New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-13
SATURDAY,
OCT. 10, 1894.
DIR. RAMSAY ON THE ACTS.
RAINY WEATHER DOES NOT KEEP HIS
HEARERS ZONE.
PAr'I.s JOURNEY THROUGH GALATIA -JERusA'
LEM LOOKED on As THE HEAD

o. THE CHURCH.
Auburn. ~ Y. oct y (speclaD.-Dr. Ramsay
took up his scussion Of the Book of the Acts on
Wednesday The heavy rains whlch fell during the
day slightly diminished the SIZE q. the usually large
audiences but the attendance was large and the
audience apprecIatve Dr. Ramsay said:
In passing rapidly over chapter XVI verses 6-lo'
yesterd@y nearly omitted one pSlnpt Tn'G ,ks ss
gins to the first person plural IN the tentn
prior to this mt it IS inconcevabe taat he should
make the change without some "ood reason ana
must notice. to- that Paul had no intention Of
coming from Troas. but that he was hlnlered from
going where he intended TO go and then came TO
Troas. Whether Paul was acquainted win Luxe
before. this time we do not know but II Is I'm.
possible for who believes that the Acts were
written by person with any literary ability 70
think that that writer made the change TO the nrst
person singular unintentonay. II II were Po ,so
Bile. in the short time which we have would IKE IKE
70 state several grounds mn IN GrseK n ise
especially in to ay Ss S psT but
ably in a modified form: ..,- ..
II would that throughout this paragraph
send Paul on to Europe. The Greek language gives
the rapidly Of the movement more empnatcaIy
that the climax of the narrativec-the meeting with
Luke. the vision: and then Europeus IN the mih mo
North Galatian theory. the expression here Is not
true to the ae sboa ie ss quote from
of the latest writer's who holds this v view, ne
to this North Galatan theory. when Paul was in the
western bart OF Galatia he was taken sick: was
nursed there and on his recovery he wandered oyer
the western section Of G4latia visiting the cities
and establishing series Of churches whlcn AFTER
M2rf at least yea Work nePosei
and in this Shaptsr Now NV t iup
Journey after gong north they came oyer aga,ns,
Mysa'; but II they went west, there Is no point al
which they could have come to Mysa
so1,TH CALLAHAN THEORY REASONABLE.
VIII YOU now look at the xviIlth chapter, in the
tourney from Syrian Antioch. You observe here
the expression ne established all Of the disciples
which can only mean that he visited all OF the
churches. Now, on the North CALLAHAN theory Una.
tourney would bring the.n the Eastern Catalan
Phryria, but they wcrn miss the churches at
perioe. Lystra, Icon:um and Antioch; but by the
South Catalan theory al Of these churches could
be included Further toe expression in chapter ter
vidcs the country into sections known a. ~ nna.
c1m9tIy" These three divisions are called in the
Greek. the CALLAHAN territory. Now thete az ahs
hgheryng countries and the other through sr Lao aSs
dcea but Paul must have taken me road Tss' ,Sat
he had not been in Laoiicea. and. more tnan that,
the Acts distinctly says that he passed over 'hs
to peculiarly ai aSa s sSN 4ss:
The APosto Gounc at IN be Acts a and the
autobiography Of Paul. wen in the Ep sind 20
k tne Of the facts in general Paul and
Barnabas returned Antioch there arose co nGi
hu saved Without coming under the Jewish law and
admitting his body the sign of the Iew h c ps.
and Barnabas and other delegates should iay I'm, one
before the Council OF Apostes a1u ,bess
al Jerusalem. want you TO notice mere tha' tmse
were sent out by the Church ana nor py uaepI
sgEge iba in a CHAPTER n xiii The laid
before the council whether there was pain 81 Oe
re e @n According to eHtfoo others the re.
suit OF the council was compromshe Inc x3rassed
in the opening Of the letter in verse a There
these persons are dsowned ana yhey On The Other
hand a part of the Jewish demands are man aiieu'
~ seems that so far the Genties must conform TO
Jewish law in order to insure salNatioh !, - a..
Pa% for he " Carried the decree his Journey
and gave II to me bnr FOR the drst time for
gog1Ie rules. and there hai therefore Deeh III '
sion for the question 10 arise
JERUSALEM THE CENTRE.
We must believe too that this embassy from An
,iocb recopnzed that Jerusalem was the admins
trative centre OF the Church. Paul seems 10 nave
wished 10 impress this on the churches' ana We
see that he ended his journeys here This ne prop
ably did for the cause Of unity whlch was es-
sential to church organizaon rms ah Nhs
the fact that the church al Jerus3i9h MI pa,i lie
position than the other churcnes ai ann stions Of
all Of the other disciples reierts,s ,,l bri ,bsra
dispute TO the decision of the council heul tne'e,
is o alTa aSee 9 nf this knd viii have this
there was a decided difference peiweeh " 80
Obtained rm NV VII, We're in attendance and heard
the speeches were attracted to me ,t h ponle CEN
tired their attention to the last part OF me uecaee
which relates to the fact that they must observe
par OF , ~, coTnc,l paul went through the Catalan
t Mrep s second time and between this and the
thtt tim@ he heard news which him 10 the
heart and he at sent them letter ", VIII IN
he impressed upon them certain views when I H n
these churches and Paul eApresS r,niy He laws
sire on this We cannot infer. however, as
often that he had heard yery 9or more
than two years and in country in when II was
practically mpos:6e for man TO ch MHs ap This is
probably the way in which he heard OF me INA
7 mink that from there ne sent Timothy as an
ambassador the Gslatian cnurSnes ana hno nb'
! gather from his Epistles that he had a detailed
Of the condition at these se got the news
from such messenger
PAUL. AND JUDAISM.
Now Paul saw at once that the vision ne hau
of the Callahan churches was vain dream u
after all they to be bound by the letters VI
| Judaism The way In which the change mad peeh
brought about also affected him. He had tried 10
sooth the Judais;ic party. and this was taken ad-
| vantage of by them. 1t was argued from the
fact of Timothys circumcision that Paul was sun
teaching Judaism. They held also that Paui was
| only the servant and the messenger OF the o'her
| Apostles. 1t also affirmed that that type OK
Christianity which Paul had preached TO me Iaaa
tlans was the lower type. and that the ADVANCES
| form was Judaism. They might have made tnis
| inference from the Apostolic decree. Paul quite
acknowledges that there are degrees in Christian
| INV but he maintains that the highest type was
! that which ne preached. and that JUDAISM was
| but a preparation for that teaching. Inc other
| argument that he but the messenger OF the
| other Apostles he answers in the nrst ana secohu
| chapters OF his Episle 10 the Galatians lie .oes
| nor argle He simply states that they must be
! tire to the message which he gave them. ana
| pronounces a curse on any enc VINO snouid preach
| anoiher doctrine. In his autobiography given IN
| chapters / ard il. Paul admits that he went 10
| n si Peter,
/ the leading spirit of the Church. But he was there
only fifteen days and he implies that ne got notn-
| ing from Peter The charge that Paui au-
| mits he received from Jerusalem was that they
! should be good to the poor, which, ne says. ne