Juvenis, Our Cattle on Christmas Day
letter to the editor, Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine; Churchman’s Monthly Magazine
「1802-Dec」 Juvenis, letter to the editor, “「Our Cattle」, On the Celebration of Christmas Day, Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine 1 「Google Books」 (1802-Dec): 359-360.
「1804-Dec」「Juvenis」 letter to the editor, “「Our Cattle」, On the Celebration of Christmas Day, Churchman’s Monthly Magazine 3 (1804-Dec): 195-200; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks.
To the editors of the Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine…
…Our CATTLE also should be let partake of the general joy, by greater indulgence in rest and food, for they partake largely in our general scarcity. They administer profusely to our comfort, our pleasure, our support, our health: and God has allowed us their proper use for these purposes. Gratitude to HIM for this, should teach us to exercise mercy, care, and attention to THEM. Even their services demand it for themselves. But when God has commanded it a DUTY, who can disobey with impunity? He “regards the life of a beast,”*—”takes care for oxen”† forbids an “unequal yoking‡, and enjoins us to shew mercy, as Christ also did by his precept and example. Why then is not this duty more generally recommend, and from whence more forcibly or properly from the pulpit?—as well as in the works of divines and others§. It highly criminates a Christian nation to connive at, and thereby encourage barbarity towards animals, who are generally much less brutal than those they serve, and with who they should exchange situations— to produce conviction by—experience
*Prov. 12.10. † 1 Cor. 9. 9. ‡ Duet. 22. 10. Luke 13. 15. c 14. 5. § See a most admirable and highly useful Tract, entitled, THOUGHTS ON THE DUTY OF MERCY AND SIN OF CRUELTY. Sold by Letterman and Co. Stationer’s Court. London, price 1½d. or 10s. 6d per hounded. It is with infinite pleasure we hear that a Society is going to be instituted to prevent abuse of animals, to be entitled THE ANIMALS FRIEND.
… Newington-Butts, November 1802. JUVENIS.
