72 . THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS.

what, by argument or persuasion, he doth labor to fasten upon others for their good.
Yet this I can say, I was very wary of giving them occasion, by any unseemly action,
to make them averse to going on pilgrimage. Yea, for this very thing they would tell
me I was too precise, and that I denied myself of things (for their sakes) in which they
saw no evil. Nay, I think I may say that, if what they saw in me did hinder them,
it was my great tenderness in sinning against God, or of doing any wrong to my
neighbor.

Cuar. Indeed, Cain hated his brother ® because his own works were evil, and his
brother’s righteous; and, if thy wife and children have been offended with thee for
this, they thereby show themselves to be implacable to good: thou hast delivered thy
soul from their blood.”

Now I saw in my dream, that thus they sat talking together till supper was ready.
So, when they had made ready, they sat down to meat. Now, the table was furnished
with fat things, and wine that was well refined; and all their talk at the table was
about the Lord of the hill; as, namely, about what He had done, and wherefore He
did what He did, and why he had builded that house; and by what they said, I per-
ceived that He had been a great warrior, and had fought with and slain him that had
the power of death,” but not without great danger to Himself, which made me love
Him the more.

For, as they said, and as I believe (said Christian), He did it with the loss of much
blood. But that which puts the glory of grace into all He did, was, that He did it
out of pure love to this country. And, besides, there were some of them of the house-
hold that said they had seen and spoke with Him since He did die on the cross; and
they have attested that they had it from His own lips, that He is such a lover of poor
pilgrims, that the like is not to be found from the east to the west. They moreover
gave an instance of what they affirmed; and that was, He had stripped Himself of
His glory, that He might do this for the poor; and that they had heard Him say and
affirm that He would not dwell in the mountains of Zion alone. They said, moreover,
that He had made many pilgrims princes, though by nature they were beggars born,
and their original had been the dunghill.”

Thus they discoursed together till late at night; and, after they had committed
themselves to their Lord for protection, they betook themselves to rest. The Pilgrim
they laid in a large upper chamber, whose window opened towards the sunrising. The
name of the chamber was Peace, where he slept till break of day, and then he awoke
and sang,