Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress

PICTURES FROM PILGRIM’S PROGRESS

Sermons and other works secured sufficient, and, I venture to think, appropriate material for the missing sketches. So in love with John Bunyan, and so akin to him in faith and thought and language was the pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, that I am persuaded another volume could be compiled comprising ‘Pictures’ of other striking scenes and characters in the glorious allegory. Who can doubt that abundant material could be found in ‘The Spurgeon Library’ for ‘Pictures’ of ‘Christian under Mount Sinai,’ ‘Hill Difficulty,’ ‘Doubting Castle,’ ‘Little-faith,’ ‘Beulah Land,’ and ‘Valiant-for-truth,’ for instance? There is internal evidence that these addresses were delivered at Monday evening prayer meetings with the special purpose of edifying such as had just begun to go on pilgrimage. ‘You young converts,’ said the preacher again and again, in his personal and incisive style. Never theless, the more advanced in his congregation, I am certain, were eager and delighted listeners, too. So will it be with this book. Here is milk for babes and meat for men. Moreover, the meat is such that the ‘babes’ will enjoy a taste of it, and the ‘men’ will be all the better for a sip or two of the milk. C. H. Spurgeon was a past master in the art of commenting. Who that ever heard him did not rejoice as much in his exposition of the Scriptures as in his prayers and sermons? He has commented in print on the Psalms ( The Treasury of David ), and on Matthew ( The Gospel of the Kingdom ), and on Manton ( Illustrations and

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