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 \O the Youths of Texas, I dedicate this, my 
 first work, hoping it may assist them in 
 climbing life s rugged hill. And that the 
 good old book " PILGRIM S PROGRESS" may 
 possess some attractions in its new dress, 
 I have tried to cull fair flowers from the best wri 
 ters, and arrange them in a bouquet which I pray 
 may send forth rich fragrance to gladden each heart. 
 Of one thing they may be assured : There is no 
 thorn of sophistry concealed to pierce the soul. I 
 seek not to derive pecuniary profit from its sale. 
 My purpose is to appropriate the proceeds to ben 
 eficent purposes. 
 
 Your friend most truly, 
 
 MRS. C. A. WESTBROOK. 
 
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radiance of Banyan s star was resting on my heart 
 When forth its worship came, unbid of life a very part. 
 The brightest day from darkest night is sometimes seen to 
 
 spring, 
 
 And captives oft, mid prison s gloom, the sweetest anthems sing. 
 And as I sat in silence bound, and sought the wondrous goal, 
 The worship faint at tirst became, the passion of my soul. 
 New peace and love with hope and joy, in holy beauty blend, 
 And yet I tremble to the world my little book to send, 
 For some will frown, and some will smile, and others look askance ; 
 Some will peruse, some ha f read o er, while others deign a glance; 
 But if the Father doth approve the offering of His child, 
 His loving benediction grant, and bless her with His smile, 
 -Twill prove reward enough to bless for hours of thoughtful care 
 And on ward to the "promised rest" her hastening footsteps bear. 
 Oh grant, Dear Father, in this book, as in a mirror bright, 
 Our youth may see the narrow way that leadeth up to light, 
 And learn to shun within themselves, the faults which they condemn 
 When brought to view as " blight and blast" in lives of other men, 
 Inscribing on the inmost heart the precept "Know thyself" 
 Esteem above Fame s passing breath or cankering hoard of pelf 
 The soul God-given, which shall outlive the utmost bound of time 
 And rise to greet the Cherubim and join the hymn sublime. 
 
H thou now borne on Fancy s eager wing, 
 Back to the season of life s happy spring ! 
 I pleased remember, and while memory yet 
 Holds fast her office here, can ne er forget, 
 Ingenious dreamer, in whose well-told tale, 
 Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail. 
 Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style 
 May touch the gayest, make the wisest smile. 
 Witty, and well employed, and like thy Lord 
 Speaking in parables his slightest word, 
 I name thee not, lest so despised a name 
 Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame. 
 Yet, now, in Life s late autumn day, 
 That deftly crowns my brow with silver gray, 
 Revere the man whose * Pilgrim " marks the road 
 And guides the " progress " of the soul to God. 
 Oh poet, sad the effulgent beam 
 That lighted cell, and shone in dream, 
 Burned in thy heart, inspired thy peri 
 And made thee great, mid fellow men. 
 The goddess Wisdom never sped her dart 
 More grandly, nor with more skilled art, 
 Than when she rent the Dreamer s night away, 
 And turned his darkness into healthful day. 
 But, now met hi n ks I hear you say 
 You ve slightly wandered from your theme away. 
 Thus Bunyan wandered through the world, it seemed, 
 And while ho wandered, thus, the Dreamer dreamed; 
 
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 A man he saw, a wretched one, 
 
 Forlorn, in rags, unpitied and undone, 
 
 Standing alone, within a certain space ; 
 
 A book was in his hand, and on his face 
 
 An anxious look, upon his back a burden bore, 
 
 His straining form was turned afrom his door. 
 
 Opening the book, with trembling dire he read ; 
 
 And as the truth burned in his soul, in dread 
 
 Cried out, with loud and piercing cry, 
 
 " What shall I do, Oh, whither must I fly ! 
 
 I m tilled with sin, death s doom is o er my door ; 
 
 I dare not rest me here, I know not where to go !" 
 
 Then, coward as he was, he hushed his deep distress 
 
 Lest his deriding wife would mock his wild unrest. 
 
 Silent he could not be, for stirred conscience strove, 
 
 And of bis former sins a death-pall wove. 
 
 Louder he cried, " Oh ! who can me relieve 
 
 Of this great burden. Who my soul retrieve! 
 
 My friends, this city will be burnt with tire. 
 
 The God of justice will his risen ire 
 
 Yent on you all, unless you now repent. 
 
 Oh flee, oh flee, at this His message sent." 
 
 His friends deriding him, with jest invoke 
 
 Morpheus to lull him, and thus avert the stroke, 
 
 But night as daylight, doth its horror keep, , 
 
 And thought s dread spectres haunt the deepest sleep. 
 
 The day s dark clouds had settled over our hero s mind ; 
 
 At night the thunder came; he cried: where can I find 
 
 Belief? What shall I do oh, tell me to be saved? 
 
 And tortured thus, he loudly, madly raved. 
 
 With prurience rude one asked, " Say, wherefore dost thou cry ! " 
 
 " Oh friend, this book informs me I m condemned to die, 
 
 And after death to judgment I must come, 
 
 And there receive the sinner s hopeless doom, 
 
 I cannot do the first, I cannot bear the last, 
 
 My life is full of anguish, and yet I hold it fast." 
 
 EVANGELIST. " If this thy case, oh man, why standest thou stock still ? " 
 
 THE MAN. " I know not where to go. Oh, why did Satan fill 
 
 My cup so full of woe!" A roll to him he gave and bade him haste 
 
 to fly. 
 
 " Seest thou that gate f If not, you steadfast fix your eye 
 Upon that shining light which you can clearly see. 
 
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 When at the gate, loud knock and it shall opened be." 
 
 He swiftly set to run. His wfe aloud did cry. 
 
 No heed gave he to her, but with unswerving eye 
 
 Bent on the cherished goal, entreaty he did spurn. 
 
 "Eternal life I seek, I dare not now return." 
 
 Ne er looking back he sped him onward through the plain, 
 
 With sinew stretched and body bent, he pressed the gate to gain. 
 
 His neighbors mocking came, and two of them by force 
 
 Would bring him back, for, with the wife they said, "he crazy is, of 
 
 course." 
 
 The name of one was Pliable, the other Obstinate. 
 " Why coine you, frjends ? " the runner cried. " To save you from the 
 
 fate 
 
 You rush to seek. You re crazed, poor one." " Not so, I have my head, 
 Destruction is your city s name. You dwell among the dead, 
 I m just from there myself, my friends, and this I know full well, 
 Unless you hasten long this way, you ll sink with it to hell ! 
 Go, go with me, I beg of you. Oh, heed my earnest call." 
 " What ! go with you ? " said Obstinate, " and leave behind our all ? 
 We re sent for thee to bring thee back, but seeming you are bent 
 To go your way, forsaking all ! Whence comes this sharp intent ? " 
 " I go," said Christian, 4% to a land where peace and joy abide ; 
 No clouds are there, nor winter s storm. No good is there denied ; 
 Bright flowers shed their fragrance sweet, o er all the heavenly air ; 
 No fade is there, no sorrow s tear ; but gladness everywhere. 
 In seraph s lay, I too, may join, in that blest home above 
 Whose sun is Christ, whose people saints, whose king the God of Love." 
 u Your talk is foolishness, poor man ! Think you we can be moved- - 
 By frenzy such as this, you do but your own weakness prove." 
 44 1 say not of myself these words. I beg you take this book ; 
 It hath withstood both fire and sword. Now open it, and look 
 And for thyself read its true words. You see the fearful flood 
 Of sin and anguish that must whelm, unless saved by the blood." 
 4 Tut! with your book away, I say, will you with us return, 
 Or will you, like a senseless one, the voice of wisdom spurn f " 
 44 My hand unto the plow I ve put ; within my heart doth burn 
 Such strong desire for that bright land, I would not now return 
 If all the world was offered me. Oh friends, I beg you heed 
 The warning of my book! Tig true. And while we run we ll read 
 Of that dread day when God shall come in vengeance dark and dire 
 To strike the guilty ones to doom and purge the world with fire. 
 Too late twill be amid the wreck to count the bitter cost ; 
 
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 Your only cry in that dread hour will be, * I m lost! I m lost ! " 
 
 " Of this dread future which you speak, I have no fears at all ; 
 
 Your talk is like the silly words when babbling children call. 
 
 Come, Neighbor Pliable, let s leave him to his weakish way, 
 
 He ll see his folly and turn back before the set of day." 
 
 Said Pliable with smirkish smile : " I ve listened all the while ; 
 
 If what he says be honest truth, you sin, thus to revile. 
 
 It strikes me as I think on it I will with Christian go, 
 
 For to the judgment of that book I would not come, you know." 
 
 " What ! go with him ? Why, you will be the by- word of the town ; 
 
 Be wise, be wise, Friend Pliable ; make not yourself a clown." 
 
 " Oh friends, give heed I " poor Christian cried, " the words I ve said 
 
 are true ; 
 
 This judgment is for all the world as well as me and you ; 
 Escape we must, the book doth say, through Christ the only way, 
 Since in the blood alone is life, accept it I you pray !" 
 " You go your way, Friend Obstinate. To this I ve made my mind, 
 With Christian to associate. These joys, I too would find." 
 "You ll get befogged, Friend Pliable. Twas only Christian s scare 
 That made him leave our goodly town, and on this venture dare." 
 " Not so," said Christian very bold. " I know whereof I speak, 
 Evangelist marked out the way. I ll find what now I seek. 
 We ll to our journey now, sweet friend ;" and Pliable arose, 
 And bade " good bye " to Obstinate. With Christian then did close. 
 While Obstinate, with air of one who scorns and pities, too 
 Bade them the poor misguided ones r a hasty, sharp adieu. 
 " I m very glad I came with you, good Christian," with a smile 
 Said Pliable, in honeyed voice, " we can the way beguile 
 In talking o er the gains we ll get from going in this way, 
 The riches, honor, peace and good, what are they, tell me pray I " 
 " Oh, words are very weakness, friend, when used to paint these things, 
 The human heart cannot conceive the joys this journey brings. 
 But, list me while I read my book, and then you ll catch a view* 
 Of glories that shine round about Jerusalem the New. 
 The great White Throne, the gates of gold, with gems bestudded rare, 
 Of crystal stream, with fadeless trees that heavenly fruitage bear." 
 " Tis very beautiful, and Fm glad I choose to come with you," 
 Said Pliable, as they strained on, " but are you sure tis true ? " 
 Then Christian spoke in earnest words, " He shall its truth soon prove. 
 All this was writ for us by Him whose very name is Love, 
 And we shall crowns of glory wear; to us shall harps be given. 
 IB glistening garments we shall stand and sing the songs of heaven. 
 
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 No more shall deatk hie icy hand lay on on* fleeting breath, 
 
 For Christ has triumphed over all, and conquered even death. 
 
 The elders, too, and harpers more than thousand thousands, sing 
 
 Loud anthems to the Holy One, of heaven and earth the King. 7 
 
 " This is too good," said Pliable, " My heart vibrates with joy ; 
 
 But do you really think, my friend, these things will us employ ? 
 
 " Here in my book the Lord himself these things recorded hath 
 
 For all who will deny themselves, and tread the narrow path. 
 
 Most freely will He give to those who willingly receive, 
 
 Oh, hear him speak these loving words : Look unto me and live. " 
 
 " You charm me much, good Christian friend. And now I surely know 
 
 That all you ve said is very truth. Let s onward faster go. 
 
 Poor Christian sighed as Pliable urged him to quickened pace. 
 
 u This burden is a weight to me, I falter in the race." 
 
 " Come on, come, quick 1 1 would be there," in words so sweet and fond 
 
 Spoke Pliable. A few steps more, they reached the Slough Despond. 
 
 Both tumbled in, Both struggled fierce, but struggling, deeper sank. 
 
 About them was the slimy pit, above them vapors dank. 
 
 " Ah, me, we ne er through this shall get," paid he of foot so fleet ; 
 
 " If ever I from out shall some, I ll beat a quick retreat. 
 
 Where are you now ? You told me false ! is this the goodly land ? 
 
 Where is your record, where s your crown, your harp? in deathless 
 
 hand. 
 
 Farewell, farewell, I turn about, and seek the certain good, 
 And leave you with your burden sore to trend the unknown road." 
 He gave a lunge, a dash, a leap, and gained the nearer shore. 
 Poor Christian seeking, burden-pressed, caught night then saw no 
 
 more. 
 
 " I must get through, I dare not look back o er the road I ve come. 
 The wicket- gate, the wicket-gate ! and then I m safe at home ! " 
 But oh, twas fierce ; despair came down and seized his very soul. 
 " I will believe, I ll n er go back, but press on to the goal ! " 
 Help held her heavenly hand to him. He grasped it with a kiss. 
 She raised him up, and said, " Look there, the Gate you cannot miss." 
 " Look here," said Christian reverently, " I would a question ask : 
 Why in the King s highway this bog I " " Ah, heavy be the task 
 That will repair this low descent where slum of sin doth run ! 
 The King s choice men have labored hard, and still the work s undone, 
 Full sixteen hundred years they ve toiled with patient, earnest zest : 
 It still remains a nasty slough for Pilgrims. And the best 
 That they have done is through its mire to place these heavy stones, 
 And every Pilgrim, though he sink, comes out with solid bones." 
 
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 The quagmire passed, with joyous steps lie hastened o er the plain. 
 
 His heart beat fast, his hope rose high: the end he soon would gain. 
 
 Here up stept one with pleasing mien, and words of sweet entice : 
 
 " You re journeying to the wicket-gate? Have you looked at the price 
 
 That it may cost you thus to tread this narrow, lonely road? 
 
 And then it seems, my friend, you bear a heavy, useless load." 
 
 "I m told," said Christian, stopping short, " that if I reach that gate, 
 
 I ll leave this burden. Thus I haste ; I would not be too late." 
 
 u And have you wife and children fond, and will you leavw them all, 
 
 And all alone, of doubts and fears to bear the heavy thrall ? " 
 
 " I have both wife and children fond, but in them find no peace. 
 
 This burden galls me to the quick, from it I seek release." 
 
 44 You re mad, poor one. I beg you list to counsel sound and good. 
 
 Ten thousands of t!<e sons of men have followed it, and stood 
 
 As giants, in the strength it gave. Have plucked a rose each morn, 
 
 And never yet amid my flowers have found a prick or thorn. 
 
 But tell me," Haid the sly old World, " who was the stupid bore 
 
 That told you to discard your load you o er this way must go." 
 
 " He was a fair and comely one, benignant was his mien, 
 
 Evangelist he called himself. He was from heaven I ween." 
 
 " Hath quite a noted character," said World with marked leer, 
 
 If you will follow his advice you ll find it cost you dear. 
 
 You ve bravely tried a mile or two and were besmirched with mud. 
 
 You stand in sorry plight, and more, your trial s in the bud, 
 
 For let me tell you there await you hunger, swor 1 and death. 
 
 I tell you true, and did I speak with my last ebbing breath, 
 
 I must this testimony plain, this counsel of a friend, 
 
 Place fore your judgment, that you know what sure must be your end." 
 
 With thoughtful face poor Christian stood while World his gloze 
 
 spread fair. 
 
 At length he spoke. His timid words to World s strong contrast bear : 
 " This burden is to me more grief, than all you have me told, 
 Believed of this let what will, come. It s this that makes me bold." 
 " But let me ask you, halpless one, how came you by this load ? 
 Twas well enough your head to turn and cheat you in the road." 
 u I read this book, most honored sir, and then my burden came. 
 There must be one who will it lift. Oh, can you tell his name ? " 
 " Pshaw, silly one ! you re like to those who to high things aspire, 
 
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 The weaklings who, discarding peace, are rent by strong desire, 
 And fain would pry into the depths of all things they may hear ; 
 Instead of joy and happiness, they fill their cup with fear." 
 " I will not measure words with you, my burden is too great ; 
 I must press on as best I can until I reach the gate, 
 And there I m sure relief I ll find, and so I bid good day, 
 And hasten forward to my rest." 
 
 " Heigho, my friend, I say," 
 
 Called out old World, " Are you so blind, and far beside yourself, 
 As to give heed to Evangelist s words, the doting, silly elf. 
 Here, sit beside me, while I tell of one whose skill will cure. 
 My counsel, wise and friendly aid, I m sure you ll never rue. 
 Now listen Old World s advice : There lives a most judicious man 
 
 Galled by most men Legality. 
 
 He lives in a small village, only a short distance, called Morality ; 
 And he has the skill to help men off, with burdens like thine ; 
 To him thou must go, he ll give relief. Tis the way I got rid of mine. 
 He ll be glad to see you, but if he is not at home, Civility, his son, 
 Can do as well as his father. Many can testify to what he s done, . 
 And if thou dost desire it, I will send for thy children and wife. 
 Houses are cheap, society fine, and you can lead a peaceful life." 
 CHRISTIAN. I am in a great dilemma, but if this counsel be true, 
 It is the wisest course to take thy advice, and thy road pursue ; 
 Which is the way to this wise man s house ? Will you please tell? " 
 WORLD. " Do you see that high hill ? " 
 
 CHRISTIAN. " Yes, very well. 1 
 WORLD. " The first house you see is his." 
 
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 Then Christian did as he said. 
 
 But when he reached it, the top laid over until he was afraid 
 That it would fall on him. His burden was heavier, did much tire 
 Him, and he knew not what to do, for out of the hill came flashes of fire. 
 Then he regretted how he had acted. He saw Evangelist drawing Dear. 
 Xow Christian blushed with shame. Evangelist looked angry, and fear 
 Caused Christian to tremble. He asked, " Didst thou not flee from sin ? 
 Art thou not the man I found? " But he was speechless before him. 
 fc> I see plainly I ve sinned." 
 
 EVANG. " Did you by my advice abide ? 
 You are now far out of the way, why so quickly turned aside ? " 
 
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 " I met a gentleman who said I could go to the village which lies 
 
 before me, 
 And be relieved of my burden, have my family, and from all cares 
 
 be free." 
 EVANG. " What was he ? " 
 
 CHRIS. " He looked like a gentleman, and at last 
 Prevailed upon me to yield, but when I came here couldn t get past 
 This hill." 
 
 EVANG. " What did he say i? " 
 
 CHRIS*. "Told me if I ould believe 
 
 Him, that he would direct me how to get rid of my burden, and receive 
 M uiy pleasures, and that house-rent and provisions were very cheap. 
 He would send for my family, and we could the best society keep." 
 EVANG. " Now list to the word of God, see what you refuse, 
 Not him that sppaketh, for if they escaped not, who did misuse 
 Him who spake on earth, much more sh.tll we not escape if we turn 
 Away from Him, who speiketh from Heaven, and His commandments 
 
 spurn. 
 
 Thou hast thyself alone to censure, and now thou hast so soon begun 
 To reject the creed of God, and thine own thread of salvation hast 
 
 thou spun." 
 
 Then Christian fell down, crying, * I am undone, woe is me!" 
 Evangelist raised him up and said All manner of sin, shall be for 
 given thee." 
 
 Then Christian stood trembling, and began slowly to revive. 
 Evangelist said, " Give heed to me, it is remarkable that thou art alive. 
 The man who deluded thee, was Mr. World Wise Man, of this world. 
 He goes himself, and sends others to the town of Morality, and has 
 
 Jmrled 
 
 Many a soul into perdition. His devotion and church is Morality. 
 Because it suits men of carnal minds,. and a dreadful fatality 
 Has followed the advice of these moral whisperers, for it is to the cross 
 A sinner must look. Christ s blood alone must wash away the dross, 
 And let the pure gold shine. To be saved, you must on Christ rely ; 
 Whenever you try to find an easy way, then your soul begins to die. 
 The Lord says, try to enter in at the strait gate, for strait is the gate 
 That leadeth to life, and few there be who find it ; you must hate 
 Yourself for being influenced by this nv-in. and for turning out of the way. 
 You must abhor his trying to make the cross odious, and perhaps 
 
 You may 
 
 Escape the wrath of God ; the King of Glory hath thus spoken unto thee, 
 He that shall save his life must lose it, you must forsake all for me. 
 
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 And Mr. Legality is the son of a bond woman, and can he set you free f 
 Mr. Civility, his son, is a hypocrite, and like other men, cannot help thee. 
 Now let this lesson be deeply inculcated upon the tablet of thy mind, 
 That no smiles or persuasions beguile thee, take and bind 
 It around thy heart, and when thou wouldst depart from the true path 
 Of God to follow man s advice, it will sting thee, and thou wilt evade 
 
 the wrath 
 Of an angry God." Then Evangelist called for a confirmation of what 
 
 he had said. 
 Then came words and fire out of the mountain, and Christian felt as 
 
 one dead; 
 
 The voice, in awful tones, said, " It is written, cursed shall be everyone 
 That continueth not in all things that are written and have not done 
 Them. Now Christian looked for death, and with a lamentable cry 
 Exclaimed, " What shall I do ? Is there no hope ? Must I in sin die * 
 I truly repent that I e er listened to that man. Oh, may 
 I expect forgiveness! Can I now go to the gate? I ne er shall forget 
 
 this day ! " 
 EVANG. "Thy sins are great, but God can forgive; go in peace, and 
 
 never 
 
 Listen more to man, lest God his love from thee sever." 
 Christian s heart oe rflowed with gratitude, and he did lightly bound 
 O er liower d valleys, and ere he was aware, he found 
 A beautiful arbor prepared for rest ; here he went to sleep, 
 Like many do in prosperity, when they should their vigils keep. 
 When he awoke, to his dismay, he found it very late ; 
 So he hurried on. Two frightened men said, " Ah, the fate 
 That will meet you ! Two great lions are directly in the way." 
 CHRISTIAN. " What can I do ? I cannot return ; I must not stay 
 Here. Lost my roll, and all these difficulties meet 
 Because of my indolence. Now my torn and bleeding feet 
 Must wander in darkness. Oh, I hear the awful roar 
 Of those lions ! I do repent ! I can never reach that shore 
 Of eternal peace ! But this is my way, I must not fear, 
 Even if death awaits me. What is that I see as I draw near ? 
 Two lions indeed ; but both are chained now I will call 
 Unto the Porter, Alas, I m too late ! This doth indeed appall 
 Mem or e than the lions. Ah ! I hear an answer tis my voice, 
 Only echoed back to me. He answers. Now I will rejoice." 
 
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 PORTER " Wliy so late my friend?" 
 
 CHRISTIAN. " I have a sin 
 
 To acknowledge : I slept too long in the arbor. Do let me in ! " 
 PORTER. " Come into our palace prepared for the transient rest 
 Of pilgrims. Bathe thy bruised feet. Thou shalt have the best 
 We can prepare. Now we have here a great variety 
 Of curiosities. Let me introduce Piety and Charity. 
 Welcome, care-worn brother. We know something of thy trials ; 
 But while. journeying to the Celestial City we must meet denials 
 And temptations. But there are many things I would have you know, 
 And if you ve rested sufficiently, I will them unto you show. 
 Do you remember, in the days of Pharaoh, when God 
 Told Moses to take His people from Egypt f This is his rod. 
 Here s the hammer and nail with which Jael slew Sisera ; and then 
 The ox-goad wherewhith Shamgar slew six hundred men. 
 And the jaw-bone with which Samson did such mighty feats ; 
 And the sword with which the Lord will kill sinful men when FLi meets 
 Them in the day of vengeance." And other things which did much 
 
 delight 
 
 Him. Then they ate supper and retired, for it was late at night. 
 In the morning Christian felt much refreshed, and said, " I must go." 
 They told him to stay another day, and they would to him show 
 The Delectable Mountains, provided it was sufficiently clear : 
 ." And this will add much to your comfort, they are near 
 The Celestial City." So he consented. When the lovely morning came 
 They carried him to the observatory, and said, u Now look. The name 
 Signifies the loveliness of them." He looked, and saw mountain peaks 
 Towering over wooded glens and flowered vales. 
 
 CHRIS. " All ! weeks 
 
 I could spend in wondering ! Those fruits and fair flowers 
 Diversified o er those grassy plains the fountains and fairy bowers : 
 Tell me, is not this country called Immanuel s Holy Land ? " 
 PIETY. " Yes ; and free for pilgrims, as this palace. There is a band 
 Of shepherds who will the gate of this city show to thee." 
 "This makes rne anxious to go on. 7 
 
 PIETY. " You must wait and be 
 
 Clad with the armor of God. These weapons will enable you 
 To get through." 
 
 CHRIS. " Have any pilgrims passed f " 
 
 PORTER. "A few 
 
 Have recently; I noticed Faithful not long since passed by." 
 CHRIS. I regret so much that I did not go sooner. Why 
 
Am I behind others in zeal ? " 
 
 PIETY. " We ll all go to the foot of the hill, 
 
 With thee. As they went they told him not to despond, but still 
 Think of what he had seen, and that he must not be cast down. 
 Those who travel this road must see trouble ere they wear the crown. 
 When they reached the bottom of the hill his companions said, 
 * We must part. Here is a cluster of raisins, some wine and bread." 
 
 Christian knew he was in the valley of Humiliation, and many did yield 
 To a hideous fiend whom he saw coming near him, through the field. 
 Then Christian was afraid, and knew not whether to stand or run ; 
 He knew he had armor only for his breast, and if he tried to shun 
 His darts, he could not turn his back. Apollyon was terrible to behold, 
 Was covered with scales like a fish ; he vas very vain and bold ; 
 Had wings like a dragon, and feet like a boar ; there came fire and smoke 
 Out of his lion-like mouth. He thus unto Christian spoke : 
 14 From whence are you ? What doing here ? Whither going in such 
 
 speed ?" 
 
 CHRIS. u J came from the city of Destruction, because I know I need 
 TJie help of God. I m going to the city of Zion." 
 
 APOL. " I perceive 
 
 You are one of my subjects ; that city is mine. What shall you receive 
 For running away from your King? I ought to with one blow 
 Smite thee to the ground." 
 
 CHRIS. " I was born in your city, 1 know 
 
 Your service is hard, your wages death. When I came to years 
 Of manhood, I saw the gulf over which I stood, and many fears 
 Came o er me." 
 
 APOLLYON. " Since thou com plainest, return and be content, 
 And you shall live in ease." 
 
 CHRIS. "Then I ll be rent 
 
 From the King of Princes. I cannot think of following another." 
 APOL. " Thou hast made a bad choice. I can easily smother 
 The contempt that some would feel, and the fears of thy breast 
 May annoy at first, but my advice will eventually give rest." 
 CHRIS. "Thou destroying Apollyou, I love my master s company, 
 His government, His country, better than thine. I ll never with thee 
 Live again," 
 
 APOL. " For His service, many have been put to death. 
 You say that His service is better than mine, and the last breath 
 
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 Of His subjects was praise I Yet He never did deliver them, 
 
 But the world knows how by power, or fraud. In delivered men 
 
 Who followed ine, I HOOH in their breast deep love awake, 
 
 No one can ever say they have been by me forsaken " 
 
 CHRIS. "God s refusing- to help them, is only to try their love. 
 
 If they cleave not to him, they can ne er dwell above. 
 
 Christ is an example of suffering, and the pain is glorious, 
 
 When their Muster sends it, they will soon march victorious 
 
 When the Prince cometh with his host, and the trump sounds, 
 
 Then past tortures Avill be forgotten ; the heart bounds 
 
 To meet its Saviour." 
 
 APOL. "After sinning dost thou think 
 That thou wilt be in that throng ? Thou art on the brink 
 Of eternal woe." 
 
 CHRIS. " Wherein have I been unfaithful to him u ?" 
 APOL. " At the slough of Despond thou didst sin ; 
 And you did not wait patiently to get rid of your load 
 .Of sin, and slept and lost thy passport on the road. 
 Thou wast almost persuaded to return because twas night. 
 Did you not waver, and tremble, at the trilling sight 
 Of two lions ? In all thy talk and ways thou art very vain, 
 And desirous of glory, which is evident to all : can thy Prince remaii* 
 Loving to thee, after thus acting ?" 
 
 CHRIS. " All you ve said 
 
 Is too true, but for these offenses I trust that I have made 
 Acknowledgments. My Prince is merciful, and will forgive; 
 J was guilty of those sins in the country in which I did live ; 
 I believe I have obtained pardon." And when he thus spoke, 
 Apollyon flew into a rage, saying, " I do now evoke 
 The lowest fiends of Hell to help me curse thy Prince ; I hate 
 His laws, and Him, no one shall serve Him. Ah ! the fate ! 
 I will withstand. That now awaits thee ; I will withstand 
 Thee." 
 
