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 Marchant reasons that, in a state of perfection, all imperfection, and therefore all deformity, will be done away.

He discusses the question of the age to which all bodies will seem to have attained at the Resurrection; the received doctrine being that we shall ''all come. . . unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature (marg. age) of the fulness of Christ.'' (Eph. iv. 13.)

Lection III. The circumstances of the resurrection.

Proposition 1. The trumpet call precedes it.

For it takes place in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump—that trump being the voice of the archangel. (1 Thess. iv. 16. Matt. xxiv. 31.)

The trumpet of old called to a solemn assembly; it was a sign of advance, it was a signal of battle. So will the last trump call the Heaven from above and the earth, that God may judge His people; it will be the sign of advance to the elect into their kingdom, it will be the signal for all creation to arm itself to fight against the ungodly.

Do you ask what is the object of the trumpet blast?

1st. It is to call the angels together, to prepare for the severance of good and bad.

2nd. It is to wake the dead.

3rd. It is to summon the elect to the feast of good things in Heaven.

4th. It is to terrify the wicked and announce to them their doom.