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02 - The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Part two, the first stage. By this time Christiana was
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  Speaker 1: got on her way, and Mercy went along with her.
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  Speaker 1: So as they went, her children being there also, Christiana
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  Speaker 1: began to discourse, and Mercy said Christiana, I take this
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  Speaker 1: as an unexpected favor, that thou shouldst set forth out
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  Speaker 1: of doors with me, to accompany me a little in
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  Speaker 1: the way. Mercy then said young Mercy, for she was
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  Speaker 1: but young. If I thought it would be to purpose
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  Speaker 1: to go with you, I would never go near the
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  Speaker 1: town any more. Christiana. Well, Mercy, said Christiana, cast in
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  Speaker 1: thy lot with me. I well know what will be
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  Speaker 1: the end of our pilgrimage. My husband is where he
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  Speaker 1: would not but be. For all the gold in the
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  Speaker 1: Spanish minds, Nor shalt thou be rejected, though thou goest
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  Speaker 1: but upon my invitation. The King who hath sent for
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  Speaker 1: me and my children is one that delighteth in Mercy. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: if thou wilt, I will hire THEE, and thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: go along with me as my servant. Yet we will
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  Speaker 1: have all things in common betwixt THEE and me. Only
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  Speaker 1: go along with me, Mercy. But how shall I be
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  Speaker 1: ascertained that I also should be entertained. Had I this
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  Speaker 1: hope but from one that can tell, I would make
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  Speaker 1: no stick at all, but would go, being helped by
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  Speaker 1: him that can help, though the way was never so tedious. Christiana, Well,
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  Speaker 1: loving Mercy, I will tell THEE what thou shalt do.
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  Speaker 1: Go with me to the wicket gate, and there I
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  Speaker 1: will further inquire for THEE. And if there thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: not meet with encouragement, I will be content that thou
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  Speaker 1: return to thy place. I will also pay THEE for
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  Speaker 1: thy kindness which thou ShoWest to me, and my chill
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  Speaker 1: in the accompanying of us in the way that thou dost. Mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Then will I go thither and will take what shall follow,
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord grant that my lot may therefore, even
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  Speaker 1: as the King of Heaven shall have his heart upon me.
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  Speaker 1: Christiana then was glad at heart, not only that she
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  Speaker 1: had a companion, but also that she had prevailed upon
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  Speaker 1: this poor maid to fall in love with her own salvation.
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  Speaker 1: So they went on together, and Mercy began to weep,
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  Speaker 1: then said Christiana. Wherefore weepeth my sister, so Mercy, alas
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  Speaker 1: said she who can but lament, that shall but rightly
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  Speaker 1: consider what a state and condition my poor relations are
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  Speaker 1: in that yet remain in our sinful town. And that
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  Speaker 1: which makes my grief the more heavy is because they
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  Speaker 1: have no instructor nor any to tell them what is
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  Speaker 1: to come. Christiana, pity becomes pilgrims. And thou dost weep
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  Speaker 1: for thy friends, as my good Christian did for me
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  Speaker 1: when he left me, he mourned, for that I would
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  Speaker 1: not heed nor regard him. But his lord and ours
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  Speaker 1: did gather up his tears and put them into his bottle.
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  Speaker 1: And now both I and thou, and these my sweet bathes,
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  Speaker 1: are reaping the fruit and benefit of them. I hope, Mercy,
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  Speaker 1: that these tears of thine will not be lost. For
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  Speaker 1: the Truth has said that they that so in tears
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  Speaker 1: shall reap in joy. And he that goeth forth and
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  Speaker 1: weepeth bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
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  Speaker 1: bringing his sheaves with him some one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: six five and six. Then said Mercy, let the most
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  Speaker 1: blessed be my guide, if it be his blessed will
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  Speaker 1: unto his gait into his fold up to his hill.
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  Speaker 1: And let him never suffer me to swerve or turn
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  Speaker 1: aside from his free grace and holy ways. Whate'er shall
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  Speaker 1: me betide, And let him gather them of mine that
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  Speaker 1: I have left behind. Lord, make them pray they may
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  Speaker 1: be Thine with all their heart and mind. Now, my
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  Speaker 1: old friend proceeded and said, But when Christiana came to
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  Speaker 1: the slow of Despond, she began to be at a stand.
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  Speaker 1: For said she, this is the place in which my
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  Speaker 1: dear husband had liked to have been smothered with mud.