 CHRIS. " Apollyon, Beware ! I m on my King s land." 
 APOL. " I do not fear ; prepare to die ! I do now swear 
 By my infernal den, thou shall not go ! I say forbear 
 Thy attempt, or thou shalt lose thy life ; return ; if you start 
 To go, you know your fate." 
 
 CHRIS. " I must." 
 
 APOL. " This dart 
 Shall pierce thy heart s core." 
 
 CHRIS. " Do you see this shield! 
 
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 It will enable me to withstand tliee; I can never yield." 
 
 Apollyon then sent them with such powerful strength 
 
 That Christian, notwithstanding his exertions, at length 
 
 Was wounded in the head, hand and foot, which made him give way, 
 
 And Apollyon followed, and thus it lasted for half a day. 
 
 Christian was weak, and in making a desperate struggle, did fall. 
 
 His sword fell out of his hand. Apollyon said, " Now call 
 
 On thy Prince to help thee. Does he come I Ah, dark despair 
 
 Is written on thy countenance. Lo man ! now, where 
 
 Is thy King ! This shall be thy last blow, twill crush thee." 
 
 Christian now struggled desperately, got his sword, and said, <l Oh, 
 
 enemy, 
 
 Rejoice not against me. I m fallen, but will soon rise again. 
 Take thy deadly blow ! Ah! this doth fill thee with terror and pain. 
 Thou art stunned ! You see we are more than conquerors through 
 Him." Then Apollyon spread his dragon wings, and away he Hew. 
 When Christian was recovered, he saw the tiend no more, 
 But for hours after, the hills reverberated with his terrible roar. 
 Christian exclaimed, " Oh, Lord! let me give thanks unto Thee, 
 My Deliverer, I know that in all danger thou wilt help me." 
 Christian sang: "Great Beelzebub, the Captain of this fiend, 
 Armed him, and thought he would ruin me. For this end 
 He sent him well prepared. None can e er know his rage 
 Until they see him. Oh, how fiercely he did me engage. 
 When I had almost despaired, Michael came and helped me, and I 
 By dint of sword and one desperate effort made him fly. 
 Would that all could unite with me in singing praise 
 And love, and would bless my great Deliverer always." 
 
 Now I saw in my dream that his wounds made him feel 
 
 Very weak. Then came a hand with leaves which did heal 
 
 As soon as they were applied. Then he ate the bread and drank 
 
 the wine, 
 Which Piety had given him. He said, " Oh, the Love of Clod 
 
 tis Divine." 
 
 After being refreshed, he went on his journey with a drawn sword, 
 For he anticipated other dangers, but there was none on the road. 
 Yet there was a trial awaiting him, but God with His grace 
 Could support him in the Valley of Death, twas a lonHv place. 
 Jeremiah thus describes it : A land where nothing dwelt ; 
 
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 A land of deserts and pits. And who knoweth how poor Christian felt 
 When he had to go all alone through this place. And what did he 
 See? One running toward him saying, "Go back." 
 
 CHRIS. " Tell me 
 Why I must turn back." 
 
 MAN. " There s danger ; do you know the name 
 Of this dark valley ?" 
 
 CHRIS. " Yes ; tell me all." 
 
 MEN. " We came 
 
 To the border, and fortunately we there did meet*" 
 CHRIS. "What have you seen 1 ?" 
 
 MEN. " Take a seat, 
 
 And we will tell you all. The valley is darker than night; 
 There are satyrs, visions, dragons, pits, and directly in sight 
 Of this valley are the clouds of Confusion, there s the yell 
 Of a people in utterable misery. The worst we have to tell 
 is that Death s wings are ever spread o er this dark path." 
 CHRIS. "This must be my only way to Heaven. If God s wrath 
 Is poured upon me I ll pray, and will never be forsaken." 
 MEN. " You will be sure to repent of the steps you ve taken." 
 
 Then Christian went with hin sword drawn ; could scarcely find 
 His way, twas so narrow. On his right hand was^where the blind 
 Had often led the blind into a ditch, where both were lost; 
 On the left was a daugeroous quag, which to many had cost 
 Tears, and even lives. Into this quag King David once did fall, 
 And would have perished, had not God^heard his call. 
 Here many are lost. Ah ! Virtue, exert thyself, and throw 
 Thy mantle around the world; shield them so they ll ne er know 
 Of such wickedness. With Christian we ll now go again. 
 He found it difficult from temptations ever to abstain. 
 The way he had to go was narrow. He saw the flame arise 
 From the gaping mouth of hell. It made him close his eyes. 
 He sheathed his sword, and knelt in prayer for^help. Ah ! dire 
 Were the tossing and groans, which came with flames of fire, 
 To welcome him to this vale ; then he met a mysterious shape, 
 If shape it might be called; he knew he could not escape. 
 For others came, and then a band of howling fiends was heard 
 Marching in front, their breath was poisonous, and the bird 
 That tolls the sick man s passport from her hollow beak, 
 
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 In the silent night doth their sad fate often speak. 
 
 Her shrill notes chill, and she shakes contagion from her wings ; 
 
 She haunts this dismal place, and in darkness ever sings 
 
 Her doleful tune. All of this did greet Christian s ear ; 
 
 The fiends still came nearer. He said, " I will not fear 
 
 Them ; I ll trust in God and walk in His strength, I ll rejoice 
 
 In my trials." Then they left him; he shouted, his voice 
 
 Rang loud and long. He anticipated evil, and he heard one say: 
 
 " Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I may 
 
 Still hope, for in all my trials God will strengthen me." 
 
 This cheered Christian ; he knew that there were others he did not see, 
 
 And that God had blessed them ; he tried to overtake 
 
 Them so he could have company, but soon day did break, 
 
 And he exclaimed : " He who has traveled this vale may say 
 
 It is dark." He looked back at the dragons, and as the day 
 
 Dawned, he shed tears of gratitude when, by the light, 
 
 He could see the dreadful pit, and loathsome quag which, in the night, 
 
 He had passed. The glorious sun came to brighten the day ; 
 
 He could see what he had to contend, with the rest of the way. 
 
 Dungeons, pits, and quags, and many other things did fchow 
 
 Themselves, frightful to behold, but he said others did go 
 
 Through the same dangers. There were two giants, and not a ray 
 
 Of mercy shone o er their palaces, and the bones of many lay 
 
 Around their dwellings. But their race was run ; God above 
 
 Had heard His saint s cry, had seen their anguish, and in love 
 
 Had crippled them. Their names were Pope and Pagan. By 
 
 Their tyranny they had reaped the reward of sin ere they had to die. 
 
 After Christian had passed them he said, " Oh, I m blest, 
 
 To thus escape their snares, they cause a blight, and no rest. 
 
 I m delivered from Hell, with all its darkness and sin ; 
 
 I knew not of the many dangers which were in 
 
 That lonely vale ; they might have cast me down 
 
 If it had not been for my God, and may the crown 
 
 Ever rest on His brow." 
 
 Now he saw Faithful : as he went 
 On his way he never loitered for vale or ascent. 
 Christian hurried on and called saying, ** I will go with you." 
 FAITHFUL. " The avenger is behind I must pursue 
 
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 My journey." Then he ran faster, and tried to overtake 
 
 Faithful he^would have a companion that would ne er forsake 
 
 The true path of duty. This made Christian admire him more. 
 
 He kew that was^the right way, for he had done so ; 
 
 When those wicked men tried to persuade him to return, 
 
 He refused to listen, and their idle rumors did spurn. 
 
 Christian came up with Faithful and said, tb I have met 
 
 With a congenial spirit. How long since you started ? I can ne er 
 
 forget 
 
 Those loved ones which Fve left. Tell me all. HOTV long did you stay 
 In the city of Destruction ?" 
 
 FAITH. My heart ached and I tore away 
 
 From those i loved. Some said the city would be burnt to the ground, 
 CHRIS. " Did many leave ?" 
 
 FAITH. "They did not, and I found 
 
 Much skepticism. I heard some of them deridingly speak 
 Of your pilgrimage. I believe tis a doomed place and I do seek, 
 A land where there will be no tears to dim my eyes 
 A home where Seraphs dwell, and praises of saints arise." 
 CHRIS. Did you hear of Pliable ? 
 
 FAITH. u We heard you 
 
 And him journeyed together until you came to that slough, 
 Where some said he fell in. I believe it is the decision 
 Of most of the town, he is held in great derision." 
 CHRIS. " Why are they so bitter ? They will not come in the way 
 Which he forsook." 
 
 FAITH. "They call him Turn-coat, and say 
 He is not worthy to stay with, because he has forsaken 
 The true path." 
 
 CHRIS. " Are you not mistaken ?" 
 
 FAITHFUL. " No. I met him in the street, and he tried to shun 
 Me ; he is, evidently, much ashamed of what he has done. 
 Hence the proverb, The sow that was was Led has returned to her 
 
 mire. 
 
 Many are thus deluded and perish. Let s leave him, for I tire 
 Even of his name." 
 
 CHRIS. "Tell me of your journey." 
 
 FAITH. I escaped the Slough of Despond, which I see you fell 
 Into, and without any trouble I soon went 
 To the gate ; but after I passed, there was a demon sent, 
 In the form of a woman. She was beautiful, and paraded all 
 Around me. I knew her smiles had caused many to fall, 
 
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 Yet, I lingered, enchanted by her charms ; then up the rugged hill 
 
 I climbed ; there came one swiftly by, then I stood still. 
 
 His looks indicated vengeance, and with a powerful blow 
 
 He brought me to the ground. I cried Mercy ! He said, to show 
 
 Mercy on one who could not resist temptation, and then again 
 
 The blows came. Ah ! I hope that I ll ne er feel the pain 
 
 That he inflicted. I know not how long it would have lasted Forbear 7 
 
 Was heard. I saw His hand and side, I knew my Lord was there." 
 
 CHRIS. " The man who overtook you was Moses. He spareth none, 
 
 Neither knoweth he how to pity those who willingly shun 
 
 His law." 
 
 FAITH. " I know him, oft he has met with me. 
 Twas him that warned me of my danger, and caused me to flee 
 From God s wrath. 7 
 
 CHRIS. " Did you not see on the side 
 Of the hill a house with lovely grounds ? " 
 
 FAITH. " Yes ; the Guide, 
 
 Or Porter was there. The lions were asleep; twas about noon. 
 I thought I could not lose so much time ; twas too soon 
 To stop for the night." 
 
 CHRIS. " I m sorry indeed ; the rarity 
 Of all I saw would have paid you, then I would have had your 
 
 company 
 
 Where I ve been so lonely. Whom did you see in the valley 
 Of Humility?" 
 
 FAITH. " Discontent. I strived and did rally 
 My feelings to such a height, that I could easily resist him, 
 Though he said I would offend my friends 4 Pride puffed with sin, 
 Egotism, Mr. Worldly Glory, 7 and others ; and I was foolish enough 
 
 to wade 
 Through this lowly valley." 
 
 CHRIS. " What arguments were made ? " 
 FAITH. " I told him those persons were not related 
 To me, and never would be. I would ever resist him; I stated 
 Plainly that honor was preceded by humility, and that a fall 
 Followed a haughty spirit, and that I did not wish men to call 
 Me wise." 
 
 CHRIS. " Did you met t any other person here?" 
 FAITH. " I met one who had neither principle or fear, 
 And I think of all men bears the most inappropriate name. 
 Why twas given is a mystery, it is Bold-faced Shame." 
 CHRIS. " Why, what did he say ? " 
 
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 FAITH. u That religion was to him 
 
 Something very degrading, a tender conscience a great sin. 
 It was effeminate to watch your ways, both night and day, 
 And to restrain all evil passions, and try in every thing to obey 
 The mandates of the so-called book of God, and they did not possess 
 Any quality of a man. That religion did not relieve any distress, 
 And that most pilgrims were humble, and few of the world s wise- 
 Men were on this dishonorable road ; that it did surprise 
 Him to see me. He said that there was no pleasure to live 
 Thus struggling with the turbulent ways of sin ; and to forgive 
 One s fault, or to ask pardon for your own, was to him 
 The most ridiculous of all things. Twas only a childish whim." 
 CHRIS. " What did you say ? " 
 
 FAITH. " I could not tell 
 
 What to say at first; his words sounded like those of Hell. 
 I told him what is highly esteemed among men, is held in abomination 
 With God that he was only a sham. Men of every station 
 Were discussed, but he knew nothing of what God s Word is, 
 Or its commands. At the judgment day, what will his 
 Arguments avail him ? We will not be judged by the world, 
 But according to the law of God, we will either be hurled 
 Into everlasting peace or woe, and what God says is best 
 That the world with its allurements might go, if I was blest. 
 I told him of the Power of Christ, and man a serpent when he hates. 
 Our Redeemer, I would follow him though the Fates 
 Combined should exert their energies ever against me. 
 Then I told him to depart, that I would no longer keep company 
 With one who only showed the dark side of religion. In vain 
 Were his efforts to tempt me. I told him that I did him disdain " 
 
 Then they noticed a man who soon overtook them, and had much talk : 
 FAITH. " Wither art thou going ? for thou dost walk 
 Very fast. If you are journeying to the heavenly country, let me 
 Accompany thee." 
 
 TALKATIVE " I m on that road, and twill be 
 A great source of pleasure for us to hold concourse of things, 
 Which send their radiance o er congenial spirits, and brings 
 The future as if it were within our grasp. But few 
 
Care about profitable conversation. I am glad to meet you." 
 FAITH. *Tis to be regretted. I think the tongue can ne er till 
 So high an office as when it speaks of God s good will 
 Towards men." 
 
 TALK. * I agree with you. If a man has any delight, 
 Tis when he can discern in another the same love. The sight 
 Is like the reflection of a rniiror. What a halo of love divine 
 Doth o er shadow two pure minds when their thoughts and words 
 
 combine, 
 But our very thoughts are evil, and we can do nothing of ourselves, or 
 
 receive 
 
 Anything, unless tis given us; all is of grace I sincerely believe, 
 And for this confirmation I could many Scriptures bring/ 
 FAITH. u We must come to something definite. One thing 
 We must select, ancl base our conversation." 
 
 TALK. " Anything you will 
 
 Select suits me, heavenly or earthly, up or down the hill 
 Of adversity or pleasure, any current in which you row your boat, 
 So it will be profitable, in it I will cheerfully float." 
 
 Then Faithful was amazed, and stepping to Christian, said : 
 " We have a brave companion a noble pilgrim he has made." 
 CHRIS. u This man has deceived you. His fair speech and smile 
 Will allure you ; from the right path he can beguile 
 All who listen to him." 
 
 FAITH. "Ah, do you know him, then?" 
 CHRIS. " Yes, better than he knows himself, and most men 
 Regard him as a foul hypocrite; his name is Talkative. 
 I m astonished you do not know him, he dwells near where you live 
 In the same town." 
 
 FAITH. " Whose son, and on what street doth he dwell ? " 
 CHRIS. " He lives on Flattery Kow, and is the son of Say Well." 
 FAITH. " I may know him ; he has the appearance of a gentleman." 
 CHRIS. " He has indeed, but he assumes much ; when abroad he can 
 Easily deceive ; at home he is known better ; most things look best 
 At a distance." 
 
 FAITH. " I m inclined to think you jest." 
 CHRIS. " I may have smiled, but God forbid that I should 
 Accuse any falsely. He would talk very fluently if you would 
 Present any subject whatever. He is very wise ; no frown 
 
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 Of yours can teach him you are tired, and he will be down 
 On your principles when from you." 
 
 FAITH. " From this hour 
 
 I will remember the Kingdom of God is not in word, but power." 
 CHRIS. "I ve noticed him closely, and even the dumb brute 
 In his kind serves God better. Yet he has the audacity to refute 
 The opinions of any ; he is a disgrace to religion, and a shame 
 To any community ; he is ill to his family. But it is vain 
 To try to enumerate his faults. Not satisfied with his sin, he makes 
 His sons follow in his footsteps ; he detests all that s good ; the rakes 
 Of the town abhor him." 
 
 FAITH. " Fm astonished, but you say 
 That you know him ; I must believe, though tis very sad, and from 
 
 to-day 
 
 I will try to penetrate deeper into every man s thought 
 Before I form an opinion so hastily. I would have been caught 
 By the fascinating language of this man, had not you led me 
 Into the secret of his character. Now I can plainly see, 
 Much can be assumed by sinful men, and as David says, 
 1 Often their words are smoother than butter, yet they have for days 
 Been drawn swords. Too many of this class we now meet, 
 Who seem to worship you, yet their hearts are full of deceit." 
 CHRIS. " If I had not known him, I would have thought as you did ; 
 Or, if I had obtained it from any other source, would have hid 
 It within my bosom, thinking perchance some enemy 
 Was trying to injure him. What I ve said is true, and thus you see 
 Him clothed in the garb of deception." 
 
 FAITH. "This does instill, 
 
 More deeply than ever, that talking is not doing God s will." 
 CHRIS. " Tis diverse indeed, the boaster s soul is often dead, 
 And such egotism is offensive ; for often what is said 
 Sinks like evil seed, sends forth plants of sin ; but pure 
 Religion is to keep yourself unspotted from the world ; tis sur e 
 To visit the widows and orphans in their affliction. But that man 
 Never thinks of the practical part of religion thinks he can 
 Reach Heaven by his tongue. Hearing is naught save some of the seed 
 It requires watching and praying, to keep rooted out every evil weed. 
 Men will be judged according to their works ; at the day of doom, 
 The secret thoughts of every heart will be known. Ah ! the gloorn 
 Which will o ershadow many a countenance. The end of the world 
 Is compared to our harvest, and Alas 1 how many will be hurled 
 Into perdition." 
 
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 FAITH. " Paul says, talkers are ever giving sound 
 Without life like sounding brass, and men of this kind will be found 
 In every country though they have an angel s voice, raise the lid 
 Of the outward character and look within." * 
 
 FAITH. " How can I get rid 
 Of him?" 
 
 CHRIS. " Enter upon some discourse of the power 
 Of religion. Ask him about his pleasure in it, and in half an hour 
 He will tire of you." 
 
 FAITH. " Ho, Talkative! What cheer now?" 
 
 TALK. " Thanks, I m well. Thought we should have talked more. How 
 Is it you ve been absent so long ?" 
 
 FAITH. " Christian and I 
 
 Commenced an interesting conversation, and so the time did fly 
 More rapidly than I was aware of. I did not think I staid so long, 
 But we will commence our discourse." 
 
 TALK. " A song 
 Before would be pleasant." 
 
 FAITH. u How doth the grace 
 
 Of God manifest itself in the heart? Often in the face 
 Is a true index into one s character. Opinions plainly show 
 The channel of one s thoughts, and by their conversation we can know 
 On what ground to place them." 
 
 TALK. " This great outcry 
 
 Against sin, when there is grace in the heart, we will now pass by 
 This theme, hurriedly." 
 
 FAITH. " No grace makes us abhor sin." 
 
 TALK. " What is the difference of crying against and being in 
 Utter hatred of it?" 
 
 FAITH. " You can condemn through policy, 
 But you cannot abhor it, but by virtue of antipathy 
 Against it. I ve heard men abuse it in the pulpit who did abide 
 It well enough in the heart remember Joseph s mistress cried 
 With a loud voice, pretending she was very innocent and chaste ; 
 Notwithstanding her guilt and deception List to her cry, 4 Help ! 
 
 Haste ! > 
 
 What wickedness ! Her breath more poisonous than a reptile s fang, 
 For they can reach only a short distance, but her hideous voice rang 
 The death-knell to poor Joseph s hopes ! Ah ! sure the poor man knew 
 
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 His fate Yet he feared God. What a lessen ! Ah ! how few 
 Would have acted thus ! He is more to be commended than Azim, 
 For the affection of a fair Zelica taught him to resist sin, 
 But Joseph, n exiled servant, to resist the entreaties of a majestic 
 
 queen, 
 
 Knowing, too, he would excite the wrath of the king. Yet, how serene 
 Is innocence ! No paleness, or blush came upon his placid face 
 When he heard the verdict: i Cast him in the dungeon ! for the grace 
 Of God he knew would shine e en there ; His ways are not as ours. 
 
 The cloud 
 
 Of adversity overshadowed him, and in gloom s dark shroud 
 He was covered ; yet he despaired not, but said, I will ever trust 
 In God, though He slay me. When he was into the dungeon thrust, 
 There was one light which cheered him, even in this dark 
 And lonely cell ; Hope found her way, and send her spark 
 To comfort him. How God blessed his future every child doth know ; 
 But few follow his example, which doth so plainly show 
 That if we wait patiently, the Lord will certainly bless ; 
 And when He afflicts sorely, tis not because He loves us less 
 But to return. A mother often cries out in anguish against her child, 
 But soon forgets, and begins to cherish her darling when it is mild." 
 TALK. " You are inclined to misconstrue, I perceive." 
 
 FAITH. " No, I 
 
 Am only for having things ri -ht. What s the second thing whereby 
 You ll prove the discovery of the work of grace in the heart of man ? 
 TALK. kt Great knowledge of gospel mysteries, but my first plan 
 Was rejected, I expect this will be too." 
 
 FAITH. "This should 
 
 Save been first, for you know, knowledge never could 
 Be obtained thout grace. I tell you, a man may possess 
 Unlimited knowl* dge, and be a child of Satan nevertheless. 
 Do you remember Christ asked, Do you know all these things? 
 And He said, i Blessed are ye, if ye do them. And this brings 
 Many similar passages to my mind. Give me knowledge, and I 
 Will keep Thy law. I will observe it with my heart." 
 
 TALK. " You lie 
 
 At the catch again this is not for edification. Will you propound 
 Any question, or produce any argument, whereby grace may be found 
 In the heart of man?" 
 
 TALK. " I cannot give any." 
 
 FAITH. "May 
 I mention some ? " 
 
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 TALK. *: Proceed !" 
 
 FAITH. " It showeth itself in this way ; 
 
 It presents to our view our sins, and brings to us deep conviction, 
 And shows to us plainly, unless we curb our passions, and place 
 
 restriction 
 
 Upon our habits, we will be lost, and this causes sorrow for sin 
 We find a revealed, a forgiving Saviour, and see the need of worshiping 
 
 Him, 
 
 Then we can plainly see, it is to us so many promises are made 
 And according to our strength of faith, our joy will increase or fade. 
 Though it manifests itself thus, yet we very seldom conclude 
 That it is a work of grace. On a contrite spirit doubts oft obtrude. 
 To some it is discovered by a confession of faith, and a holy life 
 Answers to their confession, not one of contention and strife 
 With our neighbors in this way acts the hypocrite, for in 
 All his ways he rejects God. The Christian always abhors sin. 
 I have given you my opinion of grace, in as brief 
 A manner as possible ; object if it does not meet with thy belief; 
 If not, I wish to ask another question." 
 
 TALK. " It is not my part 
 
 To object. I will enter upon any topic with all my heart." 
 FAITH. " Do you experience the first description, and 
 Doth your life testify to the same ? or do you now stand 
 Condemned before me ? Be careful, I wish you to say no more 
 Than God will approve, and your conscience justify. You know, 
 He who commendeth himself is not approved, but whom God doth 
 
 commend. 
 
 It is a sin to say you are a Christian, when acts with words don t blend." 
 At this Talkative blushed, but when his control he did recover, 
 Replied : " You now come to experience and to God, and I discover 
 That you appeal to Him for justification ; all you have spoken 
 Has taxed my patience. I did not anticipate this : tis not a token 
 Of a pleasant companion. I am wounded and will not answer. You 
 
 chastise 
 
 Without any ground ; the whole tenor of conversation doth surprise 
 Me much. Explain why you have thus acted." 
 
 FAITH. " It is because I saw 
 
 That you were very forward to talk, and that perchance a flaw 
 Was in your life. Without farther equivocation, I have heard of you 
 
 before ; 
 
 Your religion lies chiefly in your talking, your boasting and your show. 
 True religion fares the worse for you. Your sins cause some to stumble 
 
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 Iiito the ditch of deceit, into which you are now ready to tumble. 
 
 The proverb is true of you, as of a harlot: even your very name 
 
 Is a reproach to Christians, just as the harlot is to woman, a shame." 
 
 TALK. " Since you are so hasty in your opinions, I know you 
 
 Are some inconsistent person. We do not suit, so I bid you now adieu." 
 
 Then Christian came up and said : " Did not I tell you how it would be ? 
 He had rather leave your company than to reform or to agree 
 With your sentiments. Let him alone: he is only a boast and a show. 
 We are happier without him, arid he might have disgraced us ;you know 
 The apostles say : From such withdraw thyself. r 
 
 FAITH. I am glad 
 
 I had this discourse with him, when he reflects it may make him sad. 
 He was angry when he left. I talked very plainly to him ; 
 My conscience is clear, if he is irnmerged in the gulf of sin." 
 CHRISTIAN. " I think you did right in talking to him as you did ; 
 Generally we are too careful of feelings, and often mucli is hid 
 From the eyes of the church by a cloak of wealth. They fear to offend 
 An influential member, when their actions ne er did blend 
 With those of a true Christian. This looks strange to the world, I 
 
 believe 
 
 If all such were rejected, the church would be stronger, and receive 
 More members. They would be more careful how they tampered with 
 
 this theme, 
 
 Ah ! how sad to think foul men often use it for their scheme ; 
 By which they cover their darkest sins. Talkative raiseth his plumes, 
 How confidently he speaks, and what divine language he assumes, 
 To deceive and baffle all ; but only behold him as soon 
 As Faithful talks of heart-work, he reminds us of the moou 
 Which is past the full, it begins to decrease and into the wane it goes, 
 And so will all who follow him, for Talkative never knows, 
 Aught save his foolish prating about what he has seen by the way." 
 CHRIS. * He thinks only of himself. God s commands he does not obey. 
 Brother, your company has been a great pleasure to me, and many 
 
 lonely hour 
 
 Has been banished by your sunny smiles. Ah ! how great the power 
 Which true friendship hath. But oh! degenerate men. how few 
 Are there in whom we can confide. Their flattery wins you, 
 
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 But oft like a serpent they coil around your heart, and instil there 
 Their deadly poison. Tis sad to think so, but we had best beware 
 Of most men and women. 7 
 
 FAITH. "Misplaced confidence is why 
 
 So many suffer. Oh ! who comes yonder ? who is it we doth espy? " 
 CHRIS. " It is our good friend Evangelist. Twas he who set me in the 
 
 way. 
 To the gate." By this time Evangelist came up, and unto them did say : 
 
 ** Peace be unto you, dearly beloved, how is it with you? Doth the night 
 Of darkness still continue?" 
 
 CHRIS. AND FAITH. " Ah ! the sight 
 
 Of you banishes many dark forebodings. Our troubles and trials 
 We will relate. But when we asked God for mercy, we ne er met with 
 
 denials. 
 His strong arm has brought us safe thus far." 
 
 EVANG. " I m glad 
 
 You have resisted so many temptations; the trials which make you sad, 
 Will eventually benefit you. I have sown and you two have reaped. 
 But the time is not far distant when blessings will be heaped 
 Upon both the sower and the reaper ; persevere, and you will be made 
 Heirs of eternal life, be crowned with glory that never can fade. 
 Remember, only by faithfulness these blessings you can obtain. 
 Oh ! that the whole world would arouse and drop the cm tain over 
 
 the vain 
 
 Trifles of life. Then we would not be allured by fascinating sin, 
 But would look into our selfish hearts, and by God s help search in 
 Their lowest depths. Then God will give unto us strength and power 
 To resist the Evil One, for he cometh in an unknown hour." 
 Then they both thanked him for his advice, and desired him to speak 
 More about their journey ; how to resist trials, and how to seek 
 The glory of God. 
 
 EVANG. " It is through tribulation that the grace 
 Of His kingdom is entered into. You will be afflicted, and each face 
 Will be ploughed by the furrows of sorrow. You will soon see 
 A town, where some will seek to murder you; an enemy 
 Will be met, in the guise of a friend ; yet, the King will give 
 A crown of glory to the faithful, and then you can live 
 
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 Through eternity. But in this life you must suffer much pain, 
 
 Yet you will be strengthened by thoughts of future joys. And again, 
 
 I say, do not be discouraged; God will help. When you have come 
 
 To the town, quit yourselves like men, and let the bright home 
 
 Where the blessed Eedeemer and shining angels wait for you, 
 
 Let this encourage in all trials, and help to resist them. Ah ! the view 
 
 Of your celestial home ! Now you see, you are almost there. 
 
