about to approach is worthy the attempt of a master-mind. St. Paul says, 1 Cor. 1: 27-29 "But God hath chosen the foolish things of world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in His presence."
We think it is quite reasonable to suppose that an engine acting so important a part among us, upon whom the ends of the world are come, as the steam-engine, should be symbolized and foretold in the Bible.
John Bunyan was a mechanic when he was a young man, and no mortal man but a mechanic could ever have written the 'Pilgrim’s Progress' as Bunyan wrote it.
In the 'Pilgrim’s Progress,' Christian came to the porter’s lodge, or to the palace called Beautiful (or to the church, all meaning the same place), late in the evening. He asked the porter who was standing at the gate, whose house that
