Front:
"Just so soon and so far as we pour into all our schools the songs, poems and literature of mercy
towards these lower creatures, JUST So SOON AND SO FAR SHALL WE REACH THE ROOTS NOT ONLY OF
CRUELTY BUT OF CRIME."
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GEo. T. ANGELL.
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BAND OF MERCY PLEDGE.
I will try to be kind to all harmless living crea=
tures and try to protect them from cruel usage.
EvelynPrite
hett,
I certify that the above signer is a Band of
Mercy Member of the American Humane Education
Society and of the Massachusetts Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
GEO. T. ANGELL,
President.
Ever after I introduced the teaching of kindness to animals into my school," says M. De Sailly,
an eminent French school-master, "I found the children not only more kind to animals, but also
more kind to each other."
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Back:
"A thousand cases of cruelty can be prevented by kind words and humane education for every one
that can be prevented by prosecution.”
Geo. T. ANGELL.
SOCIETY.
ELAM
GLORY TO
GOD,
PEACE ON EARTH,
KINDNESS, JUSTICE
AND MERCY TO
EVERY LIVING
CREATURE.
Nooreen
EDUCATION
The Band of Mercy movement in America was started in
the office of Geo. T. Angell, President of the American
Humane Education Society and the Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, on July 28, 1882.
The early signers after President Angell and Secretary Tim-
mins were Hon. John D. Long, then Governor of Massa-
chusetts, Hon. Sam'l A. Green, Mayor of Boston, Chief
Justice Marcus Morton, Chief Justice Wm. E. Parmenter,
President Chadbourne, Wendell Phillips, and others. The
Bands now (June, 1897) number over 29,000, with more
than a million members, and under their influence greater
kindness toward our fellow-men, as well as the lower ani-
mals, is becoming widely apparent.
"Praise God from whom all blessings flow."
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