58 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



" For right is right, since God is God; 

 And right the day must win ; 

 To doubt would be disloyalty, 

 To falter would be sin." 



From a humane standpoint, why any Christian 

 should oppose the theory of the immortality of 

 animals seems strange to me. The doctrine is cer- 

 tainly a step higher in the ladder of Christian love 

 and fellowship. It adds another reason why Christ 

 "offered Himself a sacrifice for the sins of the 

 world," and is in harmony with the history of 

 God's dealing in the world and the attributes of 

 the Creator as we have learned them. It is a mis- 

 taken idea, on the part of the Church, to suppose 

 that it gives greater strength to the evidence for 

 the immortality of man to ignore the immortality 

 of lower animals ; for it is less difficult, as I shall 

 show further on, to convince the scientific world 

 that all animals have souls than it is to convince 

 scientists that man alone has a soul. 



I cannot see that there was any distinction made 

 in the original creation, since man and the lower 

 animals were created out of like primary matter, 

 and have like organs, and each organ is subject to 

 like functions. 



We see unity in all forms of creation of earth and 



