Christian and Obstinate

*Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely co-incidental. Obstinate, resident in the City of Destruction: “I will go back to my place.” Pilgrim, on the Way to the Heavenly City: “We are not of them who draw back to perdition: But if them that believe to the saving of the soul.” When we first meet Christian, we find him in great distress, a “man clothed with rags.” The meaning is that he lives in a world where all men, the Diveses as much as the Lazaruses, are so clothed;...