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Title: Christian herald and signs of our times
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald)
Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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other poor men's children," and assuredly it
was enough. The great civil war broke out,
and Bunyan was a soldier ; he tells us not on
which side. Dr. Brown and Mr. Lewis Morris
think he was on that of the Parliament, but his
old father, the tinker, stood for the king, Mr.
Froude is rather more inclined to hold that he
was among the " gay gallants who struck for
the crown." He does not seem to have been
much under fire, but he got that knowledge of
the appearance of war which he used in his
siege of the city of Mansoul. One can hardly
think that Bunyan liked war—certainly not from
cowardice, but from goodness of heart. He
married very young, and poor. He mar-
ried a pious wife, and read all her library
The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven, and
The Practice of Piety. He became very de-
vout in the spirit of the Church of England,
and he gave up his amusements. Then he fell
into the Slough of Despond, then he went
through the Valley of the Shadow and battled with

156 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. March 11, 1891.
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Interior of the Prison of Yeniseisk, Siberia. Mr. George Kennan, the Friend of the Siberian Exiles.

Apollyon . . . . . If he had not been east into jail for preaching in a cottage, he might never
have dreamed his immortal dream nor be-
come all that he was. The leisures of jail were
long. In that " den " the muse came to him,
the fair, kind Muse of the House Beautiful. He
saw all that company of his, so like, and so
unlike Chaucer's: Faithful, and Hopeful, and
Christian the fellowship of fiends, the truculent
Cavaliers of Vanity Fair, and Giant Despair,
with his grievous crab-tree cudgel : and other
people he saw who are with us always,—the
handsome Madam Bubble, and the young wo-
man whose name was Dull, and Mr. Worldly
Wiseman and Mr. Facing Bothways, and Byends,
all the persons of the comedy of human life.

THE SIBERIAN PRISONS.
How Mr. George Kennan Explored the Russian Convict
Establishments and Exposed Their Horrors.

THE revelations Mr. George Kennan has
made of the miseries endured in Siberia by
the political offenders who are living there
in enforced exile have horrified the whole civi–
lized world.

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