Some day this month-—the actual date is uncertain—the tercentenary of John Bunyan falls, Tt is curious that one has not hoard anything very much about celebrations in connection with it, for Bunyan was undoubtedly a remarkable man, and it has often been said that but for hie lengthy imprisonment he might have exercised as great an influence on England through his preaching as did John Wesley. He certainly had a remarkable career. The son of a tinker who seemed to follow an itinerant existence, Bunyan ws anything but a saint in his young days, and the general impression is that' a short period of service in Cromwell's army did not improve hie morals. Nor was it any particular episode which brought about his conversion, but we are told that after he had married a woman with particularly fine, Christian character, his ponderings upon re-Jigious books caused him to see the error of his ways and take up the Wife which led first to his ever gelistic efforts, and then to his imprisonment and the production of those books which are probably immortal, 'The writer knows nothing. about "Grace Abounding", "but "Pilgrim's Progress' and the "Holy War" are two" works which once read are never likely to be forgotten, Col. Buchan adapted Mr. Greatheart in that wonderful series of three in which stands out so pre-eminently. Preachers need never be at a loss for an example so long as the writings of Bunyan remain green in the memories of their congregations, and this means that not only as an evangelist but as one who made a substantial addition to English Viterature should the man be honoured,
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