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 Subject: American Minute - Feb. 18 - John Bunyan's & Pilgrim's Progress

 American Minute with Bill Federer

 February 18

 Pilgrim's Progress was published FEBRUARY 18, 1678.

 An allegory of a pilgrim traveller named "Christian" journeying to
 the Celestial City, it was written by John Bunyan, born in Bedford,
 England.

 At age 29, Bunyan became a Baptist minister and was imprisoned over
 12 years for preaching without a license.

 While in jail, he supported his family by making shoelaces.

 His book, found in nearly every colonial New England home, was the
 world's best-seller for centuries.

 Benjamin Franklin wrote in his Autobiography:

 "From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that
 came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the
 Pilgrim's Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in
 separate little volumes."

 Franklin continued:

 "My old favorite author, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress...has been
 translated into most of the languages of Europe, and suppose it has
 been more generally read than any other book, except perhaps the
 Bible."

 In it, John Bunyan wrote:

 "Christian ran thus till he came at a place somewhat ascending, and
 upon that place stood a cross...

 So I saw in my dream, that just as Christian came up with the cross,
 his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his
 back."



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