obliterating the head of the prophet, and the lower portion of the other two figures.

The three children in the furnace at Babylon

represented the faithful in affliction, and in their deliverance were a type of the Resurrection. In the following, from the cemetery of St. Priscilla,

they are portrayed rather at standing on the furnace, which some one is feeding with fuel below.

There is another in the same cemetery, as seen on the preceding page, which gives a much better executed representation of the scene, and where the dove is added, bringing to them the olive-branch, the pledge of peace and victory.

Daniel in the lions' den taught them the same lesson of suffering and deliverance. The scene is often repeated in the most spirited manner. Take,

for instance, the following from the cemetery of St. Marcellinus.

Still more so is the following from the cemetery of St. Priscilla.

We have reserved to the last of these scenes, that in the Old Testament on which the early Christians most loved to dwell-the deliverance of Jonah. Our LORD himself had mentioned it as a type of his own death and resurrection,* and it was, there* Matt., xii., 40.

fore, eagerly seized on by those who, meeting for worship where a thin slab only separated them from the martyred dead, were ready to aid their trembling faith by any symbol which could suggest a life to come. It is found, therefore, in every form -the storm-the monster of the deep swallowing Jonah-the prophet again restored to land, or sitting in gloom and anger under the vine which had grown up about him. There is, too, every style of execution, from the earliest representations rudely scratched upon the walls, to the more finished sculpture in a later age displayed on the sides of the sarcophagi. We give one of the former class from a broken slab.

In the following, from the cemetery of St. Priscilla, "the ship" is reduced to a boat, and "the mariners" to a single individual.

But it was not only our LORD's resurrection which was thus shadowed forth. It spoke to them also of their own course in this life, and in that which is to come. Sometimes, too, the Christian's whole existence was condensed, as it were, into one single view.