This eBook was produced by David Widger  widgercecometnet                     OLD PORTRAITS AND MODERN SKETCHES                       PERSONAL SKETCHES AND TRIBUTES                             HISTORICAL PAPERS                                   BY                          JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIERCONTENTSOLD PORTRAITS AND MODERN SKETCHES     JOHN BUNYAN     THOMAS ELLWOOD     JAMES NAYLER     ANDREW MARVELL     JOHN ROBERTS     SAMUEL HOPKINS     RICHARD BAXTER     WILLIAM LEGGETT     NATHANIEL PEABODY ROGERS     ROBERT DINSMORE     PLACIDO THE SLAVE POETPERSONAL SKETCHES AND TRIBUTES     THE FUNERAL OF TORREY     EDWARD EVERETT     LEWIS TAPPAN     BAYARD TAYLOR     WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING     DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD     LYDIA MARIA CHILD     OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES     LONGFELLOW     OLD NEWBURY     SCHOOLDAY REMEMBRANCES     EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLEHISTORICAL PAPERS     DANIEL OCONNELL     ENGLAND UNDER JAMES II     THE BORDER WAR OF 1708     THE GREAT IPSWICH FRIGHT     THE BOY CAPTIVES     THE BLACK MEN IN THE REVOLUTION AND WAR OF 1812     THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS     THE PILGRIMS OF PLYMOUTH     GOVERNOR ENDICOTT     JOHN WINTHROP                    OLD PORTRAITS AND MODERN SKETCHES     Inscribed as follows when first collected in bookform     To Dr G  BAILEY of the National Era Washington D C these     sketches many of which originally appeared in the columns of the     paper under his editorial supervision are in their present form     offered as a token of the esteem and confidence which years of     political and literary communion have justified and confirmed on     the part of his friend and associate                               THE AUTHOR                               JOHN BUNYAN     Wouldst see     A man I the clouds and hear him speak to theeWho has not read Pilgrims Progress  Who has not in childhoodfollowed the wandering Christian on his way to the Celestial City  Whohas not laid at night his young head on the pillow to paint on thewalls of darkness pictures of the Wicket Gate and the Archers the Hillof Difficulty the Lions and Giants Doubting Castle and Vanity Fairthe sunny Delectable Mountains and the Shepherds the Black River andthe wonderful glory beyond it and at last fallen asleep to dream overthe strange story to hear the sweet welcomings of the sisters at theHouse Beautiful and the song of birds from the window of that upperchamber which opened towards the sunrising And who looking back tothe green spots in his childish experiences does not bless the goodTinker of ElstowAnd who that has reperused the story of the Pilgrim at a maturer ageand felt the plummet of its truth sounding in the deep places of thesoul has not reason to bless the author for some timely warning orgrateful encouragement  Where is the scholar the poet the man of tasteand feeling who does not with Cowper         Even in transitory lifes late day          Revere the man whose Pilgrim marks the road          And guides the Progress of the soul to GodWe have just been reading with no slight degree of interest that simplebut wonderful piece of autobiography entitled Grace abounding to theChief of Sinners from the pen of the author of Pilgrims Progress  Itis the record of a journey more terrible than that of the ideal Pilgrimtruth stranger than fiction the painful upward struggling of a spiritfrom the blackness of despair and blasphemy into the high pure air ofHope and Faith  More earnest words were never written  It is the entireunveiling of a human heart the tearing off of the figleaf covering ofits sin  The voice which speaks to us from these old pages seems not somuch that of a denizen of the world in which we live as of a soul at thelast solemn confessional  Shorn of all ornament simple and direct asthe contrition and prayer of childhood when for the first time theSpectre of Sin stands by its bedside the style is that of a man dead toselfgratification careless of the worlds opinion and only desirous