This is a book that will never die...one of the great English classics. Interesting as fiction, because it is written with both passion and tenderness, it tells the dramatic story of some of the most thrilling periods in Christian history. Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid, climbed the steep ascent of heaven, 'mid peril, toil, and pain.