 I must tell you of a Fair, kept there, which is called " Vanity Fair." 
 
 It is as old as injurious; I will tell you something about it, and when 
 
 It did originate, almost five thousand years ago, and then, 
 
 -Beelzebub, Apollyon, with all their foul companions perceiving 
 
 By the Pilgrims 7 path, they had to go in this way, and receiving 
 
 Many enticements, they might be led astray for all kinds of games 
 
 Are constantly played there. Various are the streets, but their names 
 
 Are too numerous to mention. Pilgrims are compelled to go through 
 
 this town. 
 They must go out of the world, if they do not pass through this city of 
 
 renown. 
 
 The Prince of Princes, while here, went through this wretched place, 
 And Beelzebub, the chief Lord of the town, with his brazen face, 
 Offered our Saviour all the kingdoms of the world, and thought 
 He would allure Him to buy, but his devices came to naught. 
 Beware ! Farewell ! ? 
 
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 SHE pilgrims had to go through this Vanity Fair/ 
 
 And as soon as they had entered, behold ! What a great 
 
 confusion there ! 
 
 On account of their different clothes. This made the people gaze, 
 Yet they wondered much at their speech, which did much amaze 
 The whole town, for the pilgrims spoke the language of Canaan 
 
 but they 
 
 Who kept the Fair, were men of the world, and what they dkl say, 
 Seemed uncivilized and ridiculous. But look ! How they try 
 To induce them to buy ; but they would not. Their only cry 
 Was, "Turn away mine eyes from beholding Vanity," saying 
 
 their trade 
 
 Was in heaven. This caused the town to mock them, and soon made 
 Much confusion, Then they unto their chief did send, 
 To see if he could ascertain these men s business, and put an end 
 To their strange talk. Many questions were then asked of them. 
 They answered 44 they were pilgrims, going to Jerusalem, 
 And had given no occasion for such talk or vile abuse ; 
 They had been asked to buy things for which they had no use/ 
 They told the chief, his men knew that peace was wanted, yet they 
 Pretended not to believe them, and did indignantly say : 
 "You have created so much discord your punishment is severe ; 
 You must be beaten, and your fine garments we will besmear." 
 Then they beat, and put them in a cage the ruler of the Fair still 
 Laughing as all his subjects did. Yet the men resisted not ill 
 For ill, but blessing and kindness, for injuries which were done. 
 Then there were men in the Fair, less prejudiced than some 
 Who were so enraged. They tried to check the wicked, and did blame 
 Them for beating the pilgrims. The excitement was great, and the name 
 Of confederates was given them, that they, too, should partake 
 Of the caged men s trials ; yet they were sincere, and would not forsake 
 The slandered men ; but their zeal increased the anger, and they 
 
 were beaten again ; 
 But they bore it without a murmur. Then they were ironed, 
 
 and a chain 
 Was fastened on each one. and they led through the town, 
 
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 As an example and terror to others. Yet they cared not, so God did 
 
 not frown 
 
 This treatment Christian and Faithful with so much meekness bore, 
 That it won to them many men who were enemies, and, as before, 
 It created more disturbance. Then it was very soon concluded 
 That neither irons nor whipping was sufficient for these deluded 
 Fanatics nothing but death would satisfy their hate. 
 The pilgrims called to mind what Evangelist had said of their fate. 
 They comforted each other by saying, the one who suffered most 
 Would soonest reap eternal joys, and be with the blessed and the just. 
 Then they commended themselves to God ; they knew He would fulfill 
 All righteousness, therefore they waited prayerfully until 
 Their judgment was passed. 
 
 When the time arrived, they were brought 
 
 Before their enemies and arraigned, and all the evidences sought. 
 The judge s name was Hategood. Their indictment was one 
 And the 8ame in substance. The contents were, these two had come 
 As disturbers of the trade, and that they all plainly saw 
 These men s opinions were dangerous to their Great Prince s law. 
 Faithful said he was able to bear their sentence ; he had tried 
 To defend his Maker ; he was for peace, but their prince he defied, 
 Because he was Beelzebub, and an enemy to his Lord. 
 Then the proclamation for all who had one word 
 To say against the prisoners. Then there came in three 
 Who were ready to accuse them. Their names were, Envy, 
 Superstition, and Pickthank. The judge said : " You ll now proceed." 
 
 Then came forth 
 Envy, and said: " I have known this man a long time, and can attest 
 
 upon oath, 
 
 That he doeth all he can to entice men in his path and follow his ways 
 And notions, which he calls principles of faith. I think, in these days 
 Of refinement, that they are absurd and ridiculous. He says 
 
 Christianity 
 
 Is diametricallly opposed to the customs of our town Vanity, 
 By which saying, my Lord, he doth not only condemn 
 All of our laudable acts, but also us in doing them. 
 I know much more, but do not wish to be tedious. If you need 
 Me, I can testify to more." I assure you he is a noxious weed. 7 
 
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 Judge said it was sufficient. Then dark-hearted Superstition made 
 His appearance Said : " I know little, yet I wish it would fade 
 Forever from my mind. He is vile, and makes our religion naught." 
 JUDGE. " This is enough, without any more evidence being sought." 
 But Mr. Pickthank had to come and tell all he knew against this 
 Prisoner. Said : u This man speaks of another home, and the bliss 
 Which he will enjoy, and on our noble Beelzebub ever rails ; 
 And speaks contemptuously of his friends, whom he never fails 
 To designate as the Lord of Carnal Delight, Sir Greedy, 
 Lord Luxurious, Desire of Vain Glory, and the rest of our nobility ; 
 And he has not been afraid to abuse you, who have his fate 
 In your hands." When Pickthank finished, the judge said : 
 
 " Thou runagate, 
 
 Heretic, traitor, hast thou heard what these men witness against you I " 
 FAITHFUL. " May I sp^ak a few words in my defense ? " 
 
 JUDGE. u Dost thou pursue 
 
 Thy course of audacity, in making such a request? But speak, 
 That we may show how kind we are, ere we our vengeance wreak." 
 FAITH. "In answer to Envy I said, things which pleased his god were 
 Very much opposed to Christianity, if this be amiss, I will bear 
 Any reproach. I cannot make any recantation. I only said 
 That in the worship of God, faith must fill the heart, and what is 
 
 forbade 
 
 In His word, I rejected ; that I believed it was of divine revelation. 
 Therefore, what is thrust into the worship of God by a ny nation, 
 Which is not profitable to eternal life, will come to naught ; and for me 
 To explain what Mr. Pickthank said, is useless, for I plainly see 
 That the Prince and his subjects are combined, and are demons 
 
 from hell, 
 
 Whose business it is to deceive all they can, and here they dwell, 
 Until they are repulsed by God s power." 
 
 Then the judge called 
 
 The jury who stood by, very much excited and appalled 
 At Faithful s bravery. u See, gentlemen," said the judge, " this man 
 About whom such an uproar has been made ; now you can 
 Hang him or save his life. Yet, I think it best to instruct and aid 
 You all I am able. In the days of Pharoah servant to our Prince 
 
 he said: 
 
 Those of a contrary religion had multiplied much and had grown 
 Too strong for him. He commanded the male children to be thrown 
 Into the river. And there was another act made in the days 
 Of Nebuclmduezzar, that if ail did not follow in his ways, 
 
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 And worship his golden image, they should be thrown 
 Into the lions den. If he had broken a few laws, I could have borne 
 It much better. This is not only in thought, but in word and deed ; 
 For he has openly defied our laws. This must be stopped. He 
 
 doth need 
 
 Immediate punishment. Pharoah s law was in due time 
 To suppress anticipated trouble, but here is apparent crime. 
 He acknowledges he holds our religion in great contempt. 
 And for the vile treason he confesses, he cannot possibly be exempt." 
 The jury then uent out to consult. Their names were, Mr. Nogood, 
 Blindman, Malice, Loveleast, and close by these, 
 Mr. Liveloose. Highmind, Enmity, and Mr. Hatelight, 
 Who unanimously voted against him, saying they had acted right, 
 For he was worthy of immediate death. Then they all in haste 
 
 out went 
 
 Unto their judge, to talk of the most torturous way they could invent, 
 To put this foul traitor out of their sight. Faithful to his cell did retire, 
 Until he was sent for. List ! What shouts ! Look at yon fire ! 
 How bright it burns, as though some sacrifice would be placed there. 
 But alas ! The greatest of all sacrifices a human form doth appear. 
 What means those knives, those stones and those swords ? Ah ! what 
 
 terrible pain 
 They will soon inflict. 
 
 But where is Faithful now ? Will he not again 
 Make the same daring" avowals ? when he doth plainly see 
 How many ways of torture they have. Hear him speak. " Unto thee, 
 Oh, Lord ! I commend my spirit unto thee. Their swords, fire 
 
 and stake 
 
 Can only punish me a while. I will never fear or quake, 
 Neither do I revoke what I have said. Inflict any punishment ; I 
 
 can stand 
 
 It without a murmur, for I will be supported by my Saviour s hand." 
 And patiently he hears their mocking, as they predict his doom. 
 Not a word escapes his lips ; no dark shade of gloom 
 Covers his radiant face, but like brave Stephen of old, 
 He appeared like an angel. Twas faith that made him bold. 
 How many of us would have renounced religion ? Watch him how 
 
 he dies. 
 His lips move in prayer, and to heaven he lifts his eyes. 
 
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 And, lo ! a chariot is seen behind yon burning cloud. 
 
 The sweet echo of angels 7 voices charms mine ear, but a shroud 
 
 Of gloom is o er Christian. List ! a trumpet spoke of his celestial fate. 
 
 What are terrestrial sorrows, if they are the nearest way to the gate 
 
 Which leads to eternal happiness ? Then Christian no more weeps, 
 
 But cries : u God knoweth best. He searcheth into the deeps 
 
 Of the inmost heart." But now, Christian s journey we will trace, 
 
 And see the end. Back to prison he was sent, and he stayed for a space 
 
 Of several weeks. But his Father ordained his escape one day. 
 
 Then Christian went singing and rejoicing on his way. 
 
 He often thought of Faithful, and said : " Pure man ! he did profess 
 
 His Lord openly and met death bravely, and God will surely bless 
 
 Him eternally, while faithless ones with all their delight 
 
 Are crying out for more blood, saying, tis their legal right 
 
 Thus to murder. Faithful, thy name through ages will survive ; 
 
 Nations will ever call tliee blessed, and though dead, art yet alive." 
 
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 wit NEW oejapflNY. ** 
 
 I saw in my dream, that Christian went not alone, 
 For there was one, named Hopeful, who was ever prone 
 Travel that road, though he needed courage, and being at 
 
 the Fair, 
 
 And seeing how Faithful died, it made him jealous, and just tbere 
 He resolved to follow in his footsteps ; and he wished to go 
 With Christian, for he had much experience, and he well could show 
 Him many useful things. Faithful died to testify to the truth, 
 And another rises out of his ashes even this hopeful youth. 
 He told Christian that many of his friends would certainly come ; 
 That Faithful s death would surely cause others to seek the home 
 To which Faithful had gone. His example to many will teach 
 The true road to God. Look. They overtake one from Fairspeech, 
 Whose name is By-Euds, yet he seemed very loth to tell 
 It, after giving the name of his town. Christian asked, " Can any dwell 
 In this place and be innocent ? " He answered, " I hope so." But 
 
 his name 
 
 He evaded. When Christian asked it, he reddened with deep shame ; 
 He feared Christian had heard of him ; said, "I m glad of your company y 
 If you are going in this direction ; you are a stranger to me. 7 
 CHRISTIAN. " I have jieard of this town. Fairspeech is a place 
 Of much wealth." 
 
 BY-ENDS. " It is indeed, and many a kindred face 
 Greets me when there." 
 
 CHRIS. u Brother, I hope you will not tire 
 Of my inquisitiveness, who are your* relatives ? I desire 
 To know them." 
 
 BY-ENDS. " Lord Turnabout, Timorous, Speechfair, 
 From whose ancestry the town took its name ; and there 
 Are many others Mr. Smoothman, Mr. Talking-Both-Ways, 
 Mr. Anything ; and the pastor of our parish says there is praise 
 Awaiting our great nobility. He was my mother s only brother. 
 And if time would allow, I could tell of many other." 
 CHRIS. *" Are you a married man ? " 
 
 BY-ENDS. " Yes, I am, of course. My wife 
 
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 Is a model the daughter of Lady Feign and my life 
 Is serene. Even in this religious storm, we never strive against tide, 
 But when everything glides smoothly on, then we love to hide 
 Neath the sunny folds of Religion s cloak, and to sing 
 With others when kmd applause of religion doth ring- 
 Through every street." 
 
 Then Christian stepped a little aside, 
 
 And said to Hopeful : " It runs in my mind, as he doth hide 
 So much, he must be the notorious By-Ends, and I tell you, if tis he, 
 We have a most villainous knave, as bad as bad can be." 
 HOPEFUL. " Ask him ; he will certainly give you his true name." 
 CHRIS. " Sir, If I mistake not, sir, I have heard of yon." 
 
 BY-ENDS. " My fame 
 Has spread far." 
 
 CHRIS. "You are egotistical, and By-Ends 
 Must be your name." 
 
 BY-ENDS. " This is but a nickname, friends, 
 I scorn those who gave it me ; but I must be content to bear 
 It as a reproach, as other good men before me, for you know there 
 Never was a worthy man unless the slime of slander was thrown 
 O er him." 
 
 CHRIS. " That s true. Your character is well known 
 Abroad ; your neighbors say you merit it, or you would erase 
 The cause of so many rumors, bringing on your head disgrace." 
 BY-ENDS. " My attempt to do so has caused censure, some will load 
 Me with reproach." 
 
 CHRIS. " Your conversation betrays you ; this road 
 Cannot be traveled peaceably by both of us at the same time, 
 For I believe you deserve this name, and your thoughts and mine 
 Are altogether different." 
 
 BY-ENDS. " You are rude, and you ll find 
 In me an agreeable companion." 
 
 CHRIS. "You ll have to bind 
 
 Up these broken places in your religion, and against wind and tide 
 You must go, and ever own our religion, though in rags you muwt 
 
 not hide 
 From Him when He is in irons." 
 
 BY-ENDS. " You require too much. Leave 
 Me to my liberty ; let me go with you. I cannot just believe 
 As you do about all things." 
 
 CHRIS. " Not one step, unless you 
 
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 Consent to follow iny advice. 77 
 
 BY-ENDS. " That I will never do. 
 
 I can never desert my principles, for I know that there 
 Is no harm in them, and much profit. Therefore I shall prepare 
 To go alone, until I meet some one of a congenial mind. 77 
 CHRIS. " Farewell. You may plenty of company find. 77 
 
 And thus they separated. But Christian on looking back 
 Saw three men coming. And By-Ends his pace did slack, 
 And received them cordially, for their feelings did well blend 
 In one, and they were happy. Mr. Hold-the-world, and By-Ends 
 Had been to school together, to a Mr. Gripman, in Lovegain, 
 The county seat of Covetry, where dwelt Mr. Loveall. And in vain 
 Were the efforts of the spirit to remodel this place. Here the art 
 Of accumulating was taught, oft religion was assumed. The dart 
 Of evil had never been broken, but sin had sharpened it, and now 
 We see those specimens of wickedness, not caring how 
 They manage, so they make a show. Now, Money -love spoke, 
 Asking, " Who are those before ? Suppose we try to provoke 
 Them to stop. 77 
 
 BY-ENDS. " They are strange men, who after their mode 
 Are going on pilgrimage. Yet, they are so very rigid in their code 
 And manner of thinking, they shun others, and do lightly esteem 
 Their opinions. If you do not agree with them, they will teem 
 Many an insult upon you. 77 
 
 LOVEALL. " There are some of whom we read 
 
 Who are over-righteous. They condemn all. They say when the seed 
 Of repentance has never been sown in the depths of the heart. 77 
 LOVE. " Did you differ on many points, ere you did with them part ? 77 
 BY-ENDS. <4 Yes. They firmly believe 7 tis their and every one 7 s duty 
 To press forward to the prize ; That religion has its beauty, 
 Even in rugs and persecution. Even then, they say, we must cling 
 Tenaciously to it, and when the solemn bell doth doleful ring 
 Its deadly knell for execution, they like fanatics believe 
 That we ought to stand steadfast, and prayerfully receive 
 Any fate God seems best to inflict, and adhere to Him, although 
 The whole world should condemn them. They don 7 t believe in show 
 Or display, are humble, yet careful with whom they associate. 
 Yet, I know that I am better than they. Such arrogance I hate. 
 I like religion when he is basking in the pleasant sunshine 
 
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 Of prosperity, but if there be any risk about me, or mine 
 Estate, then I forsake Him. For I believe in taking care 
 Of yourself." 
 
 MB. HoLD-TO-THE-WoRLD. " We all would fare 
 Badly if we did not look after worldly things ; let us be wise 
 As serpents. How contemptible a poor man looks in the eyes 
 Of the world ! I think it better to follow the example of the bee, 
 Which lieth still all winter. When the weather is pleasant you see 
 How busy it is. We know that God sometimes sends rain, 
 And then sunshine, and they act very silly. Abraham was not vain, 
 Yet grew rich in religion, Solomon, Job, and others, I intend to pursue 
 Their path." 
 
 LOVE THE WORLD. " I am sure HI agree with you ; 
 And we can enjoy this world and the next, and none of these 
 
 troubles see, 
 
 And leave to these hapless, foolish wights their tears and misery. 
 He who rejects our theory has neither sense or scripture, and 
 
 don t know 
 
 Anything of his own liberty. Such men never want any more 
 Knowledge." 
 
 BYENDS. " We are all satisfied, and from this dullard thing 
 Let us divert our minds, and more weighty questions bring 
 Before our thought. Suppose a minister is a tradesman, 
 And has a good chance to improve his fortune, and he can 
 Do so by not being so particular, even if he doth lean 
 To a few points of religion which he doth not admit, and can screen 
 Himself from censure." 
 
 LOVEALL. " I think like you, and can t see 
 
 How any one could object. With these friends permission, I ll tell thee 
 What I think of it : First, take a minister, who is possessed 
 Of but little, many there are who are sorely and often distressed. 
 If such an one can manage, in a respectable way, to acquire 
 Wealth, there is no harm if he revokes his principles, and doth desire 
 Thus to accumulate a nice fortune, there s no impropriety 
 In thus acting, I think that he must be convinced that he 
 Is called from above. This is in accordance with the law, 
 For if providence has given the chance, I cannot see the flaw 
 In it. I think it makes him in every respect a zealous man, 
 And as for complying with the ideas of his friends, I can 
 See nothing improper in that, it shows he can himself deny ; 
 That he has a fair deportment and a good supply 
 Of self-denial, which makes him more fit to fulfill 
 
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 His ministerial duties, and the mandates of God s will. 
 
 And as to the second part of the question which we view, 
 
 Let us suppose a minister to be poor, and with a chance to pursue 
 
 An easy path to wealth, by taking a rich wife ; 
 
 Men will soon forget it all. Then he can enjoy life. 
 
 If any one becomes a Christian, he needs not to forsake all, and then, 
 
 It often helps to improve one s fortune, and they are held by men, 
 
 As the best of the world." 
 
 This opinion of Mr. Moneylove made 
 
 A great impression on them. Applauding it much, they said : 
 " We cannot see how those conceited gentlemen can refute 
 What Mr. Moneylove hath said, should they with By-Ends dispute. 
 What do you think of it my friends f Let s call to them again. 
 It may divest them of their vanity, and our trouble will not be vain." 
 " Agreed, 7 they all cried ; " Now let Mr. Hold-the- world propound 
 The question ; and they cannot oppose him, for he is ever found 
 Ready to give them an answer." 
 
 They called asked the questions. Then, 
 Christian said, " Even a babe in religion could answer them. 
 Your own language condemns you, for, if it is a great sin 
 To follow Christ for loaves, you should see the error you are in. 
 For if this be wicked, how much more so is it for you, to make 
 Of Him and religion instruments of enjoyment. You must forsake 
 The world. And there are none, save hypocrites, who thus believe 
 As you do. The heathen Ham or, and Shechem, when they wished 
 
 to receive 
 
 The daughters and wealth of Israel, and saw there was no other way 
 For them to accomplish their desires, yielding to the law did say, 
 4 We must be circumcised. And you can read and plainly see 
 What they did by assuming a religious guise. The Pharisee 
 Is a good example of hypocrisy. A long prayer for his pretense 
 But to rob widows of their homes. God s anger was intense. 
 Judas, the traitor, was of this religion, he wished to better his 
 
 condition 
 
 When he took the bag. You know that he was a son of perdition. 
 Simon the wizard was of this religion, for he would have had 
 The Holy Ghost in order to get money. But, alas ! what a sad, 
 But appropriate sentence Peter passed on him : lie who doth take 
 Up religion for the world, will for the world forsake. 
 Judas betrayed his Master for the love of money ; now, therefore, 
 To answer the question affirmatively, as you have, and to show 
 That it is authentic : Your opinions are heathenish and hypocritical, 
 
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 And your rewards according to your works, diametrical 
 To all that is pure." 
 
 Then they all stood in wonder, gazing 
 At each other, thinking the courage and talk of Christian most 
 
 amazing. 
 
 They were disappointed, and traveled in silence for miles ; and then 
 Christian said to Hopeful : " If they cannot withstand men, 
 What will they do when they shall hear the sentence of God ! If mute 
 When dealt with by vessels of clay, how can they hear the rebuke 
 Of an avenging God ! " 
 
 Then Christian and Hopeful left them again. 
 And very soon they came to the border of a beautiful plain. 
 Their enjoyment while crossing this was great; yet it did not last long, 
 For soon they discovered a hill called Lucre, and then thdr song 
 Of pleasure ceased, for there was a silver mine in the cave, 
 Which had attracted many to woe, for there was naught could save 
 One who should reach the brink, for the ground would break, 
 And destroy immense numbers. The whole earth would shake 
 So, that some were terribly maimed, and not until the day 
 Of their death be themselves again. And this is the sad way 
 In which millions have been lost. Then I saw in my dream 
 One Demas. A man of courtesy, and he culled, and unto us did seem 
 To have naught else to do, save to entice others. He cried, " Ho ! 
 Turn aside hither ! I have something of great interest to show." 
 CHRISTIAN. " What is it that can deserve our attention more than 
 
 the divine 
 Way of God!" 
 
 DEMAS " Here is where you can get rich, and a mine 
 Of pure silver is here. Many are digging, and if you will only come, 
 You can provide for your families, and then you can go home," 
 HOPEFUL. " Let us go and see." 
 
 CHRIS. " Oh, no ! I ve heard of this place, 
 And how many have been slain. It has caused numbers to turn 
 
 their face 
 From the true God." 
 
 Then Christian called loudly unto Demas, 
 
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 And said : u Is not this place dangerous ? If I mistake not, it has 
 Been the ruin of thousands." 
 
 DEMAS. " Not very dangerous." Yet he blushed 
 As he spoke. 
 
 u Then," said Christian, " Let every word be hushed 
 About going to this place." 
 
 HOPE. " If By-Ends has as we 
 
 This cordial invitation, I know he will turn hither to see." 
 CHRIS. " No doubt, for his principles lead him in this way." 
 "But will you not come and see for yourself?" Demas continued to say. 
 Then Christian answered plainly : " Demas, thou art an enemy 
 To the right way of the Lord, and art condemned by His majesty. 
 And why seekest thou to bring us in like condemnation ? 
 Because thou art cast off, do not envy others their salvation. . 
 And if I turn aside unto thee, our King and Master will hear, 
 And will put us to shame, when we unto Him would near." 
 Then Demas said : " Wait awhile. I would like very much to walk 
 A short distance with you. There is a vast deal I would talk 
 To you about." 
 
 CHRIS. " Certainly. But first tell us your name." 
 " They call me Demas. I am the son of Abraham." 
 
 CHRIS. " The same 
 
 As I thought. Gehazi was your great-grandfather, and you 
 Are son of Judas Iscariot : as they did, so you do. 
 And this is only a fiendish prank of yours. You know your father 
 
 was hung 
 
 For a traitor, and you deserve the same fate, for you have often rung 
 The death-knell of many a pilgrim by your smooth words, 
 Which David says are oily like butter, but yet they are drawn swords." 
 By this time Mr. By-Ends and his companions came in sight. 
 They went to Demas immediately. Ah ! the terrible plight 
 They soon were in ! How wretched they felt when they in terror found, 
 How they were deceived. "Beware, oh, beware, for this is dangerous 
 
 ground ! " 
 
 Thus sang Christian. And By-Ends and Demas doth quickly agree, 
 One calls the other thoughtlessly runs, that he, too, may be 
 Undone by the gloze of Mammon s snare, and thus you see how 
 
 these two 
 Take up in this world together, and their dreadful path pursue. 
 
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 Now I saw on the other side of the plain, that they came 
 
 To a place where an old woman stood, but there was no name 
 
 Written on this statue, which at firs they could see. Thoughtfully 
 
 they stand 
 
 For a long time, but after examining closely, in a mysterious hand 
 Was written something that troubled much they found it to be, 
 " Remember Lot s wife ! " Ah ! this is a warning for all to see, 
 And think of the covetous desire that caused this woman to look 
 Disobediently. Ah! Brother, this fate must surely be told in your 
 
 book. 
 
 Every sinful pleasure that glides by we must ever shun ; 
 Oh, let us ever this lesson lemember, lest we, too, be undone. 
 Then Hopeful said somewhat to himself, "I acted like a fool. 
 There s difference slight between me and Lot s wife, for I would have 
 
 been a tool 
 
 For Demas, if you had not interfered. For only looking back, she 
 Was made an example. Lo, I have done worse. I longed to go and see. 
 Let Mercy plead, and may I ever hang my drooping head in shame 
 That such wickedness should be found in my heart. Ah ! the fame 
 Of this mine of silver : how many a pilgrim it hath already beguiled. 
 For Demas tongue is smooth as oil. I was ready to run when he 
 
 smiled." 
 Then Christian spoke gravely, as he looked at his friend : "Of that we 
 
 see here, 
 
 Let us take notice for admonition in the future. It doth appear 
 That the woman had escaped the destruction of Sodom, and then fell 
 By her sinful desire ; and as example is standing here to tell 
 All to beware of covetousness." 
 
 HOPEFUL. tl We should shun her sin, 
 For there was Korah, Dathan and Abiram, and two hundred and fifty 
 
 who in 
 
 Their wickedness perished. These say, l beware ! But now, above all, 
 I wonder that Demas with his train do not into misery fall. 
 They pipe and they play, they dance and they sing, while here, 
 This pillar stands as a lesson to all of them, and yet they have no fear, 
 And will not listen to warning." 
 
 CHRIS. " How desperate they have grown ! 
 In the same way the recklessness of rogues in the presence of judges 
 
 is shown. 
 
 The character of these thieves is in every respect, like the^e men 
 Of Sodom and Gomorrah. What sinners they were ! A then, 
 It is said, they were sinners before the Lord, and did stand 
 
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 In His presence, and sin, notwithstanding the fruitful land 
 
 Was compared to Eden, with all its beauties, and therefore, 
 
 This made their plague greater, and provoked God s anger the more. 
 
 And so it is with these people, they have eyes, but do not see ; 
 
 Ears, but cannot hear, and God s judgments surely must be 
 
 Severe to the last." 
 
 HOPE. " What a miracle we are alive ! 
 
 We can never cease to praise our God not only spared, but thrive 
 Well on our journey." 
 
