The Pilgrim's Progress Revisited (Part 4)

'The Fire Secretly Sustained'

This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from the 17th-century Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress and a subsequent series of stereograph paintings inspired by the book. Read parts 1, 2 and 3 to follow along with the story.

“The Fire Secretly Sustained,” circa 1877 (Library of Congress)

Then I saw in my dream, that the Interpreter took Christian b…