter- fered with, results in degeneration— and disease of the various attentive observer of our modern civilization can hardly organs and structures the ultimate effects of this and the the in is An fail to be struck with the prevalence of physical de- deposition of poisonous salts various organs manifest as generation amongst us, and such impression is amply premature senility, or localized disease leading confirmed by a perusal of the records of the national health. to much impairment of usefulness and activity and to a high From them we find that the percentage of men who fail total of mortality. death ends this of events the cause to satisfy the very moderate requirements of our recruiting When sequence is the most local manifesta- standard is now upwards of fifty per cent, and is still in- commonly given prominent tion —such as "heart creasing, that insanity is also increasing to an alarming "apoplexy," "kidney disease," in cause extent, and that the percentage of deaths from most of the failure." etc., vi'hen fact the real and primary is slow more serious diseases is also greater year by year. The poisoning from effete flesh salts. average duration of life is alarmingly low. It has indeed Again, as a means of temporary relief from the earlier untoward effects of these mental been slightly raised during the past few years, but this has poisons (lassitude, depression, been shown by competent authorities to be due mainly to the their action on blood pressure, etc.) alcohol, tobacco and tea are and with the result that their increased care bestowed on the rearing of i)ifanls and con- sought largely consumed, often excessive use further in its sequent lessened mortality amongst them rather than to brings degeneration train, any improvement in the standard of health of the mass of especially of the nervous system, upon the integrity of which the control and well of the whole the population. being organism depends. On every hand we see individuals whose physical In short, such cases afTord complete demonstration of the " organization is obviously unfit to cope with the ordinary fact that the law as we sow so do we reap," is as inexor- duties of life, and who swell the numbers of those who able in its operation in the physical as in the moral world. crowd our hospitals, as3lums, and workhouses— "failures Abundant and irrefutable evidence as to the deleterious " in the race." A condition of ill-health, disease, is now effects of flesh poisoning" can be obtained by those who as almost the normal and is as accepted being one, regarded are genuinely desirous of doing so, and I would most seriously less and the actual condition of is more or inevitable, things urge those of my readers who are as yet unacquainted with such that I believe there are few medical men who such evidence to seek to obtain such for con- very ; my experience amongst the circle of their friends and acquaintances could vinces me that a return to a natural and bloodless diet would of over of are find twenty adults, say thirty years age, who result in the arrest of human physical degeneration to an free from actual or trouble of perfectly threatening physical extent far beyond even our most optimistic expectations. some sort. I have not touched upon the humanitarian and ethical The number of these in the of and possession abounding aspects of this question, as that is dealt with elsewhere in would be found to be almost infinitesimal. joyous well-being this paper by my colleagues, although to my mind they are Now such results can be due to causes, only adequate of even greater importance. and it behoves us to most seriously consider what these are. Robert H. Perks., M.D.. F.R.C.S., Eng. No doubt it will be said with some truth that the rush, excitement and pressure of our modern, competitive, strenuous V^ *^ J^ life are factors in producing a break-down of the powerful FOOD. human machinery, as it were— but where favourable con- VITAL ditions exist for the due nourishment and repair of the O'le of the most beautiful and inspiring facts of nature is such results are obviated to a extent organism, large life shall life that God has that be sustained by ; pro- —as is evidenced the fact that this eat that the natural food for by persons entering vided life for us to ; man strenuous life who have had their bodily powers developed is such as can be eaten, digested, and assimilated with- or the touch of death on a natural and simple dietary are best able to withstand out even a vestige of decay ; that, full life it shall on the its strain. of and life-giving power, pass way marked out for it by the wisdom oi God until it becomes Such widespread evils must owe their existence to an changed from the fruit, the grain, the nut, the vegetable, and universal and I am of equally widespread cause, opinion tissue into into blood, bone, ; action, impulse, purpose ; is in that such to be found unnatural dietetic habits. into life — into thought, word, song ; love, praise, worship, Neglecting the obvious testimony afforded by the teach- life eternal, full of a satisfaction here, which is but a pre- ings of human anatomy and physiology, which unmistakably monition of the joy of immortality.

It is impossible to escape the consequences of our deeds." lOO -* The Herald of the golden age.

and God. think of themselves and live for to Truth, They A Call Higher Living, themselves. ^^ ^'9i '•^i as National decay set in ? Is the physique of the Now these conditions, painful as they may seem, are H Nation degenerating? Many there are who affirm only effects of causes that are removable. The lack of that these things are so. But is physical interest in the highest things is not so much from want form of de- of from the fact that the Soul of the Nation decay the only ability as — generation which the people see? sleeps, and as a result it is spiritually impoverished, Such weakening of the National though in body and mind it is awake to the demands of stamina dates further back than the earth. The glamour of outward culture has deceived the body, and has its roots in the imagination, whilst the body has been taken captive the decline of the soul's aspira- by animal propensities. The love of sensuous things tions. When the religious faith predominates. What shall we eat and wherewithal shall of a nation loses its vitality and we be clothed—this is the chief cry. All else circles round sets first. miisi reality, then degeneration this centre. The body comes The senses be to in. Of this would I speak gratified. Meats and drinks and amusements are the our readers. chief factors in our social life. The children have craved to hear for the of the and the have I am no pessimist who cares gratification senses, parents I an with the result that the soul has found it funeral dirges sung over our National life. am yielded, increasingly forces of difficult to to optimist — a man who believes in the potential aspire higher things. I are mankind, not only Briton, but all the higher races. So Thus to-day we reaping the fruits of the sowing of the has eriervated our man- would sing a song of hope to my brethren the world over, past fifty years. Luxury I hood and womanhood. It has so debased the mind and because in every soul lie the potentialities of a Christ. ot dimmed its vision till earthliness and would sing of a real culture that is no mere re-habilitation short-sightedness has have the soul from the cause of its Grecian gymnastics or Roman heroism, but one that prevented seeing own also it its foundation in pure feeding, true thinking, high purpose degradation, and have prevented from recognising its and noble service. obligations to the lower races, and the great need for the ''Wi ^9i ^^ culture of humaneness. And it is this awful blindness which Even in these of revived athleticism we cannot shut days has come over the Nation as the result of its gross our to the fact that the children are not as their fathers eyes feeding and thinking which has led to its recognition and were. we are with the highest faith in the Though optimists even protection and advocacy of the brutal inquisition to ultimate triumph of man, yet are we bound acknowledge known as vivisection. the evidence of science, that of late our race has degenerated .-5 'i "^ for never was so To remove these evil effects we must remove the physically. And though the cry education so which them and to remove these causes loud as now, nor the educational advantages great, yet things produce ; the intellectual results have not been in keeping with the the Nation must be recalled to its senses. It would be " difficult indeed to show that we are not on the down- opportunities. — It does not require a seer to read the signs of these times, grade," not in the sense in which that term was applied to behold the people's degeneracy in mind as well as in body; some years ago in religious controversy, but with a far for there is little true intellectual life to-day. With all their more important and subtle and far-reaching meaning. We like their think- have been down for half a The thirst education the multitudes do not think ; they going century. is serious consideration for for mere material for ing done for them. There no by wealth, gain, earthly power ; cultivation ot the outward taste and them of life's problems. All their gifts and the knowledge the senses, especially have till have sensualised the which has grown out of their educational advantages, touch, they grown aestheticallj' ; the social is been directed almost solely to the acquisition of wealth or ease with which craze for mere pleasure the barbaric habit of on the flesh of for the purpose of pleasure. The children may have a more gratified ; living correct knowledge of the technicalities of language and sentient creatures, killing them for food, and torturing fathers but with all this them in the name of science—these have science, art and music, than the ; things corrupted of the deadened their finer they are not thinkers. the Soul people, sensibilities, blinded them to the visions of life. We are just now growing a crop of superficially cultured and higher these the nation niiisi be recalled if its but terribly enervated, and even morally emasculated young From things is to be arrested. are life. The children of the present generation have little or no decay We exactly where Rome was centuries The same forces that its soul-power to grasp the profoundest problems of our Being ; eighteen ago. wrought decline and fall are now in our and they have even less desire to try. Their better natures operating midst, though forms. are stunted through the luxury and pleasure-loving spirit of under new Our national successes and our world desire that our universal commercial our to the times. They have a supreme everything empire ; enterprise ; power should be for them and have an con- command our enormous national wealth— these made easy ; they equal through tempt for a life of self-denial and self-sacrifice. Too many things have made us as they made Rome, drunken with the of them think that the parents should make every sacrifice wine of Bacchus, till our better senses have almost left us. for all desire but have been the visible the love them, and provide them with they may ; We captivated by show, by they themselves show little if any reverence for age and of material things, by the revelry of feasts and exciting

