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diff --git a/43886-0.txt b/43886-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b08d90b --- /dev/null +++ b/43886-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2960 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43886 *** + +[Transcriber's Note: Bold text is surrounded by =equal signs= and +italic text is surrounded by _underscores_.] + + +[Illustration: At last there came a grave man to the gate, whose name +was Goodwill. + +(_Page 15_) (_The Pilgrim's Progress._)] + + + + +BUNYAN'S + +PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. + +IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE. + +BY SAMUEL PHILLIPS DAY, + +AUTHOR OF "THE RARE ROMANCE OF REYNARD THE FOX," IN WORDS OF ONE +SYLLABLE. + + +_ILLUSTRATED._ + + + A. L. BURT COMPANY, + PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK. + + + + + COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY + THE CASSELL PUBLISHING CO. + + + _All rights reserved._ + + + + +Contents + + + I. THE DEN AND THE DREAM 5 + II. THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND 8 + III. WORLDLY-WISEMAN 10 + IV. THE WICKET-GATE 15 + V. THE INTERPRETER'S HOUSE 18 + VI. THE CROSS AND THE CONTRAST 19 + VII. THE HILL DIFFICULTY 28 + VIII. THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL 30 + IX. APOLLYON 39 + X. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH 42 + XI. CHRISTIAN AND FAITHFUL 44 + XII. TALKATIVE 50 + XIII. VANITY FAIR 56 + XIV. CHRISTIAN AND HOPEFUL 64 + XV. DOUBTING CASTLE AND GIANT DESPAIR 69 + XVI. THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS 77 + XVII. THE ENCHANTED GROUND AND THE WAY DOWN TO IT 81 + XVIII. THE LAND OF BEULAH--THE FORDS OF THE RIVER--AT HOME 87 + + + + +THE + +PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +THE DEN AND THE DREAM. + + +AS I went through the wilds of this world, I came to a place where was +a den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept I +dreamt a dream; and lo, I saw a man clad in rags, with a book in his +hand, and a great load on his back! I saw him read in the book, and as +he read, he wept and shook. + +In this plight, then, he went home, and kept calm as long as he could, +that his wife and bairns should not see his grief; but he could not +long hold his speech, for that his woe grew more hard to bear. "Oh, my +dear wife," said he, "and you, the bairns of my heart, I am quite lost, +for a load lies hard on me. More than this, I am told that this our +town will be burnt with fire from the skies, and you, my sweet babes, +shall come to grief, save some way can be found to get clear of harm." +At this his kin were in sore fear; for that they had just cause to +dread some dire ill had got hold of his head. So, when morn was come, +they would know how he did: and he told them, "Worse and worse." He +spoke to them once more, but they gave no heed to his words. Hence he +went to his room to pray for them, and to ease his grief. He would, +too, take long walks in the fields, and read and pray at times: and +thus for some days he spent his time. + +Now I saw on a time, when he took a stray walk in the fields, that he +was bent on his book and in deep grief of mind; and as he read he burst +out, "What shall I do?" + +I saw, too, that his eyes went this way and that way, as if he would +run: yet he could not tell which way to go. I then saw a man whose name +was Evangelist come to him and ask, "Why dost thou cry?" Quoth he, +"Sir, I see by the book in my hand that death is my doom, and that I am +then to meet my Judge: and I find that I do not will to do the first, +while I dread the last." Then said Evangelist, "Why not will to die, +since this life is full of ills?" The man said, "The cause is I fear +that this load that is on my back will sink me more low than the grave, +and I shall go down to hell." + +Then said Evangelist, "If this be thy state, why dost thou stand +still?" Said he, "It is for that I know not where to go." Then he gave +him a roll of smooth skin, on which were writ the plain words, "Flee +from the wrath to come." The man read it, and said, "To what place must +I flee?" Then said Evangelist, "Do you see yon small gate?" The man +said, "I think I do." Then said his guide, "Go up at once to it; at +which, when thou dost knock, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do." + +So I saw in my dream that the man did run. Now he had not run far from +his own door, but his wife and bairns saw it, and in a loud voice they +strove to get him to come back; but the man put the tips of his thumbs +in his ears and ran on. + +His friends also came out, and some bade him haste back. Of those who +did so, there were two that sought to fetch him back by force. The name +of the one was Obstinate; and the name of the next, Pliable. Now by +this time the man was a good way off; but they went in quest of him, +and in a short time came up with him. Then said he, "Friends, for what +are ye come?" Quoth they, "To urge you to go back with us": but he +said, "That can by no means be. You dwell in the City of Destruction: +and when you die there, you will sink down to a place that burns with +fire. Take heed, good friends, and go with me." + +[Illustration: OBSTINATE GOES BACK TO THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION.] + +"What!" said Obstinate, "and leave our friends and all that brings us +joy and ease?" + +"Yes," said Christian (for that was his name); "I seek a life that +fades not. Read it so, if you will, in my book." + +"Tush!" said Obstinate, "I heed not your book: will you go back with us +or no?" + +"No, not I," said Christian. + +_Obs._--"Come then, friend Pliable, let us go home." + +Then said Pliable, "The things he looks for are of more worth than +ours. My heart urges me to go with him." + +_Obs._--"What! Be led by me and go back." + +_Chr._--"Come with me, friend Pliable; there are such things to be had +which I spoke of, and much more bliss. If you heed not what I say, read +here in this book." + +"Well, friend Obstinate," said Pliable, "I mean to go with this good +man, and to cast in my lot with him. But, my good mate, do you know the +way to this place?" + +_Chr._--"I am told by a man, whose name is Evangelist, to speed me to a +small gate that is in front of us, where we shall be put in the right +way." + +"And I will go back to my place," said Obstinate. "I will not make one +of such flat fools." + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND. + + +NOW Christian and Pliable spoke as they did walk on the plain; and this +was what they said: + +_Chr._--"Come, friend Pliable. I am glad you have been led to go with +me. Had but Obstinate felt what I have felt, he would not have set his +back on us." + +_Pli._--"And do you think that your book is true?" + +_Chr._--"Yes: there is a realm where we shall not taste of death, that +we may dwell in it for aye." + +_Pli._--"This is right good; and what else?" + +_Chr._--"There we shall not weep or grieve more; for he that owns the +place will wipe all tears from our eyes." + +_Pli._--"To hear this doth fill one's heart with joy. But are these +things to form our bliss? How shall we get to share in them?" + +_Chr._--"The Lord hath set down _that_ in this book, the pith of which +is, if we in truth seek to have it, he will, of his free grace, grant +it to us." + +_Pli._--"Well, my good friend, glad am I to hear of these things. Come +on, let us mend our pace." + +Now I saw in my dream that just as they had put an end to this talk +they drew up nigh to a deep slough that was in the midst of the plain; +and as they did not heed it, both fell swap in the bog. The name of the +slough was Despond. + +Then said Pliable, "Ah, friend Christian, where are you now?" + +"In sooth," said Christian, "I do not know." + +At this Pliable said in sharp tones, "Is this the bliss you have told +me all this while of? If we have such ill speed as we first set out, +what may we not look for ere the time we get to the end of our road? +May I once get out with my life, you shall hold the brave land for me." +And with that he gave a bold stride or two, and got out of the mire on +that side of the slough which was next his own house. So off he went, +and Christian saw him no more. + +Hence Christian was left to sprawl in the Slough of Despond. But I saw +in my dream that a man came to him whose name was Help, and did ask him +what he did there. + +"Sir," said Christian, "I was bade go this way by a man known as +Evangelist, who sent me in like way to yon gate, that I might scape the +wrath to come." + +So he gave him his hand, and drew him out, and set him on sound ground, +and let him go on his way. + +Then I went to him that did pluck him out, and said, "Sir, whence is it +that this plat is not made whole, that those who pass this way may run +no risk?" + +And he said to me, "This slough is such a place that none can mend it. +It goes by the name of the Slough of Despond; for still, as he who +sins is wrought up to a sense of his lost state, there spring forth in +his soul fears, and doubts, and dark thoughts that scare, which all of +them form in a heap and fix in this place; and this is the cause why +the road is so bad. True, there are, by the help of him who frames the +laws, some stout and firm steps found through the midst of this slough; +these steps are all but hid, or if they be seen, men step on one side, +and then they get all grime with mire, though the steps be there; but +the ground is good when they are once got in at the gate." + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +WORLDLY-WISEMAN. + + +AS Christian took his lone walk he saw one cross the field to meet him, +and their hap was to meet just as they did cross the same way. The +man's name was Mr. Worldly-wiseman. Hence Mr. Worldly-wiseman thus held +some talk with Christian. + +_Wor._--"How now, good friend; where dost thou go bent down with such a +weight?" + +[Illustration: CHRISTIAN AND WORLDLY-WISEMAN] + +_Chr._--"As big a load, in sooth, as I think a poor wight had in his +life! I am bound for yon small gate in front of me; for there, as I am +told, I shall be put in a way to be rid of my huge load." + +_Wor._--"Wilt thou give heed to me, if I tell thee what course to take?" + +_Chr._--"If what you say be good, I will; for I stand in need of a wise +guide." + +_Wor._--"Who bid thee go this way to be rid of thy load?" + +_Chr._--"A man that I thought was high and great; his name, as my mind +serves me, is Evangelist." + +_Wor._--"There is not a more rough way to be found in the world than is +that he hath bade thee take; and that thou shalt find if thou wilt be +led by him. Hear me: I have seen more years than thou. Thou art like to +meet with, on the way which thou dost go, great griefs, pain, lack of +food and clothes, sword, fierce beasts, gloom, and, in a word, death, +and what not! And why should a man run such risks, just on the word of +a strange guide?" + +_Chr._--"Why, sir, I think I care not what things I meet with in the +way, if so be I can get ease from my pack." + +_Wor._--"But why wilt thou seek for ease this way, as such dire ills go +with it? the more so, hadst thou but borne with me, I could aid thee to +get what thou dost wish, free from the risks that thou in this way wilt +run." + +_Chr._--"Pray, sir, make known this boon to me." + +_Wor._--"Why, in yon town (the town is known as Morality) there dwells +a squire whose name is Legality, a man of good name, that has skill to +help men off with such loads as thine from their backs. To him, as I +said, thou canst go and get help in a trice; and if he should not be +at home, he hath a fair young son, whose name is Civility, that can do +it as well as his sage sire." + +Now was Christian at a stand what to do; but soon he thought, "If this +be true which this squire hath said, my best course is to be led by +him"; and with that he thus spake more. + +_Chr._--"Sir, which is the way to this good man's house?" + +_Wor._--"By that hill you must go, and the first house you come at is +his." + +So Christian went out of his way to go to Mr. Legality's house for +help. But lo, when he was got now hard by the hill, that side of it +that was next the path did hang so much, that Christian durst not move +on, lest the hill should fall on his head: for which cause there he +stood still, and he wot not what to do. But soon there came fierce +flames of fire out of the hill, each flash of which made Christian +dread he should be burnt. And now he was wroth for the heed he gave to +Mr. Worldly-wiseman's words. And with that he saw Evangelist come forth +to meet him; and thus did he speak with Christian: + +"What dost thou here?" said he. At which words Christian knew not what +to say. Then said Evangelist to him, "Art not thou the man that I found +in tears back of the walls of the City of Destruction?" + +_Chr._--"Yes, dear sir, I am the man. I met with a squire, so soon as I +had got clear of the Slough of Despond, who made me think that I might, +in the town which did face me, find a man that could take off my load." + +_Evan._--"What said that squire to you?" + +_Chr._--"He bid me with speed get rid of my load; and said I, 'I am +hence bound for yon gate to gain more news how I may get to the place +where my load may be cast off.' So he said that he would show me the +best way: 'which way,' said he, 'will take you to a squire's house that +hath skill to take off these loads.' So I put faith in him, and set out +of that way till I came to this, if so be I might soon get ease from my +load." + +Then said Evangelist, "Stand still a short time, that I may show thee +the words of God." + +Then Christian fell down at his feet as dead, and did cry, "Woe is me, +for I am lost!" At the sight of which Evangelist caught him by the +right hand, and said, "Be not frail, but have faith." + +Then Evangelist went on, and said, "Give heed to the things that I +shall tell thee of. The man that met thee is one Worldly-wiseman, and +he bears a fit name; in part, for that his creed is what the world +holds; and in part, for that he loves such faith best, for it saves him +from the cross. Now, there are three things in this man's words that +thou must be sure and shun--his scheme to turn thee out of the way; his +wish to make the cross a shame to thee; and his guile, which did tempt +thee to set thy feet in that way that leads to death. + +"And for this thou must bear in mind to whom he sent thee, no less than +his lack of skill to rid thee of thy load. He to whom thou wast sent +for ease, by name Legality, has not the gift to set thee free from thy +load. No man, as yet, got rid of his load by him: no, nor till the end +of time is like to be. 'By the works of the law none can be made just,' +for by the deeds of the law no man that lives can be rid of his load; +and as for his son, Civility, though he wears soft looks, he is but a +knave, and must fail to help thee. Trust me, there is naught else in +all this noise that thou hast heard of this spot but a scheme to lure +thee of thy soul's bliss." + +Now Christian felt sure fear of death, and burst out in a shrill +cry, full of woe, as he did curse the time in which he met with Mr. +Worldly-wiseman. Still did he say he was the chief of fools for the +heed he gave to him. This done, he spoke to Evangelist in words and +sense thus: + +_Chr._--"Sir, what think you? Is there hope? May I now go back and go +up to the small gate? Shall I not be sent back from thence in shame?" + +Then said Evangelist to him, "Thy sin is most great, for by it thou +hast done two bad deeds: thou hast left the way that is good to tread +in wrong paths, yet will the man at the gate let thee pass, for he has +_good-will_ for men." + +Then did Christian make up his mind to go back, and Evangelist, when he +did kiss his cheek, gave him a smile, and bid him God speed. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +THE WICKET-GATE. + + +SO Christian went on with haste, nor spake he to a man by the way; nor +if a man spoke to him, would he deign him a word; so in course of time +Christian got up to the gate. Now at the top of the gate there were +writ these words: + + ="Knock, and it shall ope to you."