' And then he went on to describe and denounce the way to the
Celestial City, and he did it like a man who had been all over it, and
had come back again. His alarming description of the upward way reads to
us like a page out of Job, or Jeremiah, or David, or Paul. 'Hear me,' he
says, 'for I am older than thou. Thou art like to meet with in the way
which thou goest wearisomeness, painfulness, hunger, perils, nakedness,
sword, lions, dragons, darkness, and in a word, death, and what not.' You
would think that you were reading the eighth of the Romans at the thirty-
fifth verse; only Mr. Worldly-Wiseman does not go on to finish the
chapter. He does not go on to add, 'I am persuaded that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall
be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our
Lord.' No; Worldly-Wiseman never reads the Romans, and he never hears a
sermon on that chapter when he goes to church.
Mr. Worldly-Wiseman became positively eloquent and impressive and all but
convincing as he went so graphically and cumulatively over all the
sorrows that attended on the way to which this pilgrim was now setting
his face.
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