es and tendencies, of inwardly seeing,
tasting, relishing, and feeling that which passes within us; our heart is
that to us inwardly with regard to ourselves which our senses of seeing,
hearing, feeling, and such like are with regard to things that are
without or external to us. Your heart is the best and greatest gift of
God to you. It is the highest, greatest, strongest, and noblest power of
your nature. It forms your whole life, be it what it will. All evil and
all good come from your heart. Your heart alone has the key of life and
death for you.' I was just about to ask you at this point which of our
two authors, our allegorical or our mystical author upon the heart, you
like best. But that would be a stupid and a wayward question since you
have them both before you, and both at their best, to possess and to
enjoy. To go back then to John Bunyan, and to his allegory of the human
heart.

1. To begin with, then, there was reared up in the midst of this town of
Mansoul a most famous and stately palace. And that palace and the town
immediately around it were the mirror and the glory of all that its
founder and maker had ever made. His palace was his very top-piece. It
was the metropolitan of the whole world round about it; and it had
positive commission and power to demand service and support of all
around. Yes. And all that is literally, evidently, and actually true of
the human heart. For all other earthly things are created and upheld,
are ordered and administered, with an eye to the human heart. The human
heart is the final cause, as our scholars would say, of absolutely all
other earthly things. Earth, air, water; light and heat; all the
successively existing worlds, mineral, vegetable, animal, spiritual;
grass, herbs, corn, fruit-trees, cattle and sheep, and all other living
creatures; all are upheld for the use and the support of man. And, then,
all that is in man himself is in him for the end and the use of his
heart. All his bodily senses; all his bodily members; every fearfully
and wonderfully made part of his body and of his mind; all administer to
his heart. She is the sovereign and sits supreme. And she is worthy and
is fully entitled so to sit. For there is nothing on the earth greater
or better than the heart, unless it is the Creator Himself, who planned
and executed the heart for Himself and not for another with Him. 'The
body exists,' says a philosophical biologist of our day, 'to