= + +Hence he did knock more than once or twice. + +At last there came a grave man to the gate, whose name was Goodwill, +who sought to know who was there? and whence he came? and what he would +have? + +_Chr._--"Here is a poor vile wight; I come from the City of +Destruction, but am bound for Mount Zion, that I may get safe from the +wrath to come. I would, for this cause, sir, know if you will let me +in." + +"I will, with all my heart," said he; and with that he drew back the +gate. + +So when he was got in, the man of the gate said to him, "Who told him +to come to that place?" + +_Chr._--"Evangelist bid me come here and knock, as I did; and he said +that you, sir, would tell me what I must do." + +_Good._--"But how is it that no one came with you?" + +_Chr._--"For that none of those who dwelt near me saw their plight as I +saw mine." + +_Good._--"Did one or more of them know that you meant to come here?" + +_Chr._--"Yes; my wife and bairns saw me at the first, and did call to +me to turn round." + +_Good._--"But did none of them go in quest of you, to urge you to go +back?" + +_Chr._--"Yes, both Obstinate and Pliable; but when they saw that they +could not gain their end, Obstinate went back, and did rail the while, +but Pliable came with me a short way." + +_Good._--"But why did he not come through?" + +_Chr._--"We, in truth, came on side by side till we came to the Slough +of Despond, in the which he fell souse. But as he got out on that side +next to his own house, he told me I should hold the brave land for him. +So he went his way, and I came mine." + +Then said Goodwill, "Ah, poor man!" + +"In sooth," said Christian, "I have said the truth of Pliable; but I, +too, did turn on one side to go in the way of death, and I was led to +this by the base arts of one Mr. Worldly-wiseman." + +[Illustration: CHRISTIAN AT THE WICKET-GATE.] + +_Good._--"Oh, did he light on you? What! he would have had you seek for +ease at the hands of Mr. Legality: they are both of them true cheats. +But were you led by him?" + +_Chr._--"Yes, as far as I durst. I went to find out Mr. Legality, till +I thought the mount that stands by his house would have come down on my +head." + +_Good._--"That mount has been the death of a host, and will be the +death of still more." + +_Chr._--"Why, in truth, I do not know what hap had come to me there, +had not Evangelist by good luck met me once more, while I did muse in +the midst of my dumps: but it was God's grace that he came to me twice, +for else I could not have got to this place." + +_Good._--"We shut out none, and take no note of what they have done up +to the time they come here: 'they in no wise are cast out': and hence, +good Christian, come a wee way with me, and I will teach thee in what +way thou must go. Look right in front of thee; dost thou see this +strait way? That is the way thou must go." + +"But," said Christian, "are there no turns or bends by which one who +has not trod it may lose his way?" + +_Good._--"Yes, there are some ways butt down on this; and they are bent +and wide: but thus thou canst judge the right from the wrong, that the +first is straight and not broad." + +Then Christian strove to gird up his loins, and to set out on his way. +So he with whom he had held speech told him, "That by that he had gone +some way from the gate he would come at the house of the Interpreter, +at whose door he should knock, and he would show him good things." + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +THE INTERPRETER'S HOUSE. + + +THEN he went on till he came to the house of the Interpreter, at which +he gave some smart knocks. At last one came to the door, and did ask +who was there? + +"Sir," said Christian, "I am a man that am come from the City of +Destruction, and am bound for the Mount Zion; and I was told by the man +that stands at the gate at the head of this way, that if I came here +you would show me good things, such as would be a help to one on the +road." + +Then said the Interpreter, "Come in; I will show thee that which will +be of use to thee." So he told his man to light the lamp, and bid +Christian go in his track. Then he had him in a room where none else +could come, and bid his man fold back the door, the which when he had +done Christian saw the print of one, most grave of look, hung up on the +wall, and this was the style of it: It had eyes that did stare at the +sky, the best of books in its hand, and the law of truth was writ on +its lips; the world was at its back, it stood as if it did plead with +men, and a crown of gold did hang nigh its head. + +Then said Christian, "What means this?" + +_Inter._--"I have shown thee this print first for this cause, that the +man whose print this is, is the sole man whom the Lord of the place +where thou dost go hath sent as thy guide through all the twists and +turns thou wilt meet with in the way; hence take good heed to what I +have shown thee, and bear well in thy mind what thou hast seen, lest, +in thy route, thou meet with some that say they can lead thee right; +but their way goes down to death." + +Then he took him by the hand, and led him to a large room on the ground +floor that was full of dust; the which the Interpreter did call for a +man to sweep. Then said the Interpreter to a girl that stood by, "Bring +hence from yon brook the means to lay this dust." + +Then said Christian, "What means this?" + +The Interpreter thus spoke: "This room on the ground floor is the heart +of man that has not been made pure by the sweet grace of Christ's Word. +The _dust_ is the sin that cleaves to him through the Fall, and the +lust that hath made foul the whole man. He who at first swept is the +Law; but she that brought the means to lay the dust is the Gospel." + +I saw too, in my dream, that the Interpreter took him by the hand, and +had him in a small room, where sat two youths, each one in his chair. +The name of the most grown was Passion, and of the next, Patience: +Passion did not seem at rest, but Patience was quite still. + +Then I saw that one came to Passion and brought him a bag of rich +gifts, and did pour it down at his feet; the which he took up and felt +joy in it, while at Patience he gave a laugh of scorn. But I saw but a +time, and he had got rid of all, and had naught left but rags. + +Then said Christian to the Interpreter, "I would have you make this +thing more clear to me." + +So he said, "These two lads are signs: Passion of the men of this +world, and Patience of the men of that which is to come; for, as here +thou dost see, Passion will have all now, this year, that is to say in +this world, so are the men of this world; they must have all their good +things now; they durst not stay till next year, that is till the next +world, for their share of good." + +Then said Christian, "Now I see that Patience has the best sense, and +that on more grounds than one; for that he stays for the best things, +and in like way for that he will have the gain of his when Passion has +naught but rags." + +[Illustration: INTERPRETER SHOWS CHRISTIAN THE ROOM FULL OF DUST] + +_Inter._--"Nay, you may add one more, to wit, the joys of the next +world will not wear out, but these are soon gone." + +I saw, in like way, that the Interpreter took him once more by the +hand, and led him to a choice place, where was built a great house, +fine to look at; at the sight of which Christian felt much joy; he saw, +too, on the top of it some folk that did walk to and fro, who were clad +all in gold. + +Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up nigh to the door of the +great house; and lo, at the door stood a host of men as did wish to go +in, but durst not. There, too, sat a man a short way from the door, at +the side of a board, with a book and his desk in front of him, to take +the name of him that should come in. More than this, he saw that in the +porch stood groups of men, clad in coats of mail, to keep it, who meant +to do all the hurt and harm they could to the man that would go in. Now +was Christian in a sore maze. At last, when all the men did start back +for fear of the men who bore arms, Christian saw a man of a bold face +come up to the man that sat there to write, and say, "Set down my name, +sir"; the which when he had done, he saw the man draw his sword, and +put a casque on his head, and rush to the door on the men who had arms, +who laid on him with fierce force; but the man, not at all put out of +the way, fell to, and did cut and hack with all his might: so, when he +had got and dealt scores of wounds to those that strove to keep him +out, he cut his way through them all, and made straight for the great +house. + +"Now," said Christian, "let me go hence." + +"Nay, stay," said the Interpreter, "till I have shown thee some more; +and then thou shalt go on thy way." + +[Illustration: Just as Christian came up with the cross, his load got +loose from his neck, and fell from off his back. + +(_Page 25_) (_The Pilgrim's Progress._)] + +So he took him by the hand once more, and led him to a room dark as +pitch, where there sat a man in a steel cage. Now the man to look on +was most sad; and he gave sighs as if he would break his heart. + +The man said, "I once did seem to be what I was not fair in mine own +eyes, and in the eyes of those that knew me. I was once, as I thought, +fair for the Celestial City, and went so far as to have joy at the +thoughts that I should get there." + +_Chr._--"Well, but what art thou now?" + +_Man._--"I am now a man lost to hope." + +_Chr._--"But how didst thou get in this state?" + +_Man._--"I did sin in face of the light of the World, and the grace of +God. I made the Spirit grieve, and he is gone." + +Then said Christian, "Is there no hope, but you must be kept in the +steel cage of gloom?" + +_Man._--"None at all." + +_Chr._--"But canst thou not now grieve and turn?" + +_Man._--"God hath not let me; his Word gives me no aid to faith; yea, +he hath shut me up in this steel cage; nor can all the men in the world +let me out." + +Then said the Interpreter to Christian, "Let this man's wails be dwelt +on by thee, and cease not to teach thee how to act." + +So he took Christian and led him to a room where one did rise out of +bed; and as he put on his clothes he did shake and quake. + +Then said Christian, "Why doth this man thus shake?" + +So he spoke and said, "This night as I was in my sleep I dreamt, and +lo, the sky grew black as ink, when flame flit from the clouds; on +which I heard a dread noise, that put me in throes of pain. So I did +lift up my eyes in my dream, and saw a man sit on a cloud, with a huge +host near to him. I heard, then, a voice that said, 'Come forth, ye +dead, and meet your Judge!' And with that the rocks rent, the graves +did gape, and the dead that were in them came forth. Then I saw the man +that sat on the cloud fold back the book and bid the world draw near. I +heard it, in like way, told to them that were near the man that sat on +the cloud, 'Bind up the tares, and the chaff, and the stalks, and cast +them in the lake that burns with fire.' Then said the voice to the same +men, 'Put up my wheat in the barn!' and with that I saw a host caught +up in the clouds, but I was left stay." + +_Chr._--"But what was it that made you so quake at this sight?" + +_Man._--"Why, I thought that the day of doom had come, and that I was +not fit to meet it. But this made me fear most, that some were caught +up while I was left." + +Then said the Interpreter to Christian, "Hast thou thought well on all +these things?" + +_Chr._--"Yes; and they put me in hope and fear." + +_Inter._--"Well, keep all things so in thy mind that they may be as a +goad in thy sides, to prick thee on in the way thou must go." + +Then Christian girt up his loins, and thought but of the long road he +had to tread. + +[Illustration: So I saw that just as Christian came up to the cross, +his load got loose from his neck, and fell from off his back.--Page 25. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +THE CROSS AND THE CONTRAST. + + +NOW I saw in my dream that the high road had on each side a wall for a +fence, and that wall went by the name of Salvation. Up this way, then, +did Christian run with his load, till he came to a place where was a +high slope, and on that place stood a cross, and a short way from it +in the vale, a tomb. So I saw in my dream that just as Christian came +up with the cross, his load got loose from his neck, and fell from off +his back, and did roll till it came to the mouth of the grave, where it +fell in, and I saw it no more. + +Then was Christian full glad, and said, with a gay heart, "He hath +brought me rest by his grief, and life by his death." Then he stood +still for a short time to look with awe, for it was a strange thing to +him that the sight of the cross should thus ease him of his load. + +I saw then in my dream that he went on thus till he came to a vale, +where he saw three men in deep sleep, with gyves on their heels. The +name of the one was Simple; the next, Sloth; and the third, Presumption. + +Christian went to them, if so be he might rouse them; so he said in a +loud voice, "You are like them that sleep on the top of a mast, for the +Dead Sea is low down at your feet, a gulf that no plumb line can sound; +get up, hence and come on." + +With this they gave a glum look at him, and spoke in this sort: Simple +said, "I see no cause for fear"; Sloth said, "Yet some more sleep"; and +Presumption said, "Each tub must stand on its own end." And so they +lay down to sleep once more, and Christian went on his way. + +[Illustration: FORMALIST AND HYPOCRISY COMING INTO THE WAY OVER THE +WALL.] + +Yet felt he grief to think that men in that sad plight should so spurn +the kind act of him that of his own free will sought to help them. And +as he did grieve from this cause, he saw two men roll off a wall, on +the left hand of the strait way. The name of the one was Formalist, and +the name of the next Hypocrisy. So they drew up nigh him, who thus held +speech with them: + +_Chr._--"Sirs, whence came you, and where do you go?" + +_Form. and Hyp._--"We were born in the land of Vainglory, and are bent +for praise to Mount Zion." + +_Chr._--"Why came you not in at the gate which stands at the head of +the way?" + +They said, "That to go to the gate to get in was by all their horde +thought too far round." + +_Chr._--"But will it not be thought a wrong done to the Lord of the +town where we are bound, thus to break his law which he hath made known +to us?" + +They told him, "That this act of theirs, as it stood for so long a +time, would no doubt be thought good in law by a just judge; and more +than this," said they, "if we get in the way, what boots it which way +we get in? If we are in, we are in. Thou art but in the way, who, as we +see, came in at the gate; and we too are in the way, that fell from the +top of the wall. In what, now, is thy state a whit more good than ours?" + +_Chr._--"I walk by the rule of my Lord; you walk by the rude quirks of +your vague whims. At this time you count but as thieves in the sight +of the Lord of the way hence I doubt you will not be found true men at +the end of the way. By laws and rules you will not get safe, since you +came not in by the door. I have, too, a mark on my brow, which you may +not have seen, which one of my Lord's most stanch friends put there, in +the day that my load fell from off my back. More than this, I will tell +you that I then got a roll with a seal on it, to cheer me while I read +it, as I go on the way: I was told to give it in at the Celestial Gate, +as a sure sign that I, too, should go in at the right time: all which +things I doubt you want, and want them for that you came not in at the +gate." + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +THE HILL DIFFICULTY. + + +I SAW then that they all went on till they came to the foot of the Hill +Difficulty, at the end of which was a spring. There were in the same +place two ways more than that which came straight from the gate: one +bent to the left hand, and the next to the right, at the base of the +hill; but the strait way lay right up the hill; and the name of that +path up the side of the hill is known as Difficulty. Christian now went +to the spring and drank of it to cool his blood and quench his thirst, +and then he set forth to go up the hill. + +The two with whom he had held speech in like way came to the foot of +the hill; but when they saw that the hill was steep and high, and that +there were two more ways to go, and as they thought that these two ways +might meet in the long run with that up which Christian went, on the +rear side of the hill,--hence they made up their minds to go in those +ways. + +Now the name of one of those ways was Danger, and the name of the next +Destruction. So the one took the way which is known as Danger, which +led him to a great wood; and he who was with him took straight up the +way to Destruction, which led to a wide field full of dark cliffs, +where he made a slip, and fell, and rose no more. + +I then cast my eyes on Christian, and I saw that from a run he came to +a walk, and at last had to climb on his hands and his knees, so steep +was the place. + +[Illustration: Timorous was afraid of wild beasts and ran down the +hill.