are the graves to which the Lord refers; and this may be evident from the circumstance that those who are spoken of are to hear His voice. Dead corpses in natural graves do not hear. The body that has been mingled with its kindred earth for unnumbered years—from which every trace of its organization has disappeared, and which has been converted into other forms and put to other uses, has no capability of hearing. When, therefore, the Lord said, that those who "are in the graves shall hear His voice," He did not merely speak of the conversion of those who were dead in trespasses and sins, but of those also who had passed into the world of spirits, but whose external professions of good did not agree with their internal state of evil. They, in that world, and at the time of judgment, would be sure to hear His voice: for it is there, and then, that "there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known;" where "whatsoever has been spoken in darkness will be heard in light, and that which has been spoken in the ear, in closets, will be proclaimed upon the housetops."[1] It is in that world, and not in this, where those terrifying disclosures will be made: it is there where those who have known and professed, but have not loved and lived, will say unto "the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"[2] He said, "Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."[3] Such persons have buried their