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  Speaker 1: She perceived also that, notwithstanding the command of the king
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  Speaker 1: to make this place for pilgrim's good, yet it was
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  Speaker 1: rather worse than formerly. So I ask if that was true, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: said the old gentleman. Too true, for many there be
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  Speaker 1: that pretend to be the King's laborers, and that say
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  Speaker 1: they are for mending the King's highways, who bring dirt
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  Speaker 1: and dung instead of stones, and so mar instead of
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  Speaker 1: mending here. Christiana, therefore, with her boys, did make us stand,
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  Speaker 1: but said, mercy, come, let us venture, only let us
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  Speaker 1: be wary. Then they looked well to their steps and
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  Speaker 1: made a shift to get staggering over. Yet Christiana had
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  Speaker 1: liked to have been in, and that not once or twice.
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  Speaker 1: Now they had no sooner got over. But they thought
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  Speaker 1: they heard words that said, unto them, blessed is she
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  Speaker 1: that believeth, for there shall be a performance of those
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  Speaker 1: things which were told her from the Lord Luke one
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  Speaker 1: forty five. Then they went on again and said, Mercy
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  Speaker 1: to Christiana, had I as good ground to hope for
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  Speaker 1: a loving reception at the wicket gate as you, I
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  Speaker 1: think no slow of despond would discourage me, well said
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  Speaker 1: the other. You know your soul and I know mine,
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  Speaker 1: And good friend, we shall all have enough evil before
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  Speaker 1: we come to our journey's end. For can it be
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  Speaker 1: imagined that the people who designed to attain such excellent
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  Speaker 1: glories as we do, and who are so envied that
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  Speaker 1: happiness as we are, but that we shall meet with
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  Speaker 1: what fears and snares, with what troubles and afflictions they
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  Speaker 1: can possibly assault us with that hate us. And now
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  Speaker 1: mister Sagacaity left me to dream out my dream by myself.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore methought I saw Christiana and Mercy and the boys go,
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  Speaker 1: all of them up to the gate, to which when
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  Speaker 1: they were come, they betook themselves to a short debate
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  Speaker 1: about how they must manage their calling at the gate
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  Speaker 1: and whatch to be said? Unto him that did open
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  Speaker 1: to them. So it was concluded, since Christiana was the eldest,
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  Speaker 1: that she should not for entrance, and that she should
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  Speaker 1: speak to him that did open for the rest. So
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  Speaker 1: Christiana began to knock, as her poor husband did. She
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  Speaker 1: knocked and knocked again, but instead of any that answered,
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  Speaker 1: they all thought they heard as if a dog came
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  Speaker 1: barking upon them, a dog, and a great one too,
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  Speaker 1: And this made the women and children afraid nor durst
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  Speaker 1: they fall while to knock any more, for fear the
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  Speaker 1: mastiff should fly upon them. Now therefore they were greatly
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  Speaker 1: tumbled up and down in their minds, and knew not
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  Speaker 1: what to do. Knock, they durst, not for fear of
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  Speaker 1: the dog. Go back, they durst not for fear the
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  Speaker 1: keeper of that gate should aspy them as they so went,
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  Speaker 1: and should be offended with them. At last, they thought
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  Speaker 1: of knocking again, and knocked more vehemently than they did
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  Speaker 1: at first. Then said the keeper of the gate, who
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  Speaker 1: is there? So the dog left off to Baq, and
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  Speaker 1: he opened unto them. Then Christiana made low obeisance and said,
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  Speaker 1: let not our lord be offended with his handmaidens, for
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  Speaker 1: that we have knocked at his princely gate. Then said
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  Speaker 1: the keeper, whence come ye? And what is it that
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  Speaker 1: ye would have? Christiana answered, we are come from whence
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  Speaker 1: Christian did come, and upon the same errand as he
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  Speaker 1: to wit to be, if it shall please you, graciously
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  Speaker 1: admitted by this gate into the way that leads unto
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  Speaker 1: the celestial city. And I answer, my lord in the
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  Speaker 1: next place, that I am Christiana, once the wife of Christian,
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  Speaker 1: that now is gotten above. With that, the keeper of
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  Speaker 1: the gate did marvel, saying, what is she now become
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  Speaker 1: a pilgrim that but a while ago aboard that life.
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  Speaker 1: Then she bowed her head and said, said, yea, and
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  Speaker 1: so are these my sweet babes. Also then he took
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  Speaker 1: her by the hand and led her in, and said, also,
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  Speaker 1: suffer little children to come unto me. And with that
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  Speaker 1: he shut up the gate. This done, he called to
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  Speaker 1: a trumpeter that was above over the gate to entertain
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  Speaker 1: Christiana with shouting and the sound of trumpet for joy.
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  Speaker 1: So he obeyed and sounded and filled the air with
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  Speaker 1: his melodious notes. Now all this while poor Mercy did
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  Speaker 1: stand without trembling and crying, for fear that she was rejected.
