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12:6), man's thoughts perish. They that go down to the grave are in silence. They know
no more of anything that is done under the sun. Job 14:21. Blessed rest for the weary
righteous!
Time, be it long or short, is but a moment to them. They sleep; they are
awakened by the trump of God to a glorious immortality. "For the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible. . . . So when this corruptible shall have put
on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought
to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." I Corinthians
15:52-54. As they are called forth from their deep slumber they begin to think just
where they ceased. The last sensation was the pang of death; the last thought, that
they were falling beneath the power of the grave. When they arise from the tomb,
their first glad thought will be echoed in the triumphal shout: "O death, where is thy
sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" Verse 55.
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