Is there not soul in those stricken creatures, and spiritual feeling deeper than that displayed by many men? First came all ANIMAL life, as we know it, and then came MAN. Science and religion agree on this point, at least. All owe their being to the same eternal FORCE. On this point again religion and science agree. Is the life in animals merely a passing dream, or does it express in its humble way the promise of life eternal? In Italy a scientific villain experimented on a dog to ascertain the power of maternal affection. The dog was most cruelly tortured. Its newborn puppy was beside it. Its nerves were racked, its spine injured, BUT WHENEVER PERMITTED TO DO SO, THE POOR TORTURED, ANIMAL MOTHER TURNED ITS HEAD TOWARD ITS WHINING CHILD AND LICKED IT AFFECTIONATELY. Until it died there was nothing that could overcome maternal love in the heart of that poor dumb mother. Is there not soul in such love as that? JESUS' ATTITUDE TOWARD CHILDREN A SUNDAY SERMON "Suffer the little children to come unto me; and forbid them not; for of such is the Kingdom of God."--Mark X., 14. Jesus gave to the child its place in the world's society. With all the power of divine authority He built around the feeblest among us a wall that has protected them through the ages. Before His day the child existed only by sufferance. It had no rights. It was but a counter, an infinitesimal atom. It was considered simply the property of the parent. Its father had power of life and death over it. The homeless dog that roams the streets to-day is more effectively shielded from cruelty than was the friendless child before Jesus came to live and to die for the weak and poor. The law had said: "The parent is ruler of the child, and may dispose of it as he sees fit." But Jesus said--and these are the most beautiful and affecting words in all the moral law of the world: "Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven."--Matthew xviii., 10. No threats so terrifying as those aimed at men who should harm little children: "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."--Matthew xviii., 6. It is impossible now to conceive the horrid indifference to childhood's rights which preceded the birth of Christianity. Infanticide was not the exception, but a settled custom. So much so, that in Rome the "exposure" of children in desert places was almost a virtue, since it gave the child some slight chance of surviving. Not a few, but thousands and tens of thousands of children were thus "exposed." They fell a prey to wild beasts, or to the human beasts, still more ferocious, who took the children to make slaves or criminals of them. Jesus came, and a miracle was worked--a miracle that no man will deny. This was the miracle: Jesus said: