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THE
GRAVE,
CDISC.
-XS
.
heavenly
Father.
"
Thou
shalt
call,
and
I
will
answer
thee," said holy
Job.
The
command
of God
creates
life,
and
gives
power
to
the
dead,
to
arise
and
speak.
"
I
come,
O Lord,
I
come."
When
Jesus
the
Son
of God,
as
with
the
trumpet of
an archangel,
shall
pronounce
the
word
Which he
spaké to
LazarusS
"
Arise,
and corne forth
;"
John
xi.
43.
dust
and rottenness
shall
hear
the
call from
heaven, and the
clods
of corruption
all
round
the
earth
shall arise into the form
of
man
:
The
saints
shall
appear
.
at
once
and
answer
to
that
divine call,
arrayed
in
a
glory
like
that
of
angels
;
an illustrious
host of
martyrs
and
confessors for the
truth
;
an army
of
heroes and valiant
sufferers for the name
and cause
of
God and
his Son
;
an
innumerable multitude
of
faithful servants who have
finished
their
work,
and
lay down
at
rest.
How shall
Adam,
the
father,
of
our
race, together
with the
holy men
of
his
day,
be surprized, when they
shall awake
out of their
long sleep
of
five
thousand
years
?
now
shall
all
the saints
of
the
intermediate
ages
break
from
the
beds
of
darkness with intense
delight?
And those
who
lay down
but
yesterday
in
the dust
shall
start
úp
at
once with
their early ancestors, and
answer
to
the
call
of Jesus
from
one
end
of
time
to'the
other,
and
from
all
the ends
of
the earth.
They
shall
arise
together
to
"
meet
the Lord
in
the
air,
that
they
may
be
ever
with
the Lord
;"
1
7ltess.
iv:
17.
Never
was
any voice obeyed
with
more readiness and
joy
than the
voice or
trumpet
of
the
great
archangel, summoning
all
the children
of
God
to
awake
from their
long slumbers,
and
to leave
their dusty
beds
behind
them, with
all
the seeds
of
sin
'and sorrow, which
are buried
and lost there for
ever.
Never
did any army
on
earth
march
with
more speed
and
pleasure,
at
the sound
of
the
trumpet,
to
attend their ge,
neral
to
a
new
triumph, than
this
glorious
assembly shall
'arise
to
meet
their returning
Lord,
when this
lasttrum-
pet sounds,'
and when
he shall come
the second
time in
the
full
glories
of
his
person and
his
offices,
as
Lord
and
Judge of
the world, to bring
his
faithful
followers
into
complete salvation.
Refexion.
"
Whensoever, O
my
.soul,
thou
feelest
Any
reluctance
to obey the summons
of
death, encourage
thy
faith,
and scatter thy
fears,
by,
waiting for the
call
of
God
to
à
blessed
resurrection,
Jesus
himself
lay down
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