--Page 29. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +Now half the way to the top of the hill was a nook made of trees, +fair to look on, made by the Lord of the hill for the good of such as +trod that place. There, then, Christian got; there, too, he sat down to +rest him. + +Thus sought he cheer a while, when he fell to doze, and then went off +in a fast sleep. + +Now as he slept there came one to him, who woke him and said, "Go to +the ant, thou man of sloth; think of her ways, and be wise." And with +that Christian did start up, and went on till he came to the top of the +hill. + +Now when he was got up to the top of the hill, there came two men +who ran right up to him so as to push him. The name of the one was +Timorous, and of the next Mistrust; to whom Christian said, "Sirs, what +doth ail you? You run the wrong way." + +Timorous said that they were bound to the City of Zion, and had got up +to that hard place; "but," said he, "the more we go on the more risks +we meet with; hence did we turn, and mean not to go back." + +"Yes," said Mistrust, "for just in front of us lie a brace of wild +beasts in the way--that they sleep or wake we know not--and we could +not think if we came in their reach but they would at once pull us in +bits." + +Then Mistrust and Timorous ran down the hill, and Christian went on his +way. But as he dwelt on what he heard from the men, the sun went down; +and this made him once more think how vain it was for him to have sunk +to sleep. Now, he brought to mind the tale that Mistrust and Timorous +had told him of how they took fright at the sight of the wild beasts. +Then did Christian muse thus: "These beasts range in the night for +their prey; and if they should meet with me in the dark, how should I +shift them? how should I get free from their fangs? they would tear +me to bits." Thus he went on his way. But, while he did mourn his dire +hap, he lift up his eyes, and lo, there was a grand house in front of +him, the name of which was Beautiful, and it stood just on the side of +the high road. + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL. + + +SO I saw in my dream that he made haste and went forth, that, if so +be, he might get a place to lodge there. Now ere he had gone far, he +saw two wild beasts in the way. (The beasts were made fast, but he saw +not the chains.) Then he took fright, and thought to go back; for he +thought death of a truth did face him. But when the man at the lodge, +whose name is Watchful, saw that Christian made a halt, he did cry to +him and say, "Is thy strength so small? Fear not the wild beasts, for +they are in chains, and are put there for test of faith where it is, +and to make known those that have none: keep in the midst of the path, +and no hurt shall come to thee." + +Then did he clap his hands, and went on till he came and stood in front +of the gate where the Porter was. Then said Christian to the Porter, +"Sir, what house is this? and may I lodge here this night?" The Porter +said, "This house was built by the Lord of the hill, and he built it to +aid and guard such as speed this way." The Porter, in like way, sought +to know whence he was; and to what place he was bound? + +[Illustration: This is Mistrust, whom Christian met going the wrong +way.--Page 29. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +_Chr._--"I am come from the City of Destruction; and am on my way to +Mount Zion; but as the sun is now set, I wish, if I may, to lodge here +this night." + +_Por._--"But how doth it hap that you come so late? The sun is set." + +_Chr._--"I had been here ere this, but that, mean man that I am, I +slept in the nook that stands on the side of the hill." + +_Por._--"Well, I will call out one of the maids of this place, who +will, if she likes your talk, bring you in to the rest of the folk, as +such are the rules of the house." + +So Watchful rang a bell, at the sound of which came out at the door of +the house a grave and fair maid, whose name was Discretion, who would +know why she had got a call. + +The Porter said, "This man is in the way from the City of Destruction +to Mount Zion, but as he doth tire, and as night came on, he sought to +know if he might lodge here for the night: so I told him I would call +for thee, who, when thou dost speak with him, may do as seems to thee +good, and act up to the law of the house." + +Then she would know whence he was, and to what place he was bound, and +his name. So he said, "It is Christian." So a smile sat on her lips, +but the tears stood in her eyes; and, when she gave a short pause, she +said, "I will call forth two or three more of those who dwell here." +So she ran to the door, and did call out Prudence, Piety, and Charity; +and when she had held more speech with him, he was brought in, and made +known to all who dwelt in the house, some of whom met him at the porch, +and said, "Come in, thou whom the Lord doth bless; this house was built +by the Lord of the hill, to give good cheer to such who, like you, grow +faint by the way." Then he bent his head, and went in with them to the +house. So when he was come in and set down, they gave him to drink, and +then they thought that till the last meal was brought up, some of them +should have some wise talk with Christian, so as to make good use of +time. + +[Illustration: CHRISTIAN IS QUESTIONED BY DISCRETION.] + +_Pi._--"Come, good Christian, since we have shown such love for you as +to make you our guest this night, let us, if so be we may each get good +by it, talk with you of all things that you have met with on your way." + +[Illustration: This is Formalist, whom Christian saw roll from the top +of a wall, as if to go to Zion.--Page 33. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +_Chr._--"With a right good will; and I am glad your mind is so well +bent." + +_Pi._--"How was it that you came out of your land in this way?" + +_Chr._--"It was as God would have it; for when I was full of the fears +of doom, I did not know where to go; but by chance there came a man +then to me, whilst I shook and wept, whose name is Evangelist, and +he told me how to reach the small gate, which else I should not have +found, and so set me in the way that hath led me straight to this +house." + +_Pi._--"But did you not come by the house of the Interpreter?" + +_Chr._--"Yes, and did see such things there, the thoughts of which will +stick by me as long as I live; in chief, three things; to wit, how +Christ, in spite of the Foe of Man, keeps up his work of grace in the +heart; how the man, through sin, had got quite out of hopes of God's +ruth; and, in like way, the dream of him that thought in his sleep the +day of doom was come." + +_Pi._--"And what saw you else in the way?" + +_Chr._--"Saw! Why, I went but a wee way and I saw One, as I thought in +my mind, hang and bleed on a tree; and the sheer sight of him made my +load fall off my back; for I did groan through the great weight, but +then it fell down from off me." + +_Pi._--"But you saw more than this, did you not?" + +_Chr._--"The things that I have told you were the best; yet some more +things I saw, as, first of all, I saw three men, Simple, Sloth, and +Presumption, lie in sleep, not far out of the way as I came, with gyves +on their heels; but do you think I could rouse them? I saw, in like +way, Formalist and Hypocrisy come and roll from the top of a wall, to +go, as they fain would have me think, to Zion; but they were lost in a +trice, just as I did tell them; but they would not heed my words." + +_Pr._--"Do you think at times of the land from whence you came?" + +_Chr._--"Yes, but with much shame and hate." + +_Pr._--"Do you not yet bear hence with you some of the things that you +well knew there?" + +_Chr._--"Yes, but much in strife with my will; the more so the crass +thoughts of my heart, with which all the folk of my land, as well as +I, would find joy; but now all those things are my grief, and might I +but choose mine own things, I would choose not to think of those things +more; but when I would do that which is best, that which is worst is +with me." + +_Pr._--"And what is it that makes you so long to go to Mount Zion?" + +_Chr._--"Why, there I hope to see Him live that did hang dead on the +cross; and there I hope to be rid of all those things that to this day +are in me and do vex me: there they say there is no death; and there I +shall dwell with such folk as I like best." + +Then said Charity to Christian, "Have you bairns, and have you a wife?" + +_Chr._--"I have a wife and four small bairns." + +_Char._--"And why did you not bring them on with you?" + +Then Christian wept and said, "Oh, fain would I have done it! but they +were all of them loath to let me leave them." + +_Char._--"But you should have sought to show them the risks they ran +when they held back." + +[Illustration: Hypocrisy would fain have Christian think he was on the +way to Zion.--Page 34. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +_Chr._--"So I did; and told them, too, that God had shown to me how +that our town would come to wrack; but they thought I did but mock, and +they put no faith in what I said." + +_Char._--"But what could they say to show cause why they came not?" + +[Illustration: CHRISTIAN TELLS CHARITY AND HER SISTERS ABOUT HIS +FAMILY.] + +_Chr._--"Why, my wife was loath to lose this world; and my bairns were +bent on the rash joys of youth; so, what by this thing, and what by +that thing, they left me to roam in this lone way." + +_Char._--"But did you not with your vain life damp all that you by +words made use of as force to bring them off with you?" + +_Chr._--"In sooth, I must not say aught for my life, as I know full +well what blurs there are in it. I know, too, that a man by his deeds +may soon set at naught what by sound speech and wit of words he doth +strive to fix on some for their good. Yet this I can say, I took heed +not to give them cause, by a false act, to shirk the step I took, and +not set out with me. Yea, for this sole thing they would tell me I was +too nice; and that I would not touch of things in which they saw no +guile." + +_Char._--"In truth, Cain did hate him who came of the same blood, for +that his works were bad, and Abel's not so; and if thy wife and bairns +have thought ill of thee for this, they show by it that they are foes +to good; and thou hast set free thy soul from their blood." + +Now I saw in my dream that thus they sat and spoke each to each till +the meal was laid on the board; and all their talk while they ate was +of the Lord of the hill; as, in sooth, of what he had done, and why it +was he did what he did, and why he had built that house. + +They, in like way, gave prompt proof of what they said, and that was, +he had stript him of his rich robes, that he might do this for the +poor; and that they heard him say, with stern stress, that he would not +dwell in the Mount of Zion in a lone way. They said, too, that he made +a host of poor ones kings, though by the law of their birth they were +born to live on bare alms, and their first state had been low and bad. + +Thus they spoke, this one to that one, till late at night; and when +they had put them in the Lord's care they went to rest. + +[Illustration: Then he set forth: but Discretion, Piety, Charity, and +Prudence would go with him down to the foot of the hill. + +(_Page 38_) (_The Pilgrim's Progress._)] + +The next day they took him and had him in the place in which arms were +kept, where he was shown all sorts of things which their Lord had put +there for such as he, as sword, shield, casque, plate for breast, +_All-prayer_, and shoes that would not wear out. And there was here as +much of this as would fit out a host of men to serve the Lord. + +In like way did they show him some of the means with which some of his +friends had done things that strike one with awe. He was shown the +jaw-bone of the ass with which Samson did such great feats. More than +this, he was shown the sling and stone with which David slew Goliath +of Gath. But more things still were shown to him, in all of which +Christian felt much joy. This done, they went to their rest once more. + +Then I saw in my dream that on the morn he got up to go forth, but they +fain would have him stay till the next day; "and then," said they, "we +will, if the day be clear, show you the Delectable Mountains, which," +they said, "would yet the more add to his bliss, for that they were yet +more nigh the port than the place where at that time he was." So he +thought it well to stay. + +When the morn was up, they had him to the top of the house, and bid +him look south; so he did, and lo, a long way off, he saw a fair land, +full of high hills, clad with woods, vine grounds, fruits of all sorts, +plants as well, with springs and founts, most bright to look on. They +said it was Immanuel's Land; "and it is as free," said they, "as this +hill is to and for all that are in the way. And when thou dost come +there from thence," said they, "thou canst see to the gate of the +Celestial City, as those who watch their flocks and live there will +show thee." + +Now he thought it was due time to set forth, and they were glad that he +should. "But first," said they, "let us go once more to where the arms +are kept." So they did. And when he came there they clad him in coat of +mail, which was of proof, from head to foot, lest he should chance meet +with foes in the way. + +He then, in this gear, came out with his friends to the gate, and there +he would know of the Porter "if he saw one pass by?" + +Then the Porter said "Yes." + +_Chr._--"Pray did you know him?" + +_Por._--"I did ask his name, and he told me it was Faithful." + +"Oh," said Christian, "I know him: he is from the same town, and lives +nigh to where I dwell: he comes from the place where I was born. How +far do you think he may be on the road?" + +_Por._--"He has got by this time more than to the foot of the hill." + +Then he set forth: but Discretion, Piety, Charity, and Prudence would +go with him down to the foot of the hill. Then said Christian, "As it +was _hard_ to come up, so, so far as I can see, it is a _risk_ to go +down." "Yes," said Prudence, "so it is; for it is a hard thing for a +man to go down in the Vale of Humiliation, as thou art now, and to +catch no slip by the way; hence," said they, "we are come out to see +thee safe down the hill." So he strove to go down, but with great heed; +yet he caught a slip or two. + +Then I saw in my dream that these good friends, when Christian was gone +down to the foot of the hill, gave him a loaf of bread, a flask of +wine, and a bunch of dry grapes; and then he went on his way. + + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +APOLLYON. + + +BUT now, in this Vale of Humiliation, poor Christian was hard put to +it; for he had gone but a short way, when he saw a foul fiend come +through the field to meet him: his name is Apollyon. + +So he went on, and Apollyon met him. Now the ghoul did shock one's eyes +to look on: he was clad with scales like a fish; he had wings like a +huge bat, feet like a bear, and out of his throat came fire and smoke, +and his mouth was as the mouth of the king of beasts. When he came up +to Christian he gave him a look of scorn, and thus sought to sift him. + +_Apol._--"Whence came you? and to what place are you bound?" + +_Chr._--"I am come from the City of Destruction, which is the place of +all ill, and am on my way to Mount Zion." + +_Apol._--"By this I know thou art one of my serfs; for all that land +is mine; and I am the prince and god of it. How is it, then, that thou +hast run off from thy king? Were it not that I hope thou wilt