 While they talk a river comes in sight, 
 
 Which is called by David u The river of God," and with untold delight, 
 They discovered that their way led to this crystal stream, 
 And now beneath its cooling shades the wearied travelers dream 
 Of that Celestial City where God will forever smile ; 
 Where grief and tears are aye unknown. Here resting awhile, 
 They theu awake. Calm and refreshed they are: scarcely can believe 
 That it was real. The trees were clothed with graceful leaves 
 Which, when applied, healed all diseases which did about abound. 
 The earth was filled with indescribable beauty, and the ground 
 Was covered with lilies, which filled the air with perfume. 
 Here they rested several days before they did resume 
 Their journey. Then they sang, "How the crystal streams soft glide, 
 For the joy of foot-sore pilgrims, down every mountain side, 
 A great variety of fruit and useful leaves these trees do ever yield, 
 If every one could see, they would sell all and buy this field." 
 They rejoiced with grand acclaim ere their journey they renewed, 
 And being much refreshed, their onward path pursued. 
 But now they leave the stream, and find the hither way 
 Is very rough indeed, yet they dared not stop nor stay, 
 And as the hours passed by, the weary pilgrim s feet 
 Were very tender grown. They would a better way seek, when lo ! 
 
 they gladly meet, 
 
 A path leading into a meadow. Then said Christian : " Now if this 
 Cool meadow s in our way, it cannot be amiss 
 That into it we turn." 
 
 HOPEFUL. " But if it leads us out of the way ? " 
 CHRIS. " That is not probable, for it goeth by this road, and we may 
 Travel much easier here." 
 
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 fiffiSTOB 0F D0UB. * 
 
 D now they see a man walking before, 
 
 Whose name was Vain Confidence. They call to him to know 
 
 Which way that pathway led. He answered, 
 
 " To the Celestial Gate." 
 
 Then they followed, but night came OQ, aud lo! the dreadful fate 
 Which seemed them to await. T was dark, and they heard the fall 
 Of Vain Confidence in some pit ; then both did loudly call 
 No answer to them came, only the echoes of his terrible groaning. 
 Christian said, " I am to blame, and I can never cease my mourning, 
 For this iny great sin, in turning aside." Then rain began to fall, 
 And Hopeful said in tears, " Henceforth, I ll keep my way, nor on a 
 
 stranger call. 
 It s vain for man to plan." 
 
 CHRIS. " Do not be offended 
 
 With me ; I was sure that we were right. I never intended 
 To bring evil on us." 
 
 HOPE. " No, Brother, you have misunderstood 
 Me ; I did not wish to censure you, I believe this will be for our 
 
 good." 
 
 CHRIS. " Let us go back as quick as possible, I will go 
 Before, so if there danger be, twill come to me." 
 
 HOPE. "Oh! no, 
 Your troubled mind may lead you wrong again." 
 
 Then there was a voice 
 
 Heard for their encouragement. This made their hearts rejoice, 
 For it directed them to turn hastily back toward the plain highway, 
 And when you see by-paths, do not, dare not, in them stray." 
 And now the waters rise they both were filled with pain, 
 And with all their perseverance they could not reach again 
 The stile, but finally came to one, where hopelessly they fell 
 Asleep. Here Giant Despair found them, and who can tell 
 Or imagine their dismay, for he dwelt in a castle of Doubt. 
 He grasped them with a clutch, and in anger loud did shout 
 Unto them to be up his prisoners, they must go 
 With him to Doubting Castle. Ah ! this filled them with woe. 
 
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 Then he forced them on before him, and in a dungeon dark, 
 
 Reeking with tilth, most noisome, where they lay without a spark 
 
 Of fire or glimmer of light. The Giant told his wife, at last 
 
 He had two prisoners, and wished her advice. He told her he had cast 
 
 Them into the deep dungeon. Then Diffidence, his wife, said : " Beat 
 
 Them unmercifully. 77 And this he did, from their head to their feet, 
 
 So they were unable to move. Then left them to condole 
 
 Over their suffering dread. Their weeping and sighs were heard, but 
 
 none came to console. 
 
 The Giant s wife then said: " Indeed you must advise 
 The prisoners to kill themselves." He came with his glaring eyes, 
 And harsh voice, telling them to put themselves to death. " There is 
 
 a fine supply 
 
 Of poison near you both. Tis a most pleasant way to die." 
 He carried them to the castle ground to show them the skulls, to fill 
 
 them with sorrow ; 
 And said : " You had better destroy yourselves. You know not what 
 
 to-morrow 
 Will bring forth." Told them how he had saints torn to pieces. And 
 
 as the dawn 
 
 Of day came on, he took them out. Ah ! the contrast of that morn, 
 And the dark prison in which they had dwelt for days. He let them 
 
 to behold 
 The bones of those whom he had slain, then said : " As you were 
 
 pilgrims bold, 
 
 This your fate must be, fore ten days run their round, 
 Unless you kill yourselves." Then drove them under ground. 
 The Giant and his wife consult again. She said : " Perhaps they may 
 Intend to escape." The Giant answered : " I do not know, but by the 
 
 break of day 
 I will make all things sure." 
 
 But now we must return 
 To Hopeful and Christian. They lay in blood, and the fever seemed 
 
 to burn 
 Their very vitals, fierce. Lean starvation seemed to stare them in 
 
 the eyes, 
 
 With all the Giant s threats. But Christian cried with surprise : 
 " Oh ! Brother, how foolish I am ! I can walk at liberty ! 
 Why have I forgot that I have in my bosom a key, 
 With which to unlock Doubting Castle ! No longer now be sad. 
 We will spend no more days in this dungeon dark. Come hither up 
 
 and glad 
 

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 That we shall soon be free !" He took his key and tried : 
 
 The old door opened wide. 
 
 Then joyously they ran unto the castle yard, and behold a door 
 
 Was there. This was unexpected, but their key opened this also. 
 
 They knew that one more gate must to them opened be, ere they could 
 
 pursue 
 
 Their journey, and with one desperate effort they thrust it open too, 
 But it made such a noise it caused the Giant to awake, 
 And he asked, " Who is there ? " But one of his spasms did shake 
 His awful limbs, so he could not walk. And thus we often see 
 That much can be done by faith and with fair Promise s key. 
 With elastic steps they onward go, until they reach the stile 
 Where they erred. But they were thinking all the while 
 Upon some plan, to warn others of this terrible Giant of Despair. 
 They concluded it would be best to erect a pillar there, 
 On which was written, " Over this stile is Doubting Castle, so beware ! 
 Tis kept by one who seeks to destroy pilgrims even Giant Despair." 
 After arranging this, they went on their way rejoicing, and sang: 
 " There are thorns concealed neath every rose, each sin doth bear a 
 
 fang, 
 
 Which is more poisonous than the venom of our rankest reptile. 
 We must travel God s road, though it brings a tear instead of a smile. 
 We have learned by sad experience, for out of the way we went, and found 
 What it was to follow our own device, and tread forbidden ground. 
 Let all who follow us, reflect, and certainly beware 
 Of this place, lest they for transgressing, Old Giantfs prisoners are." 
 
5 
 
 they went on rejoicing, until they came to the noted 1 
 
 mountains, 
 Which belong to the Lord of the Hill. There they beheld 
 
 the fountains 
 
 Of crystal water, and the rays of the sun made it appear 
 As though a holy light o ershadowed them ; and they now had 
 
 naught to fear. 
 
 The waters sparkled, and Zephyrus with his perfumed wings 
 Hovers o er this fairy ground. " But hark ! Who is it sings 
 With that melodious voice ? Ah ! then another, and now the whole 
 Choir join. Were such notes ever heard ? These strains dissolve 
 
 my soul 
 
 In ecstacies, arid bring all heaven before mine eyes ; this is a dim 
 Beflection of brighter joys. Who would not try to cleanse his heart 
 
 from sin, 
 
 To taste of heavenly bliss 1 ? Look at the fair guardians, which tell 
 Of our King s love to weary pilgrims By sin we fell 
 Into the Giant s hands, or we would have been happy." 
 
 Now a voice 
 Echoes o er the mountains. (They knew it was a shepherd.) It made 
 
 their hearts rejoice. 
 After reaching him they asked " Whose mountains, and whose 
 
 sheep ? " 
 
 SHEP. " These are Immanuel s mounts, and we His shepherds keep 
 His land~aud sheep. The latter He laid down His life to save." 
 
 CHRIS. "Is this the way!" 
 SHEP. " Yes, you are right," 
 
 CHRIS. " Is the road safe I " 
 
 Then he did say : 
 
 " It is safe for whom it is prepared, but transgressors shall fall 
 Therein." 
 
 CHRIS/" Is there any relief for pilgrims ? " 
 
 Then he did call 
 
 Another one, who said, " Our King directed us to entertain 
 Strangers ; therefore, the best of the place is before you." 
 
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 And as the rain 
 
 After a long drouth, refreshes everything, so did this cheering news, 
 For they had not recovered from the Giant s stripes. And now the 
 
 ~dews 
 
 Of the eve bade them retire ; but when the shepherds found 
 That they were wayfaring men, many questions they did propound, 
 And being pleased with their replies, a hearty welcome gave 
 To the Delectable Mountains. " Soon your home you ll reaeh, you 
 
 have but to be brave ; 
 Tis over there." 
 
 Then the shepherds, whose names were, Watchful and Sincere, 
 Krioweidge, and Experience, said unto them, " We wish you to 
 
 stay here 
 Awhile, and get acquainted with us." 
 
 HOPE. " With pleasure we will stay, 
 
 For we feel that we can learn so much to help us on the way." 
 And being fatigued they retire, and sweetly do they sleep, 
 In this fair, rosy bower, by nature built, for angels ever keep 
 Their faithful watch o er pilgrims here. And not till the king of day 
 Brightened the lovely, rony morn with his golden, glittering ray, 
 Did the weary pilgrims shake off the drowsy mantle of slumber, 
 And rise to see the wondrous things about them, without number. 
 
 The first was a mountain, Error called, which WHS very, very steep. 
 They bid them look adown its side. They saw men, whom they keep 
 For an example. After seeing all the wonders new, they then desired 
 
 to go, 
 
 But the shepherds said, u We must to you the beauteous City show." 
 They took them to a grand mountain ; the shepherds called it " Clear, 
 And gave them their perspective glass, and asked what did appear. 
 They tried to see, but as they strove, before their vision came 
 The horrid sight they just had seen, which unexplained remained. 
 And yet they thought they something saw, much like the golden gate, 
 And glimpses of City Beautiful, sweet foretaste of the fate 
 Of those who hold out to the end, and on they went, glad, singing. 
 u How thankful," each to other said, " that every day is bringing 
 Something to encourage our souls ! By these shepherds, secrets are 
 
 revealed 
 
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 To weary pilgrims, which from others are strictly kept concealed. 
 Let every one to these shepherds come, if they would plainly see 
 Things miraculous and hidden, which to others, mysteries be." 
 Then the shepherd gave each one a note to guide him on his way. 
 One bade them of the flatterer heed ; another to them did say, 
 " Take heed, and see you do not sleep on the Enchanted Ground." 
 And the fourth bade them God-speed ! 
 
 I awoke, and lo ! I found 
 
 It but a dream. But then, lo ! I slept, and lo ! I dreamed again 
 Many things T will tell you, which I hope will not be in vain. 
 
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 SAW the same two pilgrims haste over the glorious mountains, 
 
 Whose lofty peaks were crowned with snow : from them 
 
 gushed glad fountains. 
 Below these mountains, lies the country called Conceit, and on the left 
 
 hand 
 
 There was a crooked lane entering into the road, and here did stand, 
 A polite lad named Ignorance. He bowed gracefully, and Christian 
 
 asked him, 
 Where he was from and wither going? 
 
 IGNOR. " I was born in 
 
 A country to the left of here, and going to the Celestial City you see. 
 CHRIS. u How will you get in? " 
 
 " As other good people, " said he. 
 CHRIS. " At the gate you may be disappointed, what have you to 
 
 show?" 
 
 IGNOR. " I can tell. I am a good liver, pay what I owe, and I know 
 My Lord s will. I pray, fast, pay tithes, and have left now 
 My country." 
 
 CHRIS. " Thou dids t not come in the right way, and how 
 Canst thou expect to be received f I fear the name of thief 
 And robber will be given thee, at the last day. Thy belief 
 Is as much entangled, as the crooked lane through which you ve come. 
 IGNOR. "You are strange to me. I heed you not, I ll reach my home. 
 I ll go my course, you can go yours. I m sure all will be well 
 With me, and none from our country goeth now by the far gate you tell 
 Me of. We wish not this way to know ; we have a lively green 
 And shady lane, which meets the way, and many in it are seen 
 To travel cheerily, but few go by the little gate." 
 
 Now, when they saw the man 
 
 Was wise in his own conceits, they said unto him : " A fool can 
 Have more hope than you, for a fool walketh by the way, 
 And when his wisdom faileth him, willingly doth say, 
 4 1 am ignorant. " 
 
 CHRIS. " I think it best we have no more conversation with him, 
 And have him to reflect a while. I tell you this egotistical sin 
 
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 Is possessed by many. It is best to give him time to muse 
 
 On all we have said ; and sure I hope he ll not refuse 
 
 To take our advice. I feel sorry, he is young, and must remain 
 
 In the greatest darkness about things of the greatest gain." 
 
 HOPE. " I think it is best not to talk to him. Let us pass 
 
 Him by, and talk when he comes up again, for the mass 
 
 Of his kind cannot bear reproving. They always appear 
 
 So perfect in their own eyes, that they cannot bear to hear, 
 
 Or read anything contrary to their thoughts. They don t believe they 
 
 are clay 
 
 Moulded by thtir Creator. But how different in that day 
 When judgment comes ! What will they have to cover then their 
 
 guilt ! 
 
 Money causes many to be silent, who ought to thrust to the hilt 
 Their swords of contempt, into the deceptive trunks which we see, 
 Sending forth branches of envy and lust, until the full grown tree 
 Becomes like the upas. Ignorance always thinks none has a thought 
 Superior to his own." 
 
 Now while they talked, Christian caught 
 A glimpse of some one coming down a very dismal lane. 
 It was a man possessed of seven demons, and, oh ! the fearful pain 
 Depicted on his countenance ! Christian said twas Tyranny, 
 For all knew that he was a knave, and dwelt in the town of Apostasy. 
 But Hopeful noticed more closely, and said on his back was written 
 " Wanton Professor," and " Damnable apostate." Now they both were 
 
 smitten 
 
 With horror, at the number of demons, and the way he was bound. 
 But after they passed, they recovered from their fear, when they found 
 They were alone again, Christian said: " This calleth to my mind 
 An incident recorded of a man, who could ever bind 
 But little faith to his weak heart. He lived in the town of Sincere. 
 His name was Littlefaith. On entering this passage here, 
 There comes a lane, by Broadway, it goes by the name 
 Of " Deadman s Lane." Many murders have been committed at 
 
 the same, 
 
 A place which is not far from us. Here Littlefaith fell asleep, 
 And there happened along three dirty rogues, who stealthily did ke* p 
 
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 A daily watch for travelers, Guilt, Faintheart, Mistrust ; three 
 Noted for infamy, and deeds of darkest dye. Look here, we see 
 Littlefaith just awaking. They all commanded him still to stand ; 
 At this he became frightened, and nerveless grew his hand, 
 His comely face was white with fear ; they took him at great odds, 
 
 and Mistrust 
 
 Kan to him in a frightful manner, and immediately thrust 
 His spear into his side, and thought him dead, as prone he lay ; 
 Then the thieves thought they heard some one, and said, " We may 
 Yet be taken, let us go, there is that man Great Grace, 
 Who dwells in the city of Good Confidence. Let us now retrace 
 Our footsteps quickly." They thought they had left Littlefaith to die, 
 But he recovered, and mightily cried for mercy. And when help 
 
 came, how shy 
 
 He was of his old enemies ! He was much afflicted and distressed by 
 His sad loss his jewels he dare not spend, but oft did cry 
 With hunger." 
 
 HOPE. " His pass he would not yield, by which he would receive 
 Admittance at the Celestial gate. Ah ! verily I do believe 
 I should have parted quickly with most anything, before 
 I would have suffered as he did his sorrow none can know." 
 CHRIS. u Ah ! he acted wrong, but nothing could have made him sin 
 So greatly, for he never could have been admitted in 
 The celestial city rather would he have met all the thieves 
 Than to have been refused at the celestial gate ; there he receives 
 Eternal joys." 
 
 HOPE. " How unlike Esau, who sold his birthright 
 For a mess of pottage ; twas his greatest jewel, and his might. 
 Not so Littlefaith, he would not sell his jewels. How many this dark 
 
 path pursue ! " 
 
 CHRIS. " I acknowledge that Esau sold his, and so do 
 Many others, but you must some difference put, I ween, 
 Twixt Esau and Littlefaith. How contrary their estates ! Just lift 
 
 the screen 
 
 From off thine eyes. Esau s birthright was only typical, 
 But Littlefaith s jewels not. Though he was in a strait most critical, 
 He was not tempted with desire to give up his treasures, and he 
 Would not willingly fulfill the lust of the flesh, but you see 
 That Esau did, for he said, I am now at death s very point, 
 Forsooth ; what good will birthright do me now ? I ll anoint 
 My head, be merry, satisfy my appetite. 7 But not so with the man, 
 Even of Littlefaith, for you see, soon after acting wrong, he began 
 
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 To show that his faith made him able to act aright, and resist all 
 
 Such vile temptations ; Esau had no faith, not even a small 
 
 Proportion, and do you marvel that when the flesh bears sway, 
 
 That any one will sell his birthright : yea, will even pay 
 
 All that he has ; but Littlefaith could not, and here is your mistake." 
 
 HOPE. " I acknowledge it, and your severe rebuke will make 
 
 Me more careful, though my ire gainst you was stirred." 
 
 CHRIS. " Im glad youVe wisely heard. 
 
 A true friend holds the mirror square lest others darkly see, 
 
 And forget the words of this my book, and fail from wrath to flee. 
 
 But to our subject let us look. The thieves were scared and ran away. 
 
 If Littlefaith had shown any courage, I dare say, 
 
 He would have gotten rid of these cowards without loss. Why 
 
 Did he not attempt to defend himself! and if necessary fly ? 
 
 Or yield when there was no other remedy ? I really think, 
 
 If he had displayed any courage, he would have made them sink 
 
 Into utter nothingness. 
 
 HOPE. "Yes, some do think this way. Fve read 
 Of many who talk bravely, but when come the days of trial, 
 They are like those who admire religion in wealth, but make a denial 
 Of it in adversity, and as for a great heart, Littlefaith none had. 
 Alas, your idea of attempting to fight and run, how very, very sad 
 To thus express yourself! And should they soon appear 
 Before you, would you not, like poor Littlefaith, be filled with fear ! 
 You must most careful be, examine wisely too, considering again 
 That they are but journeyman thieves, and their efforts must 
 
 prove vain, 
 
 If you are prepared for them. These wretches serve the king 
 Of the bottomless pit, and he will quickly spring 
 Up to their aid. His cry doth cause all to tremble. It doth sound 
 Like the roaring of a lion, it shakes the solid ground. 
 I too have been engaged as was Littlefaith, and deed 
 It was a struggle fierce. I tried to overcome, but when they were 
 
 in need, 
 Their Master to them came. I was duly clothed in armor of 
 
 fire-proof, 
 
 And though I thus had shield, it was hard to keep them aloof, 
 For they are very vigilant, and conflict stand ; but they 
 Could not withstand Great Grace, and had his orders to obey." 
 CHRIS. " Yes, they have often fled, and their hideous Master too, 
 But they are brave ; only be prepared, and my advice pursue. 
 You must remember Great Grace is the champion of our King. 
 
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 Where Littlefaith would bring disgrace, he would great glory bring. 
 And this recalls the difference between two other men 
 Whose deeds stand out in contrast strange, writ by the eternal pen. 
 David combatting with the King, overcoming by God s help. Some 
 
 are weak, 
 
 And others strong. The latter must bear with the former, and seek 
 Consolation for them. I would have done this, had I been Great 
 
 Grace." 
 
 CHRIS. " Yes, but he would have had a struggle. Look you at his face, 
 Then you can find the deep-marked scar, which tells of the great trial 
 VVhich he often undergoes. When we think of Davids 7 faith and 
 
 then of the denial 
 
 Made by poor Peter, who was thought to be the pride of all 
 The apostles, even a weak maid causing him to call 
 Out for fear and trembling to deny his Lord. The thieves give call. 
 Their king comes on, assisting in the fight. And never soul 
 Had armor more bedight. The breath of their king is as foul gas, 
 More poisonous than the reptile ; tis dangerous to pass 
 Near him, for fire and brimstone come out of each nostril ; 
 But if a man had Job s horse, and had the skill 
 To manage him, he might do many wonderful things, 
 For his neck is clothed with thunder, and he always brings 
 Terror and astonishment ; with impatience he paweth the valley, 
 And in his strength he goeth forth when men in war doth rally ; 
 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness, and the roar 
 Of the battle with,its fearful carnage, doth not frighten more 
 Than the pleasant music of his own fair happy land. 
 But such footmen as we, I doubt whether we could stand ; 
 Therefore, we ought not to desire to meet them, or, when we hear 
 Of others weakness, boast ourselves such are apt to fear. 
 Think of Peter whom I ve mentioned before his foolish mind, 
 
 and vain, 
 
 Made him to say he would do things he had not strength to do. Again, 
 When we hear these robberies are done, we should go prepared, 
 With shield and helmet, burnished well, remembering how one fared 
 For leaving his defense behind when Leviathan would not yield. 
 Therefore, He who knows hath said, Above all things, take thy shield 
 Of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to ward oft* the darts 
 Of the Wicked One, who ever waits to pierce unwary hearts. 
 This shield of faith caused David to rejoice when he was in 
 The Yalley of Death ; and Moses preferred death rather than to sin 
 And be without his Lord. My Brother, if He will only go 
 
With us, we have no cause to fear. He will comfort us, I know ; 
 
 I ve engaged them once, have no desire to do so again ; I fear 
 
 That we are not out of danger. It may be they are near. 
 
 But I was not destroyed by the lions I hope God will e er deliver 
 
 Me from all dangers. What would we be without this glorious Giver 
 
 Of every good I Now Littlefaifh had been among the thieves, 
 
 Was robbed, came near getting killed, and whosoever believes, 
 
 Should be instructed, so you may more than victors be 
 
 Over ten thousand foes, and Faith will shield and strengthen thee, 
 
 E en in the darkest hours of gloom. 7 
 
 And as they talked they went 
 
 On quickly. Ignorance followed hard, for yet he was sore intent 
 On overtaking the travelers. Just here they see a road 
 Leading into the one they walked. Its presence did forebode 
 Perplexity, and maybe grief, for neither one could know 
 Which one to take. But one called out arid said that he would show 
 Them the right way, that he was bound to go to the same place. 
 They followed him, but soon they saw also the stranger s face 
 Was turned in an opposite direction, and before they were aware, 
 He led them into a net. They lay pleading with him to spare 
 Their lives ; they were much entangled, and could not extricate 
 Themselves. Then Christian said : " We might have escaped this fate, 
 If we had strict attention paid to what the shepherds bid. 
 They told us to beware of such talk as this one did : 
 These who spread nets for others feet. They also gave a note 
 About the journey, and if we had remembered David, to quote 
 What he has said concerning the work of men: he said, Fve kept 
 From the path of the destroyer, by the words of Thy lips. " They 
 
 ne er slept 
 
 Any during the night. Lo ! a shining one came a whip in his hand, 
 And he asked^them whence they came ; and when he did stand, 
 Looking very sorrowful upon them, for they told him 
 Of the man who had deceived them, and had made them sin, 
 So he rent the net, and let the men out ; then 4 Follow me," he said, 
 " That I may set you in your way. Come." And then he led 
 Them back to the path, and asked them then, * Where did you stay 
 Night before the last? If with the shepherds, you have a note of 
 
 the way. 7 
 They said, " Yes. " 
 
 MAN. " Why did you not read, when you came to a stand f " 
 Said they, " We forgot." 
 
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 Then I saw in my dream, he had cords in his hand, 
 He told them as many as he loved he rebuked, and they must lie 
 Down, and he chastised them there. He told them they had their 
 
 supply, 
 
 And they could go on their way, and ever after to take heed 
 To what the shepherd had told them, when they did need 
 Any direction. Then they went singing, and were glad to get clear 
 Of their trouble so easy. Still, they were filled with fear, 
 For they had been deceived by one who wilfully beguiled. 
 But those who appear the fairest, are often most defiled. 
 Then they sang, : Come listen ! you who walk along this way, 
 Learn something from our example, do not go astray, 
 If you are ever caught you will be put in a strange net, 
 From which you cannot safe come out, if you should e er forget 
 The directions given you. We are rescued, yet you see, 
 That we are severely scourged, so let us your warning be." 
 
 While singing thus, they espied one on foot hastening from the gate 
 Which led to the Celestial City. He asked them if their fate 
 Depended on their journeying. They said God did compel 
 Them to go on or io be lost. Their trials they could tell, 
 Of sufferings, too, and ups and downs, yet thankful for it all. 
 At this Atheist commenced to laugh, and told them of the fall 
 They sure must meet, for it was true they never would receive, 
 Them at the gate. Said Christian : " Do you think, poor one, that we 
 
 believe, 
 One word of what you say ? 
 
 ATHEIST. " There is not a place 
 Like the one you speak of, and the sooner the better you efface 
 All such foolish ideas. When I was at my home, 
 I heard of this great city : have sought it, but have come 
 To this conclusion, that it is absurd to think of it, and I can refute 
 Any argument you can bring forth." 
 
 CHRIS. " Have no time to dispute 
 
 With one so firmly set in wrong ; say, Brother, can this be true ? 
 He has traveled farther than we." 
 
 HOPE. u Is it possible now that you 
 Are deceived again ! He s another flatterer. Think what it has cost 
 
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 Us, for listening to fair words, and if we mind this one we will be lost, 
 
 We saw the gate from the mountain top ; by faith we onward must, 
 
 If we expect to happy be, and live amid the just. 
 
 Cease, Brother dear, I pray you cease from everything which will 
 
 Make you forsake the ways of truth and peace. If you fulfill 
 
 God s blest commands, you must resist all tempters, cease to hear 
 
 Him, and let us pursue our journey, or we will be punished, sure." 
 
 CHRIS. "You are right ; I did not ask the question of thee 
 
 Because I doubted the truth ; I only wished to see 
 
 What you would say. For this poor man, he is blinded by 
 
 This world. We must rejoice in the belief the soul can never die." 
 
 Then turned they from Atheist, and he went on his way. 
 
6i 
 
 -wit 
 
 [H|HE pilgrims soon came into the Enchanted Ground, and 
 
 Hopeful then did say, 
 
 " Oh! Brother! I am sleepy now, can scarcely ope my eyes, 
 Suppose we take a nap right here." 
 
 CHRIS. " Alas ! how quickly flies 
 All common sense ! When passions blow the gale, let reason hold 
 
 the helm ; 
 
 Remember the Enchanted Ground, and quickly wash the film 
 From off thine eyes." 
 
 HOPE. " I confess I was all wrong ; 
 And I will try to prove more wise. 7 
 
 And then they sang a song. 
 Then he sang : " When saints grow sleepy, let them come hither, 
 And hear how these pilgrims talked and sang together. 
 Let them hear how Satan tempted, and, fearing, grow wise 
 Enough to keep out of danger, and open their drowsy eyes. 
 Christian fellowship, if tis managed well, 
 Keeps them awake and shields from snares, as we can tell." 
 CHRIS. " Brother, what made you first think 
 Of forsaking sin ? " 
 
 HOPE. u I knew I stood upon the brink 
 Of the precipice of ruin ; I continued in the delight 
 Of those things sold at Vanity s Fair ; each day and night 
 I added some new feature to my pleasures, and the wine 
 Had more charms for me than the beauties of a world divine ; 
 I delighted in rioting, Sabbath-breaking, all that tended 
 To destroy my soul. Ah ! there was nothing good blended 
 With my feelings but I heard how Faithful drew his latest breath 
 In prayer for his enemies. I knew my way was death; 
 I was convinced that sinners would reap eternal wrath ; 
 Yet I was loth to leave my companions, treading in sin s path. 
 I had so reckless been to revert to my past gives me pain. 
 My prayers were not answered, and all to me seemed vain. 
 Then I had warning too, when I heard the tolling of the bell, 
 
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 I knew not how soon it would be sounding my death-knell. 
 Thoughts like these pierced my heart, and continued to torment, 
 Until I determined I would follow Jesus, if it surely rent 
 Every friend from my bosom ; and praise God. From that day 
 I have felt happier, and will never cease te pray." 
 CHRIS. " I am glad you are no longer in the labyrinth of sin ; 
 Prayer is the door to heaven, and Faith the key to let us in." 
 HOPE. " Look behind us, is not that Ignorance I see ? " 
 CHRIS. " Yes ; perchance he may conclude to come and talk with 
 thee." 
 
