The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read

Name: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read
Author: Bunyan, John

Bunyan, John

Christian life -- Juvenile literature; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Juvenile literature

GREAT. "Well said, Father Honest," quoth the guide; "for by this I know
thou art a cock of the right kind, for thou hast said the truth."

HON. And by this also I know that thou knowest what true pilgrimage is;
for all others do think that we are the soonest overcome of any.

[Sidenote: CONVERSES WITH HONEST]

GREAT. Well, now we are so happily met, pray let me crave your name, and
the name of the place you came from.

HON. My name I cannot; but I came from the town of Stupidity; it lieth
about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

GREAT. Oh! are you that countryman? then I deem I have half a guess of
you: your name is old Honesty, is it not?

HON. So the old gentleman blushed, and said, "Not Honesty, but Honest is
my name; and I wish that my nature may agree to what I am called. But,
sir," said the old gentleman, "how could you guess that I am such a man,
since I came from such a place?"

GREAT. I had heard of you before by my Master; for He knows all things
that are done on the earth. But I have often wondered that any should
come from your place, for your town is worse than is the City of
Destruction itself.

HON. Yes, we lie more off from the sun, and so are more cold and
senseless. But were a man in a mountain of ice, yet if the Sun of
Righteousness should rise upon him, his frozen heart shall feel a thaw;
and thus it hath been with me.

GREAT. I believe it, Father Honest, I believe it; for I know the thing
is true.

Then the old gentleman saluted all the pilgrims with a holy kiss of
love, and asked them their names, and how they had fared since they had
set out on their pilgrimage.

CHR. Then said Christiana, "My name I suppose you have heard of: good
Christian was my husband, and these are his children."

But can you think how the old gentleman was taken when she told him who
she was? He skipped, he smiled, he blessed them with a thousand good
wishes, saying:

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The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read

Bunyan, John

Christian life -- Juvenile literature; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Juvenile literature

GREAT. "Well said, Father Honest," quoth the guide; "for by this I know
thou art a cock of the right kind, for thou hast said the truth."

HON. And by this also I know that thou knowest what true pilgrimage is;
for all others do think that we are the soonest overcome of any.

[Sidenote: CONVERSES WITH HONEST]

GREAT. Well, now we are so happily met, pray let me crave your name, and
the name of the place you came from.

HON. My name I cannot; but I came from the town of Stupidity; it lieth
about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

GREAT. Oh! are you that countryman? then I deem I have half a guess of
you: your name is old Honesty, is it not?

HON. So the old gentleman blushed, and said, "Not Honesty, but Honest is
my name; and I wish that my nature may agree to what I am called. But,
sir," said the old gentleman, "how could you guess that I am such a man,
since I came from such a place?"

GREAT. I had heard of you before by my Master; for He knows all things
that are done on the earth. But I have often wondered that any should
come from your place, for your town is worse than is the City of
Destruction itself.

HON. Yes, we lie more off from the sun, and so are more cold and
senseless. But were a man in a mountain of ice, yet if the Sun of
Righteousness should rise upon him, his frozen heart shall feel a thaw;
and thus it hath been with me.

GREAT. I believe it, Father Honest, I believe it; for I know the thing
is true.

Then the old gentleman saluted all the pilgrims with a holy kiss of
love, and asked them their names, and how they had fared since they had
set out on their pilgrimage.

CHR. Then said Christiana, "My name I suppose you have heard of: good
Christian was my husband, and these are his children."

But can you think how the old gentleman was taken when she told him who
she was? He skipped, he smiled, he blessed them with a thousand good
wishes, saying:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read

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