200 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



sands is heard in the wilderness saying " prepare 

 ye the way." In the whole history of God's ways 

 we cannot find a single instance of His failing to do 

 justice — not from the hour of the transgression of 

 Adam and Eve — not from the flood — not from the 

 promulgation of the law from Mount Sinai, when 

 the thunder and lightning gave awful demonstra- 

 tions of His authority — not from the entrance of 

 Israel into the promised land — not from the ter- 

 rible period when the Jewish economy was swept 

 away and the nation destroyed — and not from the 

 agony on the cross when all creation was promised 

 eternal life. 



Justice to animals will come. God does not de- 

 light in the suffering of His creatures but His justice 

 must be vindicated, and thus it is that the mercy of 

 the gospel mixes with the letter of the law. 



His delight is in the happiness of that eternal 

 nature which He Himself has formed, and except it 

 be to the injury of those high moral attributes, He 

 ever rejoices in scattering the fruits of His benevo- 

 lence over the grateful and rejoicing family of His 

 creation. 



