126 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



A parent will exhibit the most tender care and 

 sympathy over his offspring, but cannot relieve suf- 

 fering nor prevent death. Our Heavenly Father, 

 though He loves all His creatures, and gives them 

 grace to bear their pain, does not agree to change 

 the sentence of suffering and death which is the 

 result of man's disobedience. 



The soul, though it presides over and controls the 

 body, is yet powerless to change God's laws. If 

 a person should take some material substance, say a 

 large dose of opium, into the body, the brain, from 

 its intimacy with the body, would become affected. 

 If a person should take something immaterial into 

 the body, such as love, fear, or grief, the brain 

 would also be affected. Now, if the material stimu- 

 lus of opium required a material medium through 

 which to act, the immaterial stimulus of love, fear, 

 or grief, must require an immaterial agency, or soul, 

 through which to act. I think this hypothesis is 

 irrefutable, that if a physical stimulus requires a 

 physical agent, as materialists claim, an immaterial 

 stimulus requires an immaterial agent through which 

 the body is acted upon. 



Though the brain is the seat of sensation, yet 

 a sensation is referred from an organ to the brain, 



