Mr. Ryland.
It has been the lot of John Bunyan, an unlettered artisan, to do
more than one in a hundred millions of human beings, even in
civilized society, is usually able to do. He has produced a work of
imagination of such decided originality as not only to have
commanded profound admiration on its first appearance, but amidst
all changes of time and style and modes of thinking, to have
maintained its place in the popular literature of every succeeding
age, with the probability that, so long as the language in which it
is written endures, it will not cease to be read by a great number
of the youth of all future generations at that period of life when
their minds, their imaginations, and their hearts are most
impressible with moral excellence, splendid picture, and religious
sentiment. It would be difficult to name another work of any kind in
our native tongue, of which so many editions have been printed, of
which so many readers have lived and died, the character of whose
lives and deaths must have been more or less affected by its lessons
and examples, its fictions and realities. James Montgomery.
I know of no book, the Bible excepted as above all comparison, which
I, according to my judgment and experience, could so safely
recommend as teaching and enforcing the whole saving truth,
according to the mind that was in Christ Jesus, as the Pilgrim's
Progress.
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