Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-12-10

Goodby, Egypt This sermon finds US
on the steamer Minerva in the Grecian
archipelago, the islands of the New Tesla
ment, and islands Paulinian and Johan-
nian in their "reminiscences What Brad
shaw's directory is to travellers in Europe,
and what the railroad guide is to travellers
in America, the Book of the Acts in the
Bible is to voyagers in the Grecian, or, as
shall call it, the Gospel archipelago. The
Bible geography Of that region is accurate
without a shadow of mistake. We are
sailing this morning on the same waters
that Paul sailed, but in the opposite direc.
ton to that which Paul voyaged. He was
sailing southwark and we northward.
With him it was Ephesus, Coos, Rhodes,
Cyprus. With us it is reversed, and 1t is
Cyprus. Rhodes, Coos, Ephesus. There is
no book in the world so accurate as the
Divine Book.
My text says that Paul left Cyprus on the
left; we, going in an opposite direction,
haye it on the right. On our ship Minerva
were. only two or three passengers besides
our party, so we had plenty of room 10
walk the deck, and oh, what night was
Christmas night of 1889 in that Grecian
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of light above, islands
of beauty beneathl 1t is II royal family Of
islands, this Grecian archipelago - the
crown of the worlds scenery set with sap
phire and emerald and topaz and chryso-
prasus, and ablaEe with glory that seems
let down out of celestial landscapes. God
evidently made up his mind that just here
he would demonstrate the utmost that can
be done with islands for the Identification
of earthly scenery.
al ~ trir ha
night, and in the morning the ship was as
Quiet as this floor, when we FASTENED up
to the deck and found that we had anchored
off the island of Cyprus. In boat, which
the natives rowed standing up, as is the
custom, instead Of sitting down, as when
we row, we were soon landed on the streets
where Paul and Barnabas walked and
preached. Yea, when at Antioch, Paul
and Barnabas got into fight-as ministers
sometimes did, and sometimes do, for they
all have imperfections enough TO anchor
them to this world till their work IS done,
say-when, because of that bitter con-
troversy, Paul and Barnabas parted Bar
nabas came back here to Cyprus, which
was his birthplace. Island, wonderful for
historyi 1t has been the prize sometimes
won by Persia, by Greece, by Egypt, by
the Saracens, by the Crusaders, and last OF
all, not by sword but by pen, and that the
pen Of the keenest diplomatist Of the cen
fury, Lord Beaconsfeld, who, under
lease which was as good as purchase, set
Cyprus among the jewels OF Victoria's
crown
We went out into the excavations from
which Di Cesnola has enriched our Ameri-
can museums with antiquities, and with
no better weapon than our foot we stirred
mn the ground deep enough 20 get tear
bottle in which some mouruer shed his
tears thousands OF years ago, and lamp
which before Christ was born lighted the
feet Of some poor pilgrim on his way.
That island Of Cyprus has enough to set
an anfiouarian wild. The most Of its glory
IS the glory Of the past. and the typhoid
fevers that sweep its coast, and the clouds
of locusts that often blacken its skies
Though two hundred thousand dollars
were expended BY the British empire in
one year for the extirpation OF these nox-
ious insects, Jet failing to do the work..