of Canaan, to inherit them. "Yes," says Ezekiel, "if you
had read the thirty-seventh chapter of my prophecies, you would have
found a positive promise, that God would open the graves of the whole
house of Israel, who were dead, and gather up their dry bones, and put
them together, each to its own proper place, and even clothe them
again with flesh, sinews, and skin, and put His Spirit in them, and
they should live; and then, instead of being caught up to heaven, they
should be brought into the land of Canaan, which the Lord gave them,
and they should inherit it."

But, still astonished, you might turn to Job; and he, surprised to
find one unacquainted with so plain a subject, would exclaim: "Did you
never read my nineteenth chapter, from the twenty-third to the
twenty-seventh verses,width by eight
inches in length, being not quite as thick as common tin. They were
filled on both sides with engravings, in Egyptian characters, and
bound together in a volume, as the leaves of a book, and fastened at
one edge with three rings running through the whole. This volume was
something near six inches in thickness, a part of which was sealed.
The characters of letters upon the unsealed part were small, and
beautifully engraved. The whole book exhibited many marks of antiquity
in its construction, as well as much skill in the art of engraving.
With the records was found a curious instrument, called by the
ancients the Urim and Thummim, which consisted of two transparent
stones, clear as crystal, set in the two rims of a bow. This was in
use in ancient times by persons