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 loud, and fell into fits. Nothing was seen but wild disorder; nothing heard but tumultuous clamour.— The Preacher’s voice was drowned. Had ha spoken in thunder, his message would scarcely have been regarded. To have gone on with his work, amidst such a prodigious ferment, had been like arguing with a whirlwind, or talking to a tempest.

This brought to my mind that great tremenduous day, when the heavens will pass away, when the earth will be dissolved, and all its inhabitants receive their final doom.—If, at such incidents of very inferior dread, our hearts are ready to fail; what, unknown and inconceivable astonishment must seize the guilty conscience, when the hand of the Almighty shall open those unparalleled scenes of wonder, desolation, and horror!—When the trumpet shall sound—The dead arise—The world be in flames—The Judge on the throne—And all mankind at the bar!

The trumpet shall sound, (1 Cor. xv. 52.) says the prophetic teacher, and how startling, how stupendous the summons ! Nothing equal to it, nothing like it, was ever heard through ?1L the regions of the universe, and all the revolutions of time ^—When conflicting armies have discharged the bellowing artillery of war, or when victorious armies have shouted for joy of the conquest, the seas and shores have rung, the mountains and plains have echoed. But the voice of the Archangel, and the trump of God, will resound from pole to pole. They will shake the pillars of heaven, and startle the dungeon of hell. Tiny will penetrate the Repast recesses of this, tomb. They will pour their amazing thunder into all those