Excerpt from The People of the Pilgrimage: An Expository Study of the "Pilgrim's Progress" As a Book of Character; First Series, True Piligrims The book owes something perhaps to every important work which has appeared with the Pilgrim's Progress for its theme but it owes nearly everything to Bunyan himself, whose mind it would fain interpret freely and at first hand. And the study which this involves only heightens one's esteem alike for the author and for the man whose finest legacy is the Allegory which these pages are honoured in contributing to unfold. Among those to whose kindness the book is more or less indebted, thankful mention ought to be made of the late Dr Robertson of Irvine the Rev. R. J. Sandeman of Edinburgh the Rev. John macknight of Whitburn Thomas Chalmers Hetherington, Esq., of Rangoon and the Rev. John Kennedy of Liff, Dundee, whose casual suggestion, offered more than half-a - dozen years ago, was the germ out of which the book ultimately sprang. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.