236 THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMALS 



which we are everywhere surrounded, in lifting up 

 our voices in behalf of these beings that cannot 

 plead for themselves, we are surely not overstep- 

 ping the requirement of God who has enjoined 

 upon us the duty of opening our mouths for them. 

 It is a plain moral duty, and as Rev. Dr. Norman 

 McLeod says : " I would not give much for the re- 

 ligion of any man or woman whose cat and dog were 

 not the better for it." Anna Sewell, in Black 

 Beauty, teaches the beautiful lesson that, " There 

 is no religion without love, and people may talk as 

 much as they like about their religion, but if it 

 does not teach them to be good and kind to beasts 

 as well as man it is all a sham." 



Before his fall, man was given dominion or guard- 

 ianship over all living creatures, but just what effect 

 the fall had upon his relation to animals cannot be 

 ascertained. There is one thing very obvious, that 

 the lower animals, as well as man, are not enjoying all 

 the happiness now that they once possessed. They 

 are involved in sufferings consequent upon the fall 

 of man, being committed to the same fortunes with 

 us, and partaking with us of the privations, sorrows, 

 and dangers which we have brought upon ourselves 

 by our guilt and disobedience. We ought to take 



