Characters from Pilgrim's Progress -- Valiant for Truth
There are aspects of John Bunyan’s famous allegory Pilgrim’s Progress that have more details as you read on through the second portion of it concerning Christian’s wife and children who flee from the City of Destruction. As their story unfolds, we read about some events that Christian went through but is not as detailed in the first half of the story as he is relating a first person account. The story told by one of those characters in the second half is who I want us to visit with now. The character is Valiant for Truth. What a powerful name that Bunyan picks out for this young man, this young soldier, this young minister. Bunyan is playing off Jeremiah 9:3 where the weeping prophet notes that there are some who aren’t valiant for the truth. One of the chief characteristics of John Bunyan is pointed out by Charles Spurgeon and it is observed very clearly in this segment of the allegory. Spurgeon noted that in reading all of Bunyan’s works an...
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