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enjoyment—while others are destitute of all these accessories 
to happiness. Putting aside the fact that those whose lots 
seem to be the most enviable are the least to be envied, we 
cannot help acknowledging that this disparity does exist, and 
that the earthly lot of some is very hard, while that of others 
is very easy. But we must remember that there is taught in 
the New Testament the grand doctrine of Compensation. 
Paul alludes to this when he remarks that the sufferings of 
this world are not to be compared with the glories of the 
world to come, and that the troubles, trials and tribulations 
of this life are but the precursor of that glorified existence 
where all these things will be utterly unknown. That some 
such arrangement would be nothing more than justice there 
can be no question, and that some principle of Divine Justice 
must exist was instinctively known long before it was explicitly 
declared by the inspired apostle, for references to such com- 
pensation are found throughout the Psalms. Even Job him- 
self, sunk as he was in the very depth of afflictions, could say: 
“Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will 
maintain my own ways before Him. He also shall be my 
salvation; for an hypocrite shall not come before Him.” So 
far, then, as man is concerned, this problem of apparent ine- 
quality is not so difficult of solution, for he knows only too 
well that in spite of his hard and bitter earth-life that Divine 
Justice will be more than vindicated in the life beyond the 
grave to which he aspires. But in the case of the lower 
animals, granting that they have no future existence, what, 
I ask, becomes of Divine Justice? In this land of enlighten- 
ment we meet with many animals that are treated with the 
greatest kindness by their masters, and others, endowed with 
capacities that are not a whit inferior to their more fortunate 
brethren, that are treated with the utmost cruelty. While 
one is petted and pampered, another is abused and given 
over to the pangs of hunger and starvation. If there isa 
future life for these animals, it is simply impossible to recog- 
nize in their Maker that justice which sensible, reasoning 
