BIBLE EMBLEMS. BY THE LATE REV. EDWARD E. SEELYE, D. D. SCHENECTADY, N. Y. PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, 150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK. ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by the AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of the State of New York. CONTENTS. I. The higher Rock 5 II. The sun in his might 28 III. The voice of blood 48 IV. Christians God's temples 67 V. God's witnesses 86 VI. Christians shining 102 VII. The raven and the dove 118 VIII. The rainbow 137 IX. The smoking furnace and burning lamp 151 X. The altar of incense 171 XI. Eating under the juniper-tree 188 XII. The other side 206 BIBLE EMBLEMS. I. The higher Rock. LEAD ME TO THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN I. PSALM 61:2. This is a humble cry: the cry of a soul needing help--a soul looking outside of and beyond self for aid and succor. Strange and unusual as it is to hear it, it is the most rational cry that the human soul ever uttered. It cannot be disguised, that man is unsatisfied with his present condition. He looks for something higher. He longs to become what he is not now. Every soul has within it the secret consciousness of imperfection, and a secret aspiration for improvement. Evils and infirmities now encompass it, but it has an idea of a higher state of being, and a more perfect development of spiritual life. The great question is, how man shall gain this spiritual life. Where is the power which shall effect his elevation and improvement? Where is he to look for that influence which will insure his progress, which will exalt and sanctify him, and fit him to fulfil the great end of his creation? Is it from earth, or heaven? Is it within him, or above him? Is it human, or divine? Is it nature, or is it grace? This is the vital question to be settled; the turning-point of all our views of religion and humanity. We are satisfied that the only basis of man's improvement lies in his dependence upon almighty power. The only rock on which he can ever be satisfied to rest, is the Rock that is higher than he. If ever his condition is bettered, it must be by some agency outside of himself. If ever he is to reach a heaven of perfection and of blessedness, he must be drawn thither by a heavenly power.