The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can ReadBunyan, John
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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
After this, Mr. Feeble-mind had tidings brought him, that the messenger
sounded his horn at his chamber-door. Then he came in, and told him,
saying, "I am come to tell thee that thy Master has need of thee, and
that in a very little time thou must behold His face in brightness. And
take this as a token of the truth of my message: 'Those that look out at
the windows shall be darkened.'" Then Mr. Feeble-mind called for his
friends, and told them what errand had been brought unto him, and what
token he had received of the truth of the message. Then he said, "Since
I have nothing to bequeath to any, to what purpose should I make a will?
As for my feeble mind, that I will leave behind me, for that I shall
have no need of in the place whither I go, nor is it worth bestowing
upon the poorest pilgrim: wherefore, when I am gone, I desire that you,
Mr. Valiant, would bury it in a dunghill." This done, and the day being
come on which he was to depart, he entered the river as the rest. His
last words were, "Hold out, faith and patience!" So he went over to the
other side.
When days had many of them passed away, Mr. Despondency was sent for;
for a messenger was come, and brought this message to him: "Trembling
man, these are to summon thee to be ready with thy King by the next
Lord's day, to shout for joy for thy deliverance from all thy
doubtings. And," said the messenger, "that my message is true, take
this for a proof." So he gave him the grasshopper to be a burden unto
him.
Now, Mr. Despondency's daughter, whose name was Much-afraid, said when
she heard what was done, that she would go with her father. Then Mr.
Despondency said to his friends, "Myself and my daughter, you know what
we have been, and how troublesomely we have behaved ourselves in every
company. My will and my daughter's is, that our discouraged feelings and
slavish fears be by no man received, from the day of our departure for
ever; for I know that after my death they will offer themselves to
others. For, to be plain with you, they are ghosts the which we
entertained when we first began to be pilgrims, and could never shake
them off after; and they will walk about and seek entertainment of the
pilgrims; but, for our sakes, shut ye the doors upon them." When the
time was come for them to depart, they went to the brink of the river.
The last words of Mr. Despondency were, "Farewell, night! welcome, day!"
His daughter went through the river singing, but none could understand
what she said.
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