THE AGE OF NO FLESH EATERS.
The Vegetarian Monthly, of England, in its September issue, has the following item:— The Echo of August 5 says: "Vegetarians will be delighted to hear that one vessel from New York brought yesterday four thousand cases of pears, peaches, pineapples, and apricots. The fruit was first conveyed from California to New York. The fruit-producing capacity of America is almost as immeasurable as the fruit-consuming capacity of Europe. The conveyance of fruit from the New to the Old World is infinitely more humane and civilizing than conveying cargoes of live cattle; and future ages will be distinguished by more fruit eating and less flesh eating, whatever Doctor Drysdale may say to the contrary." Yes, future ages, and that not long hence, will be distinguished by having no flesh eaters; for the time draws on apace when the Redeemer and the Restorer will come, and will bring that happy condition of a renewed Paradise, when the suffering of no poor victim will contribute to the existence of another, for "there shall be no more death." Hail, happy day, when the life-giving fruit shall be plucked from "life's fair tree" by immortal hands, and when beast, bird, or man shall "hurt or destroy" in all God's holy mountain nevermore.