s were round us. I
would not boast, but I trust we shall still make our way. Come, let us
pray for light to Him that can give it.

So did they weep and pray. And as the path was now more smooth, they
went straight on.

Mercy:--To be here is not so sweet as it was at The Gate, or at Mr.
Interpreter's, or at the good house where we were last.

Oh, said one of the boys, it is not so bad to go through this place as
it is to dwell here for all time; for aught I know we have to go this
way that our last home may seem to us the more blest.

Great-heart:--Well said, Samuel; thou dost now speak like a man.

Samuel:--Why, if I do in truth get out of this place, I think I shall
prize that which is light and good more than I have done all my life.

Great-heart:--We shall be out by and by.

So on they went.

Joseph:--Can we not see to the end of this vale yet?

Great-heart:--Look to your feet, for you will soon be where the snares
are.

So they took good heed.

Great-heart:--Men come here and bring no guide with them; hence it is
they die from the snares they meet with in the way. Poor Christian! it
is strange he should have got out of this place, and been safe. But
God dwelt in his soul, and he had a stout heart, of his own, or else he
could not have done it.

Christiana:--I wish that there were some inn here where we could all
take rest.

I Well, said Mr. Honest--one whom they had just met--there is such a
place not far off.

So there they went, and the host, whose name was Gaius, said: Come in,
for my house was built for none but such as you.

Great-heart:--Good Gaius, let us sup. What have you for us to eat? We
have gone through great toils, and stand much in want of food.

Gaius:--It is too late for us to go out and seek food; but of such as we
have you shall eat.

The meal was then spread, and near the end of the feast all sat round
the board to crack nuts, when old Honest said to Gaius, Tell me what
this verse means:

A man there was, and some did count him mad; The more that this man gave
the more he had.

Then all the youths gave a guess as to what Gaius would say to it; so he
sat still a while, and then said:

He that gives his goods to the poor, Shall have as much and ten times
more.

Joseph:--I did not think, Sir, that you would have found it out.

Gaius:--Ah! I have learnt of my Lord to be kind, and I find I gain by
it.

Then Samuel said in a low tone to Christiana, This is a good man's