serve me +yet more, I would strike thee now at one blow to the ground." + +_Chr._--"I was born, in sooth, in your realm, but to serve thee was +hard, and your pay such as a man could not live on; 'for the meed of +sin is death': for this cause, when I was come to years, I did, as some +who think do, look out if so be I might mend my state. I have let my +help to some one else; and to no less than the King of Kings." + +_Apol._--"Think yet, while thou art in cool blood, what thou art like +to meet with in the way that thou dost go. Thou art not blind that for +the most part those who serve him come to an ill end, for that they +spurn my laws and walk not in my paths. What a host of them have been +put to deaths of shame! And still thou dost count that to serve him is +best; when, in sooth, he has not yet come from the place where he is, +to save one that stood by his cause, out of my hands." + +_Chr._--"He does not seek so soon to save them, so as to try their +love, and find if they will cleave to him to the end; and as for the +ill end thou dost say they come to, that tells for their good: for to +be set free now they do not much look for it; for they stay for their +meed; and they shall have it when their Prince comes in the might of +the bright hosts that wait on him." + +_Apol._--"Thou hast erst been false in thy turns to serve him; and how +dost thou think to get pay of him?" + +_Chr._--"All this is true; but the Prince whom I serve and love is sure +to show ruth. But, let me say, these faults held hold of me in thy +land; for there I did suck them in, and they have made me groan and +grieve for them; whence I have got the grace of my Prince." + +Then Apollyon broke out in a sore rage, and said, "I am a foe to this +Prince: I hate him, his laws, and they who serve him. I am come out +with the view to make thee yield." + +_Chr._--"Apollyon, take heed what you do; for I am on the King's high +road, the way of grace; for which cause mind how you act." + +Then did Christian draw; for he saw it was time for him to stir; and +Apollyon as fast made at him, and threw darts as thick as hail, by the +which, in spite of all that Christian could do to shift it, Apollyon +hit him in his head, his hand, and foot. This made Christian give some +back: Apollyon then went to his work with heart, and Christian once +more took heart, and met his foe as well as he could. + +Then Apollyon, as he saw his time had come, made up close to Christian, +and as he strove to throw him gave him a dread fall; and with that +Christian's sword flew out of his hand. Then said Apollyon, "I am sure +of thee now!" and with that he did nigh press him to death; so that +Christian had slight hope of life. But, as God would have it, while +Apollyon dealt his last blow, by that means to make a full end of this +good man, Christian at once put out his hand for his sword, caught it, +and said, "When I fall, I shall then rise"; and with that gave him a +fierce thrust, which made him give back as one that had got his death +wound. Christian saw that, and made at him once more, while he said, +"Nay, in all these things we more than gain the prize through him that +loves us"; and with that Apollyon spread forth his foul wings and sped +him off, that Christian saw no more of him. + +So when the fight came to a close, Christian said, "I will here give +thanks to him that hath kept me out of the mouth of the chief of +beasts, to him that did help me in the strife with Apollyon." + +Then there came to him a hand with some of the leaves of the "tree of +life," the which Christian took and laid them on the wounds that he had +got in the strife, and was made whole at once. + + + + +CHAPTER X. + +THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH. + + +NOW at the end of this vale was one more, known as the Vale of the +Shade of Death, and Christian must needs go through it, for this cause, +that the way to the Celestial City lay through the midst of it. + +I saw then in my dream, so far as the bounds of the vale, there was on +the right hand a most deep ditch; that ditch is it to which the blind +have led the blind in each age, and have both there lost their lives. + +Once more, lo, on the left hand there was a fell quag, in the which, +strange to say, if a good man falls he finds no ground for his foot to +stand on. + +The path was here quite strait, and hence good Christian was the more +put to it; for when he sought in the dark to shun the ditch on the one +hand, he was prone to tip on one side souse in the mire on the next. + +Nigh the midst of the vale I saw the mouth of hell to be, and it stood, +too, hard by the side of the way. And at times the flame and smoke +would come out so thick and with such force, that he had to put up his +sword and seize more fit arms, known as _All-prayer_; so I heard him +cry, "O Lord, I pray thee save my soul!" + +Thus he went on a great while; and as he came to a place where he +thought he heard a band of fiends come forth to meet him, he stopt, and +did muse what he had best to do. He brought to mind how he had of late +held his foes at bay, and that the risk to go back might be much more +than to go on. So he made up his mind to go on: yet the fiends did +seem to come near and more near. But when they were come just at him +he did cry with a loud voice, "I will walk in the strength of the Lord +God": so they gave back, and came on no more. + +When Christian had trod on in this lorn state some length of time, he +thought he heard the voice of a man, as if in front of him, say thus: +"Though I walk through the vale of the shade of death I will fear no +ill: for Thou art with me." + +Then was he glad for that he learnt from thence that some who fear God +were in this vale as well as he; that God was with them, though in that +dark and dire state. So he went on. And by and by the day broke. Then +said Christian, "He doth turn the shade of death to morn." + +Now as morn had come, he gave a look back to see by the light of the +day what risks he had gone through in the dark. So he had a more clear +view of the ditch that was on the one hand, and the quag that was on +the next; in like way he saw how strait the way was which lay twixt +them both. And just at this time the sun rose; and this was one more +boon to Christian: for, from the place where he now stood as far as to +the end of the vale, the way was all through set so full of snares, +traps, gins, and nets, here; and so full of pits, falls, deep holes, +and slopes, down there; that had it now been dark, as it was when he +came the first part of the way, had he had five times ten score souls, +they had for this cause been cast off. But, as I said just now, the sun +did rise. + +In this light hence he came to the end of the vale. + + + + +CHAPTER XI. + +CHRISTIAN AND FAITHFUL. + + +NOW as Christian went on his way he came to a small height, which was +cast up so that those who came that way might see in front of them. Up +there, then, Christian went: and, with a glance, saw Faithful some way +on the road. + +At this Christian set out with all his strength, and soon got up with +Faithful, and did, in sooth, leave him lag, so that the last was first. +Then did Christian wear a proud smile, for that he had got the start +of his friend: but as he did not take good heed to his feet, he soon +struck some tuft and fell, and could not rise till Faithful came up to +help him. + +Then I saw in my dream, they went on with good will side by side, and +had sweet talk of all things that they had met with on their way: and +thus Christian first spoke: + +"My most dear friend Faithful, I am glad I have come up with you; and +that God hath so made us of one mind that we can walk as friends in +this so fair a path. Tell me now what you have met with in the way as +you came: for I know you have met with some things, or else it may be +writ for a strange pass." + +[Illustration: FAITHFUL COMES TO THE HELP OF CHRISTIAN] + +_Fai._--"I got clear of the slough that I see you fell in, and came +up to the gate free from that risk. When I came to the foot of the +hill known as Difficulty, I met with an old man, who would know what I +was, and to what place I was bound? Then said the old man, 'Thou dost +look like a frank soul: wilt thou stay and dwell with me for the pay +that I shall give thee?' Then I did ask his name, and where he dwelt? +He said, 'His name was Adam the First, and he dwelt in the Town of +Deceit.' He told me, 'That his work was fraught with joys, and his pay, +that I should be his heir at last.' I then would know what kin he had? +He said, 'He had but three maids, "the Lust of the flesh, the Lust of +the eyes, and the Pride of life," and that I should wive with one of +them, if I would.'" + +_Chr._--"Well, and what close came the old man and you to at last?" + +_Fai._--"Why, at first I would lief go with the man, for I thought he +spake full fair; but when I gave a look in his brow, as I spoke with +him, I saw there writ, 'Put off the old man with his deeds.' Then it +came red hot to my mind, that spite of all he said, and his smooth +ways, when he got me home to his house he would sell me for a slave. +So I went off from him: but just as I set round to go thence, I felt +him take hold of my flesh, and give me such a dread twitch back, that +I thought he did pull part of me with him. So I went on my way up the +hill. + +"Now, when I had got nigh half way up, I gave a look back, and saw one +move on in my steps, swift as the wind; so he came up with me just by +the place where the bench stands. So soon as the man came up with me, +it was but a word and a blow, for down he flung me, and laid me for +dead. But, when I got free from the shock, I would know why it was he +dealt with me so? He said, 'For that I did in my heart cleave to Adam +the First': and with that he struck me one more fierce blow on the +breast, and beat me down on the back. He had, no doubt, made an end of +me, but that one came by and bid him stay his hand." + +[Illustration: This is Discontent, who would fain have Christian go +back with him once more.--Page 47. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +_Chr._--"Who was that that bid him stay his hand?" + +_Fai._--"I did not know him at first, but as he went by I saw the holes +in his hands and in his side: then I felt sure that he was our Lord. So +I went up the hill." + +_Chr._--"That man that came up with you was Moses. He spares not, nor +knows he how to show grace to those that break his law. But did you not +see the house that stood there on the top of the hill, on the side of +which Moses met you?" + +_Fai._--"Yes, and the wild beasts, too, ere I came at it: but, as I had +so much of the day to spend, I came by the man at the lodge, and then +down the hill." + +_Chr._--"But, pray tell me, did you meet with no one in the Vale of +Humility?" + +_Fai._--"Yes, I met with one Discontent, who would fain have me to go +back once more with him: his cause was, for that the vale did not bear +a good name." + +_Chr._--"Met you with naught else in that vale?" + +_Fai._--"Yes, I met with Shame: but of all men that I met with in my +way, he, I think, bears the wrong name." + +_Chr._--"Why, what did he say to you?" + +_Fai._--"What! Why, he did flout at faith. He said it was a poor, low, +mean thing for a man to mind faith; he said that a soul that shrinks +from sin is not fit for a man. He said, too, that but few of the great, +rich, or wise held my views; nor did those till they were led to be +fools, and to be of a free mind to run the loss of all for none else +knows what. More than this, he said such were of a base and low caste, +and knew naught of those things which are the boast of the wise. Yea, +he did hold me to it that it was a shame to ask grace of folk for +slight faults, or to give back that which I did take. He said, too, +that faith made a man grow strange to the great, and made him own and +prize the base: 'and is not this,' said he, 'a shame?'" + +_Chr._--"And what did you say to him?" + +[Illustration: FAITHFUL RESISTS SHAME.] + +_Fai._--"Say! I could not tell what to say at first. Yea, he put me so +to it that my blood came up in my face; aye, this Shame did fetch it +up, and had, too, beat me quite off. But at last I thought that that +which men prize was base in the sight of God. Hence, thought I, what +God says is best, _is_ best, though all the men in the world are foes +to it. As, then, God likes his faith; as God likes a soul that shrinks +from sin; and as they are most wise who wear the guise of fools to gain +a crown: and that the poor man that loves Christ more rich than the +man that sways a world, that hates him; Shame, go thy way, thou art a +foe to my soul's weal. But, in sooth, this Shame was a bold knave; I +could scarce shake him out of my way: but at last I told him it was but +in vain to strive with me from that time forth. And when I shook him +off, then I sang-- + + "The tests that those men meet, with all men else + That bow their wills to the high call of God, + Are great; and well, I wist, do suit the flesh, + And come, and come, and come e'en yet once more; + That now, or some time else, we by them may + Be held in thrall, flung down, and cast sheer off: + O, let those in the way, let all such, then, + Be sharp, and quick, and quit them like true men." + +_Chr._--"I am glad, my friend, that thou didst strive with this knave +in so brave a way; for he is so bold as to trace our steps in the +streets, and to try to put us to shame in the sight of all men; that +is, to make us feel shame in that which is good." + +_Fai._--"I think we must cry to Him for help in our frays with Shame, +that would have us 'Stand up for truth on the earth.'" + +_Chr._--"You say true: but did you meet none else in that vale?" + +_Fai._--"No, not I; for I had the sun with me all the rest of the way +through that, as well as through the Vale of the Shade of Death." + +_Chr._--"It was well for you; I am sure it did fare far worse with me. +I thought I should have lost my life there more than once: but at last +day broke, and the sun rose, and I went through that which was to the +front of me with far more ease and peace." + + + + +CHAPTER XII. + +TALKATIVE. + + +MORE than this, I saw in my dream, that as they went on, Faithful saw +a man whose name is Talkative, walk some way off by the side of them: +for in this place there was full room for them all to walk. To this man +Faithful spoke in such wise: + +"Friend, to what place dost thou go? dost thou go to the blest land?" + +_Talk._--"I am bound to that same place." + +_Fai._--"Come on then, and let us go side by side, and let us spend our +time well, by wise speech that tends to use." + +_Talk._--"To talk of things that are good, I like much, with you or +with some one else. For, to speak the truth, there are but few that +care thus to spend their time, as they are on their way." + +_Fai._--"That is, in sooth, a thing to mourn; for what thing so meet +for the use of the tongue and mouth of men on earth, as are the things +of the great God on high?" + +_Talk._--"I like you right well, for what you say is full of force; +and, I will add, what thing doth so please or what brings such a boon +as to talk of the things of God?" + +_Fai._--"That is true; but to gain good by such things in our talk, +should be that which we seek." + +[Illustration: Faithful saw a man whose name is Talkative, who said, +"Friend, to what place dost thou go? dost thou go to the blest +land?"--Page 50. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +_Talk._--"That is it that I said; for to talk of such things is of +great use: for by this means a man may get to know a fair share of +things; as how vain are the things of earth; and how good are the +things that fail not. Then, by this, a man may learn by talk what +it is to mourn for sin, to have faith, to pray, to bear grief, or the +like. By this, too, a man may learn what it is that soothes, and what +are the high hopes set forth in the Word of the Grace of God; to his +own peace." + +"Well, then," said Faithful, "what is that one thing that we shall at +this time found our speech on?" + +_Talk._--"What you will: I will talk of things not of earth, or of +things of earth; things of life, or things of grace; things pure, or +things of the world; so that we but gain good by it." + +Now did Faithful think this strange; so he came up to Christian, and +said to him in a soft voice, "What a brave friend have we got! Of a +truth, this man will do well in the way." + +At this Christian gave a meek smile, and said, "This man, whom you so +take to, will cheat with this tongue of his a score of them that know +him not." + +_Fai._--"Do you know him then?" + +_Chr._--"Know him! Yes; his name is Talkative; he dwells in our town. I +wist not how you should be strange to him." + +_Fai._--"Well, he seems to be a man of good looks." + +_Chr._--"That is, to them that know him not through and through: for he +is best out of doors; near home his looks are as bad as you could find." + +_Fai._--"But I fain think you do but jest, as I saw you smile." + +_Chr._--"God grant not that I should jest in this case, or that I +should speak false of one. I will let you see him in a clear light. +This man cares not with whom he picks up, or how he talks: as he talks +now with you, so will he talk when he is on the bench, with ale by his +side; and the more drink he has in his crown, the more of these things +he hath in his mouth." + +_Fai._--"Say you so? then am I wrong in my thoughts of this man." + +_Chr._--"Wrong! You may be sure of it. He talks of what it is to pray; +to mourn for sin; of faith, and of the new birth; but he knows but how +to talk of them. I have been in his home, and have seen him both in +and out of doors, and I know what I say of him is the truth. His house +is as void of the fear of God as the white of an egg is of taste. They +pray not there, nor is there a sign of grief for sin: yea, the brute, +in his kind, serves God more than he." + +_Fai._--"Well, my friend, I am bound to trust you; not for that you say +you know him, but in like way, for that, like one who has the mind of +Christ, you judge of men." + +_Chr._--"Had I known him no more than you I might, it may be, have +thought of him as at the first you did; but all these things, yea, and +much more as bad, which I do bring to mind, I can prove him to have the +guilt of." + +_Fai._--"Well, I see that _to say_ and _to do_ are two things; and by +and by I shall take more note of this." + +_Chr._--"They are two things, in sooth, and are no more like than are +the soul and flesh; for, as the flesh void of the soul is but a dead +lump: so to _say_, if it stand loose, is but a dead lump too. This +Talkative does not know. He thinks that to _hear_ and to _say_ will +make a good man, and thus he cheats his own soul. To hear is but to sow +the seed; to talk is not full proof that fruit is deep in the heart and +life; and let us feel sure that at the day of doom men shall reap just +as they have sown. It will not be said then, 'Did you have faith?' but +'Did you _do_ or _talk_?' when they shall have their due meed." + +_Fai._--"Well, I was not so fond to be with him at first, but am as +sick of him now. What shall we do to be rid of him?" + +_Chr._--"Be led by me, and do as I bid you, and you shall find that he +will soon be sick of you, too, save God shall touch his heart and turn +it." + +_Fai._--"What would you have me to do?" + +_Chr._--"Why, go to him, and take up some grave theme on the _might_ of +faith." + +Then Faithful gave a step forth once more, and said to Talkative, +"Come, what cheer? how is it now?" + +_Talk._--"Thank you, well; I thought we should have had a great deal of +talk by this time." + +_Fai._--"Well, if you will, we will fall to it now; and since you left +it with me to state the theme, let it be this: How doth the grace of +God that saves, show forth signs when it is in the heart of man?" + +_Talk._--"I see, then, that our talk must be of the _might_ of things. +Well, it is a right good theme, and I shall try to speak on it; and +take what I say in brief, thus: First, where the grace of God is in the +heart it makes one cry out on sin. In the next place----" + +_Fai._--"Nay, hold; let us dwell on one at once: I think you should say +in lieu of this, it shows by the way in which the soul loathes its sin. +A man may cry out on sin to aid his own ends, but he fails to loathe +it, save God makes him do so. Some cry out on sin, just as the dame +doth cry out on her child in her lap, when she calls it bad girl, and +then falls to hug and kiss it." + +_Talk._--"You lie at the catch, I see." + +_Fai._--"No, not I; I but try to set things right. But what is the next +thing by which you would prove to make known the work of grace in the +heart?" + +_Talk._--"To know much of the deep things of God." + +_Fai._--"This sign should have been first; but, first or last, it too +is false: for to know, and know well, the deep things in God's Word, +may still be, and yet no work of grace in the soul. Yea, if a man know +all things he may yet be naught; and so, for this cause, be no child +of God. When Christ said, 'Do you know all these things?' and those +who heard him said, 'Yes'; he did add, 'Blest are ye if ye do them.' +He doth not lay the grace in that one _knows_, but in that one _does_ +them." + +_Talk._--"You lie at the catch, once more: this is not for good." + +_Fai._--"Well, if you please, give one more sign how this work of grace +doth show where it is." + +_Talk._--"Not I, for I see we shall not be of one mind." + +_Fai._--"Well, if you will not, will you give me leave to do it?" + +_Talk._--"You may do just as you like." + +_Fai._--"A work of grace in the soul doth show quite clear to him that +hath it or to those that stand by. To him that hath it, thus: it gives +him a deep sense of sin, of the ill that dwells in him. This sight and +sense of things work in him grief and shame for sin; he finds, too, +brought to view the Saviour of the world, and he feels he must close +with him for life; at the which he finds he craves and thirsts for a +pure life, pure at heart, pure with his kin, and pure in speech in the +world: which in the broad sense doth teach him in his heart to hate his +sin, to spurn it from his home, and to shed his light in the world; not +by mere talk, as a false knave, or one with a glib tongue, may do, but +by the force of faith and love to the might of the Word. And now, sir, +as to these brief thoughts on the work of grace, if you have aught to +say, say on; if not, then give me leave to ask one thing more of you." + +_Talk._--"Nay, my part is not now to say aught, but to hear; let me +hence hear what you have got to speak." + +_Fai._--"It is this: do you in your heart feel this first part of what +I said of it? and doth your life and walk bear proof of the same?" + +Then Talkative at first did blush, but when he got through this phase, +thus he said: "You come now to what one feels in his heart, to the +soul, and God. But I pray, will you tell me why you ask me such things?" + +_Fai._--"For that I saw you prone to talk, and for that I knew not that +you had aught else but vague views. More than this, to tell you all the +truth, I have heard of you that you are a man whose faith lies in talk, +and that what you do gives the lie to what you say." + +_Talk._--"Since you are so quick to take up tales, and to judge in so +rash a way as you do, I would lief think that you are some cross or +dull mope of a man, not fit to hold talk with; and so, I take my leave." + +Then came up Christian, and said to his friend, "I told you how it +would hap; your words and his lusts could not suit. He thought it best +to leave you, than change his life." + +_Fai._--"But I am glad we had this brief talk; it may hap that he will +think of it some time." + +_Chr._--"You did well to talk so plain to him as you did; there is not +much of this straight course with men in these days. I wish that all +men would deal with such as you have done: then should they have to +change their ways, or the guild of saints would be too hot for them." + +Thus they went on and told of what they had seen by the way, and so +made that way light which would, were not this the case, no doubt have +been slow to them; for now they went through a wild. + + + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +VANITY FAIR. + + +NOW when they were got all but quite out of this wild, Faithful by +chance cast his eye back, and saw one come in his wake, and he knew +him. "Oh!" said Faithful to his friend, "who comes yon?" + +Then Christian did look, and said, "It is my good friend Evangelist." +"Ay, and my good friend, too," said Faithful, "for it was he that set +me the way to the gate." + +Then said Evangelist, "How did it fare with you, my friends, since the +time we last did part? what have you met with, and what has been your +life?" + +Then Christian and Faithful told him of all things that did hap to them +in the way; and how, and with what toil, they had got to that place. + +"Right glad am I," said Evangelist, "not that you met with straits, but +that you have come safe through them, and for that you have, in spite +of some faults, kept in the way to this day. The crown is in sight of +you, and it is one that will not rust; 'so run that you may gain it.' +You are not yet out of the range of the foul fiend: let the joy of the +Lord be not lost sight of, and have a firm faith in things not seen." + +[Illustration: CHRISTIAN AND FAITHFUL ENTER THE TOWN OF VANITY] + +Then did Christian thank him for his sage words, but told him at the +same time, that they would have him speak more to them for their help +the rest of the way. So Evangelist spoke thus: + +"My sons, you have heard in the truth of God's Word, that you must pass +through sharp straits to reach the realm of bliss; for now as you see +you are just out of this wild, and hence you will ere long come to a +town that you will by and by see in front of you; and in that town you +will be set round with foes, who will strain hard but they will kill +you: and be you sure that one or both of you must seal the faith, which +you hold, with blood. But when you are come to the town, and shall find +what I have said come to pass, then think of your friend, and quit you +both like men." + +Then I saw in my dream that, when they were got out of the wild, they +soon saw a town in front of them; the name of that town is Vanity; and +at the town there is a fair kept, known as Vanity Fair; at this fair +are all such goods sold as lands, trades, realms, lusts, and gay things +of all sorts, as lives, blood, souls, gold, pearls, stones of great +worth, and what not. + +Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this +town where this huge fair is kept: and he that will go there, and yet +not go through this town, "must needs go out of the world." The Lord +of Lords, when here, went through this town to his own realm, and +that, too, on a day when a fair was held: yea, and as I think, it was +Beelzebub, the chief lord of this fair, that sought of him to buy of +his vain wares. But he had no mind to the goods, and hence left the +town, nor did he lay out so much as a mite on these wares. + +Now these folk, as I said, must needs go through this fair. Well, so +they did; but lo, just as they got to the fair, all the crowd in the +fair rose up, and the town, too, as it were, and made much noise and +stir for that they came there; they, of course, spoke the tongue of +Canaan; but they that kept the fair were the men of this world; so +that, from end to end of the fair, they did seem strange each to each. +But that which made the crowd most laugh was, that these men set quite +light by all their wares: they did not care so much as to look on them; +and, if they sought for them to buy, they would stop their ears, and +cry, "Turn off mine eyes, lest they see vain things," and look up, to +show that their trade and wares were in the skies. + +At last things came to a sad pass, which led to great stir in the fair, +so that all was noise and din, and law was set at naught. Now was word +soon brought to the great one of the fair, who at once came down, and +sent some of his best friends to sift those men by whom the fair was +put in such a state. So the men were brought in their sight. But they +that were sent to sift them did not think them to be aught than fools +and mad, or else such as came to put all things out of gear in the +fair. Hence they took them and beat them, and made them grime with +dirt, and then put them in the cage, that they might be made a foul +sight to all the men of the fair. But as the men bore up well, and gave +good words for bad, some men in the fair, that were more just than the +rest, sought to check and chide the base sort for the vile acts done +by them to the men. One said, "That for aught they could see, the men +were mild, and of sound mind, and sought to do harm to no one: and that +there were some, that did trade in their fair, that ought far more to +be put in the cage, than the men to whom they had done such ill." +Thus, as soon as hot words did pass on both sides, they fell to some +blows, and did harm each to each. Then were these two poor men brought +up once more, when a charge was made that it was they who had got up +the row that had been made at the fair. But Christian and Faithful bore +the shame and the slur that was cast on them in so calm and meek a way +that it won to their side some of the men of the fair. This put one +part of the crowd in a still more fierce rage, so that they were bent +on the death of these two men. + +Then were they sent back to the cage once more, till it was told what +should be done with them. So they put them in, and made their feet fast +in the stocks. + +Here, then, they once more brought to mind what they had heard from +their true friend Evangelist, and were the more strong in their way and +woes by what he told them would fall out to them. They, too, now sought +to cheer the heart of each, that whose lot it was to die that he should +have the best of it: hence each man did wish in the depth of his soul +that he might have the crown. + +Then in due time they brought them forth to court, so that they might +meet their doom. The name of the judge was Lord Hate-good; their plaint +was "that they had made broils and feuds in the town, and had won some +to their own most vile views, in scorn of the law of their prince." + +Then Faithful said "that he did but spurn that which had set up in face +of Him that is the Most High. And," said he, "as for broils, I make +none, as I am a man of peace; those that were won to us were won by +their view of our truth and pure lives and they are but gone from the +worst to the best." + +[Illustration: Then Superstition said: "My lord, I know not much +of this man; but he is a most vile knave."--Page 61. _Pilgrim's +Progress._] + +Then was it made known that they that had aught to say for their lord +the king, to prove the guilt of him at the bar, should at once come +forth and give in their proof. So there came in three men, to wit, +Envy, Superstition, and Pickthank. Then stood forth Envy and said in +this strain: "My lord, this man, in spite of his fair name, is one of +the most vile men in our land. He does all that he can to fill all men +with some of his wild views, which tend to the bane of our realm, and +which he for the most part calls 'grounds of faith and a pure life.' +And in chief I heard him once say that the faith of Christ and the laws +of our town of Vanity could not be at one, as they were foes each to +each." + +Then did they call Superstition, and sware him: so he said: "My lord, +I know not much of this man, nor do I care to know more of him; but he +is a most vile knave; I heard him say that our faith was naught, and +such by which no man could please God. Which words of his, my lord, you +quite well know what they mean, to wit, that we still work in vain, are +yet in our sins, and at last shall be lost. And this is that which I +have to say." + +Then was Pickthank sworn, and bid say what he knew in the cause of +their lord the king to the hurt of the rogue at the bar. + +_Pick._--"My lord, and you great folk all, this wight I have known of a +long time, and have heard him speak things that ought not to be said; +for he did rail on our great prince, Beelzebub, and spoke ill of his +firm friends; and he hath said, too, that if all men were of his mind, +if so be there is not one of these great men should from that time +forth stay in this town. More than this, he hath not felt dread to rail +on you, my lord, who are now sent to be his judge." + +When this Pickthank had told his tale, the judge spoke to the man at +the bar, and said, "Thou vile, base wretch, hast thou heard what those +just and true men have sworn to thy bane?" + +_Fai._--"I say then, as a set off to what Mr. Envy hath said, I spoke +not a word but this, 'That what rule, or laws, or rights, or men, are +flat down on the Word of God, are foes to the faith of Christ.' + +"As to the next, to wit, Mr. Superstition, and his charge to my hurt, I +said but this, 'That to serve God one needs a faith from on high; but +there can be no faith from on high void of the will of God made known +from the same source. Hence, all that is thrust on us that does not +square with this will of God, is but of man's faith; which faith will +not serve the life that is to come.' + +"As to what Mr. Pickthank hath said, 'That the prince of this town, +with all the roughs, his slaves, are more fit for one in hell than in +this town and land'; and so the Lord be good to me." + +Then the judge said to those who were to bind or loose him from the +charge: "Ye who serve here to weigh this case, you see this man of whom +so great a din hath been made in this town. It doth lie now on your +souls to hang him, or save his life; but yet I think meet to teach you +a few points of our law. + +[Illustration: Then stood forth Envy and said: "My lord, this man in +spite of his fair name, is one of the most vile men in our land."