. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . an anxious son. From tMs labourof harmony and love, in wMch he was successful, he returned toLondon on horseback in the rain, and on arriving at the house ofMs friend Mr. Strudwick, was seized with a violent fever. The timehad come when Bunyan himself must realise that last scene tMoughwMch the imagination of the dreamer had conducted the children ofGod in so enchanting a manner in the Pilgrims Progress. The fearof death is quite taken away in Ms beautiful descriptions of the pass-ing
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . an anxious son. From tMs labourof harmony and love, in wMch he was successful, he returned toLondon on horseback in the rain, and on arriving at the house ofMs friend Mr. Strudwick, was seized with a violent fever. The timehad come when Bunyan himself must realise that last scene tMoughwMch the imagination of the dreamer had conducted the children ofGod in so enchanting a manner in the Pilgrims Progress. The fearof death is quite taken away in Ms beautiful descriptions of the pass-ing of CMistiana and her children over the river; and just so, whenhe himself came to pass over, the gloom was all gone. Bunyan had been twice married during Ms own pilgrimage. Hisfirst wife he himself attended down to the Biver of Death, and wit-nessed, it can hardly be doubted, so sweet a departure of her spirit,that it may have been her experience, as well as Ms own confidencein CMist, wMch dictated the bright closing scenes of the SecondPart of the Pilgrims Progress. God gave to him his first wife to be. with Mm in Ms setting ont from the City of Destruction, and at theSlough of Despond, and in Ms conflicts with Apollyon, and Mspassage through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and in all hissevere temptations up to the earliest exercise of Ms ministry. Thesame kind and watchful Providence allotted to him a second wife, toact that noble part recorded of her in the processes of his trial, withsuch Mgh, heroic courage and CMistian firmness, and to bless andcomfort Mm in Ms imprisonment, and to share in the happiness ofMs release and the success of Ms labours. But now he seemedabout to die alone; though surrounded by Mends, yet away from Msbeloved family. The time had come when he too must go down to-the River. There is a collection of Ms dying thoughts and sayings. Theyare certainly Ms thoughts, whether uttered in Ms last illness, orexpressed in Ms previous life. But we would ra
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