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JUSTICE TO MONKEY AND MAN T. Tl Holloway, Dallas, Texas
barns and build bigger ones,” says t h e . man. “ I will tak e my ease for many years, and eat, drink and be m erry.” But God says,— “Thou fool, thou a rt caught in a trap of thine own making. This n igh t shall thy life be taken from thee.” Mk ¿St BIBJLE FUZZEE God made Adam out of dust, but though t it best to m ake me first; So I was made before the man, to an swer God’s most holy plans, My body he did make complete, but w ithout either hands or feet. A living being I became, and Adam first gave me a nam e; , Then from his presence I withdrew , and more of Adam never knew. I did my Maker’s laws obey, from them I never went astray, Thousands of miles I ran in fear, and seldom on th e earth appeared. But God in me some power did see, and pu t a living soul in me, T hat soul from me God did claim, and took from me th a t soul again. And when from me th a t soul had fled, I was the same as when first made; And w ithout hands or feet or soul, I travel now from pole to pole. I labor hard both day and night, to fallen man I give much light; Thousands of people, both young and old, will by my . death g reat light behold. No fear of death doth trouble me, for happiness I can not see; To Heaven I shall never go, or to the grave or hell below. The Holy Scriptures you believe, but tru e or false, I can’t conceive; Although my name is in them found, they are to me an empty sound. Answer— The whale th a t swallowed Jonah.
AYE you not noticed th a t fables and other animal stories often do an injustice to the anim al? Such is th e story of
how th e natives capture monkeys in certain p arts of Africa. The story goes th a t when th e native has a fancy for monkey meat, he secs about in the following way to first catcli his monkey. He takes a gourd in which h e .c u ts a small round hole ju st large enough to adm it th e monkey s hand He places in th e bottom of th e gourd .some pieces of sweetmeat of : which th e monkeys are very fond. Each piece is of a size to barely go into th e round hole. Then th e gourd, w ith its enticing bait, is fastened in a tree. The monkey scents th e bait, so th e story goes, and runs his hand in th e small opening to grasp his favorite delicacy. He finds th a t he cannot w ithdraw his fist, enlarged as it is by what he holds, and th e more he struggles th e faster he is held. The native, at his leisure, th en visits th e tree and tak es his monkey alive. Now this story, I th ink , while ac cording considerable ingenuity to the native, does grave injustice, to th e monkey. I do not believe th a t any monkey has so little sense bu t th a t he would drop th e sweetmeat and w ith draw his hand when he finds himself caught. Needless to say, I do not be lieve th e story, and th e re is due from the original au tho r of it an apology to th e monkey trib e . Map is th e only animal w ith so little sense as to do such a th ing as is attrib u ted to the African monkey. Man will grasp and hold on to th a t which ensnares and holds him captive. The more he gets into his hand th e more he grasps, re gardless of his present or fu tu re needs, un til he finally finds.it impossible to re lease his hold and free himself. Ava rice grasps and appropriates b u t will not lei go. “I will pull down my
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