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  Speaker 1: But when Christiana had got admittance for herself and her boys,
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  Speaker 1: then she began to make intercession for Mercy. Christiana, and
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  Speaker 1: she said, my Lord, I have a companion that stands
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  Speaker 1: yet without, that has come hither upon the same account
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  Speaker 1: as myself, one that is much dejected in her mind,
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  Speaker 1: for that she comes as she thinks, without sending, for
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  Speaker 1: whereas I was sent for by my husband's king to come.
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  Speaker 1: Now Mercy began to be very impatient, and each minute
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  Speaker 1: was as long to her as an hour. Wherefore she
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  Speaker 1: prevented Christiana from a fuller interceding for her by knocking
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  Speaker 1: at the gate herself. And she knocked then so loud
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  Speaker 1: that she made Christiana to start. Then said the keeper
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  Speaker 1: of the gate, who is there? And Christiana said it
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  Speaker 1: is my friend. So he opened the gate and looked out.
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  Speaker 1: But Mercy was fallen down without in a swoon, for
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  Speaker 1: she fainted and was afraid that no gate should be
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  Speaker 1: opened to her. Then he took her by the hand
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  Speaker 1: and said, damsel, I bid thee arise, Oh, sir, said she,
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  Speaker 1: I am faint. There is scarce life left in me.
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  Speaker 1: But he answered that one once said when my soul
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  Speaker 1: fainted within me, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer
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  Speaker 1: came unto THEE into thy holy temple Jonah two seven.
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  Speaker 1: Fear not, but stand upon thy feet and tell me
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  Speaker 1: wherefore thou art come? Mercy, I am come for that
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  Speaker 1: unto which I was never invited, as my friend Christiana was.
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  Speaker 1: Hers was from the King, and mine was but from her.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore I fear I presume keep. Did she desire THEE
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  Speaker 1: to come with her to this place? Mercy? Yes, And
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  Speaker 1: as my Lord sees, I am come. And if there
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  Speaker 1: is any grace and forgiveness of sins to spare, I
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  Speaker 1: beseech that thy poor handmaid be a partaker thereof. Then
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  Speaker 1: he took her again by the hand and led her
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  Speaker 1: gently in, and said, I pray for all them that
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  Speaker 1: believe on me, by what means soever they come unto me.
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  Speaker 1: Then said he to those that stood by, fetch something
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  Speaker 1: and give it to Mercy to smell on thereby to
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  Speaker 1: stay her faintings. So they fetched her a bundle of mrh,
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  Speaker 1: and a while after she was revived. And now were
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  Speaker 1: Christiana and her boys and Mercy received of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: at the head of the way, and spoken kindly unto
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  Speaker 1: by him. Then said they yet further unto him, we
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  Speaker 1: are sorry for our sins, and beg of our Lord
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  Speaker 1: his pardon and further information what we must do. I
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  Speaker 1: grant pardon, said he by word, and deed by word,
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  Speaker 1: in the promise of forgiveness, by deed, in the way
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  Speaker 1: I obtained it. Take from the first from my lips
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  Speaker 1: with a kiss, and the other as it shall be revealed.
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  Speaker 1: Song of Solomon's one two John twenty twenty. Now I
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  Speaker 1: saw in my dream that he spake many good words
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  Speaker 1: unto them, whereby they were greatly gladdened. He also had
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  Speaker 1: them up to the top of the gate and showed
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  Speaker 1: them by what deed they were saved, and told them
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  Speaker 1: withal that that sight they would have again as they
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  Speaker 1: went along in the way to their comfort. So he
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  Speaker 1: left them awhile in a summer parlor below, where they
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  Speaker 1: entered into talk by themselves. And thus Christiana began, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: how glad am I that we are got in hither mercy,
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  Speaker 1: So you well may, but I of all have cause
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  Speaker 1: to leap for joy. Christiana, I thought one time, as
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  Speaker 1: I stood at the gate, because I had knocked, and
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  Speaker 1: Nune did answer that all our labor had been lost,
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  Speaker 1: especially when that ugly cur made such a heavy barking
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  Speaker 1: against us. Mercy. But my worst fear was after I
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  Speaker 1: saw that you were taking into his favor and that
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  Speaker 1: I was left behind. Now thought I it is fulfilled
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  Speaker 1: which is written two women shall be grinding at the mill.
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  Speaker 1: The one shall be taken and the other left Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four forty one. I had much ado to forbear,
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  Speaker 1: crying out undone, and afraid I was to knock any more.