"Our opportunity to do good is here and now." -•- The Herald of the Golden age. ^ lOI

and from these we must liberate ourselves. cannot be avoided. The is first pleasures ; degeneracy decay spiritual, We must shake ourselves free from the shackles of this not physical. It is the inmost soul of man which alone slavery, or the fate of Rome will be ours. can give him true health through living in fellowship with Where shall we begin ? I think I hear some earnest the Divine. Withdraw the soul from that source of souls inquiringf. We must begin with ourselves, with our strength and life begins to sink, to go backwards. habits, our meats and drinks. There can be no true pure Now, that is just what has happened. The vast development of physique under a regimen of flesh-foods. majority of the people ignore God. He is rarely if ever The carnivorous lion ma\- be strong, but it is not human. thought of in connection with their manner of living. The The human carnivore may grow large and physically mighty inner lights of the soul are not kept burning through (though I question it), yet he lacks those finer elements fellowship with Him. The spiritual grows dimmer, till the which make a man full rounded. History and science have man seeks for illumination and satisfaction in earthly con- declared against the value of flesh meats, and the best moral consciousness dull ditions. The grows ; even the medical knowledge vouches for their deleterious eff"ects upon intellect loses its balance, having lost its pedestal whereon the human organism. Earnest students of moral economics to Till at last man in every part of his being feels affirm that the degeneracy of our race in physique and repose. the hand of death over and seeks to habits stealing him, requicken- mind may be traced back our eating and drinking ; ing by means of the stimulating foods and drinks and and it requires but a moment's reflection to show us the scenes of pleasure which characterise our age. truth of it. Flesh-meats breed disease. No wonder, there- It is from this condition of things I would recall my fore, that we are a nation of suff"erers ! There are com- brethren. For here lies the whole secret of the world's paratively few sound families in our land, because we are unrest and the Churches' failure. I said I would sing to reaping the natural results of living on beef, mutton and men a song of hope and joy ! And here I do. Though the pork. People shake their heads and say it is not true. picture is dark, it can yet be lit up with the glory of noble But the most cultured physicians and surgeons say it is It is the vision of the darkness that we shall true. The nation has grown more and more diseased in living. through best come to appreciate the light. In the very discovery of proportion to the amount of flesh it has consumed. our errors heaven breaks our view. As tells us -'^^ ''^^ ''^i upon pain of the presence of disease, and so enables us to get at its But the degeneracy is not simply physical. It is also seat and cause to remove the wrong, so this vision of the low it is ! the it—it is intellectual ; and moral. And oh pity of conditions comes as a messenger of heaven to warn us and even spiritual. I do not one whit exaggerate. Twenty- our feet back into the of health of and soul. one intimate the guide way body years' ministry amongst people ; seeing Let us it as such, direct our thoughts inward and in their under conditions accept them homes varying ; studying to God, and turn our faces towards the dawn of a their characteristics and tendencies in order to learn how upwards new day in our lives. to deal with them —such experiences enable me to speak Let us be brave enough to be pure in thought and habit; as one who knows. And I do affirm that I have seen the in and action to be humane and to be gentle feeling ; upas tree of wealth eat up or blight the promises of noble compassionate and loving to all men and all creatures. life in parent and child. I have been forced to witness Let us be wise to enrich the heart through the im- the absorption of the splendid energies of many souls by of the flesh to dare live the ideal poverishment ; strong that modern vampire—pleasure. I have beheld with intense life, to throw off" the influences of the age-geist which pain the growing tendency to eschew deep thinking and enslave men to passion and pleasure and wrong ambitions, pure living, and to reject and decry every honest effort to — that we may be free to give ourselves our very best selves engage the mind with lofty subjects, and to win the life —in loving ministry to our fellow men ! to some unselfish and noble ministry. Thus shall we help to combat and overcome the degen- The House of God itself is smitten with spiritual ennui, erating influences, and bring back health of body and soul- for the worshippers are bored to death b}' any genuine effort regeneration to our race. J. Todd Ferrier. to elevate their souls. There is a lack of that strong religious ^fr J* «5*' repose which is the heritage of the soul stayed on God. The imagination of the people must be tickled by some sort of Judge Not. religious phantasmagoria. Even the pulpits suffer from the

