Faithful

You remember the noble figure of Faithful in [John Bunyan's] Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's best friend. How he started from the City of Destruction some time after Christian, but soon passed him on the road because he never thought it necessary to linger, to ask for explanations or worry about dangers. He just plodded steadily on. Faithful is the least self-occupied of all the pilgrims. We hear nothing about his burden or fatigue or difficulty or the poor state of the road. Christian makes a good deal of the Valley of Humiliation, tells us about how horrible it was and feels it very remarkable that he ever got through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. There is none of that in Faithful. He is not thinking about saving his soul. He is thinking about God. And so he goes in sunshine all the way.