grieving the Spirit of God, but quenching
Him, and robbing my soul of His power.

EMBLEMS OF THE SPIRIT.

But I would further call attention to the emblems of the Holy Spirit.
An emblem is something that represents an object; the same as a
balance is an emblem of justice, and a crown an emblem of royalty, and
a scepter is an emblem of power; so we find in the 17th chapter of
Exodus and 6th verse, that water is an emblem of the Holy Spirit. You
find in the Smitten Rock, in the wilderness, the work of the Trinity
illustrated.

"Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and
thou shall smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that
the people may drink. And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of
Israel."

Paul declares, in Corinthians, that the rock was Christ; it
represented Christ. God says: "I will stand upon the rock," and as
Moses smote the rock the water came out, which was an emblem of the
Holy Spirit; and it flowed out along through the camp; and they drank
of the water. Now water is cleansing; it is fertilizing; it is
refreshing; it is abundant, and it is freely given; and so the Spirit
of God is the same: cleansing, fertilizing, refreshing, reviving, and
He was freely given when the smitten Christ was glorified. Then, too,
fire is an emblem of the Spirit; it is purifying, illuminating,
searching. We talk about searching our hearts. We can not do it. What
we want is to have God search them. O that God may search us and bring
out the hidden things, the secret things that cluster there and bring
them to light. The wind is another emblem. It is independent, powerful,
sensible in its effects, and reviving; how the Spirit of God revives
when He comes to all the drooping members of the Church. Then the rain
and the dew--fertilizing, refreshing, abundant; and the dove, gentle--what
more gentle than the dove; and the lamb?--gentle, meek, innocent, a
sacrifice. We read of the wrath of God; we read of the wrath of the Lamb,
but nowhere do we read of the wrath of the Holy Spirit--gentle, innocent,
meek, loving; and that Spirit wants to take possession of our hearts.
And He comes as a voice, another emblem--speaking, guiding, warning,
teaching; and the seal--impressing, securing, and making us as His own.
May we know Him in all His wealth of blessing. This is my prayer for
myself--for you. May we heed the words of the grand Apostle: "My speech
and my preaching was not with enticin