our lamps are gone vise answered, saylest there be not nd you: but go ye hat sell, and buy for d while they went egroom came; and ready went in with iage: and the door ward came also the aying, Lord, Lord, t he answered and y unto you, I know therefore; for ye e day nor the hour of man cometh. - If the tree fall th or toward the ace where the tree hall be. atsoever thy hand it with thy might; work, nor device, mor wisdom in the nou goest. I keep under my besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence. REV. 22:11. He that is unjusť, let him be unjust still; and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they, that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in, through the gates, into the city. For without, are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.* (See the last Topic.) that the silence of the Bible on this topic is the most decísíve e supposition of a future probation. The book which brings " life light," makes no mention of it, no provision for it; but constructs operations upon the ground, that here is the only hope of recovss. Were there no revelation, we might hope for some future favor; but the silence of God's word precludes any such gratuit I be grateful to any individual who will furnish a collation, throwupon this subject. 1 COR. 15:22. In Adam all die. GEN. 2:27. In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Ps. 49: 6. They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, none of them can by any means redeem his brother, or give to God a ransom for him... that he should still live forever, and not see corruption. For he seeth that wise men die; likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. Man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. Јов 4:21. Men dwell in houses of clay: their foundation is in the dust; they are crushed before the moth. They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without any regarding it. 7:9. He that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more; ...neither shall his place know him any more. 9:22. God destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 14: 2. Man cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down. - 10. Man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 17:14. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. 21: 23. One dieth in his full the tops of the e 30:23. I kr bring me to deat appointed for all ECCL. 8:8. T hath power over the spirit; neith the day of deat discharge in tha wickedness deli given to it. Јов 34: 14. him his spirit: flesh shall perish shall turn again Ps. 82: 6. I gods, and all of the most High: men. 89:49. What eth, and shall no he deliver his so the grave? 90:3. Thou struction.-5. are like grass th the morning it ft eth up, in the ev and withereth. ECCL. 12: 7. turn to the earth spirit shall retu gave it. I. Our life 1 SAM. 2: 6, strength, being wholly at ease and land he maketh and uncertain. here is but a step eath. -. We are strannd sojourners, as s; our days on the dow, and there is are but of yester are swifter than a s are swifter than Jay. make me to know e measure of my that I may know Behold, thou hast a hand breadth, as nothing before man, at his best days are as grass; field, so he flourDeareth for a little isheth away. days are like a ineth; and I am s. is like to vanity. shadow that pass For what is your - vapor, which apcle time, and then Watch, therefore, what hour your and body in hell. LUKE 16:22. The beggar died, and was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in tor ments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. МАТ. 22:32. I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. 17: 3. Behold there appeared unto them Moses and Elias, talking with him. LUKE 9:31. They appeared in glory and spoke of his decease, which he should accomplish in Jerusalem. 23:42. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. 6. 2 COR. 5: 1. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; (for we walk by faith, and not by sight.) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. PHIL. 1: 21. For me to live is Christ, but to die is gain. But if I 7:14. These are they that have come out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. CHAPTER III. RESURRECTION OF THE BODY. Јов 14:14. If a man die, shall he live again? 19:26. Though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me. Ps. 16:9. My flesh shall rest in hope, for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thy HOLY ONE to see corruption. DAN. 12: 2. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. and my feet, th handle me and s not flesh and bo have. And whe en, he showed th his feet. And lieved not, for j he said unto then meat? And the of a broiled fisk comh. And he before them, JOHN 20:27 Thomas, Reach and behold my hither thy hand, a side; and he no lieving. MAT, 28: 2. was a great ea angel of the Lo heaven and cam the stone from the it. His countena ning, and his raim And for fear of h shake and becar And the angel a unto the women, know that ye seel crucified. He is MAT. 22: 29. Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the pow-risen, as he sai er of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not place where the JOHN 5; 25, and now is, wh hear the voice of they that hear sh incredible with you, this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the Apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.-12. Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead, (For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made.) But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afternly they, but our- ward they that are Christ's at his mich have the first coming. 29. Else what shall they pirit, even we our-do, which are baptized for the dead, thin ourselves, wait- if the dead rise not at all? why are |