KILLING BUTTERFLIES by George T. Angell

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 9, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 35.

KILLING BUTTERFLIES.

By George T. Angell

BY GEO. T. ANGELL

STOPPING at the seashore a few days since we saw a number of interesting little children gathering butterflies, grasshoppers, and other varieties of insects, and fastening them with pins to the side of the hotel, where the poor creatures were writhing and struggling to escape. It was not the fault of the children. They were very young, and knew no better. They did not once dream of the agony endured by these insects, and on being told of it all assented to their being at once killed, and cheerfully stopped further pursuit of them. But it was your fault, fathers and mothers of those children, and one for which God holds you accountable. If you neglect your duties to your children in that period of life when the molding of their characters is in your hands, and they grow up more and more merciless, until in your old age you reap the harvest you have sown, you have no one to blame but yourselves.—Our Dumb Animals.