Old Mr. Prejudice

"One precaution, however, was taken; and this forms one of the most ingenious of the many able pictures described by Bunyan’s pen—Old Mr. PREJUDICE is set for the defense of Ear-gate, with an army of Deaf-men! What a splendid stroke of the great master-mind is this! There is no such effective sentinel of the hearing sense, as Prejudice. It closes many an ear; it occupies many a heart; it checks many an inquiry; it slays many a soul. With Prejudice and his deaf-men, Satan will keep watch and ward for yet many a day, forbidding access to the words of life; and, knowing that “faith cometh by hearing,” he will carefully guard and bolt and double-lock the door of Ear-gate against the sound of the Gospel of Christ."[2]