p. 680 | A Crying Evil by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 15, 1901

A Crying Evil.

By Editor

WE are told that the article on vivisection, in another column, is horrible. We reply, We know it is; and that is the very reason it is given. The people ought to know what is being dished out to the public to the demoralization of all the finer sensibilities and humane feelings of our nature, in the name of science.

Any one who will make such a fetish of science, so-called, as to perpetrate the unspeakable cruelties and tortures described, upon innocent and inoffensive animals, which have never resulted in the first discovery or advancement in science, under the plea that science and the good of the human species demand it, may make no claim to humanity, much less to Christianity.

Let every institution which advocates or follows such a course, no matter to what denomination it belongs, or however high the claims it makes, be boycotted to all patronage, as heaven will surely be boycotted to them, for practicing such principles.

Heaven looks with the utmost abhorrence and detestation upon every scheme and act of cruelty. It has even taken the pains to spread upon the sacred page that “the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty” (Ps. 74:20), and this applies no less to dumb animals than to human beings. The promise of obtaining mercy is extended only to the merciful. Matt. 5:7.

One of the most important branches of education is the inculcation of kindly feelings and merciful actions toward the animal creation. Vivisection is being taught everywhere in many of the public schools, in the so-called “biology” classes.

Among the potent factors fighting against this crying evil we are happy to mention the American Humane Association, F. H. Rowley, Secretary, Fall River, Mass.; the Illinois Anti-Vivisection Society, Aurora, Ill., together with other State societies of like nature; and last, but not least, that worthy little paper, Our Dumb Animals, edited by Geo. T. Angell, Boston, Mass.; sample copies free.

The physician's calling is a Christian calling. Jesus Christ is the great Physician, and all other physicians should be under Him, working to fulfill His purposes and manifesting His spirit. What a physician may become who divorces himself from Christianity may be seen by perusing the article above mentioned on vivisection.