CHAPTER III--EAR-GATE.
'Take heed what ye hear.'-- _Our Lord in Mark_.
'Take heed how you hear.'-- _Our Lord in Luke_.
This famous town of Mansoul had five gates, in at which to come, out at which to go, and these were made likewise answerable to the walls--to wit, impregnable, and such as could never be opened nor forced but by the will and leave of those within.

'The names of the gates were these, Ear- gate, Eye-gate,' and so on.

Dr.George Wilson, who was once Professor of Technology in our University, took this suggestive passage out of the _Holy War_ and made it the text of his famous lecture in the Philosophical Institution, and then he printed the passage on the fly- leaf of his delightful book _The Five Gateways of Knowledge_.

That is a book to read sometime, but this evening is to be spent with the master.
For, after all, no one can write at once so beautifully, so quaintly, so suggestively, and so evangelically as John Bunyan.

'The Lord Willbewill,' says John Bunyan, 'took special care that the gates should be secured with double guards, double bolts, and double locks and bars; and that Ear-gate especially might the better be looked to, for that was the gate in at which the King's forces sought most to enter.