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There will only be a temporary separation of parts—the spiritual from the material. The body will moulder away to its original elements and remain in that condition until animated and reconstructed again by the voice of the Arch-Angel and the trump of God. The soul, not subject to dissolution and decay, will be conveyed to the Paradise of God, there to await in joyful anticipation, the consummation of its bliss, reunited to the body, in God's eternal and everlasting kingdom: or else be "driven away in its wickedness," to participate in the horrors of those condemned spirits that are "reserved in chains of darkness unto the judgment of the great day:" depending upon the character formed in this probationary state. It is unnecessary to cite the Scripture passages that contain the truths here advanced. Your perfect