196 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



of a poor, helpless, innocent being so appalling to 

 human nature that it withers up all that is generous, 

 hopeful, and noble in man's nature. To think that 

 when some poor animal has suffered all the abuse and 

 torture its sensitive nerves can bear and then when 

 the icy hand of death forces the struggling life 

 away, it is lost in the dark and dismal tomb of an- 

 nihilation, would freeze the very heart of a sensitive 

 human being and spread over his nature the most 

 sad and dismal gloom imaginable. 



Every kind of being as well as man, was created 

 for the glory of God. Alas, then, that there should 

 be so many heartrending scenes spread out before 

 us, scenes so terrible that the liveliest imagination 

 cannot portray them nor the most gifted tongue 

 describe them. Everything in the great cosmos 

 was created and designed for some special purpose 

 or else we impeach God's omniscience and omnip- 

 otence. I wish to make plain the incontrovertible 

 fact, by what we see and know of the phenomena 

 of nature, that nothing is low, nothing little, noth- 

 ing in itself unworthy, in the view of the great 

 Creator and common Parent of the universe ; that 

 nothing is beyond the reach of His benevolence, or 

 the shadow of His protection. 