--Page +61. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +"There was an act made in the days of Pharaoh the great, friend to our +prince, that, lest those of a wrong faith should spread and grow too +strong for him, their males should be thrown in the stream. There was, +in like way, an act made in the days of Nebuchadnezzar the great, who, +too, did serve him, that such as would not fall down and laud the form +he had set up, should be flung in a pit of fire. Now the pith of +these laws this rogue has set at naught, not in mere thought but in +word and deed as well. Twice, nay thrice, he speaks of our creed as a +thing of naught; and for this, on his own words, he needs must die the +death." + +Then went out those who had to weigh the case, whose names were Mr. +Blind-man, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-lust, Mr. Live-loose, +Mr. Heady, Mr. High-mind, Mr. Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. Cruelty, Mr. +Hate-light, and Mr. Implacable; who each one gave in his voice to +Faithful's hurt, in his own mind; and then meant to make known his doom +in face of the judge. And Mr. Blind-man, the chief, said, "I see, most +plain, that this man is a foe; let us at once doom him to death." And +so they did. The judge then put on the black cap, and said, "That he +should be led from the place where he was to the place from whence he +came, and there to be put to the worst death that could be thought off." + +They then brought him out to do with him as the law set forth: and +first they whipt him; then they did pelt him with stones; and, last of +all, they burnt him to dust at the stake. Thus came Faithful to his end. + +Now I saw that there stood in the rear of the crowd a state car, with +two steeds, that did wait for Faithful; who, as soon as his foes had +got rid of him, was caught up in it and straight sent off through the +clouds, with sound of trump, the most near way to the Celestial Gate. +But as for Christian, he was put back to jail; so there he lay for a +space: but He that rules all things, in whose hand was the might of +their rage, so wrought it that Christian, for that time got free from +them and went his way. + + + + +CHAPTER XIV. + +CHRISTIAN AND HOPEFUL. + + +NOW I saw in my dream that Christian went not forth with none to cheer +him; for there was one whose name was Hopeful, who set out with him, +and made a grave pact that he would be his friend. + +So I saw that when they were just got out of the fair they came up with +one that had gone on in front of them, whose name was By-ends. He told +them that he came from the town of Fair-speech, and was bound for the +Celestial City; but he told them not his name. + +_Chr._--"Pray, sir, what may I call you?" + +_By._--"I know not you, nor you me: if you mean to go this way, I shall +be glad to go with you: if not, I must take things as they come." + +Then Christian stept on one side to his friend Hopeful, and said, "It +runs in my mind that this is one By-ends, of Fair-speech, and if it be +he, we have as keen a knave in our midst as dwells in all these parts." +Then said Hopeful, "Ask him; I think he should not blush at his name." +So Christian came up with him once more, and said, "Sir, is not your +name Mr. By-ends, of Fair-speech?" + +_By._--"This is not my name; but, in sooth, it is a name I got in scorn +from some that do not like me." + +_Chr._--"I thought, in sooth, that you were the man that I had heard +of; and, to tell you what I think, I fear this name suits you more than +you would wish we should think it doth." + +[Illustration: HOPEFUL joins company with CHRISTIAN] + +_By._--"Well, if you will thus think, I durst not help it: you shall +find me a fair man, if you will make me one of you." + +_Chr._--"If you will go with us, you must go in the teeth of wind and +tide; you must, in like wise, own Faith in his rags, as well as when in +his sheen shoes; and stand by him, too, when bound in chains, as well +as when he walks the streets with praise." + +_By._--"You must not curb my faith, nor lord it in this way: leave me +free to think, and let me go with you." + +_Chr._--"Not a step more, save you will do in what I shall speak as we." + +Then said By-ends, "I shall not cast off my old views, since they bring +no harm, and are of use. If I may not go with you, I must do as I did +ere you came up with me, that is, go on with no one, till some will +come on who will be glad to meet me." + +Now I saw in my dream that Christian and Hopeful left him, and went on +in front of him: but one of them did chance to look back, and saw three +men in the wake of Mr. By-ends, and lo, as they came up with him, he +made them quite a low bow. The men's names were Mr. Hold-the-world, +Mr. Money-love, and Mr. Save-all; men that Mr. By-ends had erst known; +for when boys they were mates at school, and were taught by one Mr. +Gripeman, who keeps a school in Love-gain, which is a large town in the +shire of Coveting, in the north. + +Well, when they, as I said, did greet in turn, Mr. Money-love said to +Mr. By-ends, "Who are they on the road right in front of us?" + +_By._--"They are a pair from a land far off, that, in their mode, are +bent on a long route." + +[Illustration: Then Christian saw three men in the wake of Mr. By-ends, +and lo, as they came up with him he made them a very low bow.--Page 66. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +_Money._--"Ah! why did they not stay; that we might have gone on +with them? for they, and we, and you, sir, I hope, are all bent on the +same road." + +_By._--"Why, they, in their fierce mood, think that they are bound to +rush on their way at all times; while I wait for wind and tide. They +like to risk all for God at a clap; while I like to seize all means to +make safe my life and lands. They are for Faith when in rags and scorn; +but I am for him when he walks in his sheen shoes in the sun, and with +praise." + +_Hold._--"Ay, and hold you there still, good Mr. By-ends: for my part I +can count him but a fool, that with the means to keep what he has, he +shall be so lack of sense as to lose it. For my part, I like that faith +best that will stand with the pledge of God's good gifts to us. Abraham +and Solomon grew rich in faith: and Job says that a good man 'shall lay +up gold as dust.' But he must not be such as the men in front of us, if +they be as you have said of them." + +_Save._--"I think that we are all of one mind in this thing; and hence +there need no more words be said of it." + +Mr. By-ends and his friends did lag and keep back, that Christian and +Hopeful might go on in front of them. + +Then Christian and Hopeful went till they came to a nice plain known +as Ease; which did please them much: but that plain was but strait, so +they were soon got through it. Now at the far side of that plain was a +small hill, which went by the name of Lucre, and in that hill a gold +mine, which some of them that had been that way had gone on one side to +see; but, as they got too near the brink of the pit, the ground, as it +was not sound, broke when they trod on it, and they were slain. + +Then I saw in my dream that a short way off the road, nigh to the gold +mine, stood Demas, a man of fair looks, to call to such as went that +way to come and see; who said to Christian and his friend, "Ho! turn +hence on this side, and I will show you a thing. Here is a gold mine, +and some that dig in it for wealth: if you will come, with slight pains +you may gain a rich store for your use." + +[Illustration: DEMAS TEMPTS CHRISTIAN AND HOPEFUL.] + +Then Christian did call to Demas, and said, "Is not the way rife with +risks? Hath it not let some in their way?" + +_Dem._--"Not so much so, save to those that take no care." But a blush +came on his face as he spake. + +Then said Christian to Hopeful, "Let us not stir a step, but still keep +on our way." + +By this time By-ends and those who were with him came once more in +sight, and they, at the first beck, went straight to Demas. Now, that +they fell in the pit, as they stood on the brink of it, or that they +went down to dig, or that they lost their breath at the base by the +damps that, as a rule, rise from it, of these things I am not sure; but +this I saw, that from that time forth they were not seen once more in +the way. Which strange sight gave them cause for grave talk. + + + + +CHAPTER XV. + +DOUBTING CASTLE AND GIANT DESPAIR. + + +I SAW then, that they went on their way to a fair stream. Here then +Christian and his friend did walk with great joy. They drank, too, of +the stream, which was sweet to taste, and like balm to their faint +hearts. More than this, on the banks of this stream, on each side, were +green trees with all kinds of fruit: and the leaves they ate to ward +off ills that come of too much food and heat of blood, while on the +way. On each side of the stream was a mead, bright with white plants; +and it was green all the year long. In this mead they lay down and +slept. When they did wake they felt a wish to go on, and set out. Now +the way from the stream was rough, and their feet soft, for that they +came a long road so the souls of the men were sad, from the state of +the way. Now, not far in front of them, there was on the left hand of +the road a mead, and a stile to get right to it: and that mead is +known as By-path Meadow. Then said Christian to his friend, "If this +mead doth lie close by the side of our way, let us go straight to it." +Then said Christian to his friends, "If this mead doth lie close by the +side of our way, let us go straight to it." Then he went to the stile +to see, and lo, a path lay close by the way on the far off side of the +fence. "It is just as I wish," said Christian; "come, good Hopeful, and +let us cross to it." + +_Hope._--"But how if this path should lead us out of the way?" + +"That is not like to be," said the next. "Look, doth it not go straight +on by the side of the way?" So Hopeful, when he thought on what his +friend said, went in his steps, and did cross the stile; and at the +same time, while they cast their eyes in front of them, they saw a man +that did walk as they did, and his name was Vain-Confidence: so they +did call to him, and ask him to what place that way led. He said, "To +the Celestial Gate." "Look," said Christian, "did not I tell you so? by +this you may see we are right." So they went in his wake, and he went +in front of them. But, lo, the night came on, and it grew quite dark; +so that they that were in the rear lost the sight of him that went in +front. + +He then that went in front, as he did not see the way clear, fell in a +deep pit, which was there made by the prince of those grounds to catch +such vain fools with the rest, and was torn in bits by his fall. + +Now Christian and his friend heard him fall: so they did call to know +the cause: but there was none to speak. + +Then Hopeful gave a deep groan, and said, "Oh, that I had kept on my +way!" + +[Illustration: This is Vain-Confidence whom Christian and Hopeful saw +in the way as they did walk.--Page 70. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +_Chr._--"Good friend, do not feel hurt. I grieve I have brought thee +out of the way, and that I have put thee in no slight strait; pray, my +friend, let this pass; I did not do it of a bad will." + +_Hope._--"Be of good cheer, my friend, for I give thee shrift; and +trust, too, this shall be for our good." + +Then, so as to cheer them, they heard the voice of one that said, "Let +thine heart be set on the high road; and the way that thou didst go +turn once more." But by this time the way that they should go back was +rife with risk. Then I thought that we get more quick out of the way +when we are in it, than in it when we are out. + +Nor could they, with all the skill they had, get once more to the stile +that night. For which cause, as they at last did light neath a slight +shed, they sat down there till day broke: but as they did tire they +fell to sleep. Now there was not far from the place where they lay a +fort, known as Doubting Castle, and he who kept it was Giant Despair: +and it was on his grounds that they now slept. Hence, as he got up at +dawn, and did walk up and down in his fields, he caught Christian and +Hopeful in sound sleep on his grounds. They told him they were poor +wights, and that they had lost their way. Then said the Giant, "You +have this night come where you should not; you did tramp in, and lie +on, my grounds, and so you must go hence with me." So they were made +to go, for that he had more strength than they. They, too, had but +few words to say, for they knew they were in a fault. The Giant hence +drove them in front of him, and put them in his fort, in a dank, dark +cell, that was foul and stunk to the souls of these two men. Here then +they lay for full four days, and had not one bit of bread, or drop of +drink, or light, or one to ask how they did: they were, hence, here +in bad case, and were far from friends and all who knew them. Now in +this place Christian had more than his own share of grief, for it was +through his bad words that they were brought to such dire bale. + +Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence: so when he +was gone to bed he told his wife what he had done. Then he did ask her, +too, what he had best do more to them. Then she said to him that when +he got up in the morn he should beat them, and show no ruth. So when +he rose he gets him a huge stick of crab, and goes down to the cell to +them, and falls on them and beats them in such sort that they could do +naught to ward off his blows, or to turn them on the floor. This done, +he goes off and leaves them there to soothe each one his friend, and to +mourn their grief. The next night, she spoke with her lord more as to +their case, and when she found that they were not dead, did urge him to +tell them to take their own lives. So when morn was come he told them +that since they were not like to come out of that place, their best way +would be at once to put an end to their lives, with knife, rope, or +drug. But they did pray him to let them go; with that he gave a frown +on them, ran at them, and had no doubt made an end of them with his own +hand, but that he fell in one of his fits. From which cause he went +off, and left them to think what to do. Then did the men talk of the +best course to take; and thus they spoke: + +"Friend," said Christian, "what shall we do? The life that we now live +is fraught with ill: for my part, I know not if it be best to live +thus, or die out of hand: the grave has more ease for me than this +cell." + +_Hope._--"Of a truth, our state is most dread, and death would be +more of a boon to me than thus hence to stay: but let us not take our +own lives." With these words Hopeful then did soothe the mind of his +friend: so they did stay each with each in the dark that day, in their +sad and drear plight. + +Well, as dusk came on the Giant goes down to the cell once more, to see +if those he held bound there had done as he had bid them: but