Excerpts from a speech delivered by Theodore Roosevelt on April 14, 1906 The Man with the Muck-rake In Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck Rake, the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck rake in his hand; who was offered a celestial crown […]

Drinking Stealing Anger Extortion Pride Slander

The lions were chained, but he saw not the chains. –J. Bunyan

When days had many of them passed away, Mr. Despondency was sent for, for a post was come, and brought this message to him: “Trembling man! these are to summon thee to be ready with the King by the next Lord’s day, to shout for joy for thy deliverance from all thy doubtings. And,” said […]

The giant, therefore, drove them before him, and put them into his castle, into a very dark dungeon, nasty and stinking to the spirit of these two men. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. Psalm 88:18 Here then they lay, from Wednesday morning till Saturday night, without […]