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away for fear and expectation of what shall come upon the whole world." But not all will suffer equally from fear, for the Gospel adds that when these things begin to come to pass, Christ will say to some: " Look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption is at hand." In Paul's description (Thess. iv. 15) of Gabriel's arrival and trumpet call to judgment, there is a tone of hope, of triumph almost, "for," he says, "the dead who are in Christ shall rise first, and then we who are alive shall be taken up with them to meet Christ, and so we shall be always with the Lord." Hope and despair, therefore, will be at the bottom of all the differences between the wicked and the just. For when at the trumpet's call, and under the shadows of darkness, the earth and seas shall have given up their dead, how eagerly will the souls of the blessed rush to embrace and inhabit and glorify those sweet companions of this earthly exile, their bodies, so long separated from them, but now to be reunited with them forever. Together they bore the burden of life's day, and conquered in life's battle, and well may the soul now cry: "Arise, sister, the winter is passed and the rain has gone; arise, my beloved, and come." Each being in perfect accord with the other, both may well exclaim with the Psalmist: " How good and sweet it is for brothers to dwell in unison." But alas! the case will not be such with all. With what reluctance and loathing will the lost soul join issues once again with its putrid body, what mutual recrimination, what agony! God's final act of mercy to the damned will