lust, or passion, or procrastination, of their own forging. In the
midst of these graves you live, and move, and have your being.

"What is your duty here? Oh, that you realised your true business
in this region of death! Having eyes, Oh! that you could see.
Having ears, Oh! that you could hear. Having hearts, Oh! that you
could feel. What are you going to do with this graveyard? Walk
about it in heartless unconcern, or with no higher feeling than
gratitude for having been made alive yourselves? Or will you
content yourselves with strolling through it, taxing its poor
occupants for your living while leaving them quietly in their tombs
as hopeless as you found them? Heaven forbid! Well, then, what do
you propose? What will you do?

"Look after their bodies, and feed and nourish them, making the
graveyard as comfortable a resting-place as you can? That is good,
so far as it goes, but that is not very far. Will that content you?
Decorate their graves with flowers and evergreens, and wreaths of
pleasant things? Will that content you? Amuse them with your music,
or the singing of your songs, or the letting off of your oratorical
fireworks among their rotting corpses? Will that content you?
Instruct them in doctrines, and rescues, and Salvations in which
they have no share? Will that content you? No! No! No! A thousand
times no! You won't be content with all that. God has sent you into
this dark valley for nothing less than to raise these doom-struck
creatures from the dead. That is your mission. To stop short of
this will be a disastrous and everlasting calamity.

"What do you say? It cannot be done? That is false. God would never
have set you an impossible task. You cannot do it? That is false
again, for you have done it before again and again. There is not an
Officer here who has not called some souls from the dead. Not one.
How many thousands--how many tens of thousands, in the aggregate,
have the Officers present at this Congress raised from the graves
of iniquity? Who can tell?

"Go, and do it again. Go, and look at them. Go, and compassionate
them. Go, and represent Jesus Christ to them. Go, and prophesy to
them. Go, and believe for them. And then shall bone come to bone,
and there shall be a great noise, and a great Army shall stand up