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to live forever. They are buried defiled and impure, they are raised holy and free from all defilement. They are sown in corruption, but raised in incorruption; sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body. If the body of the good and pious child, who loves God and believes in Jesus, is, when it is raised from the dead, to be compared to a beautiful flower, what can we compare the body of a wicked child to, when it is raised from the dead. Our ideal of the devil is perhaps the most dis- gusting and horrible that we can imagine; but I think the appearance of a wicked