 HOPE. " Friend, why dost thou loiter thus behind? 
 
 Say, canst thou in our company some real pleasure find ? 
 
 IGNORANCE. " I prefer my own thoughts to any one s talk, 
 
 I ever have the most sublime ideas when alone I walk." 
 
 CHRIS. " Will you be kind enough to let us have some of them ? 
 
 We believe in conversing with the most humble of men." 
 
 IGNOR. " I think of all to elevate, of God and heaven, and will leave 
 
 All of my old associates, and follow Christ a blessing I ll receive." 
 
 CHRIS. "I m doubtful of what you say, I see you re not aware 
 
 Of the trials which all undergo, and I fear you will never share 
 
 These blessings unless you change. Let me ask you, how you know 
 
 That you have left all things lor God ?" 
 
 IGNOR. " My heart says so." 
 
 CHRIS. " The wise man says, he that trusteth his own heart 
 Is a fool, and we dare not from his wise words depart." 
 IGNOR. " That is said of an evil man, I know that I am good." 
 CHRIS. " How can you prove this ? now it seems to me, each should 
 Be very careful, for God says, we are wicked and full of deceit, 
 That our righteousness is as filthy rags. I fear the heart s conceit. 
 IGNOR. " Tell me. Do you think I ever had a good thought "? 
 Yet I never in my life before, the mind of any one sought." 
 CHRIS. " Yes, a good heart has good thoughts, and that s a good life, 
 Which accords with God s commandments, but you should not have 
 
 strife, 
 
 And know that you have these requisites, and not only think so." 
 IGNOR. u Pray tell me, what do you call a good life, and what assurance 
 Have we that we are living right ?" 
 
 CHRIS. "There are many kinds 
 
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 Of acts by which we can distinguish the good, the heart which binds 
 Such confidence is seldom right 
 
 IGNOR. " What can be 
 Good thoughts concerning ourselves ?" 
 
 CHRIS. u Those which agree 
 With the word of God." 
 
 IGNOR. " When does each thought 
 Of ourselves agree with the word of God f 
 
 CHRIS. "STaught 
 
 Can we think of ourselves, tis when we pass only the 
 Same judgment as the Word does. I ll explain, and you can see 
 What the Word of God says of men in their ruined condition. 
 There is none righteous or doeth good, all would go into perdition, 
 If it was not for the blood of Christ. It saith also that the 
 Heart of man is evil from his youth, and now, when we 
 Think thus of ourselves, and feel guilty, it is then 
 Our thoughts are good, because they are not of men, 
 But according to God s commands." 
 
 IGNOR. " I never will 
 Believe that uiy heart is as yours." 
 
 CHRIS. " How cans t thou fulfill 
 
 What the Word of God requireth when thou never hadst even one 
 Correct thought concerning thyself? I ll proceed, and when I m done, 
 You can see your condition. As the Word passeth upon our heart, 
 So it passeth a judgment upon our ways, and we must depart 
 From every sin which it condemns, and when both heart and ways 
 
 agree, 
 Then they are according to the Word." 
 
 IGNOR. " I cannot see 
 So through your dark meaning." 
 
 CHRIS. " And God s Word saith that man 
 Is sinful, and his ways are wrong ; and more, he never can 
 Enter life until he sees that he is desperately wicked ; when 
 He seeth thus, his sense returns ; but the generality of men 
 Are destitute of this humiliation. And these are, indeed, good 
 Thoughts, because they agree with God s Word. And now, friend, 
 
 would 
 
 You like to know, also, what good thoughts are concerning 
 God ? " 
 
 IGNOR. " Certainly." 
 
 CHRIS. " When there is no discerning 
 
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 Between our thoughts and what the Word of God emphatically 
 
 commands, 
 
 When we think He is wiser than man, and then every one stands 
 Where they should in the sight of God. He cannot even abide 
 An egotistical person remember the publican. We ne er can hide 
 Any of our sins from Him." 
 
 IGNOR. " Do you think that I 
 
 Am so silly as to believe, that I can from His vengeance fly ? 
 Or that I can ever be equal with Him, though I do my best ? " 
 CHRIS. " Tell me, what do you think about it ? Let me hear you, lest 
 I should condemn too rashly." 
 
 IGNOR. " I must 
 
 Look to Christ for justification, or I ll be forever thrust 
 From the presence of our God." 
 
 CHRIS. "How then thinkestthou ? 
 
 Must believe in Christ, when thou dost not need Him; and how 
 Canst thou see the original infirmities and then be blind to see 
 The actual sins ? Thy opinion of thyself doth render thee 
 Inconsistent. Thou hast never seen the necessity of Christ s power, 
 To justify thee before God. Thou hast never known the hour, 
 That thou wast willing to acknowledge thine actual need of Him." 
 IGNOR. " I believe notwithstanding, that I do not really sin 
 As much as you think I do." 
 
 CHRIS. " How dost thou believe ?" 
 
 IGNOR. " That Christ died for sinners, and they shall not receive 
 His blessings unless they are, before God, justified from sin, 
 And Jesus by His merits will cause u& to stand in Him." 
 CHRIS. "Le me give answer to this confession which I ve heard, 
 Thou hast a fantastic faith, nowhere set forth in the Word, 
 Thy faith is false, because it takes God s gracious boon from thee, 
 Even the righteousness of Christ, and giveth it to yourself, you see, 
 This faith maketh not Christ a justifier of thy heart, but of thy 
 Actions, and of thy heart for action s sake, which is false, and by 
 So believing you yourself deceive, and unless you change, you will 
 Be left to meet the wrath of God. For, in order to fulfill 
 God s righteous law, we must for life unto our Saviour fly, 
 His sufferings have m^t the law, and he can well supply, 
 Our every need. In Him we hide, and sure if He presents 
 Us spotless to our Maker, for His sake God consents 
 To our acquittal from sin s doom." 
 
 IGNOR. " And must we then but trust 
 To what Christ did by his own death I If so, we surely thrust 
 
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 Away every effort of our own, and this gives free, loose rein 
 
 To all our lusts ; we could then live just as we wish, if efforts are 
 
 in vain ; 
 
 So it matters little how we act, for we may, as you think and say, 
 Be justified by Christ s shed blood, and all can, in this way, 
 Be cleansed from sin, if we but believe it." 
 
 CHRIS. "Thy name 
 Is Ignorance: as thy name, so art thou, and everlasting disgrace 
 
 and shame 
 
 Shalt thou reap. Ignorant thou art, of what righteousness is, or how 
 Man can appease the wrath of God, and I am sure that thou 
 Knowest naught of the truth in Christ. And thus I do believe 
 That you have never thought of it." 
 
 IGNOR. " Tis nonsense, and will receive 
 
 Full condemnation from the wise ; tis fanatic, and distracted, 
 And will cause great delusion, unless tis soon retracted." 
 HOPE. " Friend, Christ is so hid in God from the knowledge of us all, 
 That He cannot be known to us, unless by God revealed, and your fall 
 Into eternal death is sure, unless your heart is changed. For the 
 
 power divine 
 Of God, to us must surely be revealed." 
 
 IGNOR. "That s your belief, not mine ; 
 
 I have the majority on my side. I would blush an advocate to be 
 Of whims like yours ; the literati your absurdities all oppose, you see." 
 CHRIS. " Your heart, I know, is not all right, and you should not 
 
 thus speak 
 
 Of such momentous matters. Now, sure, unless you seek 
 Jesus by faith, through the Father God, His face you ne er can see. 
 The soul on Christ must lay its hold, and if right in His sight, faith 
 
 must be 
 
 Wrought by the greatness of His power. Of this, I know that thou 
 Art ignorant. Be awakened ! See thy error, oh ! haste now 
 To remedy it. Go at once to the Lord Jesus ; by His grace alone 
 You can be saved. His righteousness, is God s. All has been done 
 By and through Him." 
 
 Then Ignorance said : " You do go on so fast, 
 I cannot keep up with your arguments." 
 
 He stopped, and they quick past 
 
 By him, and said : " Oh ! Ignorance, wilt thou so foolish be 
 As not to heed our counsel good, which we ve twice given thee. 
 Alas ! unless you change, you will eventually know 
 Your dreadful fate when tis too late, and seeing the evil of doing so, 
 
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 You ll remember the past when hope is gone. Reflect you now, 
 
 and hear 
 
 The word of God by man to you, for thou hast much to fear. 
 But if you will in error still persist, you alone must be 
 The loser of eternal life. Oh, let my words warn thee." 
 Then Christian unto Hopeful said : "Brother, we are alone. 7 
 But I saw in my dream, though thus it seemed, one unto them had come. 
 Heedless here and there he walked. It was Ignorance so poor. 
 And as he passed, they said, "What a pity that the door 
 Of perception is so closed to him; but there are many in his condition. 
 They are blinded by conceit, and cannot be convinced that perdition 
 Awaits them every one. The Word says, i He hath blinded their eyes, 
 Lest they should see their fate. 7 What think you of a man who 
 
 thus dies ! " 
 
 HOPE. " You are older than I am, I want your opinion, and then 
 I can form better conceptions. 7 
 
 CHRIS. " I think that some men 
 
 Being naturally ignorant, do not know that such convictions tend 
 To their good, and therefore they persistently stifle, and thus send 
 Them forever from their minds, and flatter themselves in the way 
 Of their own hearts." 
 
 HOPE. " I do certainly believe as you say. 77 
 
 CHRIS. " I know that I am right, without a doubt. So says the Word, 
 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom ; but I too have heard 
 Some pretend to fear, without knowing what it was. True 
 Or right fear is discovered by three things, and if we pursue 
 The right course, we will commence at the first : By its rise : 
 It causes deep conviction for sin, and then it soon drives 
 The careworn soul to the feet of Christ for salvation. And this 
 Continueth in us a well of grace, and an unfailing source of bliss, 
 Makes the heart adore God, His Word keeping it humble, and making 
 It afraid to turn frf;m Him. And we find it truly forsaking 
 Everything that would dishonor God, or grieve the blessed Spirit, 
 Or cause any to speak reproachfully of Jesus 7 precious merit. 7 
 HOPE. " You have said the truth ; with you I full agree. Have 
 
 we passed 
 The Enchanted Ground ? 77 
 
 CHRIS. " Why ? Don t you you wish this talk to last ? 7 
 HOPE. "Oh! yes, I only thought I. would like to know just where 
 We are. 77 
 
 CHRIS. " We have two miles to go, and when we are there 
 We will rest. But let us resume our conversation. Now 
 
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 The ignorant do not see themselves as they should, or how 
 They are influenced to stifle their feelings ; they think such fear 
 Is of the devil, when tis of God. They resisf it, and appear 
 Miserable unless they root out the lastjplant, when alas ! Poor men, 
 They are the ones who lack in faith, and lacking- this, they then 
 Become presumptuously confident, for these fears ever take 
 Away this terrible self-holiness, and cause us to forsake 
 Everything like dependence on G.)d. But we will take our leave 
 Of Ignorance, and his acts. I think, we can receive 
 Greater profit from another topic." 
 
 HOPE. " Suppose you lead the way." 
 
 CHRIS. "Do you know Mr. Temporary, who was forced, they say, 
 Into religious matters ? " 
 
 HOPE. " Yes, I know him, for he dwelt 
 
 In Graceless town, two miles from Honesty, and I think he felt 
 Very much attached to Turnback." 
 
 CHRIS. u You are right. 
 
 I remember he lived under the same roof, but he had once a sight 
 Of his sin, and was awakened to the wages which was due." 
 HOPE. " Yes, this was so ; for oft he has come asking which path he 
 
 must pursue." 
 
 CHRIS. " I do pity him, indeed. He told me once he did intend 
 To change, and go on pilgrimage, but suddenly I did offend. 
 I condemned his intimacy with Mr. Save-thy-Self, and then 
 He had no farther use for me." 
 
 HOPE. " May we not ask why men 
 Change so oft ? " 
 
 CHRIS. " In my judgment, there are reasons four. 
 The conscience of such as these is oftimes very sore, 
 From the practices of sin ; yet, their minds arn t thereby changed. 
 Therefore when the sense of guilt is gone, they find they are estranged 
 From their thoughts again, which makes them in a worse condition ; 
 And this is the way so many go, who end at last in perdition. 
 Some, under a religious excitement, have a great desire to do good, 
 But soon this passes off, and they become indifferent. We should 
 Ask God s help daily. Not doing this, we soon go back to our old 
 
 sins again. 
 The things of the world become our choice. To obey God is a shame ; 
 
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 And their proud and haughty spirits are not willing now to bend 
 
 To the humble commands of God. And thus their way they wend 
 
 Back step by step to their old course. Guilt and terror favor them. 
 
 They do not like to see their misery beforehand, .and these men 
 
 Shun all thought of the future, and harden their hearts madly." 
 
 CHRIS. " You are right ; tis for the want of change, aud sadly 
 
 They stand as stumbling blocks to others. The felon who receives 
 
 His doom, both quakes and trembles when he believes 
 
 The sentence of death is surely passed. But it is all the fear 
 
 Of the halter, and not penitence for his guilt and shame. He will 
 
 appear 
 
 The same thief if acquitted, and if there is any change in his mind, 
 He would be otherwise." 
 
 HOPE. " And now can you find 
 The reason of their going back ? " 
 
 CHRIS. " Yes ; they do erase 
 
 All thoughts of God from out their mind, and soon they can retrace 
 Their steps. Their hearts have ne er been changed ; they soon begin 
 
 to cast 
 
 Off private duties, and closet prayer, restraint of lust, and at last, 
 They shun the company of the good. Thus acting, they soon grow 
 Careless about their public life, turn from the Word, and show 
 Feelings of envy finding fault with others who do wrong, 
 Urging they cannot stay w.th hypocrites and many throng 
 Daily to them, saying, 4 1 have seen church members do such things 
 As would disgrace a moral man, such conduct always brings 
 To my mind, a disgust for religion. But should they not despise 
 The men, and not religion ? When they thus speak, the last spark flies 
 From them, and they will seek the company of wanton men ; 
 They are much worse than e er before, and are always glad, when 
 Those who are considered honest, act wrong, that they may the more 
 Boldly do it, through their example. But ah ! when this life is o er, 
 How will they stand before the Bar ? " 
 
69 
 
 SAW that by this time, 
 
 They had passed the Enchanted Ground, and all things 
 H seemed divine 
 For they were inspired with a new life ; and incessantly they heard 
 The rippling of some crystal stream, and the song of some glad bird, 
 As it winged to some sequestered bower, whose rich and rare perfume 
 Made sweet, as Araby the Blest, the balmy air of noon. 
 The pilgrims haste, and soon they gain the lovely Beulah s land. 
 Now they can rest, and be refreshed, for here God s gracious hand 
 Had lavished beauties without stint. Here there is no more night ; 
 The Shining Ones walk grandly here, forever in the sight 
 Of the Blest City, and tis here the Bridegroom and the Bride 
 United are in lasting bonds. Here endless joys abide. 
 For as the Bridegroom rejoiceth over the Bride, so doth God 
 Rejoice over pilgrims dear, who have come the narrow road. 
 And as they wended on their way, they now and then could hear 
 Voices from the City, which in glimpses did appear. 
 They listed to the music sweet. Twas daughters of Zion. " Behold ! 
 
 behold ! 
 
 Thy salvation cometh. Reward you will reap." They lovingly were told 
 Here, that they were the redeemed of the Lord, whom He Himself had 
 
 sought 
 Out as His own. What pleasure these sweet words to their ears 
 
 brought ! 
 
 And as they drew the City near, they had a grander view : 
 Twas built of pearls ; its streets of gold, its beauties ever new. 
 HOW meagre now. their trials were, in contrast to their joy ! 
 Their troubles had worked out for them pleasure without alloy. 
 And as they pressed along their way, rich vineyards, glad and fair, 
 Scattered o er the flowered plains, were fruits of all kinds rare. 
 They asked, " Whose vineyards are these, friend ? " The man replied : 
 
 " The King s. 
 
 They are planted for the Pilgrim s food, while of His Lord he sings. 
 Elerc beauteous birds, with matin throat, and all kinds of fruits 
 
 are kept 
 
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 For Pilgrim s cheer. Here are rich bowers. Walk in." 
 
 And so they slepl 
 
 And were refreshed with peace and strength. Now saw I in my dream 
 That they talked much while sleeping, and this to me did seem 
 Most strange. 
 
 The man replied their grapes caused this effect ; they 
 Had heard many speak in their sleep, and often they would say 
 Things lofty and sublime to hear. 
 
 After resting, the pilgrims proceed 
 
 On their journey, but the reflection of the City made them need 
 An instrument to behold its effulgence. Meeting with two men, 
 Whose raiments shined like unto gold, u Oh ! tell us, how and when 
 Our way to makef " 
 
 They said : " Of trials you but have two more 
 To encounter, ere you will be through." 
 
 The friends were very sore, 
 
 And well nigh lost their faith. Then they asked them again, 
 About the way, and wanted their company. They told them : 
 
 " To obtaii 
 Eternal joy, you sure must go along with faith alone." 
 
fr 71 
 
 -nit w IVE m m- #* 
 
 |HE gate is in sight, 
 
 Yet there lay between them and the City, a River. 
 
 Ah ! the night 
 Of deep despair, which o ershades many when they come to this 
 
 River of Death ! 
 
 But this is the only way which leads to the home of eternal breath, 
 The pilgrims asked the men, if through this dark river, 
 Was the only way to the gate ? And if some one could not deliver 
 Them from this trial ? They told them that only two men had ever 
 Found any other way: Enoch and Elijah. And now they must sever 
 Every tie, and only have faith. Then Christian began to despond, 
 And looked in every direction for escape. At the river, they found 
 Guides encouraging them to have faith, for the waters were not deep. 
 Then they went in, and began to sink. Poor Christian could not keep 
 His head above water; he cried : " The billows are over my head ! " 
 4 Be of good cheer, the bottom is good. Come on ! " brave Hopeful 
 
 said. 
 Bat lie despairingly answered back : " The sorrows of death do 
 
 compass me round " 
 
 can ne er see the goodly land, but God s frown 
 Will be upon me. All is darkness, I ne er shall behold the face 
 Of my Redeemer!" 
 
 HOPE. " He is able, with His saving grace, 
 To carry you safely through." 
 
 CHRIS. " Oh ! the sins I have done, 
 Can never ^be forgiven ! I will remain here, and you alone, 
 Will rt i ap the reward of the blest." 
 
 HOPE. " I see the gate, 
 And men standing to receive us !" 
 
 CHRIS. " No ! Twill be my fate 
 To perish here, many sins have brought me in this snare ; 
 Oh ! Why was I so wicked ? " 
 
 HOPE. u Remember your Record, where 
 The Psalmist says, the wicked have no fears of death, 
 But their strength is firm, they defy God in their last breath. 
 
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 These troubles are no sign that God has refused your prayers, or 
 
 forsaken 
 
 You, but are sent to test your faith ; I know that you are mistaken 
 In your fearful apprehensions." 
 
 Christian was silent. Hopeful said, " Be 
 Of good cheer, Christ will make thee whole." 
 
 CHRIS. "Ah ! I see 
 
 Him now ! And hear Him say, When thou passeth through 
 The waters, they shall not o erflow thee. 7 Yes, all is true, 
 He said He would be my comfort and strength." 
 
 HOPE. " I told thee 
 To be encouraged." 
 
 Now Christian found bottom, and said, " I see 
 Some one on the opposite side ! " 
 
73 * 
 
 there were waiting, two men, 
 To welcome all, as they came out of the river. They 
 
 salute them, 
 
 Saying, they are ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to the heirs 
 Of salvation. Now they went towards the gate with few fears, 
 For they led them by the arms ; and they ascended the hill with ease, 
 For they had left their mortal garments in the river, and these 
 Men assisted them on, so they went with joy and speed. 
 Though the foundation of the City was higher than the clouds, they 
 
 had no need 
 
 That any man assist them, but went, sweetly talking, through the air. 
 They had passed " The River " safely, and with heavenly company rare 
 They were delighted. Their talk was of the glory of the place, 
 Mount Zion the heavenly Jerusalem, where they could see the face 
 Of their blessed Saviour. 
 
 " In the paradise of God, you ll see 
 Innumerable angels, and the never fading-flowers, and eat of the Tree 
 Of Life; and you shall have white robes given you, and your 
 
 daily walk 
 
 Shall be with the King himself. Through eternal ages you will talk 
 Of His majesty and grace. No sorrow or death can ever come, 
 For old things have passed away. The joy of your bright home 
 Is indeed beyond description. Abraham and Jacob are there, 
 And the prophets, with many redeemed of the Lord. They will 
 
 prepare 
 
 To receive you. Here, reward will be given for pain and toil, 
 There will be pleasures for your troubles, and though Satan tried 
 
 to foil 
 
 You in every effort, you still kept on. And now with praise, 
 And thanksgiving, you shall spend an eternity of days. 
 There you shall join your friends who have before you gone. 
 When Jesus comes again, and the sin-cursed earth is shorn 
 Of all her vanity and crime, you shall have a voice 
 Gainst all who have oppressed you. Filled with love, you will rejoice 
 Over all you trials past. Here you will dwell in peace forever 
 With the happy and the blest. No touch of death shall sever 
 This unalloyed tie." 
 
74 
 
 And, lo ! a heavenly host came to meet them, 
 
 Whom the Shining Ones said, " See these men. You must greet them 
 With a warm and welcome kiss, for they have left all for God s name, 
 And we have brought them thus far, and now the glorious fame 
 Of their mansion will be seen." 
 
 Then they gave a shout, long and loud, 
 Saying : " Blessed are they who are called to the Marriage 
 
 Supper. " When a cloud 
 Of brightness overshadowed them ; the air reverberated with the 
 
 melody 
 
 Of their voices. They never thought this happiness they should see. 
 It appeared all of the heavenly hosts had come to meet them, 
 
 and as they did behold, 
 
 Their hearts pulsed with love. They said they had ne er been told 
 Of this great happiness they would have. And now, as they 
 
 sweetly sing, 
 
 The fair City comes in view, and they hear the loud bells ring, 
 To welcome them at home. But above all was the joyful thought 
 Of being eternally with such friends, and in their souls this wrought 
 Such gratitude and love, they knew not what to think. Then 
 
 they came 
 
 To the gate over which was written, in letters of gold, the name 
 Of the City ; and these lines : 
 
 " Blessed Are They Who Have Obeyed Each Command." 
 
 Christian said to Hopeful, " Knock ! We will in our King s presence 
 
 stand. 7 
 Then I saw in my dream the heavenly host. And the massive gate 
 
 of pearl 
 
 On golden hinges open flew. Angels their banners did unfurl, 
 To welcome the pilgrims home. They joined the choral symphonies, 
 Saying, " Hosanua to the Highest, we now rest from enemies." 
 
aside the curtain. Hold it with the star of morn. 
 Let the beautiful echo from heaven 
 Resound through the earth, til by her peoples new-born, all power 
 unto God shall be given. 
 
A SCENE AT THE PALACE OF THE HIGH PRIESTS. 
 
 PRIESTS. What darkness ! Will he never come f How late ! 
 
 A few hours more, and all is over. Lo ! our fate 
 
 Depends upon prompt action.- -Tis footsteps I hear. 
 
 CAPTAIN. The lamp glimmers ; a low figure doth appear. (Enter Judas). 
 
 The time for avenging will soon expire, 
 
 This night we must vent our long-pent ire. 
 
 Look to the weapons, lanterns. Ah ! how time flies ! 
 
 Ah ! nevermore his name be wafted to the skies ! 
 
 NEAR THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 
 [Christ and His Disciples.] 
 
 CHRIST. We will go to the Mount of Olives to pray, 
 
 That we may be guided in the right way. 
 
 (Alone) I see an angel, sweet messenger of love, 
 
 Sent to cheer me, from my Father above. 
 
 My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death 
 
 Nature sympathizes ; Heaven holds her breath. 
 
 (Prays.) Father ! If it be Thy will, let this cup pass from me, 
 
 Yet I came into the world to glorify Thee. (Returns to disciples.) 
 
 Alas, how weak ! Could not watch an hour all asleep ! 
 
 Is this your devotion ? What vigils ye doth keep ! 
 
 Awake now, awake ! See how Judas now doth stand, 
 
 Demon-like, with his dark and blood-thirsty band ; 
 
 My blood will soon be spilt, to purge sin away, 
 
 But from it will spring a bright, undying day, 
 
 To shine o er this dark and sin-polluted world; 
 
 Henceforth, my banner of love shall be nnfurled. 
 
 [Judas ivith the multitude approaches the disciples scatter.] 
 JUDAS. Tis him whom I kiss ; lay hold on him and bind. 
 JESUS. Betrays t thou the So -. of Man with a kiss ? Oh ! malice 
 
 undefined ! 
 
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 (To the Chief Priests) Coine ye out as against a thief, with swords 
 
 and with staves $ 
 
 I could pray my Father, and receive legions from heaven s concaves. 
 I was with you in the Temple, and daily in your power, 
 But the prophecies must be fulfilled. Improve your passing hour. 
 
 [Simon Peter draws a sword against the High Priest s servant and 
 
 cuts off his ear.] 
 
 PETER. If it costs my life I will defend my Master. Wretch, beware 
 JFSUS. Put up thy sword, I drink this cup ; to me there is no fear. 
 CHIEF CAPTAIN. Come soldiers ! do your duty now, and bind the 
 
 deceiver fast. 
 You seem amazed ! Be at your work, this dalliance must not last. 
 
 IN THE HIGH PRIEST S PALACE. 
 
 (Enter Judas.) Here, take your money ! Tis the price of innocent 
 
 blood ! 
 
 His calm, sweet face, it haunts me now ; my grief, an angry flood, 
 O erwhelms my soul. I m lost ! I m lost ! Oh ! let me hide my face ; 
 Hell s gaping fiends are all about. Disgraced ! Fm sure disgraced ! 
 For thirty pieces of silver I the Lord of Life betrayed. 
 Oh, why did I this horrid deed ? This dreadful blunder made, 
 The fatal knot around my neck I will myself go tie, 
 And like a loathsome traitor die, for I deserve to die. 
 CHIEF PRIESTS. Take the mock king to the High Priests; there let 
 
 him pray, 
 
 And now perchance his prayer may be answered on the way. 
 PETER. I ll never betray my Master, the last of Him I will see. 
 
 [Damsel asks Peter if he is not a disciple.] 
 PETER. Indeed I m not. I came, and this is all of me. 
 
 [An officer says : " Thou art one of them. " ] 
 
 PETER. And do you not believe me ? Then my answers are in vain. 
 I have denied this thrice, and why need I now again $ 
 
 [The cock crows, and Peter remembers the icord of the Lord.] 
 PILATE. What has this poor man done ? His guilt I cannot see. 
 PRIESTS. He is a malefactor, or would have not sent to thee. 
 
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 [Pilate taketh Jesus unto the Judgment Hall.] 
 
 PILATE. We are now all alone. Now tell me, art thou King * 
 JESUS. Of thyself, or some other, askest thou this thing. 
 PILATE. Knoweth thou of what the Chief Priests thee accuse * 
 JESUS. I m not of this world. For this they me accuse. 
 
 [Pilate asks again if He is King.] 
 
 JESUS. For this end I came into this sinful world. 
 Some hear me, and accept all ; others shall be hurled 
 Into everlasting woe the gulf of dark despair. 
 Too late ! will be their wail ; unheeded then their prayer. 
 
 [Pilate goeth out, and tries to influence the Jews.] 
 
 PILATE. This man is innocent, and he is the King of the Jews. 
 MULTITUDE. Oh ! what will Cresar say ? Thou dares t not refuse. 
 
 [Pilate returns to Jesus, and scourges Him.] 
 
 PILATE. It pains me thus to scourge you, man. I would not do you ill. 
 But I am in their hands to day, and must their wish fulfill. 
 
 [A band of soldiers enter.] 
 
 CAPT. Put this crown of thorns upon his vile head, 
 And here s a royal robe. Think what the impostor said. 
 
