pray what are the odds? If we are in, we are in; you are but in
the way, who come in at the gate, and we too are in the way that
choose to climb the wall. Is not our case as good as yours?

Christian.--I walk by the rule of my Lord, but you walk by the
rule of your own lusts. The Lord of the way will count you as
thieves, and you will not be found true men in the end.

I saw then that they all went on till they came to the foot of
the Hill of Difficulty, where there was a spring. There were in
the same place two more ways, one on the left hand and one on the
right; but the path that Christian was told to take went straight
up the hill, and its name is Difficulty, and he saw that the way
of life lay there.

Now when Christian got as far as the Spring of Life he drank of
it, and then went up the hill. But when the two men saw that it
was steep and high, and that there were three ways to choose
from, one of them took the path the name of which is Danger, and
lost his way in a great wood, and one of them went by the road of
Destruction, which led him to a wide field full of dark rocks,
where he fell, and rose no more. I then saw Christian go up the
hill, where at first I could see him run, then walk, and then go
on his hands and knees, so steep was it. Now half way up was a
cave made by the Lord of that hill, that those who came by might
rest there. So here Christian sat down, and took out the scroll
and read it, till at last he fell off in a deep sleep which kept
him there till it was dusk; and while he slept his scroll fell
from his hand. At length a man came up to him and woke him, and
said: Go to the ant, thou man of sloth, and learn of her to be