IOO THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



that these can live again?" We look into the 

 bright liquid eyes of an intelligent lower animal 

 and ask the same question. The following question 

 was asked over nineteen hundred years ago, and is 

 still being asked : " Why should it be thought a 

 thing incredible with you that God should raise the 

 dead ? " and the answer comes from the same volume 

 of revelation : " For as in Adam all die even so in 

 Christ shall all be made alive . . . the tender 

 mercy of God is over all His works ... in 

 whose hand is the soul of every living thing." 



When the world recognizes the solemn truth that 

 all God's creatures are descendants from the same 

 First Cause ; that thev need the same elements for 

 the support of their bodies ; that all are members 

 of the same great community and family ; that all 

 are fellow-travelers in the same weary pilgrimage ; 

 that all are subject to the same sin, sorrow, pain, and 

 death, as the result of the fall ; that all have the 

 same desire for happiness and tenacity for life ; and 

 that all possess the same kind of immortality, — then 

 we will have a nucleus around which to gather the 

 grand facts of a humane system of theology. 



The passages of Scripture used as arguments 

 against the future existence of lower animals are 



