Excerpt from The Bulletin of the Western Theological Seminary, Vol. 21: A Review Devoted to the Interests of Theological Education; October, 1928 The facts are that the fortunes Of this branch of the Bunyan family had fallen very low, for John's father was excused from paying the county hearth tax, and, in stead Of being a farmer like many Of his forebears, he earned a precarious living as a brazier, going from house to house to repair pots and kettles. Poor though the family was, it did not suffer from the squalor that we find in the slums Of a modern city or in the cabins Of a mining Village. Humble was the birthplace of this child Of genius, indeed very humble is the little thatched cottage which is shown as the place Of his nativity, but there is nothing unique in this. Did not Martin Luther see the light Of day in a miner's hut, Abraham Lincoln in a log cabin, and our Blessed Savior himself in the manger Of an inn? Like a great predecessor in the Apos tolic succession, who was a tent maker by trade and an Apostle by the call Of God, this humble Englishman was a brazier by trade as was his father, and a dreamer of dreams and a seer Of Visions by the inspiration Of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.