: the of his brain same disease. Like some poor physicians at their wits' end Judge not working And of his heart thou canst not see ; when face to face with a strange epidemic, so they adopt What looks to thy dim eyes a stain. every craze to try and interest the people. In God's pure light may only be Yet they fail. Why, it is not amusement the people A scar, brought from some well-fought field, but the and of Sinai to need, thunderings lightnings arouse Where thou wouldst only faint and yield. them from their spiritual torpor, to recall them to pure The look, the air that frets thy sight, and simple ways, to inspire them to think seriously, and to be a token that below win them over to that life of service which gives itself as a May The soul has closed in deadly fight living sacrifice to better the world. With some infernal fiery foe. Unless the unselfish life is lived the by people degeneracy Whose glance would scorch thy smiling grace, will continue. All true progress has its foundations in And cast thee shuddering on thy face. Adelaide A. Proctor. moral growth and spiritual aspiration. Without these

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it is irrational and it is not in accord with the doctrine of ; Editorial Notes. the Great Teacher, who clearly demonstrated His authority his own transcendent and ability to reveal the true way, by commend to the notice of our readers the two narratives life and spiritual attainment. that for the of others I which are printed in our columns this month descriptive For He taught ie//"-sacrifice good of the cruel which the carnivorous was the essential characteristic of all true religion and , butchery prevalent needless habit involves throughout the whole morality, and this teaching condemns the prevalent of Christendom. immolation of sub-human sentient souls, in order that an human lust for carnal food be I could publish recitals by eye- unholy may gratified. the evidence that He and his band witnesses, that are far more dis- We have strongest far of Initiates would have scorned to pollute their lips with tressing- in their details and blood-stained food. .And those who know more shocking to the sensibility by experience this more excellent of I And the result of way purity than these ; but refrain. practising and humaneness in diet, and the of these are printed because one is impossibility spiritual attained those who feed upon impure written by a great religious teacher whose transcendency being by no one would think of and garbage and blood-stained flesh, feel with intuitive certainty veracity impugning, " that the Master Christian," like all the other great Seers the other is a simple and spontaneous narrative sent and the was innocent of par- me in a letter by one of the Members of our Order, Prophets throughout Ages, of in to become in this savage and heartless system slaughter, who has just visited Deptford order per- ticipation are which has only been practised by races that have been sonally acquainted with the horrors which we seeking debased. to abolish. spiritually * * * * * * In order that we may become constrained to If any Bishop, Priest or Deacon, or religious takes The need worthily fulfil our obligations as pledged A Respectful Official of any kind whatsoever, exception to this state- for workers in this sacred Cause, it is needful Challenge. to this expression of opinion and the ment of let him come forward and Realization. that we should realize to some extent, fact, prove, dreadful nature of the evils we deplore, the if he can, by evidence which will bear investigation, that vast amount of bloodshed that is taking place in every by participating in butchery and the flesh-eating habit, he Christian land, and holocausts of sentient victims that are is but following the example of his Master. our of being offered up upon the unholy altar of man's degenerate During the past eight years public challenge Carnivorism moral and bases has been carried appetite. upon spiritual but never have It is only by such realization that we shall be led to put from town to town and from city to city, yet forth earnest effort to win others to forswear blood-stained I been able to find a Christian Minister who has dared to feet defend this barbaric and food, and to join our ranks as advocates of humaneness and get upon his and degenerate sound or that this purity in diet. custom by argument, by claiming Let us not then turn away our thoughts altogether from wholesale butchery for the purpose of providing a needless these horrors, as we are naturally tempted to do. Let us and injurious type of food is in harmony with the spirit face our duty and responsibility, as those to whom the truth of the Christ. do concerning this matter has been revealed for some high If we proclaim error to their congregations, why they not refute our in an and purpose. teaching open straightforward And let us remember that the night cometh when no manner. If our teaching is true, and our Mission is of man can work !" God, then why do they not in larger numbers accept our Message and co-operate with us in our humane and spiritual Something more must be done than has ever work—as a noble and truth-loving minority amongst them The been attempted, to awaken the people in are already doing. yet * * * Awakening our Churches {arid their Pastors) and to make of of them seriousl)' face the subject of this daily The Rev. F. Lawrence, Hon. Sec. the and Christendom. violation of physical and moral law that is Religion Church Sanitary Association, preaching at so general — this wholesale pandering to Sanitation. the Abbey Church, Bath, to-day, Sunday, "that for the welfare Carnality—this general hindering of the Spirit's influence. July 19th, said caring We must make our voices fieard, even though we meet of the body should not be regarded merely as a matter of with the scornful antagonism that has ever been the lot prudence, but as an obligation binding upon every Christian; as well as in of God's message-bearers who have sought to uplift the while to concern himself in public health, torch of Truth amidst darkness, materialism and selfish spiritual matters, was the duty of all Christian Ministers. to secure for himself the idolatry. Every person should endeavour * * * perfect health which comes of cleanliness in the mind, in the The Way of the Cross is the only path to body, in the clothes, in the house, in the food, in the drink, and in the air." The "Way the skies, and that pilgrimage signifies loyal of the Cross. obedience to conviction concerning the Divine Will, faithful performance of that role in the There are but few persons who realize drama of life to which we feel called by the Inner Voice, The what a wealth of responsive affection and and personal renunciation in some real sense in order to Friendship friendship is waiting recognition amongst promote the amelioration of the world in which we live. of Animals. ^^^ sub-human races of animals. As I write If we would win the crown of reward that follows faithful these notes a small squirrel, who was picked service we must face the self-abnegation or contumely that up in a wood in an orphaned and unweaned condition only is involved— for there is no other way. ten days ago, is playing about my desk. He is biting my The conventional "Go-as-you-please" teaching that is penholder and fingers, and then scampering off only to to nibble at delivered from the pulpits of this and other lands con- return quickly to rifle my pockets or gently cerning the path to the Heavenly State, is as delusive as my ears in order to show his affection and confidence.

