Pictures from Pilgrim's Progress - Part One

Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress – Part One
C. H. Spurgeon

Booklet Contents
1. Pliable Sets Out with Christian
2. The Two Pilgrims in the Slough
3. The Man Whose Name was Help
4. “Helps”
5. Christian and the Arrows of Beelzebub

1. Pliable Sets Out with Christian
Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress.” I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures. It is really Biblical teaching put into the form of a simple yet very striking allegory.

It has been upon my mind to give a series of addresses upon “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” for the characters described by John Bunyan have their living representatives to -day, and his words have a message for many who are found in our congregations at the present time.
You remember that, when Christian, with “a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back, ” cried out, “What shall I do to be saved?” he “saw a man named Evangelist coming to him, ” who pointed him to the Wicket-gate and the shining light. Then Bunyan says: “So, I saw, in my dream, that the man began to run. Now, he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on, crying, ‘Life! life! eternal life!’ (Luke 14:26) So he looked not behind him, but fled towards the middle of the plain (Genesis 19:17). …