 [All cry out in one voice : " Hail ! Master ! King ! Blindfold Him, and 
 let Him tell who smote His honored face."] 
 
 PILATE (to the Jews). I cannot condemn, for I find no fault in him, 
 Pve examined closely, and find he has not sinned. 
 
 [All cry out : Crucify ! crucify Him ! ] 
 
 JEWS. Only think ! a man to make himself God s Son ! 
 
 PILATE. I know that he is innocent. Alas ! what can be done I 
 
 PILATE S WIFE. Have thou nothing to do with this just person. 
 
 This man is not guilty, last night I had such dream 
 
 And my head is o er burdened, such mysteries o er it teem. 
 
 [Pilate goeth into the Judgment Hall and saith unto Jesus : Whence art 
 
 thou f Jesus remains silent]. 
 
 PILATE. Why this silence? refusest thou to speak to me? 
 I have power to condemn, or power to set thee free. 
 JESUS. All power you possess, is given thee from above. 
 I pity all, their bitter sneers doth not my anger move. 
 PILATE (to Jesus). All of my efforts to release you are in vain, (unto 
 the Jews) Behold ! Your king ! 
 
* 82 * 
 
 JEWS. We have no king save Caesar. Let this fellow die. 
 PILATE (to Jesus). List to what they say, " Crucify him, crucify ! 
 Give unto us Barabbas ! " Ah ! soon the day will come 
 When you, denied repentance, will stand to meet your doom. 
 JEWS (to Pilate). We fear not. Let His blood be on us and children 
 
 forever. 
 
 Refuse Him now to us, and you shall feel our ire. 
 You boast your power ; come tell us now art thou Caesar s friend ? 
 If so, how dost thou dare in this your ruler to offend ? 
 PILATE. Why not take Barabbas, the murderer and thief? 
 SOLDIERS. No ! Place this crown upon His head, and call Him mighty 
 
 Chief, 
 
 Spit in his face, aud mock Him, too, and strike Him with a reed, 
 Aha ! Aha ! His royal robe He will no longer need. 
 CAPT. (unto Simon. Simon tries to escape). Come hither man, this 
 
 traitor s cross to bear. 
 
 And should you dare refuse, his fate you soon will share. 
 JESUS (seeth a company of women- weeping, and saith unto tit em) : 
 Weep for yourselves and child re a weep not for me. 
 My sufferings shall be brief; soon my glory you will see. 
 They will cry for mercy, and that mountains on them fall, 
 And hide them from sure vengeance, but their anguished call 
 Will be in vain. Are we now to Calvary ? 
 CAPT. Then we can hear more of this great mystery. 
 Crucify one thief on his left, the other on his right 
 The King between two malefactors. Ah ! the sight. 
 
 CHIEF PRIESTS. Lay Him on the cross, and nail His majestic hands. 
 
 JESUS. Father, forgive them; they do not understand. 
 
 PEOPLE. Dost thou destroy and build the Temple in three days f 
 
 Come from the cross, and then we ll give Thee praise. 
 
 ONE OF THE THIEVES. If Thou be God, save Thyself and us from 
 
 this degradation. 
 
 OTHER THIEF. We re guilty, He is not, yet in the same condemnation 
 Lord, when Thou comest unto Thy Kingdom, will Thou think of me ? 
 JESUS. Thou art now forgiven; this day my glory Thou shalt see. 
 HOLY WOMEN. Hope of Israel, we know Thou art pure and divine. 
 Lo ! the earth trembles ; the snn forgets to shine. 
 Flashes of lightning, and a dark cloud for His frown. 
 From which torrents of rain fall, for He hides His crown. 
 
ar * 
 
 JESUS. Father, into Thy hand my spirit T now commend. 
 CENTURION. He is righteous. God will His vengeance send. 
 JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA (to Pilate}. Wilt thou let me take my Saviour s 
 
 body out of sight ? 
 
 NICODEMUS. Here are spices I came to worship Him by night. 
 JOSEPH. In this new sepulchre man never has been laid. 
 WOMEN. Let us get spices remember the Sabbath, as He said. 
 
 THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND PHARISEES AT PILATE S PALACE. 
 
 CHIEF PRIESTS (to Pilate.) The deceiver said, after three days He 
 
 would rise again, 
 
 And His crucifixion may yet be in vain, 
 For His disciples can deceive; we know that they will say 
 That He is risen, when they have stolen Him away. 
 PILATE. Go and make your guard attend to it. Have Him secure 
 By sealing the stone; and by this means His body will be sure. 
 
 SOLDIERS AROUND THE SEPULCHRE. 
 
 1st SOLDIER. He saved others, and seemed to prove Himself divine, 
 
 Yet He failed in not saving Himself. Pass the wine, 
 
 2nd SOLDIER. Look above ! See an angel, I m filled with deep fear ; 
 
 How plainly now our sin we see ! As day it doth appear. 
 
 [Angel appeareth and hovereth o er the tomb. The soldiers fall back in 
 
 dismay. The Angel rolleth the stone away.] 
 ANGEL. Death has no power over God s holy Son. 
 JESUS (rising). I rise in might and glory. Father, Thy work is done. 
 ANGEL. Look where they laid Him, but He s not here. 
 Think what He said. This will not strange appear. 
 
 Jesus secludes himself behind some shrubs. The soldiers flee into Jerus 
 alem. Mary Magdalene cometh to the sepulchre icith the mother of 
 James]. 
 
 MARY M. I m filled with fear. Whose form is that I see ? 
 
 MARY. My feelings I could not tell to thee. 
 
 JESUS. Why those downcast looks? Whom seekest thou ? 
 
 MARY. My crucified Saviour, before whose throne I bow. 
 
* 84 * 
 
 Hast thou taken Him away ? Shall I ne er see Him more ? 
 
 MARY M. We will meet Him again on that celestial shore. 
 
 JESUS. Mary ! go tell my brethren I must soon ascend. 
 
 MARY. Rabbi! the prophecies of Thy resurrection here do end. 
 
 MARY M. Come with me. Remember our Saviour said 
 
 To His disciples, before His crucifixion, that He would rise from 
 
 the dead. 
 
 [ While the disciples are talking, Jesus draweth near.] 
 JESUS. Tell me why this sadness, as onward ye do walk? 
 CLEOPAS. The crucifixion of Jesus, it is now all the talk. 
 Some women, going early to His sepulchre, have seen 
 Angels, who said He had risen, as strange as it doth seem. 
 JESUS. Do you not believe the prophets ? Let me explain 
 Certain passages, list ! Let it not be in vain ; 
 DISCIPLE. Come with us, glad to have you spend the night. 
 [Christ goes, and eats with them, them vanishes from sight.] 
 SIMON PETER. We ought to have known Him, by His blessing of the 
 
 bread, 
 
 Why do you not think on all that I have said ? 
 CHRIST (Appeareth). About my detth and resurrection, behold now 
 
 my feet 
 
 And hands, hath a spirit flesh ? Bring me now to eat ; 
 It was written, by the prophets, that Christ shall rise, 
 And soon I must ascend from earth unto the skies, 
 Teach, baptize, and with these, my doctrines ever blend. 
 Obey me, and lo ! I am with you e en unto the end. 
 
 AT THE SEA OF TIBERIAS. 
 
 [The disciples fishing. Christ appeareth.] 
 
 JESUS. Cast your net on the right side, and you then shall find. 
 PETER. Tis the Lord ! My Lord ! My coat around rue I ll bind, 
 And go to him. My Master ! I knew it was thee. 
 JESUS. Look ! see the fish they have, a hundred and fifty-three. 
 (To disciples.) There is bread and fish, in full, now come and with 
 
 me dine. 
 
 Remember how I ve been seen of you, this the third time. 
 Tarry until I send you power from on high. 
 Weep not for me ! In heaven there is not e en a sigh. 
 DISCIPLES. Look ! Angels are coming to welcome Him home. 
 JESUS. Father, my work is finished. To Thee I come ! I come ! 
 
THE LIFE OF STEPHEN AND PAUL, 
 
 WITH TWO IMAGINARY CHARACTERS PAULINA AND N.KITA. 
 
 STEPHEN. Lena, I ain selected to administer to the poor and 
 widows. 
 
 LENA. I want you to be useful, but I feel like some evil will 
 soon befall you. Sadness, like a dark shroud, has spread his 
 chilling folds around me, and I cannot rend them away by 
 prayer. 
 
 STEPHEN. I hope this is a mere mist of gloom, which will 
 vanish when the sun of reason arises. 
 
 LENA Would I could think so. But when our utmost duty 
 is done, we must welcome what we cannot shun. 
 
 STEPHEN. If I knew I had to sacrifice my life, I would not 
 swerve from my duty; for, the spider s most attenuated thread, 
 is cable to man s hold on earthly bliss. It breaks at every 
 breath, I know my enemies are numerous, and threats have 
 been made against my life; yet, the greatest sorrow which 
 pierces my heart, is your grief; if I could only mitigate that, 
 death would lose its sting. And I must soon leave you. Be 
 cheerful ; as our days are, so shall our strength be. 
 
 LENA. I dread my brother s vengeance. He is the worst 
 enemy you have, though he knows my attachment for you. 
 
 STEPHEN. He is indeed an influential man. Would that his 
 zeal was for Christ and his cause. 
 
 [A company of horsemen approach.] 
 
 LENA. Oh ! I hear the rapid tramp of horses. Escape ! I 
 knew they would arrest you. 
 
 STEPHEN. We will be happy in yonder world. 
 
 LENA. Do not lose your life in talking to me, remember the 
 trap door. 
 
 [Stephen vanishes, men rush into the room.] 
 
 OAPT. Where have you hid him ? (Lena remains silent). 
 
* 86 * 
 
 SAUL. Sister, answer the Chief Captain, or your life will 
 be a forfeit for his. 
 
 LENA. Let them torture me, but never, no never will I 
 betray him ! 
 
 CAPT. Proceed at once, and test her heroism. 
 
 SOLDIERS. We came here to arrest a man, and not one so 
 fair. 
 
 STEPHEN, (rushes in). The first one who approaches her 
 shall die ! I am now your prisoner. What accusations have 
 you against me ? 
 
 CAPT. You must answer before the Council. 
 
 STEPHEN. I am prepared to answer both before an earthly, 
 and a heavenly tribunal. 
 
 STEPHEN (aside to Paulina). Weep not for me : each sigh 
 is like a dagger to my heart. I will be the first martyr. What 
 a glorious death ! Many others will follow. Dry your tears, 
 we will soon meet again. 
 
 CAPT. Bind that man, lie talked enough before we came, he 
 will not have much use for love when we get through with him. 
 
 STEPHEN. Go into another room, dear. 
 
 LENA. Oh, let me die with you ! I cannot leave you thus ! 
 
 STEPHEN. Paulina, have fortitude. Good-bye. 
 
 1st. WITNESS. I heard him say that our temple should be 
 destroyed. He denies our faith and adheres to an impostor s 
 doctrine. I h-tve heard him blaspheme the word of God. 
 
 2nd WIT. He does not believe in Moses, and says all of our 
 customs shall be changed. 
 
 [A bright light overshadows Stephen.] 
 
 HIGH PRIEST. Are these things so ? 
 
 STEPHEN. Brethren, you know I believe in Abraham, 
 Moses and all the prophets but which of them escaped your 
 fathers wrath ? You have slain those who foretold the birth 
 of Jesus, of whom ye have been the betrayers and murderers. 
 Do not gnash your teeth ; the truth pricks to the heart ; your 
 guilt is open to all. 
 
 PEOPLE. Away with him! Will he cast his insults in our face ? 
 
 LENA (rushes to Saul). Oh ! Brother, do try to rescue him ! 
 My God ! My heart is bursting ! 
 
 NEITA (Friend to Lena). Behold ! How they all gaze on his 
 countenance ! That radiance is the reflection of the crown 
 which the angel of Hope holds o er his head. 
 
* 87 * 
 
 SAUL. Lena, speak ! 
 
 NEITA. Has she fainted ? 
 
 SAUL. Oh ! she is dead. Alas ! were the pangs so great as 
 to burst life s tender chords asunder ? Ah ! the nearest tie is 
 severed, but I will avenge myself of her destroyer. 
 
 HIGH P. He has condemned himself, and deserves stoning. 
 
 SAUL. Give me his clothes. 
 
 HIGH P. All you throw stones at him ! 
 
 STEPHEN. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, and lay not this 
 sin to their charge. 
 
 SAUL (To the High Priest}. I want authority to bind both 
 men and women, in Damascus. 
 
 PRIEST. My son, we have few so zealous as thyself. Take 
 as many with thee as thou desirest." 
 
 A bright light overshadows him, and he hears a voice, saying: 
 
 Saul ! Saul ! Why persecutest thou me J l 
 
 Saul trembles and falls to the ground, ashing 
 
 Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? 
 
 VOICE. Arise and go into the city, and it shall be told thee 
 what thou shalt do. 
 
 MEN. Oh ! Saul ! explain this mystery ! We heard the voice 
 saw the light yet no man was visible. 
 
 SAUL. It was the voice of Jesus! Lead me to Damascus. 
 Oh, tell my aged parents of this change ; what joy it will give 
 them ! Would that Lena were alive, to share it, too. May you 
 all reel as I do. 
 
 JUDAS. Brother Saul, you have riot eaten anything in three 
 days, let me insist on you having some refreshment. 
 
 SAUL. I ain too much overwhelmed with grief am beholding 
 myself in the mirror of the past, and can well exclaim, Oh ! 
 Memory ! That mirror which affliction dashes to the ground, 
 and on looking down, only beholds its fragments multiplied ! 
 
 JUDAS. Brother, do not fall into the Slough of Despond, 
 though your head be bowed down, with grief, you shall lift it in 
 power. 
 
 SAUL. I can see deeds darker than midnight can hear the 
 echoes of Lena s dying voice, " Spare ! oh, spare my Stephen 
 to me!" Then methinks 1 see Stepheu, with his forgiving 
 smile, and radiant brow, and I, demon-like, holding the clothes. 
 
 JUDAS. Drop the curtain of the past, and look to the 
 future. 
 
* 88 * 
 
 SAUL. I have seen in a vision Ananias coming unto me. 
 JUDAS. It is the Lord s doings, obey him. 
 
 ANANIAS IN DAMASCUS. 
 
 A VOICE IN THE NIGHT. Go to the house of Judas, for, 
 Behold ! Saul prayeth there. 
 
 ANANIAS. Lord, I have heard of this man. He has author 
 ity to bind all believers at this place. 
 
 LORD. Go thy way ; he shall be a chosen vessel before me 
 to the Gentiles, and suffer many things for my sake. 
 
 ANANIAS. Brother Saul, I have come fco tell thee to receive 
 thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. 
 
 SAUL. I am willing to serve my Lord in any way. I believe 
 He has forgiven me. 
 
 ANANIAS. Arise and be baptized, and fulfill His commands. 
 
 PAUL. Oh! Lord, give me strength ; the spirit is willing, but 
 the flesh is weak. 
 
 SIMON, LUCAS AND MARCUS. Now Brother, depart in peace, 
 and may God bless your labors. 
 
 PAUL AND BARNABAS IN SALAMIS. 
 
 SERGIUS PAULUS. My friends, will you explain to me the 
 Word of God, and what I must do to be saved f 
 
 PAUL. You are familiar with the prophets, and if you search 
 them diligently, you will find they all testify of Christ being the 
 Son of God, and of the death he should die ; that He would 
 rise again, and sit on the right hand of God, to make interces 
 sion for sinners. It is through Him our sins are pardoned. 
 
 ELYMAS unto Sergius. You are talking to a fanatic. The 
 High Priests read all the prophets. The impostor Christ, 
 denied all we believe, and said the temple should be destroyed 
 and built again in three days. 
 
 PAUL. Thou child of the devil, and enemy to all righteous 
 ness, wilt thou never cease to prevent the way of the Lord ! 
 Behold ! His hand is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind for a 
 season. 
 
 ELYMAS. I have sinned. Send some one to lead me. 
 
 SERGTUS. I know this power you possess comes from God. 
 I do believe with all my heart, and want to follow my Saviour, 
 
* 89 * 
 
 and may every one feel the same bliss I do, in acknowledging 
 His mercy. 
 
 PAUL. May God bless you, my brother, and help you to hold 
 fast to His precious promises. 
 
 PAUL AT ANTIOCH, IN PERSIDIA. 
 
 [Addresses the Multitude.] 
 
 MEN AND BRETHREN : Ye who fear the Lord give audience. 
 God with a strong arm brought our forefathers out of Egypt. 
 They dwelt forty years in the wilderness, and He destroyed 
 seven nations for them, and gave them judges one hundred 
 and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. After him, they 
 desired a king, and God gave them Saul for forty years. Then 
 He removed him, and made David king, of whom He said he 
 was a man after His own heart. Of this man s seed hath God, 
 according to His promise, raised unto Israel a Saviour Jesus. 
 John preached the baptism of repentance, and said, " There 
 cometh one after me, whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. 7 
 And to you who fear God is this salvation sent, but your rulers 
 knew Him not, for they have fulfilled the prophets in condemn 
 ing Him. They found no fault in Him, yet they desired He 
 should be slain, and after He was crucified, God raised Him 
 from the dead. And now He sitteth on His right hand, making 
 intercession for sinners, and by Him, a^l who believe are justi 
 fied. Beware! Remember what the prophets said, "Ye shall 
 perish ! for I work, and ye shall in no wise believe." 
 
 GENTILES unto Paid. Wilt thou preach the same sermen 
 next Sabbath "? 
 
 PAUL. I am a servant, and will do anything to change your 
 wicked ways. 
 
 JEWS unto Paul and Barnabas. The Gentiles request has 
 been complied with, and we the chosen people of God are not 
 noticed. 
 
 PAUL. It was necessary the Word should be preached to 
 you, but you have rejected it, and lo ! we turn to the Gentiles. 
 
 JEWS. We know you were trying to overthrow our doctrine. 
 
 CHIEF CAPTAIN. Drive these fanatics from hence. 
 
 A GENTILE. They preached unto you first, and your hearts 
 were hardened but we have received them gladly. God says 
 they shall be a light unto us, and we b lieve it is beyond your 
 powt-r to extinguish one of their dimmest rays; 
 
9 
 
 PAUL DEPARTETH TO ICONIUM. 
 
 CHIEF PRIEST. We must away with these disturbers, or our 
 creed will be lost. Stir up the discontented and have them 
 stoned. 
 
 A FRIEND unto Paul. Do you not know that the whole city 
 is gathering, to stone you ? Flee ! We will assist you in 
 making your escape. 
 
 PAUL. The Lord is on our side. 
 
 BARNABAS. This is a dark, rainy night, they will never dream 
 of our leaving. Our friends must not know of our going. 
 
 CITY OF ICONIUM IN AN UPROAR. 
 
 CHIEF CAPTAIN unto Chief Priests. I commanded these 
 officers to keep a close watch over those men, but I fear they 
 have let a little rain prevent them from performing their duty. 
 
 CAPTAIN unto Officer. Search diligently for them, and if they 
 cannot be found, I will hold you responsible. 
 
 OFFICER. They are not in the city, but we will have them as 
 soon as they can be brought. 
 
 CHIEF CAPTAIN unto Officer. Where are your prisoners ? 
 
 OFFICER. At Lystra, performing such miracles as never man 
 performed before. They healed a man who had been lame from 
 his birth, and all they did was to command him to stand on his 
 feet ; and the people say, that the gods have come down in the 
 likeness of men. They call Paul Jupiter, and Barnabas Mer- 
 curius. They brought oxen and garlands and wanted to 
 sacrifice to them, but these holy men of God stopped them, and 
 said God alone should be worshiped, and they must turn from 
 such vanities ; but they could scarcely restrain them. 
 
 CHIEF PRIEST. I knew we would be ruined. Put the bearer 
 of this unwelcome news in prison, and send others and see if 
 they will be converted too. 
 
 OFFICER. If they see what I did, they will be convinced that 
 our religion is like a whited sepulchre. 
 
 HIGH PRIESTS. Dare you speak thus after refusing to obey 
 our orders ! 
 
9 1 
 
 PAUL AND BARNABAS AT LYSTRA. 
 
 PAUL. Look, Brother ! there is a company from Iconium ! 
 We will be arrested, for they have imprisoned the other officer 
 because he believed on God. We cannot do more for Christ 
 than He has done for us. I am prepared for the worst. 
 Officers and Man Approach. 
 
 Where are those men who disturb our peace ? 
 
 PEOPLE. There is the principal one. 
 
 PAUL. I am here willing to suffer for my Master s cause. Oh ! 
 ye fickle-minded men of Lystra, ye are among our enemies too, 
 only a few days ago and you would have worshiped us gods 
 one day, and demons the next. 
 
 CAPT. Why do you all stand listening ? Stone him ! he 
 deserves death. [All cast stones], 
 
 PAUL. Oh ! Lord, I thank Thee I am worthy to suffer for 
 Thy name. They can kill my body, but my soul will live in end 
 less peace. 
 
 CAPT. He is dead. Drag him out of the city. Where is the 
 other ? Does it take a whole town and company to kill one man ? 
 
 SOLDIERS. Barnabas has escaped while we were slaying 
 Paul. 
 
 CAPT. We have the one who has done the most mischief ; let 
 us return at once and report to the High Priests. 
 
 [Paul s friends gather around him to see if there are any 
 signs of life.] 
 
 PRISCILLA. His pulse beats ! He breathes ! Bring some 
 water. Ah ! His lips move, Oh God spare him ! We had better 
 take him to the nearest house, and bathe his bruised limbs, we 
 may be discovered here. How he suffers ! 
 
 PAUL. Do not fear ; I am better now, and thankful I can suffer 
 for Thy cause, O God ! 
 
 DISCIPLE. Do not talk, we must conceal you ; the Jews think 
 you are dead. 
 
 PAUL. God gives me strength. I can see poor Stephen how 
 he looked on his enemies. Forgiveness beamed from his face, 
 and his last breath was a prayer for them, he is now in glory, 
 and I am here to suffer. 
 
 DISCIPLE. Dear brother, we will do all we can to alleviate 
 
* 92 * 
 
 your pain. Bathe your bruised limbs, and sleep, refreshing 
 sleep will soon soothe you. 
 
 BARNABAS. Brother, I would not have left you, but I knew I 
 could be of no service. They must have thought we are the sons 
 of Sampson from the number that tried to arrest us. When I 
 escaped I never expected to see you in this world. We must 
 go to Derbe, or we will be detected. 
 
 AT EPHESUS. 
 
 DISCIPLE (unto Paul). How long did you stay at Derbe ? 
 
 PAUL. Only a few days, but we strengthened the brethren, 
 and felt benefited ourselves. Have you received the Holy 
 Ghost ! 
 
 DISCIPLE. We have not so much as heard that there is a 
 Holy Ghost. 
 
 PAUL. Unto what were ye baptized, then ? 
 
 Dis. Unto John s baptism. 
 
 PAUL. John baptized unto repentance, saying, that one 
 should come after him Jesus Christ who would send the 
 Holy Ghost as a comforter, after He ascended into heaven. 
 
 Dis. We will be baptized in the name of the Lord. There 
 are twelve of us, and we will assist you all we can. 
 
 PAUL. I see fruit of the seed sown by the Spirit. And now, 
 brethren, we w T ill lay our hands on you, and you will receive 
 the Holy Ghost. 
 
 TIMOTHEUS (unto Paul). Since I have been traveling with 
 you I feel like all things have become new, and though trials 
 may await me, I have a power from on high to sustain me 
 through them all. 
 
 PAUL. I am glad to hear you express yourself in that way, 
 for last night I saw a man in a vision, saying, u Come over and 
 help us ! " And as we are needed at Macedonia, we will start 
 immediately. 
 
 PAUL. Our trip has been so pleasant that I can hardly realize 
 we are in Macedonia, where prayer is wont to be made. Ah ! 
 1 see quite a number of women resorting hither. 
 
 LYDIA (after preaching). My mind is clear, my heart is 
 changed, and to add to my joy, my entire household have 
 expressed a desire to unite with God s people. 
 
 PAUL. It always affords me much pleasure to comply with 
 such requests. 
 
* 93 * 
 
 [A damsel who brought her master much gain by sooth-saying, 
 followeth Paul and Silas.] 
 
 DAMSEL. These men are servants of the Most High God, 
 which shew us the way of salvation. 
 
 PAUL (unto the spirit). I command thee in the name of Jesus 
 Christ to come out of her. (Unto Silas) Behold the multitude ! 
 Be prepared. 
 
 DEMETRIUS. How dare you interfere with my profits ? Ar 
 rest these men and bring them before the magistrates. 
 
 MULTITUDE. We testify that these men are disturbers of the 
 peace, and teach customs which are not lawful for us to 
 receive. 
 
 MAGISTRATE. Beat them severely, and charge the jailor to 
 put them in the darkest dungeon. 
 
 A SCENE AT THE JAIL AT MIDNIGHT. 
 
 PRISONER. Ah ! List! Did you ever hear such music? Surely 
 heaven hath spared some of the celestial host to cheer this 
 loathsome place. 
 
 ANOTHER PRISONER. Why are you shaking so ? 
 
 1st. PRIS. It is not me but the earth. Lo ! Look at the doors, 
 they are all open, yet we dare not escape. 
 
 [The jailor awaketh and draweth a sword to Mil himself.] 
 
 PAUL. Do thyself no harm, we are all here. 
 
 JAILOR. Give me a light. I now know that I have sinned, 
 and while I prostrate myself to the ground, tell me what I 
 must do to be saved. 
 
 PAUL. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt 
 be saved. 
 
 JAILOR. Let me bathe your stripes. Will you forgive me, 
 and baptize me and mine, as we are all convinced that we are 
 wrong, and you are right ? 
 
 PAUL. Arise and be baptized. 
 
 JAILOR. Never was night so pregnant with good you have 
 ministered unto us such spiritual food as we needed; now come 
 into my house and be refreshed physically. 
 
 PAUL. We are more than compensated, that good has resulted 
 from our suffering. Often, troubles are blessings in disguise. 
 
 SERGEANTS (unto Jailor. Let these men go. 
 
* 94 * 
 
 KEEPER (unto Paul}. The magistrates say you can have your 
 freedom. 
 
 PAUL. They have beaten us openly, and uncondemned, and 
 it is beneath a Eoman to be thrust out privily. 
 
 SERGEANTS (unto Magistrates}. Those meu refuse to depart 
 unless you liberate them openly. 
 
 MAGISTRATES. We may get into trouble and must be more 
 careful in the future. [ Unto Paul and Silas]. We beseech you 
 to depart in peace, and regret the measures we have taken ; 
 only leave us, and we will be more guarded. 
 
 PAUL AND SILAS IN THESSALONICA. 
 
 PAUL [in the Synagogue]. I love to dwell on my Saviour s 
 love, how he cainc as an innocent babe, suffered and died, and 
 rose again, and is now on the right hand of God, pleading for 
 lost sinners. 
 
 JASON (whispers to Paul). Your life is in danger ; certain lewd 
 Jews have lit the torch, and the fire of revenge is spreading 
 rapidly all over the city. I will conceal you until their wrath 
 subsides. Go in haste to my house ; my wife has all arranged 
 Haste ! I see them coming. 
 
 JEWS (unto Jason}. Where are those men who were staying 
 with you ? 
 
 JASON. I dare not tell. 
 
 JEWS. Take him in their stead. 
 
 OAPT. (unto Jason}. You are accused of concealing men who 
 have turned the world upside down, teaching decrees contrary 
 to Caesar, saying there is another king (one Jesus). 
 
 JASON. You have me in your power, but those men are out of 
 your reach. 
 
 JEWS. We will take your security for them. Remember 
 what we say. We will have revenge. 
 
 JASON (unto Paul and Silas}. Now brethren you must depart, 
 for they will make every exertion to find you. 
 
 PAUL. We have concluded to go to Berea, and though we 
 regret leaving our friends without one word of consolation, yet 
 it would not be right to endanger your life, and ours too. 
 
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 PAUL AT BEREA. 
 
 Although we have been so cordially received here, yet, I still 
 feel anxious about the rage of those at Thessalonira. 
 
 SILAS. Oh ! Brother ! I see them coming rapidly. 
 
 DISCIPLE. Flee to Athens ! We will be as quick to shield 
 you, as they are to find out your whereabouts. 
 
