Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-17
TYPE OF DIVINE LOVE
KINDNESS OF THE BARBARIANS
TO PAUL. - ~
Dr. TaEmage Draws Variety of Lessons
from the Record III Acts-They Were
Barbarians only in That They Could
Not Speak Greek.
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Ny text puts us on the Island of Malta,
another name for Melita. This island,
which has always been an important
commercial center, belonging at different
times TIC PhHnicia, to Greece, to Rome,
to Arabia, to Spain, to France. now be-
longs to England. The area of the
island is about 100 square miles. 1t is
in the mediterranean Sea, and of such
clarity of atmosphere that Mount Etna,
1870 miles away, can be distinctly seem
The island is gloriously memorable be-
cause the knights of Malta for a long
while ruled there, but most famous be-
cause of the apostolic shipWreck.
The bestormed vessel on which Paul
sailed had ''laid to" on the starboard
tack, and the wind was blowing east
northeast and the vessel drifting prob
ably mile and half all hour ere she
struck at what is now called st. PauPs
Bay. Practical sailors have taken up
the Bible account and decided beyond
controversy the place of the shipWreck.
But the island which has so rough a
coast is for the most part a garden.
Richest fruits and profusion of honey
characterized it in Pauls time as we'll as
now. The finest oranges figs and olives
grow there When Paul and his com
rades crawled up on the beach, saturated
WIN 0ne Sai' WdCei ahu huuSi! from
iohg abstinence from iooo ana chllleo 10
the poHe, the ISLANDERS, Chough called
OafOaHahS because they couIo hoI speak
Greek, opened their doors to the ship
wrecked unfortunatcs.
Everything hau gone 10 Clle ootVom OF
the deep and the bare-footed, bare
heaaea apoStle ana sup crew We're III
coho'1ioA 10 appreciate hoSpItaiiCy'
ABOUT '"ehCY-h'e Such men d ne" sea-
sons ago Iouilo III InG ne SCaH'oh near
eastman p1oh: Long lelanu: me! hau
SoG ashore III 0he might rom Ole Sttt'
ana hoD Il ha0 nor Shoe ndu Chey IGl1
1hey louno our, aS Iaul ana MS reno"
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Io"S4e9C Vi al IoooerS' NY TeAI mus ;
0H8 sup crew aoilo!e on nlaiVd' "nt,
"Lo1n" i" NOV "le ul lux themselves anu
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oHti I"1n
ana CheY 20 lhCo %oNcIhhlchU quaItefS
1pl O'Ilo' u"!? W p0A az Ip1i -
Vn0 U'oi' INV lC'hS Cnoill' "lCnouSH Ho
iiao 'GFei9 si1NileS9 III 'lio iiol'so "O th"1
1I'h0-n'S laIii'r uo"n Win oySen'elY
"ho Vypnolu leSel' 'cd' loi CnlG0
hlo"Uh' thV? 9'aiu On VIC l9l"nu' ""Ich-
ny ioi q snip "'u pt''iils Vn' noo pi'"i,V!
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oaIoWo PeopIe Sllo"e" Us llo ll''i0 A1no-
mess
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Woio' ~ - laNOilVG nlo'e "olo' aho
IT. Is carry lauhcheo III the BOOK Oh
GENESIS CauSht up III Ihe oook Oh
Joshua ehoraceu III 'he oook ol huth'
S"olh ny ~ me pooh VI oaHltel'
C'o"'ou III 'Ho oooN VI '"lnlS' anu on
G Gnioleo III many many placeS III Vlie Ne"
Acoo,''hc''' Nih0"'SS' "olu no more
SouC,9 '""n Hi'sn'l; eApecI ~ WIZ
"iG'C,0 niG uo"h Dclolc ! SeC thI ouSA
WIN !" 40 10 oi!S CLou5h W Chlo" an
atch1hSeA bIo III VIII De wen Tor us 10
Sb'nu aroo4u IL ana warm l, ourselves o!
los si"W a9 aUI anu MS lel.o" TosaSers :
STopu "ip"n" 'l'c ilo oi' 'nc lSla,iu VI
@'o"' "hcle C'lC NlaiVeec nlaoe Ihehi-
SG''es 'lli.lioI G'I III my leA' py Tue way
my my 'iI"'G" 'no'e NicIiine VI Cne sea-
me ne oaroaious people Sho"eu us no
i'Vy,o hl1oIeSs.
Nt'loiieSS. A!l uellhlClohS OF CnaC nul-
e,PoCeh' "oru oreah uoWh nan way
holIsay IL IS clchehcy' oehiShltE' gen
eroaIty' IL IS maze up Oh good "lShes' III
Is al expression Oh oehellcehce, 1T IS
cohtrloutlon TO the happiness OF otherS.
Some one else SAYS: 'Nhy, can give
YOU uihillIloh OF hlliuhcss' III IS sun
Shlne OF the soul; 1t is affection peren-
mai, 1t IS croWnlhS grace, 1t IS the
combination or all graceS; 1t IS com
passion; III IS the perfection OF Sehtie-
'manilheSS ana WomahIlhesS' are you
az IhFouSh' YOU nave hlaue ueau
ia'iure III your oehhttloh' 1t cahhot De
de hheo' bnt we all know "hac 1t IS
Tor we al! lc!V itS power some ol you
may have felt 1t as Paul leIt IL, on some
coast OF rock as the SNIP went 10 pieces
but more OF us have again ana again IN
some awful stress or NE had clther from
earth or Heaven hands Stretcheu OUT,
which showed us no little Kindness,