The True Pilgrim by Bishop Hall

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Nov 7, 1854

The True Pilgrim

By Bishop Hall

Those who travel in long pilgrimages to the Holy Land, what a number of weary paces they measure!—What a number of hard lodgings and known dangers they pass! And at last, when they are come within view of their journey's end what a large tribute pay they at the Psian Castle to the Turks! And when they are come thither, what see they but the bare sepulchre wherein their Saviour lay! and the earth that he trod upon to the increase of a carnal devotion? What labor should I willingly undertake in my journey to the true land of promise, the celestial Jerusalem, where I shall see and enjoy my Saviour himself! What tribute of pain or death should I refuse to pay for my entrance, not into his sepulchre, but his palace of glory, and that not to look upon, but to possess it?