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ing under intense suffering waiting to be re- 

 deemed ? 



Eev. Dr. Chalmers says : " "Why then suppose 

 that this little speck, called the earth, should be the 

 exclusive abode of life and intelligence ? What 

 reason to think that those mightier globes which 

 roll in other parts of creation, and which we have 

 discovered to be mighty worlds, are not also worlds 

 in use and in dignity ? Why should we think that 

 the great Architect of nature, supreme in wisdom 

 as He is in power, w T ould call statety mansions into 

 existence and have them unoccupied ? " 



Certainly we have no moral right to lower the 

 dignity of the Creator by supposing He has not 

 made a wise provision for the care and future 

 happiness of all His creatures. 



Christ says, " O ye of little faith. . . . Be- 

 hold the fowls of the air : for they sow not, neither 

 do they reap, nor gather into barns : yet your 

 heavenly Father feedeth them." Nehemiah says, 

 the " Lord hath made heaven, the heaven of heav- 

 ens, with all their host, the earth and all things 

 that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, 

 and Thou preservest them all " ; Ezekiel says, 

 " Saith the Lord God, behold all souls are Mine " ; 



