Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-11-09

laid - Nnrtsfs ave Anefkea 10 Christ,
give tie world % carist. sad he viii give
them ali a prosperity unlimited Nay :
Brooklyn GA. OF the oaeea cities OF ths
eaFtns Because Is - the eaesn city II
churches.
B.iadfold ne and lead ma iato any clty
OF the earth - tAst canaos see = street or
q warehouse or home, aud thea Head ma
lnta the churches and then remove ths
baldase froca my eyes. and | viii tell you
from what | see Inside the eonsscrated
walls. having seen nothing OUTSIDE. what
10 that eity's merchandise, its htsratare.
its schools. Its printing presses. its govern
meat. its homes. It's arts. its sciences. iis
prosperity or its depression. and igno-
rance aud pauperfsln and outlawry. TIE
altar Of God Ia the church is tho higa
water marx Of the worlds happiness. The
Christian religion triumphant, all other
Interests triumphant. The Christian reli-
gion low down, all other interests low
down. So l thought ON the evening of
thar day No stepped from the filthy streets
OF I.arraea, Cyprus. onto the boat that
took Us back 10 the steamer Minerva.
which bad already begun TO paw the waves
like courser impatient to DO gone. aud
then We moved GA aud up among the is
Night came down on land and sea and
the voyage became 70 me more aud more
suggestive and solemn. Ii you are pacing
IL alone = ships deck in the darkness and
al sea is weird place. and al active imagi-
nation may eonjure up almost any shape
be will. and u shall walk the sea or con-
front him by the smekestack or meet him
under the captains bridge. But here I
was alone on ships deck In the Gospel ar
chipelago. AMI 90 you wonder that the sea
was popglous with the past and that down
the ratlines Bible memories descended.
Our friends had all gone to their berths.
Captain" said, when will we arrive at
the Island Of Rhodess" Looking out from
under his glazed cap. he responded In sepul-
earal voice. About midnight" Though
it would be keeping unreasonable hours.
concluded to stay on deck. for 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
It famous while the world stands, and IA
nous in heaven when the world has be-
come = charred wreck.
A WONDERFUL HISTORY.
This island has had u wonderful history.
With six thousand Knights of ST. John, it
at one time stood out against two hundred
thousand warriors under '.Solyman the
Magnificent" The city had three thou
sand statues, and = statue TO Apollo called
Colossus, which has always since been con-
sidered one OF the seven wonders of the
world. IL was twelve years in building
and was seventy cubits high, aud had a
winding stairs to the top. Ii stood Efty-
six years and then was FRUSTRATED by an
earthquake. After lying in ruins for nine
hundred years, it was purchased to be con
verted to other purposes. aud the metal,
weighing seven hundred and twenty thou
sand pounds. was put on nine hundred
camels aud carried away. We were not
permitted TO 20 ashore, but the lights all
up aud down the hills show where the city
stands, and nine boats come out to take
freight and 10 bring three passengers. Yet
all the thousands Of years OF its history are
eclipsed by the few hours or days that Paul
stopped there.
As | stood there on the deck Of the
Minerva, looking out upon the place
( where the Colossus once stood, bethought
myself Of the fact that the world must
have God Of some kind. It is to me an
/ infinite pathos-this Colossus not only OF
Rhodes. but the colossi in many parts of
4 the earth. This Is only the worlds blind
reaching up and feeling after God Foun-
dered human nature must have supernat-
ural arm TO help IL ashore. All the statues
| and images OF heathendom are attempts
to bring celestial forces down into human
affairs. Blessed be our ears that we have
heard OF an ever present God. and that
through Jesus Christ be comes into our
hearts and our homes, aud with more than
fatherly and motherly interest and affec-
ton he Is with US in all our struggles aud
bereavements and vicissituGes. Rhodes
needs something higher than the Coles
sus. and the day will come when the
Christ, whom Paul was serving when be
sailed into the harbor Of Rhodes, shall
take possession of that island.
AS we move on up through this archi-
pelago, i am reminded of what an impor-
, tant part the islands have taken in the
history Of the world. They are necessary
to the balancing OF the planet. The two
hemispheres must have them. As you put
down upon = scale the heavy pound
weights, and then the small ounces-and
no one THINKS OF desplsing the small
weights-so Inc continents are tho pounds
aud the islands are the ounces. A CONT
nent Is only a larger island, and an island
| only q smaller continent. Something Of
what part the islands have taken in the
worlds history you will see when remind
you that the Island OF Salamis produced
Scion, and that the Island Of Chios pro-
duced Homer. and the Island of Samos
produced Pythagoras. and the Island OF
Coos produced Hippocrates.
| HE LoSGEp TO SEE PATNos.
| But there IL one island that longed to
see more than any other. l can afford to
miss the princes among the islands. but
must see the king of the archipelago. The
one longed to see Is not SO many miles in
circumference as Cyprus or Crete or Paros
or Naxos or Scio or Mitylsne. bat I had
rather. in this sail through the Grecian
archipelago, see that than all the others;
| for more OF the glories OF heaven landed
| there than on all the islands and continents
since the world stood. AS we come toward
| IL I feel my pulses quicken. II. John, was
| in the island that Is called Patmos." 1t Is
| Pile OF rocks twenty eight miles In cir
cumference. A few Expresses and inferior
olives pump living out OF the earth. and
one palm tree spreads its foliage. But the
barrenucss and gloom and loneliness OF the
| island made 1t prison for the ban.shed
| evangelist.
| Domisian could not stand his ministry,
and one day. under armed guard, that
! minister OF the Gospel stepped from a toss
| Ing boat to these dismal rocks aud walked
| mp TO the dismal cavern which was 10 Is
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