“More pitiful to men than she to these. 
Therefore fear God in whatsoe’er ye deal
With the dumb peoples of the wing and hoof.”

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Pearls of the Faith.

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FORGIVEN.

Verily there are rewards for our doing good to dumb animals, and giving them water to drink.  A wicked woman was forgiven who, seeing a dog at a well holding out his tongue from thirst, which was near killing him, took off her boot, and tied it to the end of her garment, and drew water in it for the dog, and gave him to drink; and she was forgiven her sin for that act.

Table Talk of Mohammed.

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PRAYERS.

It is recorded of the Prophet, that when, being on a journey, he alighted at any place, he did not say his prayers until he had unsaddled his camel.

POOLE’S Mohammed.

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DUMB MOUTHS.

    By these dumb mouths be ye forgiven,
    Ere ye are heard pleading with heaven.

Pearls of the Faith.

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THE PARSEES.

FROM THE ZEND AVESTA.

Of all and every kind of sin which I have committed against the creatures of Ormazd, as stars, moon, sun, and the red-burning fire, the Dog, the Birds, the other good creatures which are the property of Ormazd, if I have become a sinner against any of these, I repent.

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“If a man gives bad food to a shepherd Dog, of what sin is he guilty?”

Ahura Mazda[4] answered: 

“It is the same guilt as though he should serve bad food to a master of a house of the first rank.”

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“The dog, I, Ahura Mazda, have made self-clothed and self-shod, watchful, wakeful, and sharp-toothed, born to take his food from man and to watch over man’s goods.

“I, Ahura Mazda, have made the dog strong of body against the evil-doer and watchful over your goods, when he is of sound mind.”

    [4] Ahura Mazda or Ormazd is the King of Light; the Good.  The Zend
        Avesta is of great but uncertain antiquity; believed to be three
        thousand years old.

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HINDOO.

He who, seeking his own happiness, does not punish or kill beings who also long for happiness, will find happiness after death.

Dhammapada.

Whoever in this world harms living beings, and in whom there is no compassion for living beings, let one know him as an outcast.

Sutta Nipata.

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THE TIGER.

    Tiger, tiger, burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?