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Rh mankind universally shall be aroused from their long slumbers, and be made to start into life. But so broad will be the line of distinction drawn, that the renewed cheerfulness and vigor that follow rest, cannot apply to all. "Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." "The hour is coming" said our Lord, "in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth;"—but mark the distinction; "they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." The bodies of the saints shall be formed and fashioned like the glorified body of Christ: made capable of enjoying in union with the soul, and bearing up under, that, "far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Oh! how full of comfort is this consideration to the believer. While he, with a sorrowing