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wicked pray to be buried beneath the rocks

of the mountains rather than meet the face of

Him whom they have despised and rejected.

That voice which penetrates the ear of the

dead, they know. How often have its

plaintive, tender tones called them to

repentance. How often has it been heard in

the touching entreaties of a friend, a brother,

a Redeemer. To the rejecters of His grace no

other could be so full of condemnation, so

burdened with denunciation, as that voice

which has so long pleaded: “Turn ye, turn ye

from your evil ways; for why will ye die?”

Ezekiel 33:11. Oh, that it were to them the

voice of a stranger! Says Jesus: “I have called,

and ye refused; I have stretched out My hand,

and no man regarded; but ye have set at

nought all My counsel, and would none of My

reproof.” Proverbs 1:24, 25. That voice