ANIMALS PROMISED A PARADISE 9 1 



writer Isaiah, looking beyond the present suffering 

 and disorganized condition of animals, declares that 

 the time will come when "the wolf shall dwell 

 with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with 

 the kid ; the calf and the young lion and the 

 fatlino- together; and a little child shall lead them. 

 And the cow and the bear shall feed ; their young 

 ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat 

 straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall 

 play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child 

 shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They 

 shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain ; 

 for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the 

 Lord, as the waters cover the sea." 



This description of the inspired writer fully 

 portrays the condition which existed in the Garden 

 of Eden before the fall, and shows conclusively that 

 the same relation will again exist among the 

 animals, and that God has created or prepared 

 a new world for them ; or, as St. Paul says : " In 

 the dispensation of the fulness of time Christ might 

 o-ather together in one all things in Him, both 

 which are in the heavens and which are on the 

 earth ; even in Him." 



St. Peter says, " And God shall send Jesus 