when he +came there he found they still did live, at which he fell in a great +rage, and told them that, as he saw they had lent a deaf ear to what he +said, it should be worse for them than if they had not been born. + +At this they shook with dread, and I think that Christian fell in a +swoon; but as he came round once more, they took up the same strain of +speech as to the Giant's words, and if it were best give heed to them +or no. Now Christian once more did seem to wish to yield, but Hopeful +made his next speech in this wise: + +"My friend," said he, "dost thou not know how brave thou hast been in +times past? The foul fiend could not crush thee; nor could all that +thou didst hear, or see, or feel in the Vale of the Shade of Death; +what wear and tear, grief and fright, hast thou erst gone through, and +art thou naught but fears? Thou dost see that I am in the cell with +thee, and I am a far more weak man to look at than thou art: in like +way, this Giant did wound me as well as thee, and hath, too, cut off +the bread and drink from my mouth, and with thee I mourn void of the +light. But let us try and grow more strong: call to mind how thou didst +play the man at Vanity Fair, and wast not made blench at the chain or +cage, nor yet at fierce death; for which cause let us, at least to shun +the shame that looks not well for a child of God to be found in, bear +up with calm strength as well as we can." + +Now night had come once more, and his wife spoke to him of the men, and +sought to know if they had done as he had told them. To which he said, +"They are stout rogues; they choose the more to bear all hard things +than to put an end to their lives." Then said she, "Take them to the +garth next day, and show them the bones and skulls of those that thou +hast put to death, and make them think thou wilt tear them in shreds, +as thou hast done to folk like to them." + +So when the morn was come the Giant takes them to the garth, and shows +them as his wife had bade him: "These," said he, "were wights, as you +are, once, and they trod on my ground, as you have done; and when I +thought fit I tore them in bits, and so in the space of ten days I will +do you: go, get you down to your den once more." And with that he beat +them all the way to the place. They lay for this cause all day in a sad +state, just as they had done. Now, when night was come, and when Mrs. +Diffidence and her spouse the Giant were got to bed, they once more +spoke of the men; and, with this, the Giant thought it strange that he +could not by his blows or words bring them to an end. And with that his +wife said, "I fear that they live in hopes that some will come to set +them free, or that they have things to pick locks with them, by the +means of which they hope to scape." "And dost thou say so, my dear?" +said the Giant; "I will hence search them in the morn." + +Well, in the depth of night they strove hard to pray, and held it up +till just break of day. + +[Illustration: CHRISTIAN & HOPEFUL escape from DOUBTING CASTLE] + +Now, not long ere it was day, good Christian, as one half wild, brake +out in this hot speech: "What a fool," quoth he, "am I, thus to lie in +a foul den when I may as well walk in the free air: I have a key in +my breast known as Promise, that will, I feel sure, pick each lock in +Doubting Castle." Then said Hopeful, "That is good news, my friend; +pluck it out of thy breast and try." + +Then Christian took it out of his breast, and did try at the cell door, +whose bolt as he did turn the key gave back, and the door flew back +with ease, and Christian and Hopeful both came out. Then he went to the +front door that leads to the yard of the fort, and with this key did +ope that door in like way. Then he went to the brass gate (for that he +must ope too), but that lock he had hard work to move; yet did the key +pick it. Then they thrust wide the gate to make their scape with speed. +But that gate as it went back did creak so, that it woke Giant Despair, +who, as he rose in haste to go in search of the men, felt his limbs to +fail, for his fits took him once more, so that he could by no means go +in their track. Then they went on, and came to the King's high road +once more, and so were safe, for that they were out of his grounds. + +Now, when they had got clear of the stile, they thought in their minds +what they should do at that stile, to keep those that should come in +their wake from the fell hands of Giant Despair. So they built there a +pile and wrote on the side of it these words: "To cross this stile is +the way to Doubting Castle, which is kept by Giant Despair, who spurns +the King of the good land, and seeks to kill such as serve him." + + + + +CHAPTER XVI. + +THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS. + + +THEY went then till they came to the Delectable Mountains, which mounts +the Lord of that hill doth own of whom we erst did speak: so they went +up to the mounts, to see the plants, trees rife with fruit, the vines +and founts; where, too, they drank, did wash, and eat of the grapes +till no gust was left for more. Now there were on the top of these +mounts, Shepherds that fed their flocks, and they stood by the side +of the high road. Christian and Hopeful then went to them, and while +they leant on their staves (as is the case with wights who tire when +they stand to talk with folk by the way), they said, "Whose Delectable +Mountains are these? and whose be the sheep that fed on them?" + +_Shep._--"These mounts are Immanuel's Land, and they can be seen from +this town: and the sheep in like way are his, and he laid down his life +for them." + +_Chr._--"Is this the way to the Celestial City?" + +_Shep._--"You are just in your way." + +I saw, too, in my dream that when the Shepherds saw that they were men +on the road, they in like way did ask them things, to which they spoke, +as was their wont: as, "Whence came you? and how got you in the way? +and by what means have you so held on in it? for but few of them that +set out to come hence do show their face on these mounts." But when the +Shepherds heard their speech, which did please them, they gave them +looks of love, and said, "Good come with thee to the Mounts of Joy." + +The Shepherds, I say, whose names were Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, +and Sincere, took them by the hand and had them to their tents, and +made them eat and drink of that which was there at the time. They said, +too, "We would that you should stay here a short time, to get known to +us, and yet more to cheer your heart with the good of these Mounts of +Joy." They told them that they would much like to stay; and so they +went to their rest that night, for that it was so late. + +Then I saw in my dream, that in the morn the Shepherds did call on +Christian and Hopeful to walk with them on the mounts. Then said the +Shepherds, each to his friend, "Shall we show these wights with staves +some strange sights?" So they had them first to the top of a hill, +known as Error, and bid them look down to the base. So Christian and +Hopeful did look down, and saw at the foot a lot of men rent all to +bits, by a fall that they had from the top. Then said Christian, "What +doth this mean?" The Shepherds said, "Have you not heard of them that +were made to err, in that they gave heed to Hymeneus and Philetus, who +held not the faith that the dead shall rise from the grave? Those that +you see lie rent in bits at the base of this mount are they; and they +have lain to this day on the ground as you see, so that those who come +this way may take heed how they climb too high, or how they come too +near the brink of this mount." + +Then I saw that they had them to the top of the next mount, and the +name of that is Caution, and bid them look as far off as they could; +which when they did they saw, as they thought, a group of men that +did walk up and down through the tombs that were there: and they saw +that the men were blind, for that they fell at times on the tombs, +and for that they could not get out from the midst of them. Then said +Christian, "What means this?" + +[Illustration: THE HILL ERROR.] + +The Shepherds then said, "Did you not see, a short way down these +mounts, a stile that leads to a mead on the left hand of this way?" +They said, "Yes." Then said the Shepherds, "From that stile there goes +a path that leads straight to Doubting Castle, which is kept by Giant +Despair, and these men (as he did point to them in the midst of the +tombs) came once on the way, as you do now--ay, till they came to that +same stile! And as they found the right way was rough in that place, +they chose to go out of it to that mead, and there were caught by Giant +Despair and shut up in Doubting Castle; where, when they had a while +been kept in a cell, he at last did put out their eyes, and led them +in the thick of those tombs, where he has left them to stray till this +day: that the words of the Wise Man might be brought to pass, 'He that +strays out of the way of truth shall dwell in the homes of the dead.'" +Then did Christian and Hopeful look each on each, while tears came from +their eyes; but yet said they not a word to the Shepherds. + +Then I saw in my dream, that the Shepherds had them to one more place, +in a steep, where was a door in the side of a hill; and they flung wide +the door and bid them look in. They did look in, hence, and saw that it +was dark and full of smoke; they thought, too, that they heard a hoarse +noise, as of fire, and a cry of some in pain. Then said Christian, +"What means this?" The Shepherds told them, "This is a nigh way to +Hell; a way that such as seem to be what they are not go in at: to wit, +such as sell the right they had at birth, with Esau; such as sell their +Lord, with Judas; such as speak ill of God's Word, with Alexander; and +that lie and shift, with Ananias, and Sapphira his wife." + +Then said Hopeful to the Shepherds, "I see that these had on them, each +one, a show of the road, as we have now, had they not?" + +_Shep._--"Yes, and held it a long time too." + +_Hope._--"How far might they go on in the way, in their days, since +they, in spite of this, were thus cast off?" + +_Shep._--"Some yon, and some not so far as these mounts." + +By this time Christian and Hopeful had a wish to go forth, and the +Shepherds meant that they should: so they sped side by side till they +got nigh the end of the mounts. Then said the Shepherds, each to his +friend, "Let us here show these wights the gates of the Celestial City, +if they have skill to look through our kind of glass." The men then did +like the hint: so they had them to the top of a high hill, the name of +which was Clear, and gave them the glass to look. + +Then did they try to look, but the thought of that last thing that the +Shepherds had shown them made their hands shake; by means of which let +they could not look well through the glass; yet they thought they saw a +thing like the gate, and, in like way, some of the sheen of the place. + +Just ere they set out, one of the Shepherds gave them _a note of the +way_; the next bid them _take heed of such as fawn_; the third bid them +_take heed that they slept not on ground that had a spell_; and the +fourth bid them God speed. So I did wake from my dream. + + + + +CHAPTER XVII. + +THE ENCHANTED GROUND AND THE WAY DOWN TO IT. + + +AND I slept and dreamt once more, and saw the same two wights go down +the mounts, by the high road that led to the town. Now nigh the base of +these mounts, on the left hand, lies the land of Conceit, from which +land there comes, right in the way in which the men trod, a small lane +with twists and turns. Here, then, they met with a brisk lad that came +out of that land, and his name was Ignorance. So Christian would know +from what parts he came, and whence he was bound. + +_Ignor._--"Sir, I was born in the land that lies off there a short way +on the left hand, and I am bound to the Celestial City." + +_Chr._--"But how do you think to get in at the gate? for you may find +some let there." + +"As some good folk do," said he. + +_Chr._--"But what have you to show at that gate, that the gate should +be flung wide to you?" + +_Ignor._--"I know my Lord's will, and have led a good life; I pay each +man his own; I pray, fast, pay tithes, and give alms; and have left my +land for the place to which I go." + +_Chr._--"But thou didst not come in at the Wicket-gate that is at the +head of this way; thou didst come in here through that same lane with +the twists and turns; and hence, I fear, in spite of what thou dost +think of thy right, when the last day shall come, thou wilt have laid +to thy charge that thou art a thief, in lieu of a free pass to the +town." + +_Ignor._--"Sirs, ye be not known to me in the least; I know you not; +you be led by the faith of your land, and I will be led by the faith of +mine. I hope all will be well. And as for the gate that you talk of, +all the world knows that that is a great way off our land. I do not +think that one man in all our parts doth so much as know the way to it; +nor need they care if they do or no; since we have, as you see, a fine, +gay, green lane, that comes down from our land, the next road that +leads to the way." + +[Illustration: Then Christian met with a brisk lad who said his name +was Ignorance.--Page 82. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +When Christian saw that the man was wise in his own eyes, he said to +Hopeful in a soft voice, "'There is more hope of a fool than of him'"; +and said, in like way, "'When he that is a fool walks by the way, his +sense fails him, and he saith to each one that he is a fool.' What! +shall we talk more with him, or move on now, and so leave him to think +of what he hath erst heard, and then stop once more for him in a while, +and see if by slow steps we can do aught of good to him?" Then said +Hopeful, "It is not good, I think, to say so to him all at once; let +us pass him by, if you will, and talk to him by and by, just as he has +'strength to bear it.'" + +So they both went on, and Ignorance came in their track. Now, when +they had left him a short way, they came to a dark lane, where they +met a man whom some fiends had bound with strong cords, and took back +to the door that they saw on the side of the hill. Now good Christian +could not help but shake, and so did Hopeful, who was with him; yet, +as the fiends led off the man, Christian did look to see if he knew +him; and he thought it might be one Turnaway, that dwelt in the town of +Apostacy. But he did not well see his face, for he did hang his head +like a thief that is found. But when he had gone past, Hopeful gave a +look at him, and saw on his back a card, with these words, "Vile cheat, +that has left his faith." + +So they went on, and Ignorance went in their track. They went till +they came at a place where they saw a way put right in their way, and +did seem, at the same time, to lie as straight as the way which they +should go. And here they knew not which of the two to take, for both +did seem straight in front of them: hence they stood to think. And as +they thought of the way, lo, a man black of flesh, but clad with a +light robe, came to them, and did ask them why they stood there. They +said they were bound to the Celestial City, but knew not which of these +ways to take. "Go with me," said the man; "it is to that place I am +bent." So they went with him in the way that but now came to the road, +which each step they took did turn and turn them so far from the town +that they sought to go to, that in a short time their heads did turn +off from it; yet they went with him. But by and by, ere they well knew +of it, he led them both in the bounds of a net, in which they were both +so caught that they knew not what to do; and with that the white robe +fell off the black man's back: then they saw where they were. For which +cause there they lay in tears some time, for they could not get their +limbs out. + +Then said Christian to his friend, "Now do I see that I am wrong. Did +not the Shepherds bid us take heed of the Flatterer? As are the words +of the Wise Man, so we have found it this day, 'A man that fawns on his +friend spreads a net for his feet.'" + +_Hope._--"They, too, gave us some notes as to the way, so that we may +be the more sure to find it; but in that we have not thought to read." + +[Illustration: Then did Hopeful tell Christian his experience, and +Christian said: "Let us not sleep, as some do; but let us watch and +pray."