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He already understands much of my languagfe and replies bearing such a designation. It seems to me that it would for a to be a of to my retnarks in tones that I can easily understand. His be more appropriate cyclist member an love and gfratitude for kindness shown to him are evidenced Athletic Club, than for a walking, running, or swimming to become attached to a Club. it by his lickin','' my hand or nestling into my coat with small athletic Cycling And grunts of thankful satisfaction. His gambols and droll ought to be our aim in the immediate future, to have a frolicking provide me and my family with endless amuse- worthy representative of the V. A. C. at every important ment, and his wonderful ingenuity in overcoming difficulties Race Meeting in the country. and accomplishing his purposes would scarcely be believed if it were not witnessed. Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews of Nebraska Yet there are many persons who are so benighted as to Religious University, gave some advice in a recent deny that these beautiful little creatures possess either Education. lecture which educators in general, would reason, individuality, or soul-life, and who think that they — do well to remember. It was as follows : — like all the rest of their mammalian kindred—were simply Don't teach your children to /ear God. incarnated in order that they might be shot or eaten by Don't compel your children to memorize long passages human beings of the baser sort. of scripture. Alas ! what soul-blindness what lack of true ; pitiable Don't teach them the doctrine of eternal damnation. is manifest us apprehension ; what beefy-mi'ndedness amongst Don't muddle their brains with the theory of original sin. as the result of feeding upon flesh and blood. A few months Don't scare them with the devil. ago I actually read a statement made by the pious Editor of Don't worry them about baptism a conventional religious paper in America to the effect that Don't discuss with them whether they are to be during his summer vacation he had. killed and eaten tvieniy- justified by faith alone or by faith and works. stx squirrels. What a thought ! That a barbarian of this Don't puzzle them with the doctrine of predestination type should have the audacity and presumption to teach and free will. religion ! * * * Don't teach them that they have any better chances of heaven than the little Baptist children or the One of our Members in Bombay sends me An little Methodist children or the little Presbyterian an interesting account of a banquet which children—whichever the case may be—across the way. Interesting was organised by himself and other workers Teach them Ethics. Instil in them the principles or Event. in our Cause. It is as follows : — right and wrong. Let them read the beautiful and The Anniversary of Zoroaster's Passing Away. " poetic parts of the Bible as long as they are For the first time in the Parsi history the anniversary day of the interested in them. Tell them the simple facts of passings away of Zoroaster was celebrated pubhcly in Bombay, on the the of Christ. These constitute all 22nd of June, by the Parsis, with a bloodless and purely vegetable story things banquet. that is essential in the religious training of the child. The Jashan (consecration ceremony) and the dinner was announced in the a few tickets * * * newspapers by ves^etarian Zoroastrians ; were and Three hundred ticUets were sold issued, speeches arranged. off, There are two passages in Mr. F. W. H. in of the and more than one hundred were spite rainy weather, people Light from famous book on Survival refused admittance on account of the limited number of seats Meyers' "The of provided. Beyond the Human Personality," which possess such The Albless Bag was crowded, and after the ceremony was over, Mr. Grave. significance that I venture to print them. Vimadalal, a solicitor of the Court of introduced J. J. High Bombay, Coming, as they do, from a level-headed the speakers one by one, who delivered short speeches suited to the " scientist, after long years in organized psychical occasion. Ervad. J. J. Modi, Samshul Ulema, spoke on the magic spent " research in critical wand of Zoroaster, followed by N. F. Bilimoria (a member of the co-operation with other and scientific the Zoroastrian hearers the O.G.A.,) who forcibly impressed upon holy men, they mean much to us as seekers after truth : — * Commandment of Zoroaster," concerning Compassion and the non- of harmless animals. The Rapture of Certainty. killing " The occasion is memorable because it is the first when the Zoroas- I confess, indeed, that I have often felt as though this present trians of India celebrated the memory of their Holy Master with a Age were even unduly favoured, as though no future revelation and sacred dinner, in which there was neither blood nor wine included. calm could equal the joy of this great struggle from doubt into " Such a dinner was the most appropriate feast in memory of One who certainty, from the materialism or agnosticism which accompany taught his followers compassion and love, and he urged his hearers the first advance of science, into the deeper scientific conviction that to ponder over the subject." there is a deathless soul in man. I can imagine no other crisis of such varieties of In the Then came Mr. C. J. Wadia, another member of the O.G.A., who deep delight. Endless are the lofty joy. Age of " spoke on the Promise oi Zoroaster," and dwelt upon the question of Thales, Greece knew the delight of the first dim notion of the cosmic humaneness very impressively. unity and law. In the .Age of Christ, Europe felt the high authentic Handbills were distributed inviting the people to form a F'ood-Reform message from a world beyond our own. In our own A^e we reach Society. the perception that such messages ma}' become continuous and pro- Pamphlets and leaflets of the O.G.A. were also sold among the gressive, that between seen and unseen there is a channel and fair- people assembled. way which future generations may learn to widen and to clarify. Thus the work goes on slowly, but it goes on steadily." Nay, in the infinite Universe man may now feel, for the first time, at home. worst fear is over the true is won. The worst * * * The ; security fear the fear of extinction or solitude was spiritual spiritual ; the I state that the have been requested to true security is in the telepathic law." (s. 1,033). Club— which includes Vegetarian Vegetarian Cycling Its Bearing on Revelation. its members so Athletics. amongst many distinguished "Can we suppose that, when this conception of the bond between record holders and racing champions—has now all souls has taken root, men will turn back from it to the old founded an "Athletic Branch." Application for member- exchisiveness, the old controversy ? Will they not see that this world-knowledge is both old and new, that 'die Geisterwelt ist nicht ship should be made to Mr. T. M. Wallace, 22, Hornsey verschlossen.' That .ilthough always have such revelations been given, Park from whom all Road, Hornsey, London, particulars they develope now into a mightier meaning, with the growth of wisdom may be obtained. of tliose who send them, and in those who receive them ? Surely we I should like to make the to the V. C. C. have here a conception, at once wider and exacter than before, of suggestion ' ' that religious education of the world on which theologians have Committee that it might now be good policy to change " been fain to draw." (s. 1004.) the name of the club to The Athletic Club; " Vegetarian And furthermore, do we not better understand at once the unique- or, if this is deemed inadvisable, to found a separate Club ness and the reality of the Christian revelation it,self, when we regard

