 Humans have responsibilities and duties of care towards animals.Pember's argument about a biblical approach to animal rights as seen from the standpoint of end times prophecy was by no means unique, as some of his Christian contemporaries such as Lutheran authors George N. H. Peters ("The Theocratic Kingdom") and Joseph A. Seiss also argued similar points.Likewise, elements of Pember's arguments against brutality to animals had already been anticipated by Christian writers in the previous two hundred years

He died in July 1910 aged 73 at Budleigh Salterton in Devon.