--Page 86. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +Thus they lay in sad plight in the net. At last they saw a Bright One +come nigh to where they were, with a whip of small cords in his hand. +When he was come to the place where they were, he did ask them whence +they came, and what they did there? They told him they were poor wights +bound to Zion, but were led out of their way by a black man clad in +white, "who bid us," said they, "go with him, for he was bound to that +place too." Then said he with the whip, "It is one who fawns, a false +guide who wore the garb of a sprite of light." So he rent the net, +and let the men out. Then said he to them, "Come with me, that I may +set you in your way once more": so he led them back to the way they had +left to go with the Flatterer. Then he did ask them and said, "Where +did you lie the last night?" They said, "With the Shepherds on the +Mounts of Joy." He did ask, then, if they had not of those men a note +as a guide for the way. They said, "Yes." "But did you not," said he, +"when you were at a stand, pluck out and read your note?" Quoth they, +"No." He did ask them, "Why?" They said, "They did not think of it." He +would know, too, "If the Shepherds did not bid them take heed of the +Flatterer?" They said, "Yes; but we thought not," said they, "that this +man of fine speech had been he." + +Then I saw in my dream that he told them to lie down; which when they +did, he gave them sore stripes, to teach them the good way in which +they should walk. This done, he bids them go on their way, and take +good heed to the next hints of the Shepherds. + +I then saw in my dream, that they went on till they came to a land +whose air did tend to make one sleep. And here Hopeful grew quite dull +and nigh fell to sleep: for which cause he said to Christian: "I do now +grow so dull that I can scarce hold ope mine eyes; let us lie down here +and take one nap." + +"By no means," said Christian, "lest if we sleep we wake not more." + +_Hope._--"Why, my friend? Sleep is sweet to the man that toils: it may +give us strength if we take a nap." + +_Chr._--"Do you not know that one of the Shepherds bid us take heed of +the Enchanted Ground? He meant by that, that we should take care and +not go to sleep. 'Let us not sleep, as do some; but let us watch and be +of sound mind.'" + +_Hope._--"I know I am in fault; and, had not you been with me here, I +had gone to sleep and run the risk of death. I see it is true that the +wise man saith, 'Two are more good than one.' Up to this time thou hast +been my ruth and thou shalt 'have a good meed for thy pains.'" + +[Illustration: HOPEFUL TELLS CHRISTIAN HIS EXPERIENCE.] + +I saw then in my dream, that Hopeful gave a look back, and saw +Ignorance, whom they had left in their wake, come in their track. +"Look," said he to Christian, "how far yon youth doth lag in the rear." + +[Illustration: "Come on, man, why do you stay back so?" said Christian. +"I like to walk alone," said Ignorance.--Page 87. + +_Pilgrim's Progress._] + +_Chr._--"Ay, ay, I see him: he cares not to be with us." + +_Hope._--"But I trow it would not have hurt him had he kept pace with +us to this time." + +_Chr._--"That is true: but I wot he doth not think so." + +_Hope._--"That I think he doth: but, be it so or no, let us wait for +him." So they did. + +Then Christian did call to him, "Come you on, man: why do you stay back +so?" + +_Ignor._--"I like to walk in this lone way; ay, more a great deal than +with folk: that is, save I like them much." + +Then said Christian to Hopeful (but in a soft voice), "Did I not tell +you he sought to shirk us? But, be this as it may, come up, and let us +talk off the time in this lone place." + +Then, when he had a long speech with Ignorance, Christian spoke thus to +his friend, "Well, come, my good Hopeful, I see that thou and I must +walk side by side once more." + +So I saw in my dream, that they went on fast in front, and Ignorance, +he came with lame gait in their track. Then said Christian to his +friend, "I feel much for this poor man: it will of a truth go hard with +him at last." + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII. + +THE LAND OF BEULAH--THE FORDS OF THE RIVER--AT HOME. + + +NOW I saw in my dream that by this time the wights had got clear of +the Enchanted Ground, and had come to the land of Beulah, whose air +was most sweet: as the way did lie straight through it, they took rest +there for a while. Yea, here they heard at all times "the songs of +birds," and saw each day the plants bud forth in the earth, and heard +"the voice of the dove" in the land. In this realm the sun shines night +and day: for this was far from the Vale of the Shade of Death, and, in +like way, out of the reach of Giant Despair; nor could they from this +place so much as see Doubting Castle. Here they were in sight of the +City to which they were bound: here, too, met them some of the folk who +dwelt there, for in this land the Bright Ones did walk, for that it was +on the verge of bliss. + +[Illustration: CHRISTIAN AND HOPEFUL ENTER THE LAND OF BEULAH.] + +Now as they did walk in this land they had more joy than in parts not +so nigh the realm to which they were bound: and as they drew near the +City they had yet a more clear view of it. It was built of pearls and +rare gems: its streets, too, were of gold: so that, from the sheen of +the place, and the glow of the sun on it, Christian did long so much +that he fell sick. Hopeful, in like way, had a fit or two of the same +kind. + +But when they got some strength, and could bear their sick state, they +went on their way, and came near and yet more near where were grounds +that bore fruits, vines, and plants; and their gates did ope on the +high road. Now, as they came up to these parts, lo, the Gardener stood +in the way; to whom the men said, "Whose fine vine and fruit grounds +are these?" He said, "They are the King's, and are put there for his +own joy, as well as to cheer such as come this way." So he took them +to where the vines grew, and bid them wet their mouths with the fruit: +he, too, did show them there the King's walks, and the shades that he +sought: and here they staid and slept. + +Now I saw in my dream that they spoke more in their sleep at this time +than erst they did in all their way: and as I did muse on it, the +Gardener said to me, "Why dost thou muse at this? It is a charm in the +fruit of the grapes of these grounds 'to go down in so sweet a way as +to cause the lips of them that sleep to speak.'" + +So I saw that when they did wake they girt up their loins to go up to +the City. So as they went on, there met them two men in robes that +shone like gold, while the face of each was bright as the light. + +These men did ask them whence they came; and they told them. They would +know, too, where they did lodge, and what straits and risks and joys +they had met with in the way; and they told them. Then said the men +that met them, "You have but two straits more to meet with, and then +you are in the City." + +Christian then, and his friend, did ask the men to go with them: so +they told them that they would; but said they, "You must gain it by +your own faith." So I saw in my dream that they went on each with each, +till they came in sight of the gate. + +Now I saw still more, that a stream ran in front of them and the gate; +but there was no bridge to cross, and the stream was deep. At the sight +of this stream, the wights with staves took fright; but the men that +went with them said, "Thou must go through, or thou canst not come at +the gate." + +The wights then sought to know if there was no way but that to the +gate. To which they said, "Yes; but none, save two--to wit, Enoch and +Elijah--hath been let to tread that path since the world was made, nor +shall till the last trump shall sound." The wights then (and Christian +in chief) grew as if they would give up hope, and did look this way +and that, but no way could be found by which they might get clear of +the stream. Then they did ask the men if it was all the same depth. +They said, "No"; yet they could not help them in that case: "for," said +they, "you shall find it more or less deep as you trust in the King of +the place." + +Then they did wade in the stream, and as Christian sank he did cry to +his good friend Hopeful, and said, "I sink." + +[Illustration] + +Then said Hopeful, "Be of good cheer, my friend: I feel the ground, +and it is good." Then said Christian, "Ah! my friend, I shall not see +the land I seek." And with that all grew dark, and fear fell on +Christian, so that he could not see in front of him. All the words that +he spoke still did tend to show that he had dread of mind and fears of +heart that he should die in that stream, and fail to go in at the gate. +Hopeful, from this cause, had here hard work to hold up the head of +his friend; yea, at times he would be quite gone down, and then, ere a +while, he would rise up once more half dead. Hopeful would try to cheer +him, and said, "Friend, I see the gate, and men stand by to greet us": +but Christian would say, "'Tis you, 'tis you they wait for; you have +had hope since the time I knew you." Then said Hopeful, "These fears +and griefs that you go through are no sign that God has left you, but +are sent to try you; if you will call to mind that which of yore you +have had from him, and live on him in your griefs." + +Then I saw in my dream that Christian was in a muse for a while. To +whom, too, Hopeful did add these words, "Be of good cheer, Christ +doth make thee whole." And with that Christian brake out with a loud +voice, "Oh, I see Him once more! and he tells me, 'When thou dost pass +through the stream, I will be with thee.'" Then they both took heart, +and the foe then grew as still as a stone, till they were gone through. +Christian then straight found ground to stand on, and so it came to +pass that the rest of the stream was but of slight depth: thus they did +ford it. + +Now on the bank of the stream, on the far off side, they saw the two +Bright Men once more, who there did wait for them. When they came out +of the stream these did greet them, and said: "We are sprites sent +forth to aid them who shall be heirs of Christ." Thus they went on to +the gate. + +Now you must note that the City stood on a high hill: but the wights +went up that hill with ease, for that they had these two men to lead +them up by the arms: more than this, they had left the garb they wore +in the stream; for though they went in with them they came out freed +from them. They hence went up here with much speed, though the rise on +which the City was built was more high than the clouds. They then went +up through the realms of air, and held sweet talk as they went, as they +felt joy for that they had got safe through the stream, and had such +Bright Ones to wait them. + +The talk that they had with the Bright Ones was of the place; who told +them that no words could paint it. "You go now," said they, "to the +sphere where God dwells, in which you shall see the Tree of Life, and +eat of the fruits of it that fade not: and when you come there you +shall have white robes to wear, and your walk and talk shall be each +day with the King, while time shall be known no more. There you shall +not see such things as you saw when low on earth, to wit, grief, pain, +and death; for these things are gone. You now go to Abraham, to Isaac, +and Jacob, and to men that God 'took from the woe to come.'" These men +then did ask, "What must we do in this pure place?" To whom it was +said, "You must there get the meed of all your toil, and have joy for +all your grief; you must reap what you have sown, ay, the fruit of +all your tears and toils for the King by the way. In that place you +must wear crowns of gold, and bask for aye in the sight of the Lord of +Hosts, for there you 'shall see Him as he is.' There, too, you shall +serve Him with praise, with shouts, with joy, whom you sought to serve +in the world, though with much pain, for that your flesh was weak. +There you shall join with your friends once more that are gone there +ere you; and there you shall with joy greet each one that comes in your +wake. When the King shall come with sound of trump in the clouds, as +on the wings of the wind, you shall come with Him; and, when He shall +sit on the Throne to judge all the realms of the earth, you shall sit +by Him: yea, and when He shall pass doom on all that did work ill, let +them be sprites or men, you shall too have a voice in that doom, for +that they are His and your foes. More than this, when He shall go back +to the City, you shall go too, with sound of trump, and be for aye with +Him." + +Now while they thus drew nigh to the gate, lo a troop of the Bright +Host came to meet them; to whom it was said by the first two Bright +Ones, "These are the men that did love our Lord, when they were in the +world, and that have left all for His name, and He hath sent us to +fetch them, and we have brought them thus far on their way, that they +may go in and look their Lord in the face with joy." There came, too, +at this time to meet them a group of the King's men with trumps, clad +in white and sheen robes, who, with sweet and loud notes, made the +whole arch of the sky full of the sound. These men did greet Christian +and his friend with much warmth; and this they did with shouts and +sound of trump. + +[Illustration: "'Tis you, 'tis you they wait for; you have had hope +since the time I knew you." + +(_Page 92_) (_The Pilgrim's Progress._)] + +This done, they went round them on each side; some went in front, some +in the rear, and some on the right hand, some on the left (as it were +to guard them through the vast realms), and did sound as they went, +with sweet noise, in notes on high; so that the bare sight was to them +that could look on it as if all the blest were come down to meet them. +Thus then did they walk on side by side. And now were these two men, as +it were, in bliss ere they came at it. Here, too, they had the City +in view; and they thought they heard all the bells in it to ring, so as +to greet them. But, more than all, the warm and rare thoughts that they +had of the place to which they went, and of those that dwelt there, and +that for aye; oh! by what tongue or pen can such vast joy be told? Thus +they came up to the gate. + +Then I saw in my dream that the Bright Men bid them call at the gate: +the which when they did, some from on high did look down, to wit, +Enoch, Moses, and Elijah, and so forth, to whom it was said, "These +wights are come from the City of Destruction, for the love that they +bear to the King of this place"; and then the wights gave in to them +each man his roll, which they had got at first: those, then, were +brought in to the King, who, when he had read them, said, "Where are +the men?" To whom it was told, "They are at the porch of the gate." +Then spoke the King, "Ope the gate, that the just land that keeps truth +may come in." + +Now I saw in my dream, that these two men went in at the gate: and lo! +as they did so, a change came on them; and they had robes put on that +shone like gold. There were, too, that met them with harps and crowns, +and gave them to them; the harps to praise with, the crowns in sign of +rank. Then I heard in my dream that all the bells of the place rang for +joy, and that it was said to them, "Come ye to the joy of our Lord." + +Now, just as the gates did ope to let in the men, did I peer at them, +and lo, the place shone like the sun: the streets, too, were of gold; +and in them did walk men with crowns on their heads, palms in their +hands, and gold harps to aid in songs of praise. + +There were some of them that had wings, and they sang, with not a +pause, songs to the "Lamb that was slain!" + +Then they shut up the gates; which when I had seen I did wish to be +with them. + +Now, while I did gaze on all these things, I saw Ignorance come up to +the side of the stream: but he soon got through, and that void of half +the toil which the two men that I of late saw met with. So he did climb +the hill to come up to the gate; but none came with him, nor did one +man meet or greet him. 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