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it as a culmination rather than an —as destined not to exception any friends who come across such reproductions should be destroy the law, but to fulfil it ? Observation, experiment, inference. led to think that 1 had possibly been from the have led many inquirers— of whom I am one — to a belief in direct borrowing of I desire to a or telepathic intercommunication, not only between the minds of men writings others, place disclaimer on record still on earth, but between minds or spirits still on earth and spirits and to mention the above facts. departed. Such a the door also to revelation." discovery opens (s. A list of these literary pirates is being made, and I shall i,oio.) * * * have to expose them if they do not amend their ways. The enere^-etic and hard workings Secretary An Indian friend sends a A Deserving of the Bradford Veofetarian Society sends communication As others which reveals the Effort4 me the following letter, which I have much prevalent thought amongst see us. the millions of Hindustan carnivor- pleasure in publishing- : — concerning The Bradford Vegetarian Society had an exhibit of Food- ous Christendom. I know b}' the large Reform Literature, Foods, etc., at the Health Exhibition, held in number of such letters that reach me from India, that flesh- Bradford, from to which met with a most cordial July yth 25th, eating Christians, and Missionaries, are regarded with scorn- reception from the thousands who visited it. many ful the educated natives ; and I commend this We sold and Efave away a larg-e quantity of our literature, and contempt by fact to the also sold a lot of fruitarian specialities, and have every confidence that consideration of our Missionary Societies and we have made converts. many their supporters who persist in sending out men to attempt As this venture has cost us a lot of money, and our Society is the hopeless task of evang-elising these people who regard composed chiefly of working men and women, we take this opportunity of them as barbarians and inferiors. asking- through your colimins for financial help to pay off the " About the horrid massacre of the innocent beasts at I can- deficit. The exhibition was bj- no means a local effort only, but a Xmas, not think of it without a shudder. I had an occasion to visit the national one, seeing that it embraced the whole of the United Kingdom, market, and I could see the meat stalls with the and as we advertised "gratis" the specialities of the Food-Reform hung animals, thoroughly and decorated with and other Caterers, and also the Journals connected with the movement we skinned, flags ornaments. I cannot what the number of the innocent animals killed feel that we have some claim for help. imagine that in when I see such a terrible If any friends, interested in Food-Reform, care to send us a sub- day England may bo, number of in this where the Christian scription the same will be gratefully acknowledge by the under- slaughtered city (Bangalore), population is — small. mentioned secretarie.s Wright Gill, 153, Legrams Lane, Bradford; compar.'iti\-ely very I would on not one of the car- Chas. H. Rhodes, 16, Highfield Road, Frizinghall, Bradford. highly congratulate you being * * * nivorous." * * * Mr. Sydney Trist, of the London Anti- A letter from Mr. Henry Q. Mack, a A vivisection Society, asks me to g;ive A hint Veteran Comrade in Columbia, U.S.A., who Startling publicity to the following- statement b}' for our has been a vegetarian for 53 years, tells Admission. Sir Frederick Treves, concerning- the useless- Doctors. "le that many hopeful signs of the growth ness and unreliability of one phase of and progress of our Movement are vivisectional research. It appears that he forwarded apparent in America. Four Vegetarian Restaurants are this to the Times, in order to support his own previous already and business in New and it is statement that Sir Frederick Treves had testified to the open doing good York, becoming general for people to apologize because Ihey fallacy of vivisection, but although that Journal had " are carnivorous and to explain that take printed the letter which challenged his statement, the they very little meat." Editor suppressed his reply. The following extract from his message may furnish "In the Bristol Medical Joiiriial for November 5th, a useful hint to some of our medical friends : — 1898 (page 1,389, col. i), is an address "On some " A physician settled in Los Angeles California, writes Rudiments of Intestinal delivered before the County, Surgery," that he is convinced that fully 65 per cent, of our diseases result Midland Medical Society, at Birmingham. directly or indirectly from the consumption of dead animal matter. Sir Frederick Treves had been describing to his He puts his patients on the natural diet, telling them that the nature of the remedies he prescribes for them is with such brethren "a method of suturing bowel over a collapsible incompatible dead matter ! By this ruse he so marshals the renovating power of india-rubber bag," and he went on : — " a bloodless diet as an auxiliary in the cure of his patients, thai his A little showed me that was useless, and experience my bag fame as a skilful physician is becoming great; and his practice I discarded it. after a of sixteen an promptly Now, period years, rapidly increases." American surgeon. Dr. T. S. Halsted, rediscovers my useless bag, * * * and it with exactness. He believes this old-new reproduces singular If ' any friends in Colne, Nelson, or procedure to be better than any method hitherto devised,' and so living in like we step back sixteen years. Dr. Halsted also, by the way, expresses An Burnley Lancashire, would to co-operate his that there should be law all conviction a compelling surgeons to Invitation. in the formation of a local Food-Reform Society, on animals the for circular suture of the practise operations intestine they are invited by Mr. John W. Hacking of and for intestinal anastomosis. I hope this view will not commend Elder St., Nelson, to communicate with him the itself to the legislators of this country. Many years ago I carried concerning matter. out on (he Continent sundry operations upon the intestines of dogs, but such are the differences between the humjLn and canine bowel Whilst I am always glad to hear of Societies of this kind that when I came to man 1 found I was much operate upon hampered being formed, because much useful work can be accomplished by my new experience, and that I had everything to unlearn, and united effort, I always feel constrained to the that my experiments had done little but unfit me to deal with the by urge import- human intestine." ance of individual labour in connection with our propaganda, Mr. Trist closes his letter with the following pertinent and the realization of individual responsibility to spread the " remark— Either Sir Frederick Treves meant what he light. A Society which merely exists upon paper and said or he did not. If he did not, why did he say it?" which depends upon two or three officials to do all the work, * * * often acts as a paralyzing influence instead of an' energizing For plagiarism, of the most unblushing type, one upon its members. There is such a in these " tendency American the Americans easily take the bun." I days for half-hearted people to pay a fevi' shillings to some Piracy. frequently receive books or magazines from organization and then to consider they have done all that can the land of the almighty dollar, which contain be expected of them. several pages of literary matter, which have been reprinted In this great struggle against ancestral barbarism, and verbatim from my books or pamphlets—and without any on behalf of the groaning creation, we must ever bear in acknowledgment or reference of any kind. I am glad to mind that God expects every ma7i and woman to play a have practical truth disseminated even in this way, but lest worthy part.

