Yes, said Christian, for that all which you might leave is but a grain to that which I seek, and if you will go with me and hold it firm, you shall fare as well as I; for there, where I go, you will find all you want and to spare. Come with me, and prove my words. Obstinate.--What are the things you seek, since you leave all the world to find them? Christian.--I seek those joys that fade not, which are laid up in a place of bliss--safe there for those who go in search of them. Read it so, if you will, in my book. Obstinate.--Tush! Off with your book. Will you go back with us or no? Christian.--No, not I, for I have laid my hand to the plough. Obstinate.--Come, friend Pliable, let us turn back and leave him; there is a troop of such fools who, when they take up with a whim by the end, are more wise in their own eyes than ten men who know how to think. Pliable.--Nay, do not scorn him; if what the good Christian says is true, the things he looks to are of more worth than ours: my heart leans to what he says. Obstinate.--What! more fools still! Go back, go back, and be wise. Christian.--Nay, but do you come with your friend Pliable; there are such things to be had as those I just spoke of, and more too. If you give no heed to me, read here in this book which comes to us from God, who could not lie. Pliable.--Well, friend Obstinate, I think now I have come to a point; and I mean to go with this good man, and to cast my lot in with his. Then said he to Christian, Do you know the way to the place you speak of? Christian.--I am told by a man whose name is Evangelist, to do my best to reach a gate that is in front of us, where I shall be told how to find the way. So they went on side by side. Obstinate.--And I will go back to my place; I will not be one of such vain folk. Now I saw in my dream, that when Obstinate was gone back, Christian and Pliable set off to cross the plain, and they spoke thus as they went:-- Christian.--Well, Pliable, how do you do now? I am glad you have a mind to go with me. Pliable.--Come, friend Christian, since there are none but we two here, tell me more of the things of which we go in search. Christian.--I can find them in my heart, though I know not how to speak of them with my tongue; but yet, since you wish to know, this book tells us of a world that hast no bounds, and a life that has no end. Pliable.--Well said, and what else? Christian.--That there are crowns of light in store for us, and robes that will make us shine like the sun. Pliable.--This, too, is good; and what else? Christian.--That there shall be no more care nor grief for he that owns the place will wipe all tears from our eyes. Pliable.--And what friends shall we find there?