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Title: Bunyan Characters (Second Series)

Author: Alexander Whyte

Release Date: April 13, 2005 [eBook #1886]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1894 Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier edition by David
Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

BUNYAN CHARACTERS--SECOND SERIES
Lectures delivered in St. George's Free Church Edinburgh
By Alexander Whyte, D.D.

IGNORANCE

"I was alive without the law once."--_Paul_.

"I was now a brisk talker also myself in the matter of
religion."--_Bunyan_.

This is a new kind of pilgrim. There are not many pilgrims like this
bright brisk youth. A few more young gentlemen like this, and the
pilgrimage way would positively soon become fashionable and popular, and
be the thing to do. Had you met with this young gentleman in society,
had you noticed him beginning to come about your church, you would have
lost no time in finding out who he was. I can well believe it, you would
have replied. Indeed, I felt sure of it. I must ask him to the house. I
was quite struck with his appearance and his manners. Yes; ask him at
once to your house; show him some pointed attentions and you will never
regret it. For if he goes to the bar and works even decently at his
cases, he will be first a sheriff and then a judge in no time. If he
should take to politics, he will be an under-secretary before his first
parliament is out. And if he takes to the church, which is not at all
unlikely, our West-end congregations will all be competing for him as
their junior colleague; and, if he elects either of our Established
churches to exercise his profession in it, he will have dined with Her
Majesty while half of his class-fellows are still half-starved
probationers. Society fathers will point him out with anger to their
unsuccessful sons, and society mothers will smile under their eyelids as
they see him hanging over their daughters.

Well, as this handsome and well-appointed youth stepped out of h