The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-11-13

! sea. and the voyage became to ne more
( and more suggestive and solemn If
you are pacing 1t alone. = ships deck
| In the darkness and at sea IS q weird
place, and an active imagination msy
cOnjurs up almost any shape he viii,
| and il shall walk the sea, or confront
I him by the smokestaclr, or meet him
under the captains bridge. Hat here I
| was alone on ships deck In the gospel
archipelago and do you wonder that
| the sea was Populous with the past and
/ that down the ratlines Bible memo
ries deseendedP Our friends had all
| gone to their berths. Captain"
said, when will we arrive at
the Island of Rhodes?' Looking
cut from under his glazed cap, he
/ responded in sepuichrzl voice, About
midnight" Though it would be keep
ing unreasonable hours, I concluded to
stay on deck, for I must see Rhodes,
one of the islands associated with the
name of the greatest missionary the
world ever saw or ever will see Paul
| landed there and that was enough to
/ make 1t famous while the world stands
| and famous in Heaven when the world
| has become charred wreck.
This island has had a wonderful his
/ tory. With G. 600 Knights of st. John,
/ it at one time stood out against 200, 900
/ warriors under "Solyman the Magni6-
cent" The city had 5000 statues, and
/ a statue to Apollo called Colossus,
| which has always since been consid-
cred one of the seven wonders of the
world. Itvvas twelve years in build
ing and seventy cubits high, and had
| winding stairs to the top. 1t stood
/ hfty-six years and then was prostrated
by an earthquake. After lying in ruins
| for 800 years it was purchased to be
converted to other purposes, and the
metal, weighing Ts0, 600 pounds, was
| put on 800 camels and carried away.
We were not permitted to go ashore,
| but the lights all up and down the hills
| show where the city stands, and nine
| boats come out to take freight and to
bring three passengers. Yet all the
| thousands OF years of its history are
eeliPsed by the few hours or days that
Paul stopped there. AS stood there
on the deck of the Minerva, looking ont
| upon the place were the Colossus once
| stood, bethOught myself of the fact
/ that the world muat have a God of
some kind It is to me an infinite
| Pathos this Colossus not only OF Rhodes,
but the cOIOsst In many parts OF the
earth. This is only the worlds blind
| reaching up and feeling after God.
| FOundered human nature must have q
| supernatural arm to help il ashore. All
the statues and images of heathendOm
are attempts 10 bring celestial forces
down into human Affairs Blessed be
I our ears Gl1EAL We uANG tAGEEa OF al ever
present God. and that through Jesus
Christ He comes into our hearts and
our homes, and with more than
fatherly and motherly interest and af-
lection He is with US In our struggles
and bereavements and vicissitudes.
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
of Rhodes, shall take possession of that
island.
AS we move on up through this ar
chipelago 1 am reminded of what an
important part the islands have taken
in the history of the world They are
necessary to the balancing of the
planet The two hempispheres must
have them. AS you put down upon q
scale the heavy pound weights, and
then the small ounces, and no one
thinks OF despising the small weights,
so the continents are the pounds and
| the islands are the ounces A CONT
nent is only a large island and an island
only a smaller continent Something
of what part the islands have taken il
! the worlds history you will see when
remind you that the island of Salamis
produced Solon and the island of SsmO'
produced Pvthagoras and the island OF
Coos produced HiPpocTRtes-
But there is one island that louge6
to see more than any other. I can af
ford 20 miss the princes among the
islands, but / must see the king of thC
Archipelago. The one / longed to see
is not 50 many miles in circumference
as Cyprus or Crete or PRros or Naxos
or Seio or Mitylene, but had rather
in this sail through the Grecian Ar
chipelago. see that than all the others
for more of the glOries OF HEAVIER
landed there than on all the Islands
? and continents since the world stood
} As we come toward it / feel my pulses
quicken. n, John, was in the islanC
{ that is called I'atmOs." 1t is a pile o
rocks twenty-eight miles in circumfer
: ence. A few Expresses and inferiO
= olives PamP a living out of the earth
I and one palm tree spreads 1t foliage
But the barrenness and gloom anS
? loneliness of the island made it
. prison for the banished evangelist
[ nomitian could not stand his ministrl
{ aud one day. under armed guard, tha
, | minister of the gospel stepped from
! tossing boat to these dismal rocks ant
5 walked mp to the dismal cavern whicl
was % be his home. and the plac
; | where should pass before him all tn
5 conflicts Of the coming eternity. Is
r not remarkable that nearly all tn
great revelations of music and pOetr.
> aud religion have been made to me-
| in bauishment-Homer sud Milton ban
ished into blindness; Beethoven BAG
ished into deafness; Dante writinl
his s-Divana ComTIedia" daring hi
nineteen years of Punishment from hi
, native land; Victor Hinge writing hi
{ / les biiserables'' eziled from home an
| country on the island OF Guernsey an
I the brightest visions Of the future hav
! been given 70 those who by sickness Q
I sorrow were exiled from the quite
r. world into rooms Of snRering. onI
8 | those who have been Imprisoned b
i ! very hard surroundings have had grel
i revolutions made to them So Patmo.
4 wild. chilli aad bleak and terrible va
d the best island IN all she archipelago
a the beat place in all the earth for divir
? revelations
J. Before . panorama can be successful
q seen the room in which you sit Anu
r be darkened and in the presence
G. john was to pass such . panorama
Z no man ever before aavs Or sveF ri
At | see in this world, and hence the giool
s. Of his surroundings was = help rsths
D than . hiadrancs. All the surEogn
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