WHAT a woe-begone face poor pusy has! She has been meddling, and now is caught by a crab, and does not know how to free herself from his tight grasp, and is crying out in pain.
She has no scruples about catching the little mice and tormenting them and finally killing them. Now she herself is taken in a trap!
May be my dear little readers will think there is no lesson in this for them, but I think there is; at least there is a very important principle involved in what the picture brings before us; that is, what we do to others will return upon our own heads. This is shown to us in a very solemn way in the prophecy of Obadiah. In the fifteenth verse of the only chapter given, you will find these words, “As thou hast done, it shall be done to thee; thy reward shall return upon thine own head.”
You may do many things, even in childhood, that will be brought back to you in later life, and you will then feel the sorrow of it; and your sorrow will most likely come in the very line of things in which you have given sorrow to others; as, thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee, is what God says. Oh! how very, very careful this should make us, to avoid all wrong ways. And, again, if our ways are only kindness and love, they will return in showers of blessing on our head.
I hope you will all seek, by the grace of God, to be kind, tender-hearted, forgiving, gentle, forbearing and good.
There are some who sow strife and discord; there are others who sow peace and love. Which will it be with you? “Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God. R.
ML 08/26/1900