What is "standfast"

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Honest, and Standfast, and Valiant-for-truth--if he had still to toil back and bleed his way up again at the head of another happy band of pilgrims--well, after all is said, what had the Celestial City itself to give to Greatheart better than such blessed work?

Had it been said that the King so expects Greatheart, or Standfast, or Valiant-for-truth, that would have been after the manner of the kings of this world.

In his supplementary picture of Standfast John Bunyan is seen at his very best, both as a religious teacher and as an English author.

Just before he closes his great book John Bunyan rises up and once more puts forth his very fullest strength, both as a minister of religion and as a classical writer, when he takes Standfast down into that river which that pilgrim tells us has been such a terror to so many, and the thought of which has so often affrighted himself.

And then Standfast tells how as he was coming along musing with himself, Madam Bubble presented herself to him and offered him three things.

For Standfast was in a deep and serious muse mile after mile, when, who should step into the middle of his path right before him but Madam Bubble with her body and her purse and her bed?

But, musing alone, the arrow seen beforehand, and all, Standfast would have been a lost man on that lonely road that day had he not instantly betaken himself to his knees.

And it was while Standfast was still on his knees that the ascending pilgrims heard that concerned and solemn noise a little ahead of them.

But do you feel an obligation, like Standfast, to abide still on your knees long after your trouble is past?

How we once prayed, ay, as earnestly, and as concernedly, and as careless as to who should see or hear us as Standfast himself!

It will, no doubt, put the best-prepared of us into a deep muse, as it put Standfast, when we are first told that we must at once prepare ourselves for a change of life.

No one interposed, or said that Greatheart would exhaust or alarm Standfast, or would injuriously hasten his end.

Not only so, but all the way till he was half over the river, Standfast kept up his own side of the noble conversation.

For I defy even the apostle himself to have talked better or more boldly to himself even on the solid midday road than Standfast talked to himself in the bridgeless river.

And still she talks to us and offers us the same things she offered to Standfast till, to escape her and her offers, he betook himself to his knees.