The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Eva March Tappan
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there goes a path that leads directly to _Doubting_ Castle, which is
kept by Giant _Despair_; and these men (pointing to them among the Tombs) came once on Pilgrimage, as you do now, even till they came to that same Stile; and because the right way was rough in that place, they chose to go out of it into that Meadow, and there were taken by Giant _Despair_, and cast into _Doubting_ Castle; where after they had been awhile kept in the Dungeon, he at last did put out their eyes, and led them among those Tombs, where he has left them to wander to this very day, that the saying of the Wise Man might be fulfilled, _He that wandereth out of the way of understanding, shall remain in the Congregation of the dead_. Then _Christian_ and _Hopeful_ looked upon one another, with tears gushing out, but yet said nothing to the Shepherds. Then I saw in my Dream, that the Shepherds had them to another place, in a bottom, where was a door in the side of a Hill; and they opened the door, and bid them look in. They looked in therefore, and saw that within it was very dark and smoaky; they also thought that they heard there a lumbring noise as of Fire, and a cry of some tormented, and that they smelt the scent of Brimstone. Then said _Christian_, _What means this?_ The Shepherds told them, This is a by-way to Hell, a way that Hypocrites go in at; namely, such as sell their Birthright, with _Esau_; such as sell their Master, as _Judas_; such as blaspheme the Gospel, with _Alexander_; and that lie and dissemble, with _Ananias_ and _Sapphira_ his Wife. _Hope._ Then said _Hopeful_ to the Shepherds, I perceive that these had on them, even every one, a shew of Pilgrimage, as we have now; had they not? |
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