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By Margaret Lawson Lambs & roast lamb Sir, - Easter seldom passes without Sir Hugh Roberton's well-known
song, "All in the April Evening," being heard on radio, on television or
in church. Its moving words and music describe the weariness of the
lambs as they pass with their mothers on their way to new pastures; and
into the writer's mind comes the thought of Jesus on his way to the
Cross. But how many in the Church today think of the lambs who are
sacrificed in slaughterhouses so that they may end up on the dinner
table as roast lamb or grilled cutlets, accompanied by mint sauce, green
peas and new potatoes - perhaps even forming the main course of Easter
Sunday lunch! Would that more people would connect the "lamb" on their plates with
the lambs happily gamboling in the spring sunshine, only to be cruelly
done to death in the slaughterhouse so that people may enjoy their baked
bodies. Perhaps then they would shudder and say, "Never again." Church Times Return to Margaret Lawson: Letters |
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