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perplexing question, and no other reason why God 

 would call on lower animals to praise Him. When 

 we hear Christian people sing that beautiful verse 

 composed by Bishop Thomas Ken : 



"Praise God from whom all blessings flow ; 

 Praise Him all creatures here below," 



we wonder if they really comprehend its true im- 

 port. No doubt the great and good bishop was sin- 

 cere when he composed that grand doxology which 

 will be sung as long as the Christian Church is per- 

 petuated upon earth ; but no man has a moral right 

 to ask poor, sinless, suffering animals to praise God 

 unless he feels assured that they will receive a 

 future recompense for the sad condition man has 

 brought upon them. 



" He prayeth well, who loveth well, 

 Both man, and bird, and beast. 

 He prayeth best who loveth best 

 All things both great and small ; 

 For the great God who loveth us, 

 He made and loveth all." 



While the Bible as clearly conveys the idea that 

 lower animals are in heaven as it does that men 

 are in heaven, yet I do not urge this fact as 