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  Speaker 1: But when I looked up to what was written over
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  Speaker 1: the gate, I took courage. I also thought that I
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  Speaker 1: must either knock again or die. So I knocked, But
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  Speaker 1: I cannot tell how, for my spirit now struggled between
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  Speaker 1: life and death. Christiana, can you not tell how you knocked?
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  Speaker 1: I am sure your knocks were so earnest that the
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  Speaker 1: very sound of them made me start. I thought I
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  Speaker 1: never heard such knocking in all my life. I thought
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  Speaker 1: you would come in by a violent hand, or take
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom by storm. Matthew eleven twelve. Mercy, alas to
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  Speaker 1: be in my case? Who that so as could but
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  Speaker 1: have done so? You saw that the door was shut
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  Speaker 1: upon me, and there was a most cruel dog thereabout,
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  Speaker 1: who I say that was so fainthearted as I would
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  Speaker 1: not have knocked with all their might. But pray, what
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  Speaker 1: said my lord to my rudeness? Was he not angry
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  Speaker 1: with me? Christiana? When he heard your lumbering noise? He
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  Speaker 1: gave a wonderful, innocent smile. I believe what you did
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  Speaker 1: pleased him well, for he showed no sign to the contrary.
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  Speaker 1: But I marvel in my heart why he keeps such
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  Speaker 1: a dog. Had I known that before, I should not
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  Speaker 1: have had heart enough to have ventured myself in this manner.
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  Speaker 1: But now we are in. We are in, and I
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  Speaker 1: am glad with all my heart, Mercy. I will ask,
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  Speaker 1: if you please, next time he comes down, why he
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  Speaker 1: keeps such a filthy cur in his yard. I hope
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  Speaker 1: he will not take it amiss. Do so, said the children,
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  Speaker 1: and persuade him to hang him, for we are afraid
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  Speaker 1: he will bite us when we go. Hence, so at
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  Speaker 1: last he came down to them again, and Mercy fell
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  Speaker 1: to the ground on her face before him and worshiped,
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  Speaker 1: and said, let my lord accept the sacrifice of praise
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  Speaker 1: which I now offer unto him with the calves of
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  Speaker 1: my lips, said he unto her peace, be to thee
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  Speaker 1: stand up. But she continued upon her face and said,
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  Speaker 1: righteous art thou, o Lord, when I plead with thee,
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  Speaker 1: Yet let me talk with THEE of thy judgments Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: twelve one. Wherefore dost thou keep so cruel a dog
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  Speaker 1: in thy yard, at the sight of which such women
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  Speaker 1: and children as we are ready to fly from thy
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  Speaker 1: gait for fear? He answered, and said, that dog has
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  Speaker 1: another owner. He also is kept close in another man's ground.
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  Speaker 1: Only my pilgrims hear his barking. He belongs to the
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  Speaker 1: castle which you see there at a distance, but can
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  Speaker 1: come up to the walls of this place. He has
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  Speaker 1: frightened many an honest pilgrim from worse to better by
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  Speaker 1: the great voice of his roaring. Indeed, he that owneth
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  Speaker 1: him doth not keep him out of any good will
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  Speaker 1: to me or mine, but with intent to keep the
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  Speaker 1: pilgrims from coming to me, and that they may be
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  Speaker 1: afraid to come and knock at this gate for entrance.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes also he has broken out and has worried some
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  Speaker 1: that I loved. But I take all at present patiently.
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  Speaker 1: I also give my pilgrims timely help, so that they
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  Speaker 1: are not delivered to his power to do with them
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  Speaker 1: what his doggish nature would prompt him to do. But
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  Speaker 1: what my purchased one I trow. Hadst thou known never
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  Speaker 1: so much beforehand, thou wouldst not have been afraid of
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  Speaker 1: a dog. The beggars that go from door to door will,
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  Speaker 1: rather than lose a supposed arms, run the hazard of
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  Speaker 1: the bawling, barking, and biting two of a dog. And
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  Speaker 1: shall a dog a dog in another man's yard, a
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  Speaker 1: dog whose barking I turned to the profit of pilgrims
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  Speaker 1: keep any from coming to me. I delivered them from
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  Speaker 1: the lions at my darling, from the power of the
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  Speaker 1: dog Psalm twenty two, twenty one and twenty two. Mercy
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  Speaker 1: then said, Mercy, I confess my ignorance. I spake what
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  Speaker 1: I understood, not I acknowledge that thou doest all things
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  Speaker 1: well Christiana. Then Christiana began to talk of their journey
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  Speaker 1: and to inquire after the way. So he fed them
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  Speaker 1: and washed their feet, and set them in the way
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  Speaker 1: of his steps, according as he had dealt with her
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  Speaker 1: husband before. End Part two. The first stage