66 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



He did not appear in the majesty of a sovereign 

 or the glory of a bloody conqueror. He occupied 

 a station not among the princes and potentates of 

 the world, but among the lowly and sorrowful. 

 His birth was even more humiliating and His bodily 

 wants greater than the animals with which He 

 was surrounded, for the foxes had holes and 

 the birds of the air had nests, while the Son of 

 Man had not where to lay His head. 



There is another reason why the New Testament 

 is animals' best friend. Christ in offering Himself 

 as a living sacrifice for the sins of the world 

 established the fact that " to do justice and judg- 

 ment is more acceptable to the Lord than sac- 

 rifices." 



He is represented as that bright and morning 

 Star which became the Light of the World and gave 

 to mankind a clear and full revelation of the nature 

 and perfections of God and made known the way 

 of reconciliation by offering Himself a living sacri- 

 fice for the world and thereby dispensing with any 

 further excuse for that sad rite of offering up 

 animal sacrifices. 



How dark and confused were the notions of the 

 philosophers, at the time of the coming of Christ, 



