THE DEPARTURE
I THOUGHT that I saw in my dream the little house in the City of Destruction, which had once been Christian's home. In that house sat Christian's wife, her eyes full of brinish tears and her mind burdened with many grievous thoughts.
Then, as she moaned and wept, she said to her children, "Sons, we are all undone. Your father is gone to the Celestial Land. He would have had us with him, but I would not go. And now we are left alone in this place with no one to comfort us."
With that the boys fell all into tears, and cried out to go after their father.
"Oh, that we had gone with him!" cried Christiana, for that was her name. "Oh, that we had shared
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