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Hut when 1 told him that is not The First of the meat-eating really Step Stairway. necessary, but is done only out of luxury, he agreed with The Fasting that is essential to the Spiritual Life. me, and then added that he was sorry for the animals. " " " But what can I do ? he I must earn bread. By Leo Tolstoy. added, my At first I was afraid of killing. My father never killed a is an condition hen in all his life." The of Russian men shrink astiiig' indispensable — majority— from feel it : and of rigliteous life but in fastint; killing they pity they express in the itself, as in abstinence, there comes phrase "to be afraid." He also had been afraid, but that ceased. the question, Wliere are we to begin had I talked our fasting? how to fast? how often to Not long ago with a soldier, retired and become eat ? what to eat ? what not to eat ? a butcher and he also was astonished by me saying that it a to and as that it As one cannot seriously undertake any was pity kill, said, usual, was ordained— " work without having become acquainted but presently he began to agree. Especially when the cattle and tame. with the proper order of sequence, so are quiet They come up, in all confidence, " also one cannot fast without knowing poor things ! It is pitiful ! This is a ! It is not the how to begin fasting—and from what dreadful thing suffering and death food to fast. of the animals that are dreadful, but that a man thus, un- in himself that Fasting ! and in fasting to consider necessarily, suppresses highest spiritual from what to fast and how to begin— capacity of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like such an idea would seem ridiculous to most men. himself, and in this violation of his nature, becomes cruel. And inbedded in the is I remember that an evangelical preacher, attacking how deeply human heart the intuition

that it is to take life ! the asceticism of monasteries and priding himself on his wrong " originality, said to me, Our Christianity does not go with Once, taking a walk outside Moscow, we had a "lift" fasting and privations—but with bee/steaks/" Christianity given us by some carters who were going from Serpouhof —and virtue in general—with beefsteaks ! to a neighbouring forest to fetch wood. I was driven — During the long darkness of the absence of all guidance in the first cart with a strong, red, coarse carter, who pagan or Christian—so many wild, immoral notions have evidently was a hard drinker. As we entered a village, become part of our lives—especially in the lower region we saw a well-fed pink pig being dragged away from the of this first step in righteous life—our relation to food, first yard to be slaughtered. It was squealing terribly to which nobody gave any consideration, that it is difficult with a voice that was nearly human. Just as we passed for us even to understand the audacity and madness of they began to kill the pig. One of the men dashed at affirming that, in our time, Christianity and virtue can its throat with a knife. It squealed yet louder and more be identified with beef-steaks ! piercingly, broke from them and ran away with the blood We are not sufficiently horrified by this assertion, pouring from it. I am short sighted, and could not see because to us has happened that strange thing that we everything in detail, but I saw only the human-like pink look and see not, and listen and hear not. There is no evil body of the pig and heard its desperate cry, but the smell to which man cannot become accustomed, no hideous carter saw all the details, and steadily watched them. sounds to hear, no monstrosity to see, to which he cannot They caught the pig, knocked it down, and finished become so used that he ceases to notice what at once cutting its throat. When its cry had ceased, the carter strikes one not so accustomed. It is the same in the sighed and said, "Won't men really have to answer for " moral region. Christianity—with virtue— and beef-steaks ! doing such things ?

"^^ ''9^ ^"9^ So powerful is men's repugnance towards all killing ! Yet of A few days ago I visited the slaughter-house of our through example, through encouragement greed, and the assertion that it is sanctioned God—but town of Toula. It is built according to the new improved by by use and wont— are to com- methods, as applied to large towns, so that the slaughtered principally by people brought loss of this natural aversion. animals may suffer as little as possible. It was on a Friday, plete I went to and met a two days before Trinity Sunday. There was much cattle. On Friday Toula, having gentle, I that he should A long time before, when reading that excellent book kindly acquaintance, proposed accompany me. "The Ethics of Diet," I had wished to visit a slaughter- "Yes," said he, "I have heard that the arrangements house that I might see with my own eyes the facts of the are good, and I have wished to go and see. Still, if matter brought in question when vegetarianism is discussed. they kill there, I will not go in." But at first I was ashamed of doing this, as one always "Why not?" I asked. "That is exactly what I want shrinks from going to see sufferings sure to take place, and to see! If one eats meat, it is necessary to kill." " — which one cannot avert. So I kept putting off my visit. No, no I cannot." But not long ago I met on the road a butcher who had It is remarkable that this man is a sportsman, who been home and was now returning to Toula. He was not himself kills birds and beasts ! j'et a complete butcher— it was only his duty to stab with a We arrived at the slaughter-house. Even at its knife. I asked whether he did not pity the animals whom entrance we could smell a heavy, disgusting, rotten odour " he killed. And he gave the usual answer : What is there as of carpenters' glue, or of paint mixed with glue. The to pity? It has to be done." nearer we came the stronger was this smell.

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It was the before It was a warm it from sides of it the Friday Trinity. ; both skin hung down. The ox . . . The "work" in full June day. was swing-. All did not cease writhing. Then another butcher caught the the was and cattle had been into dusty yard full, driven animal by the leg, and broke it, and cut it off. In the all the little yards beside the "chambers." stomach and other legs the convulsions sli/l went on. The the other At gate stood carts with oxen, cows, and calves legs were cut off and thrown where the legs of the tied to them. Other carts drawn by fine horses, holding- oxen of one proprietor were thrown. Then the carcass live calves with their heads hanging dangling down, were was dragged away and hung up; and then the convulsions unloaded, and other carts containing the carcasses of oxen, ceased. The convulsions were over at last. with I shaking legs and heads protruding, and bright-red lungs Thus from the door watched the second, third, fourth and crimson livers, were driving away from the slaughter- ox. It was the same with all. The head cut off with the house. tongue bitten, the same convulsions. The only difference By the fence stood the horses of the drovers. The was that the butcher did not always hit his blow so as to fell drover-dealers, in long coats, with whips in their hands, the ox. Sometimes the butcher missed his aim, then the were walking about the yard, either marking with tar ox leaped up, roared, and, covered with blood, tried to the cattle belonging to one owner, or striking bargains, escape. But then he was pulled under the bar, hit a second or directing the transit of oxen and bulls from the great time, and felled. yard into the smaller ones leading to the chambers. These I afterwards went round to the door through which the men were all busy with money calculations, and any oxen entered. Here I saw the same, only nearer and more idea as to whether it I was right or wrong to kill these clearly ; and, moreover, here saw what I had missed see- animals was as remote from them as was any idea as to ing from the other door—how the oxen were forced to enter. the chemical of the Each time that components blood which covered the an ox was taken in the yard and pulled floor of the chambers. forward a by rope tied to its horns, the ox, smelling blood, No butchers were to be seen in the refused to enter, sometimes roared and retreated backwards. yard ; they were men could all at work in the chambers. On that day about a hundred Two not drag it by force, and therefore each time one of the butchers head of cattle were killed. I entered a chamber, but went round behind, grasped the ox's and paused at the door. I paused, both because the chamber tail, twitched it, breaking the stump so that the was crowded with carcasses which were being moved gristle crackled, and the ox advanced. about, and because blood flowed below and dripped from When they had finished the oxen of one owner, they led All the in another's cattle. this lot first above. butchers present were besmeared with it, Of next the animal was not

