THE HEAVENLY BRIDEGROOM

AND HIS BRIDE.

THE

HEAVENLY BRIDEGROOM

AND HIS BRIDE.

BY

H. K. WOOD

("A GLASGOW MERCHANT ").

Author of "Heavenly Love and Earthly Echoes," "The Highway of
Salvation," "The Reason of Hope," etc.

HODDER AND STOUGHTON,

27, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.

Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Printers, London and Aylesbury.

PREFACE.

THE

HE Heavenly Bridegroom and His Bride are, we doubt not, figuratively delineated in "the Song of Songs, which is Solomon's."

If interpreted literally, this Song would seem to be altogether out of place in the heart of the Word of God. Holding it to be truly an allegory, and, as an old puritan minister once said, “a book of fondness between Christ and His people," the author has endeavoured in the following pages to open up briefly its spiritual teachings, and to illustrate them, in a popular style, with a considerable variety of anecdotical and biographical matter, much of it original. Throughout, his aim has been to attract sinners to the Saviour, and to encourage believers to more confident hopefulness