Status Updates From Black Beauty

…” we have no right to distress any of God’s creatures without a very good reason; we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”

“….,”My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and yet do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”

Now, I saw, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it; you did right, my boy.

But what stuck in my mind was this - he said that cruelty was the devil’s own trademark, and if we saw anyone who took pleasure in cruelty, we might know to whom he belonged… On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God’s mark; for “God is Love.”