I an but a bull. and had stepped into the midst I, too, should have been ox, A well-bred, fine, muscular, energetic black with covered with blood. One suspended carcass was being young animal, white spots and legs. He was taken down, another was being carried to the door, and pulled : he lowered his head, and sternly resisted. But the a third, a slaughtered ox, was lying with his white legs butcher, following behind, caught at his tail, just like an upwards, while a butcher with muscular wrists was ripping engineman grasping the handle of the whistle, twisted, and off the stretched-out hide. the gristles crackled. The bull rushed forward, knocking

down the men who were the : then Through the door opposite to that where I stood a big pulling ropes again with its black the whites of red, well-fed ox was being led in. Two men were pulling stopped, squinting eyes, which were suffused with blood. the tail him. He had hardly been led in when I saw a butcher Again crackled, and the bull and was in the raise a knife upon his neck, and stab. The ox, as if all jumped forward, spot where they desired him to be. The man took its four legs had suddenly been broken, fell heavily upon striking approached, aim, and hit. The hit missed the mark. The bull its belly, then turned over and began to struggle with its leaped, shook its covered with legs and hind part. Immediately another butcher threw head, roared, and, blood, got free and rushed out. All the men in the aside. himself upon the front part of the ox, on the side opposite doorway jumped But the with the bred from the struggling legs, caught its horns, and twisted ready butchers, pluck by perpetual risks, the its head down upon the ground, while another butcher quickly caught rope, the tail operation was repeated, and the bull was in the cut its throat with a knife, and from under the head poured again chamber, where he was forth a stream of dark-red blood, under which a blood- dragged under the bar from which he could not escape. besmeared boy placed a tin basin. While all this was The striking man quickly took aim at the spot where the hair like a and which he being done the ox twitched its head incessantly, as if separates star, found, despite the and then the fine full of fell endeavouring to get up, and fought with its legs in the blood, animal, life, down and writhed its limbs while it was its air. The basin was soon full, but the ox was still alive, being bled, and head was cut off. heaving with heavy gasps and kicking out all four legs, so that the butchers held aloof. When one basin was "There, the cursed devil has even fallen on the wrong full the boy carried it away on his head to the albumin side," grumbled the butcher, cutting the vein upon its head. In five minutes factory, and another boy placed another basin, and this they stuck up a head, red instead of without — one was also filled. But the ox still heaved his body and black, skin, with fixed and glassy eyes which had shown with such struggled with his hind legs. When the blood ceased to glorious colours only five minutes before. flow the butcher raised the ox's head and began to skin it. --•> --») '») The ox still writhed. The head skinned, showed red with Yet, a tender-hearted, refined lady will devour the car- white veins, and in as the butcher casses of these in stayed positions moved animals, full assurance that she is right,

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One cannot but in as those could not and making assertions of two absolutely contrary propi>- rejoice this, but sitions. rejoice who, wishing to reach the top of a house, so and in a and useless Firstly that she is, as her doctor assures her, delicate, having disorderly way attempted climb its walls from different should at last that she cannot be sustained on vegetable food only, but that to sides, and assemble before the first of the and for her weak constitution flesh-food is indispensable ; step stairway, not could she it, know that there is no other to secondly, that she is so sensitive, that only crowding upon way bear the mount than this first of the stair. never cause suffering to animals, but she cannot by step sight of such sufferings. has Whereas, the poor lady is weak, precisely because she — as been trained to feed on food unnatural to man and to she cannot refrain Irom tliis causing animals to suffer, A Crisis of Roman because she devours them ! Imperialism, We cannot pretend that all this is unknown to us. We that what we refuse to are not ostriches, and cannot believe since the day when Casar repelled the sudden onset refuse to see see ceases to exist—especially when what we Not of the Neroii, had his fortunes been so doubtful and we desire to eat! And above all, that it is really indispen- the Roman position in Gaul so critical as in the spring sable? Or if not indispensable at least unnecessary. of 52 B.C. For now all the tribes rose in concerted rebel- doubt this, read the numerous books ov\ of Csesar Let those who lion under the strenuous leadership V'ercingetorix ; medical who this subject, compiled by scientists and men, could not count any place safe except the ground on which that meat is not for mankind. And let stood the Boii still were prove necessary he ; though supported him, they maintain the them not listen to old-fashioned doctors who a small clan and could only render insignificant aid; the it has been so necessity of flesh-eating only because long powerful Aedni, though nominally still faithful, were in and who accepted by their predecessors and themselves, secret revolt and shortly afterwards deserted the Roman as all defend their opinions with obstinacy and ill-feeling, alliance. that which is old and out-lived is defended. always But at first all went well for Rome ; Vellaunodunum was do I wish to That in order to be did out. What, then, say? captured, Cenabum fell, Noviodunum not long hold ? at all. moral must cease to eat meat Not initiated a it did not matter people Then Vercingetorix new policy ; I desire to that for a life a certain only say righteous whether they defeated the Romans or starved them into re- : that if a man's order of good conduct is indispensable treat the must all their and ; people destroy villages trading towards a life are serious, he will aspirations righteous centres, they must burn down all their barns and farm build- follow one defined sequence—and that in this inevitably ings, they must not leave a morsel of food anywhere, they the first virtue he will cultivate will be abstinence or order, must sacrifice their possessions to get rid of the Romans and he will self-control. And in the cultivation of abstinence, into desert better this must turn a smiling country a barren ; in one definite order—and of this order inevitably proceed than that their wives and children should be sold into slavery the is abstinence in food— i.e., fasting. And in begining and they themselves be slain. if he and seeks a life, fasting, earnestly sincerely righteous Csesar's This policy met with instantaneous success, and his first act of abstinence will be abstinence from animal fail. The food stores siege of Avaricuni seemed destined to not to mention the excitement of the passions food, because, used the Aedni showed no zeal of the Boii were quickly up ; such its use is immoral, as it re- produced by food, plainly for miles round the Roman all in sending up supplies ; camp — and is quires an act contrary to moral feeling i.e., killing, Caesar himself the grain and fodder had been destroyed. called forth only by greed, daintiness. tells us : which lies at the All the moral progress of humanity, " The army was reduced to the utmost difficulties ol commissariat, of takes slowly, but foundation every advance, always place so that for several days the soldiers had no grain and warded off the is the sign of essential (and not merely accidental) progress extremities of famine with cattle driven from the more distant villages ; not a word was heard from them of in its continuity and its increasing speed. but, in spite of all this, unworthy the of the Roman nation or their previous victories. Caesar During the last ten years this Movement has made rapid dignity addressed the at the siege works, and told them that of books and on legions separately progress : a growing number periodicals he would the if they found their siau- of want too grievous, give up this : more and ever more people so rather would subject appear annually attack, but they implored him not to do ; they put up and citizens slain at are to be met who have given up animal food, every with any hardship than fail to avenge the Roman in Britain Cenabum." year, in foreign countries, and especially Germany, and America, there is an increase in the number of vegetarian Here then is the critical moment in the Roman conquest Caesar and the Roman are hotels and restaurants. of Gaul ; Vercingetorix, soldiery to those who there is no of individual This Movement must be especially welcome all at one on this point ; suspicion the of an to such a of famine live in aspiration towards the setting up of Kingdom faddism. Only reduce army pitch inflict on it the of God on Earth— not because vegetarianism itself is an im- that it has to eat beef, and you extremity but because it is a we talk of roast beef as an essential of portant step towards this Kingdom, sign hardship. And yet is serious and soldier lived on but and that man's aspiration towards moral perfection life, when the Roman nothing grain order of diet under such L-ircumstances as sincere, since it has taken the one unalterable only took to a carnivorous can to and rats ! progress peculiar to that attainment, which begin only might reduce us eating dogs Arthur Baker, M.A. (Oxon). by the first step.

