The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Eva March Tappan
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sought for ease at the hands of Mr. _Legality_. They are both of them
a very cheat. But did you take his counsel? _Chr._ Yes, as far as I durst: I went to find out Mr. _Legality_, until I thought that the Mountain that stands by his house would have fallen upon my head; wherefore there I was forced to stop. _Good-Will._ That Mountain has been the death of many, and will be the death of many more; 't is well you escaped being by it dashed in pieces. _Chr._ Why truly I do not know what had become of me there, had not _Evangelist_ happily met me again, as I was musing in the midst of my dumps; but 't was God's mercy that he came to me again, for else I had never come hither. But now I am come, such a one as I am, more fit indeed for death by that Mountain than thus to stand talking with my Lord; but O, what a favor is this to me, that yet I am admitted entrance here! _Good-Will._ We make no objections against any; notwithstanding all that they have done before they come hither, they in no wise are cast out; and therefore, good _Christian_, come a little way with me, and I will teach thee about the way thou must go. Look before thee; dost thou see this narrow way? THAT is the way thou must go; it was cast up by the Patriarchs, Prophets, Christ, his Apostles; and it is as straight as a rule can make it: This is the way thou must go. _Chr._ But said _Christian_, Is there no turnings nor windings, by which a Stranger may lose the way? |
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