 AT ATHENS. 
 
 EPICUREAN (unto Paul). What new doctrine art thou trying 
 to establish in our midst ? 
 
 STOIC. We must carry you to the Areopagus. 
 
 PAUL. I will go with pleasure, for I have heard that numbers 
 collect there to hear or tell something new. 
 
 THE JUDGE. I would like to know the meaning of these new 
 theories you are advancing. 
 
 [Paul in the midst of Mars Hill.] 
 
 Ye men of Athens : In all things I perceive you are too 
 superstitious, for as I passed by and beheld your devotions I 
 found you had this inscription : " To the unknown God." 
 Whom ye therefore ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto 
 you, God who made heaven and earth and all things therein, 
 dwelleth not in temples made with hands, neither is He wor 
 shiped with lip service, as though He ueedeth anything seeing 
 He giveth to all life snd breath, and has promised that to those 
 who seek Him, that He will be found of them, for in Him we live, 
 and move, and have our being, as certain of your poets have 
 said. For we are also His offspring. Forasmuch as we are the 
 offspring, we ought not to think the God head, is like unto gold, 
 or silver, or stone, graven by man s device. God commands 
 man every where to repent, because He hath appointed a day 
 in which He will judge the world in righteousness, by that Just 
 One whom He hath ordained, whereof He hath given assur 
 ance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead. 
 
 STOICS. We thought it would end in something about the re 
 surrection of the dead. 
 
 EPICUREAN. We will hear you again of this matter. 
 
 DIONYSIUS. Others and myself believe, and will ever revert 
 to this day, as the most pleasant of our lives, 
 
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 PAUL AT CORINTH. 
 
 Speaketh unto the Jews. I have testified unto you that Jesus 
 was the Christ, and ye have blasphemed and opposed me, from 
 henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. 
 
 CRISPUS Ruler of the Synagogue (unto Paul). My whole 
 household believe, and desire to be baptized ; and Justus bas 
 embraced thy cause, 
 [Paul, alone in the darkness of night, heareth the Lord, saying :] 
 
 " Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace, for I am 
 with thee, and no man shall harm thee, for I have much people 
 in this city. 
 
 [Paul brought before Oallio.} 
 
 .TEWS. This man persuaded men contrary to the law. 
 
 GALLIC, If there was an accusation of wickedness, I could 
 better bear with you. But if it is a question of manners and 
 words, and you are actuated by envy, depart at once. 
 
 PAUL (unto Oallio). Most Noble Gallio: You have the honor 
 of being the first officer, who has treated me with any degree 
 of kindness. I have been hurled from all with " Away, with 
 that blasphemer ! " without any investigation of the charges 
 brought against me. Accept my thanks, and you shall have my 
 prayers and gratitude. How it cheers my heart to see I am not 
 spurned by all, and that there is one at least who will not swerve 
 from duty when the masses are against him. 
 
 AT EPHESUS. . 
 
 DISCIPLE. There are many here who believe, and have heard 
 of the miracles you perform, and how you cast out devils. Last 
 week the sons of Sceva commanded an evil spirit by Jesus 
 whom Paul preached. The spirit came out of the man, and 
 possessed them, and they fell from the house wounded. The 
 spirit said : 4< Jesus I know, and Paul too, but who are ye ? " 
 G^reaf fear has fallen on all the Jews, and many have confessed, 
 and those who used curious arts, have burned their books 
 openly. 
 
 PAUL. May all such share the same fate. God s word will 
 prevail. Hark ! what noise is that I hear? They cry, "Great 
 
* 97 * 
 
 is Diana of the Ephesians." Look, they have Gains and Aris- 
 tarchus your companions, and now they go like madmen to the 
 theatre. 
 
 PAUL. I must go. 
 
 DISCIPLE. You know they will stone you. They have Alex 
 ander. Ah ! I see it is the work of one Demetrius, who makes 
 gold and silver shrines for Diana. He thinks his gains will be 
 lost, and he has caused this tumult among those who are of the 
 same opinion. List ! the town clerk is now speaking, and says 
 he will hold them responsible for so great a stir, without a 
 cause ; only a set of workmen saying it is disagreeable to 
 them. 
 
 PAUL. I will now visit all of the disciples as the crowd has 
 dispersed. 
 
 AT TROAS. 
 
 (Unto the Brethren). We must have preaching to-night. I am 
 compelled to leave to-morrow. 
 
 [Paul in the Synagogue.] 
 
 DISCIPLE. There has been a death in our midst. A young 
 man, named Eutychus, went to sleep, and fell to the first 
 story." 
 
 PAUL. Do not be distressed ; he has signs of life. 
 
 MOTHER OF EUTYCHUS. Thou hast divine power to restore 
 my dead son. I will ever praise God for His goodness. 
 
 AT EPHESUS. 
 
 [Sendeth for the Church.] 
 
 PAUL. Ye know from the first day I came unto you how I 
 have acted, serving the Lord with humility and many tears and 
 temptations, and how often the Jews have laid wait for me. I 
 taught publicly, and from house to house, testifying, both to 
 the Jews and Greeks, repentance toward our Lord Jesus 
 Christ. And now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not 
 knowing the things which shall befall me there, save that the 
 Holy Ghost witnesseth, in every city that bonds and afflictions 
 await me. Neither count I myself worthy to suffer for one who 
 has done so much for me. I know that there are many here 
 who shall see my face no more, therefore, I wish you would 
 bear me record, that I am pure from the blood of all men, for I 
 
* 98 * 
 
 have declared faithfully unto you the gospel of God. Be care 
 ful to feed the church of God, which has been purchased by 
 His blood. I know that after I depart grievous wolves will 
 enter in, not sparing the flock ; men shall arise and speak per 
 verse things, to draw others after them. Watch therefore, and 
 remember that for twelve years I ceased not to warn you, both 
 night and day with tears. I have administered unto my own 
 wants have told you that the strong ought to bear with the 
 weak, and that it is more blessed to give than to receive. We 
 will kneel and pray, before I leave. Weep not ; these earthly 
 separations will only be for a while, but there is a future, oh ! 
 thank God, where the sting of parting will be felt no more. 
 DISCIPLES. We will go to the ship with you. 
 
 PAUL AT PTOLEMAIS. 
 
 PAUL. We must spend some time with Philip. 
 . PHILIP. I see Agabus, the prophet of Judea, coming. I do 
 hope he will prevail on you to remain with us, and not go to 
 Jerusalem. 
 
 [Agabus taketli Paul s girdle and bindeth himself.] 
 
 AGABUS. Look at me, Brother Paul ! Listen to what the 
 Holy Ghost says : "So shall the Jews bind at Jerusalem the 
 man who owns this girdle, and shall deliver him to the Gen 
 tiles." 
 
 PAUL. I know trouble awaiteth me at Jerusalem. My 
 friends, do not weep and break my heart. I am not only ready 
 to be bound for ihy Saviour, but to die. 
 
 AT JERUSALEM. 
 
 [With Disciples.] 
 
 DISCIPLE. "We are delighted to have you with us again, yet 
 we tremble lest evil shall befall you. 
 
 PAUL. I have good tidings from the Gentiles ; many believe, 
 and some are anxious to PHI brace the truth. 
 
 Dis. Yes, there are thousands of the Jews converted, too. 
 We have four men purifying [themselves in the tpfliplp, would 
 H riot be best for you to purify yourself with theiu, to show the 
 Jews you are not averse to their customs ! 
 
* 99 * 
 
 Jews of Asia see Paul in the Temple, and cry : 
 
 Men of Israel, Help ! This is the man who teacheth the 
 people contrary to our law, and furthermore, hath brought 
 Greeks into the temple to pollute it. 
 
 JEWS. Drag him out of the temple, do not defile it with his 
 blood beat him to death. 
 
 OFFICER (unto Captain}. All Jerusalem is in an uproar, and 
 they are murdering Paul. 
 
 OFFICER. Collect soldiers and centurions and go as quick as 
 possible. 
 
 CAPTAIN (unto Jews}. I can discover naught save your con 
 fused cries, he has done nothing worthy of death. Take him 
 to the castle. 
 
 MULTITUDE. Away with him ! 
 
 PAUL (On the stair-case of the castle}. May I speak unto 
 thee ? 
 
 CAPT. Canst thou speak Greek ? Art thou not that Egyptian 
 who commanded four thousand murderers in the wilderness ? 
 
 PAUL. I am a Jew of Tarsus, a city of Celicia, and I beseech 
 thce to let me speak unto these people. 
 
 [Paul stilleth the multitude and xpeakcth in Hebrew} : 
 
 Men and Brethren Hear ye my defense : I was brought up at 
 the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect man 
 ner of the laws of the fathers, and was zealous, as you all are. 
 I persecuted unto death both men and women. Your High 
 Priests can bear me witness that I obtained letters from them 
 to bring all from Damascus to Jerusalem to be punished. And 
 it came to pass, as I was near Damascus, about noon, suddenly 
 there shone a bright light about me, and I fell to the ground, 
 and heard a voice, saying : " Saul ! Saul ! Why persecutest 
 thou me?" And I answered, "Who art thou, Lord?" And 
 He said, " I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest." 
 I asked, " What shall I do, Lord?" He said, "Arise, and go 
 unto Damascus, and it shall be told thee what to do." Ananias, 
 a devout man, was sent to tell me that I must bear witness 
 unto all men of what I had seen and heard, and I arose and 
 was baptized. And it came to pass again, when I was praying 
 in the temple in Jerusalem, I was in a trance, and Christ said, 
 "Make haste and get thee down to Jerusalem;" and I said, 
 44 Lord, they know how I have treated those who believed 
 
* 100 * 
 
 on Thee; and when (he blood of Thy martyr Stephen was spilt 
 I assisted." The*n the Lord said, " Depart ! I will send thee to 
 the Gentiles. 7 
 
 MULTITUDE. Away ! with this man from the earth. He can 
 not live. 
 
 CAPTAIN. Bring him unto the house, and examine him by 
 scourging. 
 
 PAUL. Is it lawful to bind or scourge a Eoman uncon- 
 demned $ 
 
 OAPT. Art thou a Koinan ? 
 
 PAUL. Yes. 
 
 CAPT. With a great sum obtained I this freedom. 
 
 PAUL. I was born free ! 
 
 CAPT. (Aside). I regret binding him. 
 
 CAPT. To-morrow the Chief Priests and all the Council will 
 meet, and you must appear before them for trial. 
 
 PAUL. I will be pleased to do so. 
 
 PAUL IN THE PRESENCE OF THE COUNCIL. 
 
 Men and Brethren : I have lived in all good conscience be 
 fore God until this day. 
 
 ANANIAS. Smite him on the mouth. 
 
 PAUL. God shall smite thee, thou whited wall. Sittest thou 
 to judge me after the law, and commandos t thou me to be smit 
 ten contrary to the law ? 
 
 JEW. Reviles! thou God s High Priests ? 
 
 PAUL. I wist not, brethren, that he was a High Priest, for it 
 is written, " Thou shalt not speak evil of thy people s ruler." 
 Listen. I am a Pharisee ! Of the hope of the resurrection of 
 the dead, am I called in question. 
 
 PHARISEES. We find no evil in this man ; and if an angel hath 
 spoken to him, let us not tight against God. 
 
 CAPT. Bring him into the castle, or he will be torn to pieces. 
 They are divided, and know not what they do. 
 
 The Lord spealceth at night to Paul. Be of good cheer, for 
 as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear 
 witness of me in Eome. 
 
 \Paurs nephew calleth for Chief Captain. Both enter at private 
 
 room.] 
 
 NEPHEW. I am sent to notify you that there are forty men 
 who have taken an oath that they would neither eat, nor drink, 
 
* 101 * 
 
 until they had slain Paul. They intend requesting you to bring 1 
 him down to-morrow to inquire more concerning him, and then 
 they will kill him. 
 
 CAPT. See thou tell no man of this. 
 
 CAPT. (unto ( enturion). Make ready two hundred soldiers, 
 and horsemen three score and ten; spearsmen, two hundred. 
 Be prepared to start by the third hour of the night. I wish to 
 send Paul safe to Felix. 
 
 SOLDIERS (to Paul). We are ready. All things must be done 
 quietly, for we will have trouble if discovered. Fear not; we 
 will take you safe to Felix. 
 
 SOLDIERS AT CESAREA. 
 
 SOLDIER. Most Noble Felix : Here is a letter from Claudius, 
 and a prisoner the noted Paul. 
 
 FELIX (unto Paul). Claudius has found nothing worthy of 
 death or bonds, and has therefore sent you unto me. When thy 
 accusers come, then I can hear thee. 
 
 ANANIAS THE HIGH PRIEST, AND TERTULLUS THE ORATOR. 
 
 TERTULLUS. Most Noble Felix: Thou art renowned for thy 
 learning, and good judgment, and the nation feels gratified with 
 thy wise counsel. But not desirous to be tedious unto thee, I 
 pray that thou wouldst hear a few words : We have found this 
 man a pestilent fellow, a ringleader of the Nazarenes, who have 
 profaned our Holy Temple, whom we took and would have 
 judged according to our law, but the Chief Captain Lysias took 
 him by force, commanding his accusers to come unto thee. 
 
 JEWS. His testimony is ours. 
 
 FELIX. Paul, thou canst speak for thyself. 
 
 PAUL. Knowing that thou hast been a ruler, for many years, 
 I do the more cheerfully answer for myself. It has been only 
 twelve days since I went to Jerusalem to worship. They 
 neither found me in the temple disputing with any one, or 
 raising a disturbance in the city, or synagogue. But I do con 
 fess after the manner they call heresy, so worship I the God of 
 my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and 
 prophets ; and have hope towards God, which they also allow, 
 that there shall be a resurrection of the dead. I have a con 
 science void of offense toward God and man. After many 
 
* IO2 * 
 
 years I came to bring alms to my nation, whereupon certain 
 Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with 
 multitude, nor with tumult, who ought to have been here, if they 
 have aught against me. But those who are here cannot say they 
 have found evil against me except it be in my believing in the 
 resurrection of the dead. 
 
 FELIX. When Lysias comes, I will hear the utmost of the 
 matter. 
 
 [Paul reasons of truth and righteousness.] 
 
 FELIX (trembles and says] : Go thy way for this time, at a more 
 convenient season I will call for thee. 
 
 PAUL (before Festus). These numerous complaints which the 
 Jews have laid before you they cannot prove If I have done 
 anything worthy of death I refuse not to die ; I appeal unto 
 Caesar. 
 
 FESTUS. Thou hast appealed unto Ca3sar, unto Ca3sar thou 
 shalt go. 
 
 FESTUS (unto Agrippa). There are accusations against 
 Paul, but they are prompted wholly by the superstition of the 
 Jews. 
 
 AGRIPPA. I would like to hear him myself. 
 
 PAUL BEFORE FESTQS AND AGRIPPA. 
 
 FESTUS. Here is the man whom prejudice says ought not to 
 live any longer, and as he has appealed unto Cresar, I would like 
 to know what charges to send with him. Therefore, I would be 
 pleased if you would examine him, most noble Agrippa. 
 
 AGRIPPA. Paul, thou art permitted to speak for thyself. 
 
 PAUL. I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I may 
 answer concerning all the things whereof I am accused by the 
 Jews, and I do beseech thee to hear me patiently. My manner 
 of life from my youth all know, and how many saints I shut np 
 in prison. And as I was going to Damascus, I saw a light at 
 midday, above the brightness of the sun ; and I heard a voice, 
 saving : " Saul ! Saul ! Why persecutest thou me ? " And I 
 said : " Who art thou, Lord ? " The Voice said : " I am Jesus 
 whom thou persecutest. I will make thee a minister, and a 
 witness of these things which will appear unto thee. Where 
 upon oh! King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly 
 vision. But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jeru 
 salem, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent, and turn io 
 God. For these causes alone the Jews caught me in the temple 
 
* 103 + 
 
 and intended to kill me, but I had help from God, and still 
 witness to small and great, none other things than those which 
 Moses and the prophets did say should come to pass that 
 Christ should suffer and be raised from the dead, and should be 
 a light unto the Gentiles. 
 
 FESTUS. Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth 
 make thee mad. 
 
 PAUL. I am not mad, most noble Felix, but speak forth the 
 words of truth and soberness. The king knoweth of these 
 things, for they were not done in a corner. King Agrippa, be- 
 lievest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest ? 
 
 AGRIPPA. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. 
 
 PAUL. I would to God that not only thou, but also those who 
 are with thee were not almost, but were altogether such as I 
 am save these bonds. 
 
 KING (aside unto Bernice). This man doeth nothing worthy 
 of death. 
 
 AGRIPPA. If thou Imdst not appealed unto Ca3sar, thou 
 couldst have been free Hope you will have a pleasant journey 
 to Italy. 
 
 PAUL. Thank you. The kindness I have met with here, will 
 ever be an oasis in the desert of my memory. 
 
 PAUL ON BOARD THE VESSEL, 
 
 JULIAS (to Paul). When we land, you can visit your relatives 
 and friends. 
 
 PAUL. We are near the Fair Havens. I fear this voyage will 
 be one of peril to our lives, and destruction to the ship. 
 
 CAPT. The harbor is not commodious to winter in. We must 
 go to Phonice; we have a south wind, and will soon make it. 
 
 PAUL. It has only been a few hours since I told you to 
 beware, and ye heeded not. Now the Euroclydon is blowing, 
 and we will have trouble. 
 
 CAPT. Have the ship imdergirded, 1 fear we will be dashed 
 against the quicksands. This is the third day since we have 
 seen the sun, or stars. 
 
 SOLDIERS. We will be lost! All must have a watery 
 grave. 
 
 CAPT. I have done all in my power ; this noble barque has 
 fought long and bravely against the angry waves, but she will 
 soon be dashed to pieces 
 
* 104 * 
 
 PAUL. Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not loosed 
 from Crete. But be of good cheer, there shall be no loss of 
 life only the grand old ship, and she is now making her dying 
 struggles. 
 
 OAPT. Oh! Paul! Thou art a man of God, and I do repent 
 not taking heed to thy advice; do tell me how thou knowest 
 we will be saved. 
 
 PAUL. There stood by me to night an angel of God, whom I 
 serve, and said: "Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before 
 Coesar. And Lo ! God hath given thee all who sail with thee." 
 Now, be of good cheer, for it will be as God has promised, yet 
 we must be cast on a certain island. 
 
 GAPT. I think we are near land ; have them to see. 
 
 PAUL. We had best cast anchor and wait for the morning. 
 
 SAILORS. We will risk our lives in the deep this vessel 
 cannot last an hour longer. 
 
 PAUL (unto Centurion). Unless these men stay in the ship they 
 cannot be saved and this is the fourteenth day we have been 
 fasting, and you all must eat something, for no harm shall 
 befall any of you. Now let us give thanks, and believe that the 
 three score and sixteen souls shall be saved. 
 
 CAPT. Throw the wheat overboard. I see land, and we must 
 thrust the ship into the creek. Ah ! noble vessel ! We must 
 soon bury thee beneath the waves, with which thou hast 
 battled so bravely ! Would that we could save thee, for we 
 have watched with breathless anxiety thy peaceful movements 
 when the waves seemed like playthings to thee. But now, thou 
 art mastered. I see the hinder part of the ship is broken ! Do 
 all y< u can to save yourselves. 
 
 SOLDIERS. Would it not be best to kill the prisoners, lest 
 some of them escape I 
 
 CENTURION. No, not one life shall be taken ! All who can 
 swim, cast yourselves into the sea and try to make the land. 
 Here are boards and planks, for those who cannot swim. 
 
 PAUL. Do not be alarmed ! Be of good cheer ! All I have 
 told you has come to pass, so far. I know we shall all be 
 saved. 
 
 SOLDIER. Catch my arm, I am sinking. 
 
 PAUL. Here is a stick ; be composed. Now you are safe, 
 help others. 
 
 CAPT. (to Paul}. We will consider you a prophet, and must 
 say there is a reality in the religion you profess. They are all 
 
* 105 * 
 
 safo. Let us go to the fire and warm, it is kind of these stran 
 gers to anticipate our wants. 
 
 PAUL. I will take some wood with me. 
 
 OAPT. Oh ! snake ! Knock it off. Ah ! it is too late ! You 
 are bitten ! Are you suffering much ? 
 
 PAUL. I feel no pain at all. 
 
 BARBARIAN. We thought this man must have been a mur 
 derer, and though he escaped the storm, was doomed to die a 
 more painful death. But now we see he is not hurt, and con 
 clude he is a god ! or he would have fallen dead. The bite of 
 this serpent is always fatal. 
 
 PAUL. The God whom I serve has spared me. It is from Him 
 alone I look for help. I can do nothing of myself. 
 
 PUBLIUS (Ruler of the Island). I want you to remain with us 
 as long as you can be contented. 
 
 PAUL. Thank you. We did not expect such hospitality from 
 strangers. 
 
 PUBLIUS. My father is very sick, and I believe you possess 
 power from on high, so I wish you would come and see him. 
 
 PAUL. I have naught, save what my Father giveth me. 
 
 BARBARIAN. There is something mysterious about this man. 
 He only laid his hands on the father of Publius, and he recov 
 ered : and he has healed many others. The soldiers say he 
 foretold them of their danger. Have you seen him f 
 
 BARBARIAN. No. I wish he would remaiw with us. He is 
 not like other men will receive no credit for what he 
 
 PAUL AT ROME. 
 
 PAUL (before the Jews). Men and Brethren : --Though I have 
 committed nothing against the people, or their customs, yet was 
 I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the 
 Romans, who when they had examined me, would have let me 
 go, not finding anything worthy of death in me. But when the 
 Jews spake against it, I appealed unto Ctjesar. Xot that I had 
 aught to accuse my nation of, but to say that for the hope of 
 Israel, I am bound with this chain. 
 
 JEWS. We have not heard anything of your imprisonment, 
 and welcome you in our midst. We desire to hear you speak, 
 and wish y,u to <lwell some time with us. 
 
 ANOTHER PARTY OF JEWS. He said that our eyes were 
 
io6 
 
 closed, and oar ears dull of hearing, and we would not under 
 stand with our hearts, that we may be converted, and that he 
 was sent to the Gentiles. 
 
 PAUL. Brethren, my past history you all know. I expect to 
 remain two years with you. If we are united, we can march as 
 one great phalanx against the enemy. There must be no vain 
 strife, but all work together in God s grand army, having Jesus 
 for our Captain. And when we lay our armor down, each can 
 say : " I have fought a good fight. The battle is over, and now 
 I will rest in peace ! " 
 
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 # 
 
 WRITTEN AFTER THE DEATH OF MY BABE. 
 
 My bud of innocence, thou wilt bloom above 
 
 Amidst the songs of angels, and a Saviour s love. 
 
 No sigh will ever rend thine infant breast, 
 
 Nor tear bedim thine eye ; thou art at rest. 
 
 Strike the harp gently in thy blissful home ; 
 
 Let Mother catch the echo, till she come 
 
 To clasp thee to her loving heart, 
 
 Of which for aye thou art alone the larger part. 
 
 Oh Birdie, thou did st nestle near 
 
 Thy mother. What hadst thou to fear? 
 
 Pure as a. dew drop on the lily s leaf, 
 
 Thou rt gone ! Thy mother s heart is tilled with grief. 
 
 Oh God! is it because I m or sinner s chief? 
 
 Father of heaven, I pray thee send to me relief. 
 
 List ! I hear a sweet voice from out the skies : 
 
 Brush the tear-drop from thine aching eyes, 
 
 The family chain is broken this link of love, 
 
 Will gently draw thee to thy home above. 
 
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 Hark ! Listen ! What is that I hear ? It is the matin lay 
 Of Nature s warblers, joining glad, to wake the drowsy day. 
 Lift up your heads, ye flowerets fair besprinkled o er with dew, 
 And hail the joyous hour of morn with fragrance rich and new. 
 Leap high and dash your snowy foam, ye silvery wimpling rills, 
 And make soft music as ye wend your way down wooded hills ; 
 Auiora s herald streaks will fade in growing light of day, 
 The sun, like monarch waked from sleep, will brighten with his 
 
 ray 
 
 The upland slope, the meadow green, the field of waving corn, 
 And of his genial smile, erstwhile, a thousand beauties born, 
 Will gladden with a heavenly thrill all Nature s vast expanse, 
 And happiness of bird and rill a thousand-fold enhance. 
 Oh, dullard man ! unheeding all ! Awake thee from thy slumber, 
 And to the Giver of all goodrais^ thou the tuneful number ; 
 All these for thee did God create ; lead thou the joyful measure, 
 And let not brook and field, innate, proclaim thy shameful 
 
 leisure. 
 
 Come forth in grandeur and in might, a son of light and power, 
 With mind and soul equipped for good, to meet the labor hour. 
 The harvest nil about you lies, who will the sheaflets bind 
 With earnest zeal and rock ribbed faith, and loving, willing 
 
 mind, 
 For the home on high, where angels are, and bliss abides for 
 
 aye 
 Where the crown for the cross, the harp for the hook, for life 
 
 the undimmed eye? 
 
 Arouse, arouse ! ye sons of men ! The conflict now is fierce, 
 Tis hand to hand, and sword to sword, if we the ranks would 
 
 pierce, 
 And drive the foe from out the field, whose presence is our 
 
 shame ; 
 
 Kelying in our greatest need on the Almighty Name, 
 Whose prevalence must conquer all, and make us victors, too. 
 He will our courage, strength and joy, from day to day renew ; 
 Well trust us to His strong Eight arm, through which we ll 
 
 surely win 
 Prayer is the door to heaven s joys, Faith the key to let us in. 
 
ITS ADVOCATES. THE PYRAMID. 
 
 THE spirit of Evolution is diffusing itself in our schools, per 
 meating our literature, and attempting to undermine the Bible 
 I would not have the egotism to differ with the scientific men 
 of the age, if I did not have the testimony of the most noted 
 geologist in direct contradiction to what they affirm. Prof. 
 Dana, of Yale College, says on page 262 of his Geology : " The 
 man ape nearest in structure to man, has a cranium of but 
 thirty-four cubits in capacity or half that of the lowest 
 existing man ; and no link between has been found no human 
 remains that the past fifteen years of active research have 
 brought to light, afford evidence of the existence of a race less 
 perfectly erect than the man, or nearer to the man-ape in essen 
 tial characteristics " The man-ape of the present day the 
 Gorilla, the Orang-outang are the termination of the lines of 
 succession that reaches up to them ; but as to the line supposed 
 to end in man, not the first link has been found. Thus geo 
 logical discovery leaves man alone at the head of the system of 
 life, far removed from his nearest allies among the brute crea 
 tion. 
 
 On page 238 of the same book, he speaks of the skulls 
 and skeletons of man, being found in the southern part of 
 France, and in Belgium, which will compare with any of the 
 present day. Prof. Dana also answered through the New York 
 Independent, in this impressive language: " I further endeavor 
 to show that man s physical nature, as well as his spiritual, was 
 not the product, or educt of evolutionary processes, but it de 
 manded for its creation a divine act, referring for proof (as done 
 by Wallace) to Huxley, who says that the brain of the lowest 
 race of man, has twice the cubic contents of the man-ape ; and 
 further to the fact, that the skeleton of man is adapted through 
 out for a vertical position, and that of an ape for an inclined 
 one." And that geology has discovered no human remains any 
 where, that indicate a lower grade of man than now exists, or 
 one that makes the first shade of approximation to the inclined 
 structure of the ape, and also to the existence of a moral sense, 
 
* no * 
 
 all showing that some other power than nature s, was required 
 for man s production." 
 
 I quote so extensively from Dana, because every school boy 
 and girl is conversant with his Geology ; and I write for them, 
 and wish to impress it upon their minds, that this is not the 
 language of a feeble-minded woman but of such men as Dana, 
 Wallace and Huxley. Yet the advocates of Evolution tell us 
 they get their knowledge from Geology, and many of the would- 
 be scientific, swallow this morsel of infidelity without even 
 chewing it. But my young friends, I want you to analyze every 
 part carefully, before you even taste of this tempting bait. 
 Now I wish you to listen to one of the brightest lights in the 
 Evolutionary horizon. Though a believer, he does not wish to 
 delude others. He says, in the Scientific Monthly : " That mere 
 reasoning can never convince the world. It must be hard, de 
 fiant facts, which none can gainsay. But verily no such facts, 
 nor even their most distant forecasts, are before us. The 
 profound difficulties which bustle round the inquiry, on every 
 hand, are prominent signals for caution, while the uncertainty 
 and incompetency of the methods hitherto employed, and their 
 conflicts of results, is alive with meaning. We know from 
 actual observation almost nothing with certainty, and the little 
 we do know from such careful and patient observers as Cohen, 
 Billroth, Lancaster, Eay and others, is so complex and conflict 
 ing as to demonstrate the necessity of years of patient experi 
 ment, and skillful research, to plainly tell us of our ignorance. 
 
