' And poor Pliable was one of them. 'My heart really inclines to
go with my neighbour,' said Pliable next. 'Yes,' he said, 'I begin to
come to a point. I really think I will go along with this good man. Yes,
I will cast in my lot with him. Come, good neighbour, let us be going.'
The apocalyptic side of some men's imaginations is very easily worked
upon. No kind of book sells better among those of our people who have no
root in themselves than just picture-books about heaven. Our
missionaries make use of lantern-slides to bring home the scenes in the
Gospels to the dull minds of their village hearers, and with good
success. And at home a magic-lantern filled with the splendours of the
New Jerusalem would carry multitudes of rootless hearts quite captive for
a time. 'Well said; and what else? This is excellent; and what else?'
Christian could not tell Pliable fast enough about the glories of heaven.
'There we shall be with seraphim and cherubim, creatures that will dazzle
your eyes to look on them. There also you shall meet with thousands and
ten thousands who have gone before us to that place.
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