The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Eva March Tappan
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_Piety._ But you saw more then this, did you not? _Chr._ The things that I have told you were the best; yet some other matters I saw, as namely I saw three men, _Simple_, _Sloth_, and _Presumption_, lye asleep a little out of the way as I came, with Irons upon their heels; but do you think I could awake them? I also saw _Formalist_ and _Hypocrisie_ come tumbling over the wall, to go, as they pretended, to _Sion_; but they were quickly lost; even as I myself did tell them, but they would not believe. But, above all I found it hard work to get up this Hill, and as hard to come by the Lion's mouths; and truly if it had not been for the good man, the Porter that stands at the Gate, I do not know but that after all I might have gone back again; but now I thank God I am here, and I thank you for receiving of me. Then _Prudence_ thought good to ask him a few questions, and desired his answer to them. _Prud._ Do you not think sometimes of the Country from whence you came? _Chr._ Yes, but with much shame and detestation: Truly, if I had been mindful of that Country from whence I came out, I might have had opportunity to have returned; but now I desire a better Country, that is, an Heavenly. _Prud._ Do you not yet bear away with you some of the things that then you were conversant withal? |
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