His words I did
use to gather for my food, and for antidotes against my faintings.
He has held me, and hath kept me from mine iniquities, yea, my steps
have been strengthened in his way."
Now while he was thus in discourse, his countenance changed; his
"strong man bowed under him;" and after he had said, "Take me, for I
am come unto thee," he ceased to be seen of them.
But glorious it was to see how the open region was filled with
horses and chariots, with trumpeters and pipers, with singers and
players on stringed instruments, to welcome the pilgrims as they
went up, and followed one another in at the beautiful gate of the
city.
DEATH OF CHRISTIAN AND HOPEFUL.
They then addressed themselves to the water, and entering, Christian
began to sink, and crying out to his good friend Hopeful, he said,
"I sink in deep waters; billows go over my head, all his waves go
over me."
Then said the other, "Be of good cheer, my brother; I feel the
bottom, and it is good."
Then said Christian, "Ah, my friend, the sorrow of death hath
compassed me about. I shall not see the land that flows with milk
and honey." And with that a great darkness and horror fell upon
Christian, so that he could not see before him; also he in a great
measure lost his senses, so that he could neither remember nor
orderly talk of any of those sweet refreshments that he had met wilh
in the way of his pilgrimage.
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