Hate-light, and Mr. Implacable,--Mr.
Blindman to be the foreman. And it was before these men that Faithful
was brought forth to his trial in order to his condemnation. And very
soon after his trial Faithful came to his end. 'Now I saw that there
stood behind the multitude a chariot and a couple of horses waiting for
Faithful, who (so soon as his adversaries had despatched him) was taken
up into it, and straightway was carried up through the clouds, with sound
of trumpet, the nearest way to the Celestial gate.'
Now, I cannot tell you how it was, I cannot account for it to myself, but
it is nevertheless absolutely true that as I was reading my author last
week and was meditating my present exposition, it came somehow into my
mind, and I could not get it out of my mind, that there is a great and a
close similarity between John Bunyan's Vanity Fair and a general
election. And, all I could do to keep the whole thing out of my mind,
one similarity after another would leap up into my mind and would not be
put out of it. I protest that I did not go out to seek for such
similarities, but the more I frowned on them the thicker they came.
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