 The largest difficulty surrounding the question of the mode 
 of origin of sceptic organisms, is that of discovering the life 
 cycle. By dealing with them in aggregations, we run told and 
 untold risks. The conflict of results by this means, in the most 
 accomplished hands, employing the most refined methods, 
 during the past eighteen years, is sufficient witness. Eepeti- 
 tions of experiments and conflicting results, and explanations 
 of the reasons why and so the cycle rolls. Of course, impor 
 tant lessons are learned ; but not the lesson. For the weight 
 of evidence is not only, not in favor of abiogenesis, but in the 
 strongest sense adverse to it. This great man (Dallinger) 
 wants the truth, and nothing but the truth. Would that all 
 were equally honest, then the monument would be removed, 
 and the putrefying body of infidelity unearthed. The president 
 of Princeton College, after proving the impossibility of agnos 
 ticism, asks, if we believe in this system what have we left, to 
 
4- III * 
 
 cheer us through life, or to cling- to in death f Will we be apt to 
 set a higher value on life when we know it to be a mere bundle 
 of impressions, with unsubstantial ideas growing out of them ? 
 Will we take a deeper interest in our neighbors when we have 
 come to believe theoretically (for to believe it practically is im 
 possible) that they too are mere congeries of appearances f 
 Will we be disposed to do more for the world when we regard 
 it as a set and series of phantasmagoria, bound by rigid uni 
 formities of likeness, co-existence and succession f Will we 
 be most likely to feel that life is worth living, and that it is our 
 duty to work for its good, when we contemplate it as a mere 
 series of images, which do not reflect any reality f Will not 
 one hindrance to self-indulgence be removed when we are made 
 to acknowledge that sensations and pleasures are realities, and 
 that there are no others? Will not one hindrance to self-murder 
 which we may be tempted to commit when in trouble, be re 
 moved, when we are sure that we are merely stopping a series 
 of sensations ? Will the regret of the learned murderer be 
 deepened, when he is told by the highest philosophy that he has 
 only put an arrest on a few pulsations ? Agnosticism can never 
 become the creed of the great mass of any people, but if it 
 should be taught by the philosophy of the day, I fear its influ 
 ence on the youth, who might be led, not to amuse themselves 
 with it, but by faith to adopt it, and would find some of the 
 hindrances to vice removed, and some of the incentives to evil 
 encouraged. It destroys the foundation of all religions, and 
 those w ho receive such a system must prepare themselves to 
 part with all the consolation they ever received from religion. 
 Now, weigh well what you have read. The testimony of the 
 first man is, that important lessons in Biology have been 
 learned but not the lesson and that after eighteen years of 
 patient research, there has not been found one link to connect 
 the iron chain of reasoning. And what has been learned are mere 
 signals for caution. Then the president of Princeton College, 
 uniting his voice with thousands of others, warning the youth 
 of our land to beware of the quagmire of infidelity, which so 
 many of them are rushing madly into. 
 
 But if there was not one man who had moral courage enough 
 to speak one word against Evolution, there is a monument, the 
 echo of whose voice has sounded through forty centuries, say 
 ing to the scientific of to-day, "I look down with disdain upon 
 this progressive age ; I transcend by fifty feet the pinnacles of 
 
* 112 * 
 
 St. Peter at Rome ; I am the most accurately oriented building 
 in the world ; my foundation covers thirteen acres of ground ; 
 the immense blocks of stone of which I am built are eight 
 feet in length, nearly the same in breadth, and five feet in 
 thickness ; these rise in tiers, one above the other, comprising 
 two hundred and sixty layers, making my height four hundred 
 and eighty-four feet, How these stones were quarried, adjusted, 
 and by what machinery lilted, defies the best engineers of the 
 present day to answer. I have witnessed the ruin of many 
 empires, yet remained silent for four thousand years, but now I 
 will utter forth the voice of God in lofty eloquence, and unfold 
 the prophecies of His Word, asking the atheistic world to un 
 ravel the mathematical and astronomical labyrinths of knowl 
 edge possessed by the semi-brutes of the transition period. 
 The Royal Astronomer of Scotland, Prof. Smyth, will explain 
 why I was built. Joseph Taylor Goodsir, F. R. S. E., asserts 
 that sound science is not only a handmaid, but a defender of 
 sound religion, and brings my adamantine materials to testify to 
 the state of the stellar heavens at the time of iny building. I 
 help to determine the date of the flood, and to give consistency 
 to the chronology and history of diluvian and post-diluvian 
 times. I testify to the importance of the physical sciences, ter 
 restrial and cosmical, not merely from the utilitarian, but from 
 a religious point of view. We thus see united, science and 
 religion, testifying from my summit, with re-awakened voice, 
 just as they were intended to do more than four thousand years 
 ago. I am the oldest building, and I harmonize with the oldest 
 book. St. John, Vincent Day, civil engineer of Glasgow, and 
 numbers of others speak of me in a similar manner. And it 
 appears to me the most absurd of all theories, that men just 
 emerging from monkeyhood, could understand the science of 
 the heavens and earth, better than those of this advanced age. 
 God made man a powerful and highly intellectual being, but 
 some of them feel their degeneracy so keenly, they conclude 
 they must be nearly related to some brute. " But I stand here 
 in my massive strength, testifying to the world that it required 
 more science than Evolutionists possess to build me, and when 
 I am properly understood I will cause the advocates of this 
 blighting system to stagger with the weight of their own convic 
 tions. And my voice will be heard when the brutalizing athe 
 ism of this progressive age lies buried by its infidel brothers, 
 Porphyry, Julian, Voltaire, Hume and Bolingbroke. 
 
 I 
 
jay TKeaepTLE^p OJHLD^EN. #* 
 
 Y heart is sad to-night. 
 
 Oh ! lamps, why shine so bright ? 
 As if in mockery of my fears, 
 E en stars refuse to watch my tears. 
 Terrific clouds are gathering fast, 
 Night s dark shrouds are o er me cast ; 
 The angry waves do foam and dash ; 
 Thunders roar, and lightnings flash; 
 Still my children have not come. 
 What would life be ? What would home * 
 Did not their presence chase the gloom ! 
 Despair would soon my life entomb. 
 Ah ! my prayers seem all in vain, 
 And my heart must burst with pain. 
 Stop my children ! Pause and think ! 
 You perchance are on the brink 
 Of death s dark flood ; tis cold and wide, 
 And deep ! Without a Saviour s guide 
 You ne er can stem this raging flood. 
 Your strength lies only in His blood. 
 On bended knee, for mercy cry. 
 The Lord will hear, nor will deny 
 His boat of life to yonder shore, 
 Where sting of death is felt no more. 
 
114 
 
 OF A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER. 
 
 the tide of life is ebbing fast, 
 And the gates of deatli will soon be past. 
 Come now, and kneel close by my side, 
 
 And list as life doth switly glide. 
 
 Thou hast shared with me my rief and joys ; 
 
 We ve known and loved since we were boys. 
 
 Do you remember one bright spring-like day? 
 
 When the birds sang sweetest in the month of May ? 
 
 How we gathered our hats full of lovely flowers, 
 
 And chased the butterflies for many hours ? 
 
 There played with us a little girl, with dark brown hair, 
 
 And eyes, and rosy, dimpled cheeks, and skin so fair. 
 
 We gathered shells on the sea-beach strand, 
 
 And I read your mind, as you traced on sand, 
 
 Lines to one you loved. Since then her name 
 
 Has ever been your theme, and guiding star to fame. 
 
 Alas ! our childhood s gone, our years have flown. 
 
 We little boys have now to manhood grown. 
 
 What s that we hear? our gun s call ! the band ! 
 
 Blood has been spilt! Distress is o er our land ! 
 
 Strong hearts must break at this the parting hour. 
 
 The die is cast, and storm-clouds o er us lower. 
 
 There is a being, pure a noble lover s pride, 
 
 Soon to become his lovely, childish bride. 
 
 Then hearts will bleed at war s stern blast, 
 
 And brightest hopes be relegated to the past. 
 
 Well do I remember on that eve serene, 
 
 The tears and sadness of that parting scene. 
 
 You thought you felt the keenest pang, 
 
 For with much gaiety I talked and sang. 
 
 But there was smothered flame, a fire 
 
 Consumed my heart. I feared that- ire 
 
 Would take the place of brother s love. 
 
 I tell thee all, for soon above 
 
The trials of this mocking life 
 
 I sweet shall rest from passion s strife. 
 
 Tell her my life I laid on my country s shrine. 
 
 My last wish was, she should be thine. 
 
 I d fain have her weep, with drooping head, 
 
 When you return with glad and gallant tread, 
 
 For I shall live, though numbered with the dead. 
 
 Live with my Lord. Death has no dread. 
 
 With leagued oppression poured by northern hate, 
 
 I shudder for my friends, but may their fate 
 
 Be that of Spartan bold, and Thermopylae, 
 
 Their watchword ever, Death or Liberty ! 
 
 For I would rather fill an honored soldier s grave, 
 
 Than crouch to Tyranny a conquered slave. 
 
 Of those at home, I would now like to speak, 
 
 Raise my head Some water. Ah ! so weak. 
 
 This lock of hair I send my aged mother. 
 
 My sword I so cherished, to my oldest brother. 
 
 Tell them, upheld by fa th I do not fear : 
 
 Christ is my surety ; my release is near. 
 
 More air ! Water ! Oh ! this anguished breath. 
 
 Farewell fi lends! farewell! The soldier lay in death. 
 
0M> 6BfPEYI. ** 
 
 |APA, spare that lovely vine. 
 
 My heart will ever round it twine. 
 Don t tear it from its rustic home, 
 It cares not for a costly dome. 
 
 Oft my play-house I have made, 
 And laid my dolls beneath its shade. 
 Who would not love this fa j ry bower, 
 Where life seemed but one joyous hour ! 
 
 Well do I remember many a time, 
 
 Of stealing grapes from this aged vine, 
 
 While the other children would jump with glee, 
 
 And say, " Throw the in down ! Papa wont see." 
 
 Its tendrils doth around me cling, 
 And neath its shade I often sing. 
 I ve watched it bear for six long years, 
 It ? s heard my laugh and seen my tears. 
 
 Then, Papa, do not scorn my tear, 
 
 Though weak to you it may appear. 
 
 But spare for me this aged vine, 
 
 Whose tendrils round my heart-strings twine. 
 
-H|C 
 
 HER MOBIL CHARACTER, AND THE ANTI-CHRISTIAN 
 TENDENCY OF HER WRITINGS. 
 
 I would not treat departed eminence with disrespect, but in 
 analyzing all characters of note, it is a duty to separate the gold 
 from the dross ; lest while we are profusely embalming the 
 dead with eulogisms, we ensnare the living into a net of admi 
 ration, from which they cannot easily extricate themselves. 
 
 The unmixed commendation of George Eliot s talents, with 
 out the most gentle censure of her principles and practices, 
 will impress the youthful mind with over-valuation of genius, 
 unsanctifled by Christian principles, or dignified by virtuous 
 conduct. 
 
 2Jo brilliancy of mind or diversity of attainments should ever 
 be allowed as commutation for defective morals, or corrupt ideas. 
 And George Eliot did prepare a solution of poison which she 
 sedulously diffused through her writings, knowing that it would 
 be more universally fatal than the elixir of her friends Tyndal, 
 Spencer and Huxley, whose automaton she was. The fascina 
 ting label of romance would cause the indolent thinkers to 
 taste, while only an industrious few would attempt to analyze 
 the compounds of biology, sociology, and paleontology. These 
 glittering threads of romance which she interweaves in the 
 texture of her infidelity, charm even the lowest of minds. 
 She attempts to annihilate chastity, by making her heroes and 
 heroines appear more remarkable and amiable without it, thus 
 alluring the unsuspecting to embrace vice not that they 
 prefer it, but because she has it so masked as to represent 
 virtue. This plausible, metaphysical sophistry debauches the 
 very core of virtue ; and, like the deadly mildew, blights the 
 blooming promise of the spring of life. She makes her heroes 
 and heroines descant on depravity with as much solemnity as if 
 their object was to allay the tumult of the passions, while they 
 are letting them loose by plucking off the muzzle of present 
 restraint and future accountableness. This bold impiety and 
 brutish sensuality will wrap fatally about the heart, and check 
 its moral circulation, and totally stop the pulse of goodness ; 
 or, in other words, it will choke the stream of virtue, by drying 
 up the fountain of future remorse and remote repentance. 
 
* u8 * 
 
 Some may say, as Schopenhauer and Hartmann, that morals 
 and religion are necessary for the masses. But the sun of 
 genius will shed a halo so bright, that even licentiousness will 
 be overshadowed. 
 
 ; Mary Clemmer and others who say that George Eliot s 
 moral nature was too seraphic to be commented on by common 
 people, are but echoing the voice of Sandoval, when he de 
 clared the profligate Alexander, of the house of Medici, to be 
 a person of excellent manners, and although he acknowledges 
 his licentiousness, Sandoval makes him so fascinating that he 
 charmed those Florentines, whose dukedom he had usurped, 
 and whose wives and daughters he had dishonoured. Another 
 in speaking of the Medici, says : " Their having restored 
 knowledge and elegance will in time obliterate their faults. 
 Their usurpation, tyranny, pride, perfidy, and incest, will be 
 remembered no more. Future generations will forget their 
 atrocious crimes, in fond admiration." Is not this the prevail 
 ing sentiment which encircles the memory of George Eliot ? 
 Some may think this dark shading for so bright a picture ; and 
 it is with feelings of regret that I have thus to deface what 
 might have thrilled all with delight. But there is a secluded 
 spot on the landscape, which is but seldom seen. Look at that 
 lone cypress tree beneath its dark shades sits a woman in 
 deep distress ! Hear her cries of anguish, as she drops a half- 
 opened letter, exclaiming, " My husband has forsaken me ! 
 Forgotten those sacred vows he uttered in the presence of 
 God and man ! My hands are cold, and my heart throbs with 
 pain ! Oh ! let me be hurled anywhere ! Anywhere ! out of 
 the world ! " When we ask who is this ? some one whispers, 
 Mrs. Lewes, the heart-broken wife of the man who once trav 
 eled over Europe and America with George Eliot. Yet this 
 star, whose radiance every woman might have delighted to 
 bask in, darkly excluded every ray of hope from an innocent 
 and lawful wife. And shall we palliate such turpitude? Or 
 countenance that crime which cuts up order and virtue by the 
 roots, and violates the sanctity of happiness to many homes ? 
 God forbid that the women of the United States should ever 
 lower their standard of right, though a Sarah Bernhardt should 
 fascinate with her art, and a George Eliot charm with her tal 
 ents. With feelings of pride we view the Parnassian territory 
 which the former is now invading, and the latter has occupied. 
 Yet we must regret that the purity of their hearts has not 
 eclipsed the brilliancy of their minds. 
 
1 19 
 
 " TflEI^E I? ]TO p^^ja If! 
 
 \ I /HERE are few lovers of pleasure who have not made use 
 J[fe of this phrase, and its alluring appearance, masked with 
 innocence, has drawn more into the vortex of ruin, than 
 any other in the English language. Few are systematically, or 
 premeditatively wicked, or propose to themselves more than 
 those indulgences which they are persuaded " there is no harm 
 in." But the expression is so vague that every one can furnish 
 his own definition, and each one can extend the limits a little 
 farther, until the bounds which fenced out, permitted no unlaw 
 ful and unpermitted pleasures, are gradually broken-down, 
 and all marks of them obliterated. I am satisfied there 
 are many fashionable women and men, who are daily dissemina 
 ting mischief by indulging in the dangerous notion " that there 
 is no harm in anything short of positive vice." Shakspeare 
 says : " You are the makers of manners," speaking of those 
 who occupy prominent positions in society ; and if such be 
 makers, they should be guardians of public taste and virtue. I 
 fear too few, give this important subject the thought that is due 
 it, or we would not hear those who guide the young, indulge in 
 the baneful use of slang. Should not the object of conversa 
 tion be to elevate rather than degrade ? Is not slang super 
 fluous, indecent and degrading ? I am aware that many ladies 
 talk in inuendoes, and if they could hear the meaning echoed 
 back, their modesty would be shocked. For when they touch 
 the note of slang, there are vibrations to the lowest thought in 
 the bosoms of most men, and how often they condemn with 
 their tongues, what they approve by their smiles ! There are 
 but few meetings where golden coins of the imagination are in 
 terchanged, like those of the gallant Sir Philip Sidney, and Sir 
 Walter Raleigh, when they met neath the cool shades of their 
 loved Mulga. Oh ! would that those who indulge in slang, 
 could see how much dross, and how little pure gold they have 
 from each conversation. They certainly would not say there is 
 no harm in it, because it is almost universally adopted. And 
 the advocate for dancing will bring in a similar argument, with 
 an appendage that it is better to dance than slander your 
 neighbor. This I admit, for envy is the main-spring to slander, 
 and those who indulge in either, are like the loathsome toad 
 which cannot pass the fairest flower without casting its filthy 
 froth on it. 
 
* 120 * 
 
 But proving that slandering is the greater of the two evils, does 
 not by any means prove there is no harm in dancing. If you had 
 committed homicide, would you like your lawyer to commence 
 his defense, by asserting your crime might have been darker ! 
 Sallust, the Pagan historian of the great Eoman conspirator, 
 said that his mistress was too good a dancer to be a virtuous 
 woman. If there is any impropriety in wasting time and 
 talents, or in being hugged very closely, then there must be harm 
 in dancing. You hear this fashionable amusement denounced 
 by most church members and ministers ; yet they are inconsis 
 tent enough to attend a circus, and not only encourage the most 
 disgraceful modes of dancing, but licentiousness, both by their 
 presence and purses. They must have a very elastic conscience 
 to fit all occasions. 
 
 There is another fashionable evil indulged in by some of our 
 best ladies and gentlemen. I allude to card playing, which is 
 equally as fascinating as dancing, and a simple game of cards 
 has often led to gambling, which is a twin brother to dissipation, 
 and both destroy happiness and fortune. Then, if so much 
 harm can result from a glass of wine, or a game of cards, should 
 we not abstain from the very appearance of evil? We ought 
 to remember that gamblers and drunkards are not born, but 
 made, by the iron fetters of habit. There seems to be a mys 
 terious mania in some fashionable circles, for the society of any, 
 save wife or husband, and I believe this custom is doing more 
 to stab domestic felicity to the heart, than any ignis fatuus the 
 deluded ever followed, and is giving to the reporters those 
 ghastly statistics. 
 
 The Examiner spoke of some time since, one hundred and 
 eighty-eight deaths resulting from jealousy alone. This stern 
 fact, alarming as it is, gives the gleanings of but one reporter, 
 and if a few of those horrible scenes which preceded those 
 deaths, could be presented to the view of fashionable men and 
 women, who are almost strangers around their own hearth 
 stones, they certainly would awaken from their complacent 
 dreams, and realize that it will only be a question of time, ere 
 they pass through similar trials, unless they cease to apply to 
 their consciences that fatal opiate" There is no harm in any 
 thing which custom approves." If we could only rise superior 
 to the illusion of fashion, and analyze every practice before we 
 adopt it, we might so raise our characters, that we would make 
 the next age better, and have posterity in our debt, for the ad 
 vantages it will receive by our example. 
 
121 
 
 NE sultry summer night, with feverish brain, 
 I tried to sleep, but all my efforts were in vain. 
 Soon kind Morpheus came with soothing balm, 
 And gentle Zephyr helped with heavenly calm. 
 Then came refreshing sleep ; I did sweetly dream, 
 Of a far-off clime, covered in glittering sheen. 
 Then Spring came. I was on steps of a palace fair, 
 And the birds sang sweetly, mid flowers rare ; 
 When suddenly there came forth, the wheel of time 
 And a soft voice whispered which seemed divine : 
 Come with me ! for I wouldst have thee behold, 
 Something of the future, yet much must be untold. 
 Look to the right ! See the rugged hill of life, 
 There s not all sunshine, but often clouds and strife. 
 Look at the valley of Contentment, see, in it Felicity 
 Is graven on that lofty pillar, there s peace, and simplicity. 
 Midst lotus flowers, emblems of holiness, and lilies of beauty, 
 All are pure, godliness reigneth here, all do their duty. 
 Near it you see the Plain of Solitude, and neath its shade, 
 Milton s mind grew and matured, and a Cincinnatus was made. 
 It inspired Demosthenes, tis the only nurse of the great. 
 There, Reflection loves to dwell, and we think on our future 
 
 state. 
 
 Look amidst that burning sea, there s Ambition s mountain ; 
 The spur of discontent, makes some drink of its hissing 
 
 fountain. 
 
 Empedocles leaped into the fiery Etna, to write his name 
 On that glittering pinnacle which many call fame, 
 Yet all desire fame, and there s a kind that all commendeth, 
 Yes this is a laudable thirst, where peace and honor blendeth. 
 I see your feet are bleeding, you look languid and careworn, 
 You ve passed through many trials, and your heart is torn 
 By thorns of un kindness, but that is in the eternal past ; 
 Christ has ever been thy guide. Now would you one look cast 
 Down the hill of life ? In slippery places your feet have trod, 
 Yet you have clung to Jesus, and will be happy with your God. 
 There s the dark valley of death, but look to yonder shore, 
 There s the haven of rest, where sin and grief are felt no more. 
 
122 
 
 0F 
 
 FS I wandered o er the sea-beach fair, 
 I heard a noise so strange and rare. 
 Twas not the splash of silver wave, 
 That sighs and moans over many a grave. 
 No ; twas the cannon s fitful roar, 
 Thundering along our lovely shore. 
 
 In breathless haste I onward sped, 
 
 Not knowing where my pathway led, 
 
 Until I stood in the battle s face, 
 
 To witness the passion of the human race. 
 
 Our forces were commanded by Msigruder. 
 
 If not the purest, we have seen ruder, 
 
 For he has taken one sip at the cup of fame, 
 
 Which will ever give him an immortal name. 
 
 But to return to our subject again, 
 
 Which we can revert to without shame. 
 
 The battle was raging in the midst of night. 
 The tiring was terrific to our sight, 
 Thundering of guns, as they lavished forth 
 Their volleys of hatred to the Isle of the South. 
 I thought Pluto might be venting his ire. 
 The waves appeared like billows of fire. 
 
 Goliah-like, the mighty ironclads 
 
 Had dared our brave and trusting lads, 
 
 To the gulf which they seemed destined to keep, 
 
 They would give their bodies to the fish of the deep. 
 
 Ah ! our men waver ; they ve accomplished their fete 
 
 The battle s won and their victory is complete. 
 
 Hark ! there s noise in another direction, 
 Lo ! we have been under God s protection. 
 The king of the waters rides proudly on, 
 Not heeding the burst of the pelting storm, 
 
* 123 * 
 
 Behold ! he reaches the proud Harriet Lane, 
 The men shoot, as if they were all insane ; 
 Their enemies waver, their column melts away, 
 But the Neptune is wounded aud cannot stay 
 To rejoice. So flying to his brother near, 
 He parts with his men he loves so dear, 
 And takes his calm and glorious sleep, 
 Neath the foaming waves of the briny deep 
 
 Again the enemy rally ; and on deck they fly, 
 Vengeance beaming from every eye. 
 But alas, they are soon hurled below. 
 God is above man s vain boast and show. 
 Ah ! they are surrendering to our noble few, 
 Aurora is smiling, aud bespangling with dew 
 Our lovely flag of red, white and blue. 
 
 This proclaimed to the Venice of Texas the story, 
 That victory perched on her banner of glory. 
 Galveston was free from terror aud spoil, 
 And blood had been spilt on Lone Star State soil. 
 
 Mars has called His warriors home ; 
 They are waiting to welcome all that come 
 Where the cannon s roar will be heard no more, 
 On that calm, peaceful, celestial shore. 
 
 "The true friend is not he who holds up flattery s mirror, 
 
 In which to thy conceit, most pleasing hovers, 
 But he who shews thee all thy vices, sirrah ! 
 And helps to mend them ere an enemy discovers ! " 
 
124 
 
 WRITTEN DURING THE CIVIL WAR. 
 
 H Lord, no longer hide Thy face, 
 Bless us with Thy loving grace, 
 Let our prayers reach Thy throne ! 
 
 Not our will, but Thine be done. 
 
 We are sinful, Thou canst forgive, 
 
 For Jesus sake, Oh ! let us live ; 
 
 We are in the shroud of grief, 
 
 Smile again, and give relief. 
 
 List ! Hope, with her cheering voice, 
 
 Bids our aching hearts rejoice. 
 
 Man can do naught without God s power; 
 
 Oft he fades like summer flower; 
 
 Israel s trials came through sin, 
 
 Repentance did God s blessing win ; 
 
 Each father pities his child s distress, 
 
 Our heavenly Parent will not do less ; 
 
 Let us humble us, and kiss the dust, 
 
 And He will wipe away the rust 
 
 From our hearts, and fill with love, 
 
 For all that is good, in our home above. 
 
 Our troubles will vanish as the mist of a day,, 
 
 When God shall change our night into day. 
 
 Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh, and 
 consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, 
 and some few to be chewed anddigested. Histories make men 
 wise, Poets witty, Mathematics subtile, Natural Philosophy 
 deep, Morals grave, Logic and Rhetoric, able to contend. 
 
* 125 * 
 
 -Hie WI^flEg TO /I 
 
 SOON TO BE MARRIED. 
 
 I would twine for thee a garland fair, 
 
 Of lilies pure, and orange rare. 
 
 From sins dark quiver, ne er a dart 
 
 Be sent to pierce thy trusting heart ; 
 
 Nor mildew of sorrow ever blight 
 
 The roses of love. Hope light each night, 
 
 Making thy life a scene of joy, 
 
 Without the shade of sorrow s dark alloy. 
 
 Allow me to congratulate you upon your anticipated felicity. 
 And as you launch forth your boat on the matrimonial sea, may 
 it be plied by oars of love, and its anchor be ever that of Hope. 
 May it gently glide down the stream of life. But if the storm of 
 adversity should ever darken thy sky, and the resurging waves 
 of disappointment dash against thy barque, may the sunshine of 
 godliness send forth its ray of peace, shedding over thee a halo 
 of happiness ! 
 
 " Hence from all ages the cabinet divine 
 Has held high counsel over the fate of man, 
 Nor have the clouds those gracious counsels hid, 
 Angels undrew the curtains of the throne, 
 And Providence came forth to meet mankind. 7 
 
 " Lean not on earth Twill pierce thee to the heart 
 A broken reed at best but oft a spear. On its sharp 
 Point, Peace bleeds, and Hope expires." 
 
126 
 
 TO BURN?- ** 
 
 IGHT you not, on yon slanting beam 
 Of moonlight kneeling to the Doon, 
 Descend once more, to this hallowed stream 
 Sure yon stars yield enough of light, 
 To spare from heaven thy face one night. 
 
 The meek-eyed stars are cold and white 
 And steady fixed for all the years, 
 The comet burns the wing of night 
 And dazzles elements and spheres, 
 Then dies in beauty and a blaze, 
 Of light blown far through other days. 
 
 " Canute, the Danish king of England, being disgusted with 
 the flattery of his subjects, rebuked their folly, by commanding 
 his chair to be set by the edge of the water, while the tide was 
 rising, so that he might compel the rude waters to depart from 
 his dominions. But the billows heeded not his kingly com 
 mands ; whereupon he called on his servile flatterers, to re 
 member how feeble was the sway of kings, in comparison with 
 the King of Kings. 7 
 
 Brother the boquet which thou hast given me, 
 Shall bloom long, and fresh in my memory ; 
 Nothing did so pleasantly, my hours beguile, 
 As the fragrance of flowers, and thy smile. 
 
 "Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines 
 

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