thought of that makes me cry."

Then said Evangelist, "If this be thy fear, why standest thou still?"

He answered, "Because I know not whither to go."

So Evangelist gave him a parchment roll, and there was written within,
"Fly from the wrath to come." The man therefore read it, and looking
upon Evangelist very carefully, said, "Whither must I fly!"

Then said Evangelist, pointing with his finger over a very wide field,
"Do you see yonder Wicket-gate?"

The man said, "No."

"Well," said the other, "do you see yonder shining light?"

He said, "I think I do."

Then said Evangelist, "Keep that light in thine eye, and go up
directly thereto, so shalt thou see the gate. When thou knockest, it
shall be told thee what thou shalt do."

So I saw in my dream that the man began to run. Now he had not run far
from his own door when his wife and children, seeing it, began to cry
after him to return. But the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran
on, crying, "Life, life, eternal life!" So he looked not behind him,
but fled towards the middle of the plain. The neighbors also came out
to see him run. And as he ran some mocked, others threatened, and some
cried after him to return. Among those that did so were two that were
resolved to fetch him back by force. The name of the one was
Obstinate, and the name of the other was Pliable. Now by this time the
man was got a good distance from them, but they had made up their
minds to follow him, which they did, and in a little time overtook
him.

Then said the man, "Neighbors, wherefore are you come?"

They said, "To persuade you to go back with us."

But he said, "That can by no means be. You dwell in the City of
Destruction, the place where I was born. Be content, good neighbors,
and go along with me."

"What!" said Obstinate, "and leave our friends and our comforts behind
us!"

"Yes," said Christian, for that was his name.

"What do you seek, since you leave all the world to find it?" said
Obstinate.

"I seek a treasure that never fades away. It is laid up in heaven and
is safe there," said Christian. "Read it so, if you will, in my book."

"Tush!" said Obstinate, "away with your book. Will you go back with us
or no?"

"No, not I," said the other, "because I have just set out."

"Come then, Neighbor Pliable, let us turn again and go home without
him."

Then said Pliable, "If what the good Christian says is true, the
things he looks after are better than ours.