Sacred allegories . ey were before, and I knew that young Innocence, with hergarments still white, was passing away from the garden. In alittle while her companions were weeping, and the child was did not weep, for I felt she had been taken away to that brighterand happier land of which the Voice had spoken; yet long afterwe had ceased to see her, I fancied she was still present in thegarden, and, as she had been wont to do, was holding her littlecross in the light of the sun; for its shadow continued to playaround all the objects she had loved; I could trace it not only onthe faces of
Sacred allegories . ey were before, and I knew that young Innocence, with hergarments still white, was passing away from the garden. In alittle while her companions were weeping, and the child was did not weep, for I felt she had been taken away to that brighterand happier land of which the Voice had spoken; yet long afterwe had ceased to see her, I fancied she was still present in thegarden, and, as she had been wont to do, was holding her littlecross in the light of the sun; for its shadow continued to playaround all the objects she had loved; I could trace it not only onthe faces of her friends, but on the flowers she had gathered, andthe very pathways she had trod. I observed, too, that these imagesbecame brighter and more distinct from the tears that fell uponthem, and images from other crosses kept clustering around them,and I thought, if the beautiful child were indeed still looking onthe garden, how happy she must be that the crosses of those whowept for her were thus blended with her CONVEESATION ON CHAPTER I. What is signified by the bright and glorious sun thatappeared in the east? Jesus Christ our Lord,dii. Yes; he is spoken of as the Sun of Righteousness bythe prophet Malachi. And the beautiful garden on which itsrays fell, is the kingdom that our Lord established upon earth;now, why is that kingdom represented as surrounded by a silverstream ? gt. Because it is through the water of baptism that we enter it.(!lt. Do you remember how this was typified in the history ofthe children of Israel? Yes; you explained to me in the Baptismal Service, that itwas by the passage through the Eed Sea. The words there, Ithink, are, Who didst safely lead the children of Israel throughthe Red Sea, figuring thereby thy holy baptism. You can, then, tell me on which side of the stream youwere born. THE SHADOW OF THE CEOSS. i7 gt. In the land of darkness; for I was born in sin, and a childof wrath. And when you were baptized, you were cleansed from yoursin, and
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