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Mercy’s Dream
Daniel Huntington  (1816 - 1906)

Mercy’s Dream was inspired by part two of John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” (1684).  The subject matter centers on the passage in which Mercy tells Christiana:

I was dreaming that I sat alone in a solitary place, and was bemoaning the hardness of my heart…methought I looked up, and saw one coming with wings towards me.  So he came directly to me, …. I followed him up to a throne, upon which One sat: and He said to me, “Welcome daughter!” 

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