A Sad Case

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 19, 25 July 1885, Page 3

A Sad Case

♦ (From the New York Times.) The Bev. Mr Whitescarver may be in many respects a most estimable man, but he has apparently adopted the detestable principle that it is lawful to do evil that good may come. In a contributon to a recent number of the Richmond Beligious Herald, he relates the following conversation held by him with a sitter in his denominatieual Israel. " Ought we to let our hens lay on Sunday P" asked the sister, to which Mr Whitescarver replied : " Yes, but you ought to give the Sunday eggs to missions." How Mr Whilescarver can justify this advice, except on the plea that the end justifies the means,' it is difficult to see. The utter want of respect tor Sunday which is. evinced by domestic fowls is very painful to right-minded people. Hens not only lay eggs on Sunday, but they afterwards cackle ever the fact in a noisy and grossly irreverent manner, .'and ihen spend the rest of the day in the "servile labour of digging worms. The hen evidently' has no conscience and no respect for the convictions of her owner. She would as soon lay an egg on Sunday as on Saturday, and reproof and remonstranee have no effect upon her. In these circumstances what ought the "lister" mentioned by Mr Whitescarver to do! Obviously it is her duty to see to it that her hens do not lay eggs on Sunday. To permit the hens to go on in their wicked course is manifestly to five countenance to wickedness. She cannot clear herself of complicity with the hens by giving the eggs to missions. j^m well might the owner of the lottery try to atone for his violation of the lottery law by giving part of his profits to missionaries. If it is wrong for hens to iiyc.egi*B on Sunday, it is the duty of tolte&p them from laying. she listens to the crafty and immoral jiffvice of Mr Whitescarver she will be )OffdlV I*** guilty than her hens. The proper eourso for the " sister" to pursue if to-tie strings to the legs of all her hfiOS^n. Saturday night, and compel them to swing head downward all day on Sunday. 110 hen would venture to lay an egg while \n such a position, nor would she have spirit enough to cackle, silence would reign m the hennery from morning till night, and the hens would be taught to keep Sunday in a 'quiet and happy way. VVere Mr Whitescarver a safe guide he would hafe told the " sinter" how to protect Sunday from secularisation on the part of the heas; but alas! he has chosen instead to encourage the sister's hens in evil-doing in order that missioh»may profit the#ebv» . '^ . : ;