The Red Cloud chief., 1891-11-20

and IL shall walk the s-a or eonf-ont
him by the smokestack. or meet him
under the captains bridge Rat h.re
was alone on ships deck in the Tosp~l
archipelago and do you wonses that
the sea was popuious with the pas, and
that down the ratlines Bible nsmo-
RIGS ae>ccndcd7 Oar friends bad all
gone ~ their b~r,hS Capt In"
I said. when will We arrive ct
the Island Of RhoicsT- 10 i ing
ont from under his glazed can he
responded In scpulchral voice. Abr,
midnight" Though Il would be keep
ing unreasonable hours coaeluded Z,
stay on deck, for ! mus, .cs Rhodes
one of the islands associated with the
name OF the greatest missionary the
world ever saw M ever will see. Pau
landed there aud hat WAS enough 9,
make II famous while the world stands
and famous in Heaven when the world
has become . charred wreck
This island has had . wonderful hi>-
tory. With a 900 Knights OF - John.
il at one time s;ood GU, agains, 30. 90
warriors under "Solymaa The Masnia-
cent" The city had $500 statue and
n statue 10 Apollo called ColoNsu~
which has alwags since been oon>id-
cred one Of the seven wonders Of the
world. IL was twelve year, In build
ing and seventy cubi,s high. and hal n
winding stairs - the top. IL stood
itty- six years and then was Frustrated
10y an earthquake. After lying IN ruins
for 300 year, il was purchased 10 he
converted Ia other purposes and the
metal. weighing "a, " pounds, was
put on 200 camcls and carried away.
We were not permitted Ia ~ ashore,
but the lights all up and down the hills
show where the city stands. AID nine
boats come ont - ,akc freight and ,o
bring three passengers Yet all the
thousands OF years Of it, history arr
eclipsed 10y the few hours or DAYS that
Paul stopped there. As ! stood there
| ON the deck Of the Minerva, looking GU,
upon the place were the Colossus once
stood. ] b~cthought myself % the fact
that the world must have n tod of
some kind II IL To me an Infinite
| pathos this Colossus not only OF Rhodes
but the colossi in many parts of the
earth This il only the worlds blind
reaching up and feeling after God
Foundered human nature must have n
supernatural arm Ia help IL ashore. All
the statues and images Of hcathcndom
are attempts Ia bring celestial forces
down into human affairs blessed h.
our ears that We have heard 81 an ever
| present God. ami that through Jesus
Christ lie comes into our hearts AMI
our homes and with more d
fathcrly aud mo,hcrly interest, aud AZ
lection lie is with III in our struggles
and bcrcavements and yici>situdcS
Rhode needs something higher
| than the Colossus. and the day will
| come when the Christ whom Paul was
serving when he sailed into this harbor
~ Rhodes, shall take possession of tina,
island.
As we move on up through this ~
chipclago ! am reminded Of what an
important part the islands have taken
in the history Of the world They are
necessary To the balancing 81 the
planet The two hempisphcres must
have them. As you put down upon n
scale the heavy pound weights. and
then the small ounces and no one
thinks of dcSpising the small weights,
80 the continent, are the pounds ami
the islands are the ounces \ CONT
ncnt is only n large island and an island
| only n smaller continent Something
Of VIVA, part the Stands have taken In
the worlds history you will see when
remind you that the island OF Salamis
| produced Scion aud the island Of Samos
produced I, thagoras AMI the island Of
Coos produced IIippocra,cS
But there il one island that ] longcd
To sec more than any other can AZ
ford u miss the princes among the
islands, but ] must see the king Of the
| Archipelago The one ] longcd Ia see
il not so many miles in circumference
as Cyprus ar Crct. or Paros or SaNos
| or Scio or Mi,ylcnc. but ! had rather.
IL this sail through the Grccian Ar
chipclago. see hat than all the others.
for more Of the glorics Of Heaven
landed there than on all the islands
| and continents since the world stood
As we come toward il, | feel my pulses
lilNhtb oliH "aN 'i p''
that Il called PatTno<" IL il n pile Of
rocks twenty eight miles IN circumfcr-
ence- A few expresses and inferior
olives mp n living out 81 the earth.
and . palm tree spreads II foliage.
But the b,rrcnncss and gloom md
loneliness of the island made u n
prison for the baniShcd evangelist
Dbmitian could ndt stand his ministry
and one day. under armed guard. that
minister Of the gospel stepped from a
tossing toat u these dismal rocks and
walked up to the dismal cavern which
was to DC his home. aid the place
where should pass before him ali Tia"
conflicts Of tho coming eternity. l. Il
not remarkable that nearly sll th"
great revelations Of music and f-D"iry
and religion have been made To men
in Punishment Homer and vi ton ban
Ished int blindness: beethoven ban
iShcd into deafness: Dante writing
his ''Divaua Cornmcdia" during his
nineteen years 81 baniShment from his
native land: Victor Hugo writing bis
les Miscrablcs" cxied from home and
country on tho island Of Guernsey and
the brightest visions Of the future have
been given to those wi o by sickness or
sorrow were exiled from h outer
world into rooms OF suffering I'm Y
those who hare been imprisoned by
very hard surroundings have had great
revelations made IN them. - PatnOS
Wild. chill and bleak and terrible was
the lbs, Island In al the archipelago.
the i.st place in all the earth for divine
revelations
I.eforc 4 panorama can hr .ucccssfally
.cen. the room In which you lit mast
h, dsrkencd and IL the presence -
John was IN pas such a panorama a.
no MAJ ever before saw or ever viii
sse in hi, word. and hence the gloom
II his surround nIs sas a he ra;hsr
than a hiudrancc. Al the s~urroana-
inrs 81 the place affected ~ j"h1s
imagery ~hcn he spraks Of Heaven
st John. hungry firm cnf1rrcf Alb
.--z 80 bzvg-, un Tod ex~ru, hat /