Well, welcome back to another episode, five minutes in church history. On this episode, we are

wrapping up our great time here at the Van Campin Collection in the scriptorium here in Orlando, Florida,

and we are standing in a jail cell. Well, it's a replica of a

jail cell and it is a jail cell for someone who is very crucial, one of those

towering figures in church history, none other than is very

crucial, one of those towering figures in church history,

none other than John Bunyan.

And here in this room that is made to be like Bunyan's jail cell

complete with a very primitive bed are a number of artifacts and books related to John Bunyan.

First, there is an early edition of Pilgrim's Progress with an engraving.

You know, it's interesting that these early editions of Pilgrim's Progress were so red,

they were just literally devoured by people as they passed from hand to hand.

And so copies just don't exist.

They were literally read out of existence as people just gobbled up this beautiful text that so well portrays,

vividly portrays the pilgrimage of the Christian life.

Well, so here there's a wood fragment from the Elstow house.

There is a key to the Bedford prison, an actual key from the Bedford prison.

You know, it reminds me of that scene in Pilgrim's Progress,

where Christian is just so despondent

and they're in the castle of giant despair and they're locked deep

down in a dungeon and they're just absolutely despondent and then all of a sudden

Christian remembers that he has a key, and he reaches into the folds of his cloak, and he pulls out the key of promise.

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