NEW YORK:
THE ALLIANCE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
"LIFE" BUILDING,
1898.
Copyrighted, 1898, by
HENRIETTA LATHAM DWIGHT.
PRESS OF THE PLIMPTON MFG. CO.,
HARTFORD, CONN.
Dedication.
TO ALL WHO ARE STRIVING TO FOLLOW THE GOLDEN
RULE, "TO DO UNTO OTHERS AS THEY WOULD
HAVE OTHERS DO UNTO THEM," AND THUS
EXPRESS IN THEIR EVERY-DAY LIFE
THE CHRIST IDEAL WRITTEN
WITHIN, IN THEIR OWN
SOULS, THIS BOOK
IS
Affectionately Inscribed.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is
upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the
fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every
beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing
that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every
green herb for meat: and it was so.--Genesis i., 29, 30.
Thou shalt not kill.--Exodus xx., 13.
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one
thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they
have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast:
for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all
turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and
the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?--Ecclesiastes
iii., 19, 20, 21.
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man.--Isaiah lxvi., 3.
Then said Daniel to Melzar [the steward], whom the prince of the eunuchs
had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: Prove thy servants,
I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water
to drink. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the
countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat:
and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented to them in
this matter, and proved them ten days. And at the end of ten days their
countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children
which did eat the portion of the king's meat.--Daniel i., 11 to 17.