“Come, come!” put in Mr. World, “your pearls before swine are only trampled under foot. Forget not so quickly the teachings of our Lord.”
As they passed on, in a self-righteous manner, she cheerily looked into his face and said: “It was kind in you to come so promptly to my rescue. I might have prattled there a whole day and yet not have shown them half their folly.”
CHAPTER XXV.
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH.
1. Mr. World and Miss Church-Member getting farther from the light.
2. They drift into the deepening shadows where the path could be traveled only one way.
3. The terrible experience of the two companions contending with the imps of the dark valley.
4. Their sad and tragic end as they catch a glimpse of what they might have been.
After leaving the place of the Last Warning, the Broad Highway grew darker and darker as it steadily diverged from the King’s Highway.
The little light that Satan’s pilgrims do enjoy is borrowed from “the path of the just that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.”
Mr. World saw the deepening shadows and endeavored to be as cheerful as usually, hoping thereby to prevent any alarm in the mind of his faithful friend.