Identifier: religiousemblems00holm (find matches)
Title: Religious emblems : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity ; Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Holmes, William Holmes, William Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885 Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885
Subjects: Emblems Allegories Christian art and symbolism Christian life
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : J.W. Barber
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bundle of sticks ; hecould not. The next was called, and so on downto the youngest: all failed; upon which, the oldman cut the cord which bound the sticks together,and they were easily broken, one by one. Love isthe cord that binds together. Union alone suppliesthe lack of numbers, of talents, and of wealth. Tho RELIGIOUS EMBLEMS. 159 minister of the gospel is the standard-bearer in theChristian army; the membership are the ?oldiersof Jesus, If every soldier rallies round the stand-ard, and all are determined to conquer or die, no-thing can stand before them ; they would drive backthe powers of darkness, and make Apollyon fly.For want of union, antichrist and infidelity prevail,and sinners go unreclaimed. When professingChristians cease to vex each other, and turn thewhole tide of their strength against the common foe,the kingdoms of this world will become the king-doms of our God, and of his Messiah, and he willreign forever and ever. THE END H- i ^ >.l^ •./• • .ass M: .4^^
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CHRISTIANITY,; Representee by a woman coming out of the wilderness, clad in beautiful g-armenli.Confiding in the eternal God for protection anJ support, she a liijess thai ^urrvuud the ;lobe. RELIGIOUS ALLEGORIES: BEIxa A SERIES OP EMBLEMATIC ENGRAVINGS, WITH WRITTEN EXPLANATIONS, MISCELLANEOUS OBSER-VATIONS, AND RELIGIOUS REFLECTIONS, DESIG^reO TO ILLUSTRATE DIVINE TRUTH, IN ACCORDA.NCE WITH THE CARDINAL PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY. I have used similitudes. Hosea, 12 chap. 10 v. BY REV. WILLIAM HOLMES, MIXISTEB OF THE GOSPEL; AKD JOHN W. BARBER, AUTHOR OF THE ELEMENTS OF GENEKAL HISTOaT, KTC. PUBLISHED AND SOLD AT NEW HAVEN, by JOHN W. BARBER j NEW YORK, BY M. W. DODD;BOSTON, BY CROCKER &, BREWSTER. 1851. ENTEREDACCORDING TO THE ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1848, BY JOHN

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