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I was informed that every animal has to be killed within Visit to a HelL A London fourteen days after landing irrespective of a smooth or rough voyage—Deptford being a market for foreign cattle have a intended visit to the shambles recently paid long only. at On about the I noticed I Deptford. my strolling' yard Having adopted the vegetarian diet from a humane that all the had been nearly buildings point of view, it was distressing for me to watch the agony reconstructed within recent years ; of the bullocks in the pens that were awaiting their fate; one block of particular slaughter- they shook, their flesh moved as if they had received an boiler house houses near the new electric shock, and when the last animal was left in the pen reminds one of a with long mews, I could look on no longer, I had to move on, for its agony a glass roof over the yard portion and fear were indescribable. of it, with a massive pair of gates in the their is to Women are employed yard ; duty each end. these for skins their Through gates prepare the entrails sausage ; department bullocks are and from the driven, being at the far end of the yard, they have to pass a great enter the it took yard they pens ; many slaughter-houses, and the one public house that is in three drovers to or ten get eight the yard, before they are able to commence work. bullocks into each so small. pen, they being I took particular notice of the features of all the individ- It often a amount of force to them into requires great get uals I saw engaged in the whole business that was going the bullocks able to see and smell the blood were most to be one position, being on. The poor drovers pitied ; especially of the that is on the other side his features slaughtering taking place man whose age was about sixty-five, judging by ; of the pens. he did not appear to be one who would ever be likely to I noticed the drovers did not strike the animals, they take part in a prayer meeting, so distorted and brutalised them with their which had short in the probed sticks, spikes was his appearance. them limited to and the end of ; they being time, slaughter- When I looked into the faces of these men and women like Oliver out for more," the men the men, Twist, "calling I thought of the kingdom of God, and how little was have to use the means to their tasks. got quickest perform chance they had to grow in grace and develop knowledge of I then went down a dismal covered roadway under that kingdom, while they were engaged in such a bloody trade. the buildings, leading to the* slaughter-houses. Each I loathed the perverted habits and tastes which demanded slaughter-house has got two doorvi'ays at either end of their services in the shambles instead of in the fields and it at the end to that where I was were ; opposite standing orchards. the two doorways that led into the pens in which the Thursday afternoon is the busiest time in the market, bullocks were standing. A'b doors were needed to prevent and I am willing to pilot any sincere reader round this the animals from eiilcriug the slaughter-house ; if there hell if he is likely to make use of what he sees to further were any they were not used, the poor victims are allowed the cause of Humaneness and to get people to abstain to stand and imtch all that is going on, the poleaxing, from flesh-foods. Alfred Harvey. End, London, skinning, and disembowelling of their fellow-victims. Boys (51, Broadway. Crouch N.) and youths are employed to sweep up and wash down, ^V ^% ^^ and in some cases the blood is between the of swept legs Received* the live animals that are waiting their fate. Books The slaughterman in one house dealt with one animal "The Morals of Diet.'' By Leo Tolstoy {Free Age Press, 13, Pater- a lot of trouble had to stand clear of his that gave ; they noster Row). Price Twopence. to the A visit Count to a resulted in one of legs, they could not get his head close enough paid by Tolstoy slaug-hter-house his terrible realistic descriptions, accompanied by an appeal to so that when the poleaxe struck, it hit the wrong ring, mankind for the practice of Vegetarianism, and for greater simplicity " three insertiotis were made before the animal fell, of Under the title of "The Morals of Diet this is issued at place ; living. the above nominal of twopence by T/ie Free Age Press, Pater- the man was then quick enough to make another blow price noster Row, a philanthropic enterprise founded for the propagandism all then the usual cane In this liooklet the at the right spot and was over, of Tolstoy's suggestive utterances to mankind. Humane Diet Movement will have a advocate in support of its was pushed into the brain. powerful tenets. Some lengthy extracts are printed on page 105. I into conversation with a man who was not got young •Ji T ^ of the working that day, he showed me round the rest yard "Broken Gods." By Edward Berdoe, M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Ed.), with an Introduction the Hon. Stephen Coleridge. (Pub "where they were knocking a lot more down." 1 visited &c., by lished by Messrs. Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., Limited). Price i/- one of the Hebrew slaughter-houses and saw a bullock T'his book is intended to uphold the principles on which the Anti- and in that thrown, legs fastened to wall, head drawn back, vivisection Movement is based, and especially to expose the of the advanced the animal was until the Rabbi chose to come fallacy of much of the teaching and many arguments position kept Animals." in Mr. Stephen Paget's book, on "Experiments on We and cut its throat, no one else daring to do it. The wish to furnish them- along heartily commend this work to our readers who bullock was a long time dying and moaning. selves with reliable facts with which to refute the fallacious contentions of vivisectors. We then went to view where was more daylight and saw * * * driven into the Florence Dixie. Mar- sheep being killed and dressed, the sheep are "Isola, or the Disinherited." By Lady (Simpkin shall & it is a with a low brick wall to Co.) slaughter-house pen, square for o// A poetic romance which demands justice living things, irrespec- the is full can the live ones see what is it ; when at no matter what idols only pen live of sex or race ; and Truth any price, cast down to attain it. going on, of course they can smell the blood. have to be

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