By M.A., Edmund Venables
“All who've undertaken to take an estimate of Bunyan’s literary genius name specific consciousness to the richness of his ingenious energy. Few writers certainly have possessed this energy in so excessive a level. In not anything, might be, is its vividness extra displayed than within the truth of its impersonations. The dramatis individuals are no longer shadowy abstractions, relocating some distance above us in a magical international, or lay figures ticketed with definite names, yet stable women and men of our personal flesh and blood, dwelling in our personal daily international, and of like passions with ourselves. a lot of them we all know familiarly; there's infrequently one we must always be shocked to fulfill any day. This real looking energy of characterization belongs within the optimum measure to ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress.’ it's infrequently inferior in “The Holy War,” although with a few exceptions the folk of ‘Mansoul’ have didn't engrave themselves at the well known reminiscence because the characters of the sooner allegory have performed. the key of this photo energy, which supplies ‘The Pilgrim’s development’ its common reputation, is that Bunyan describes women and men of his personal day, comparable to he had recognized and noticeable them. they don't seem to be fancy photographs, yet literal portraits.” -Edmund Venables, M.A.
“The e-book is destined, one could think, to take rank with the vintage biographies of our literature: with the ‘Wesley’ of Southey, with the ‘George Herbert’ and ‘Donne’ of Izaak Walton. definitely the biographer used to be lucky in his topic, some of the most picturesque, pathetic figures in our heritage; and in Elstow, because the scene of Bunyan’s youth, he's scarcely much less chuffed, where being yet little altered from what it was once whilst Bunyan was once a youth….There is the fairway the place the boy performed tipcat and heard the key voice calling him clear of sin; there the church tower the place he stole a ‘fearful pleasure’ infrequently, in seeing and becoming a member of with the ringers….No extra charmingly written memoir has seemed among the ‘Great Writers’ that Mr. W. Scott is publishing, than the biography now further to the sequence via the pen of Canon Venables.” -Bookseller
“A very readable biography.” -Sunday college occasions
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This "horror of great darkness" was not always upon him. " Texts of Scripture would give him a "sweet glance," and flood his soul with comfort. But these intervals of happiness were but short-lived. " But, though transient, they helped the burdened Pilgrim onward. " And the joy was real while it lasted. " He was almost beside himself with ecstasy. " "But, alas! " It was the Valley of the Shadow of Death which Bunyan, like his own Pilgrim, was travelling through. ' By which I was made to see, both again and again and again that day, that God and my soul were friends by this blood: Yea, I saw the justice of God and my sinful soul could embrace and kiss each other.
These Sunday sports proved the battle-ground of Bunyan's spiritual experience, the scene of the fierce inward struggles which he has described so vividly, through which he ultimately reached the firm ground of solid peace and hope. As a high-spirited healthy athletic young fellow, all kinds of manly sports were Bunyan's delight. On week days his tinker's business, which he evidently pursued industriously, left him small leisure for such amusements. Sunday therefore was the day on which he "did especially solace himself" with them.
He was not, however, a mere tramp or vagrant, as travelling tinkers were and usually are still, much less a disreputable sot, a counterpart of Shakespeare's Christopher Sly, but a man with a recognized calling, having a settled home and an acknowledged position in the village community of Elstow. The family was of long standing there, but had for some generations been going down in the world. Bunyan's grandfather, Thomas Bunyan, as we learn from his still extant will, carried on the occupation of a "petty chapman," or small retail dealer, in his own freehold cottage, which he bequeathed, "with its appurtenances," to his second wife, Ann, to descend, after her death, to her stepson, his namesake, Thomas, and her own son Edward, in equal shares.