same Bible, attended the same school, engaged in the same plays, went to the same church, and the same blood coursed in our veins. I was taken, and you were left; heaven is now my home—I partake of its delicious food, and drink from its pure fountains; I mingle in its glorified society, and join in its sublime anthems. Are you, oh! are you prepared to meet me here? If so, all is well; if not, hasten, hasten to make your peace with God.” Is it simply a friend that speaks, or one who was once our neighbor, or a member of the same community, or of the same church? Still the voice is powerful, urging us to a diligent improvement of all the means of grace, that we may be prepared for a better inheritance. But, my hearers, be reminded, that not only voices from glory speak, but tongues scorched with the fire of hell speak. The profane swearer, the guilty Sabbath breaker, the boasting infidel, the painted hypocrite, the arch seducer, the reeling drunkard, the polluted sensualist, the avaricious man and the moralist, the worldling and the almost Christian. All speak to us from their shroud of flame, and say to us in the language of the rich man in the parable, “Come not to this place.” Ten thousands times ten thousand voices are continually speaking in thunder tones to the wicked, warning them to escape the fury of eternal fires. Young man, I hear a voice coming up from that dark world. Who speaks? Your associate in sin. He was once with you in the theatre, at the card-table, in the ball-room, and where the sparkling glass went round, and boisterous mirth was heard. By his own folly he cut short his days, and where is he now? In hell he lifts up his eyes, and in wailing accents cries aloud to you not to add to his unutterable torments, by becoming his companion in suffering, as well as his associate in guilt. O friends! the dead speak to us. They speak to us from the past; they speak to us from their graves; they speak to us from heaven; they speak to us from hell. Let us see to it, one and all, that we heed the solemn message.