When dear Violet Spalding and her daughter bravely walked up the isle
of Wakefield cathedral, at the time of communion, with a cage of battery
hens crammed, deformed – and as if out of Belsen – the assembled clergy
didn’t know what message it conveyed. One or two later laughed. “But why
the commotion?” they asked. “Battery hens still lay eggs, so they must
be happy!” Such was about the limit of their argumentation. Well, I
sense it need only be said that the millions of victims in the holocaust
could still have been viewed as content, using the same analogy. After
all, cleanliness and hygiene via chemical spraying was dished out on
these poor unfortunates. They ate and drank eagerly; and Goebbels, with
his twisted mind, could remark that he noticed how some males were able
to have sexual erections.
Dear Reader, you and I are living in very evil times. Nevertheless,
we can rejoice because – through it all, good IS overcoming evil. And
just as Jesus our good shepherd was referred to as a man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief, there was also another side to Him: He was ‘the
light of the world’ and those who follow Him ‘shall not walk in darkness
but shall have the light of life’. ‘I came that you might have life’, he
said, ‘and have it in abundance’. You see, He saw it at times from a
distance and not just close up. He withdrew from the crowds before
important issues. He said to His disciples: “Come Ye Apart for a while”.
And we must do likewise. And once we do, we’ll look down from the
mountain plateau and take spiritual stock of how far we’ve come. We’ll
see how far the so-called animal activist movement has come. We’ll see
how its influence is so rapidly spreading. Yes, and we’ll then feel
proud and honoured, indeed, to be living as active members of such a
worthy, worldwide, movement.. Yes, in our various spheres, moral and
spiritual ‘trail blazers’ to the glory of a wonderful God.
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