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organic world, would involve a lamentable loss; 

 and may we not look to a spiritual concert of the 

 combined worlds and all their inhabitants in the 

 presence of their Creator, as the highest conception 

 of paradise ? In some incomprehensible way, God 

 Almighty has created these beings, and I cannot 

 doubt of their immortality any more than I doubt 

 of my own." 



Rev. Dr. Adam Clark, one among the greatest 

 theologians of his day, makes the following plain 

 and unmistakable statement : " It does not appear 

 that the animal creation are capable of a choice ; 

 and it is evident that they are not placed in their 

 present misery, through either their choice or their 

 sin; and if no purpose of God can be ultimately 

 frustrated these creatures must be restored to that 

 state of happiness for which they have been made, 

 and of which they have been deprived through the 

 transgression of man. Had not sin entered into 

 the world, they would have had much greater 

 enjoyments, without pain, excessive labor, and toil, 

 and without death, and all those sufferings which 

 arise from the fall. It is therefore obvious that 

 the gracious purpose of God has not been fulfilled 

 in them; and that, as they have not lost their 



