The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-03
PLEASANT FIELDS OF HOLY WRIT
THE INTERNATIONAL sUNDAY.scHoOL
LESSON.
Juiy 4, 1901. Acts xvL,SlS.
copyrighted. Davis W. Clarke
Flrtt Converts In Europe.


JuIy 4, 1897. Acts XVI, 6.l5.
copyrighted Davis W. Clarke
Firat Converts In Europe.
Copyrighted. Davis W. Clark.
Homer's genius has gllded the Aegean
Isles and main, but among his classic
scenes OF love and prowess the New
Testament flashes out picture that
In pathos and Significance surpasses
them all. The holy apostle, against
whose flaming zeal two provinces have
been shut, is sleeping now near the site
of storied Troy. In weird hour OF the
night, In n vision, man OF Macedonia,
recognized as such by garb and accent,
appears, and with outstretehed hand
and suppllant tone. cries Come over
Into Macedonia and help u.s." How mo-
mentous! It is the appeal, not OF one
small province. but OF all Europe ana
Western world still undiscovered.
Strike that scene from the New Tesla
ment, and with 1t you must strike the
eplstles to the Corinthians, Thessal-
onians, and Philippians, Occidental
history would needs be rewritten. ::
But sixteen years before, Paul had
learned the great utility OF obedience
to a Heavenly vision" So the early
morning finds him at the dock. inqulr-
ing for a ship bound for the port OF
Macedonia. Heaven favors the Yoy-
ayers. They sail before the wind. How
little their fellow-travelers suspected
the stupendous consequences OF their
errandl They really carry the seeds OF
new civilization. Some one says:
AS Europe sent Q cOnqueror to Asia
In tho person Of Alexander, so now, Asia
Is sending a conqueror 70 Europe IN the
person OF Paul" There Is no finer
commentary on the saying, THE king
dom OF heaven cometh without obser-
walton" than this incidental affords.
The first preaching OF the gospel west
OF the Hellespont was to an inslgnih-
cant company OF exile Hebrew matrons
on q river bank. Paul was too veteran
n missionary to despise an opening ap-
parently 80 small and humble. He UNI
folded the doctrine OF Christ with as
much care In that womnns prayer
meeting as little later he did IN the
presence Of the Areopagites In Athens.
and the kingdom was set up immedl-
ately In one woman's heart
MoIaie From the Commentaries.
Asia: Not the continent, not Asia
Minor, but the small pro-consular pro-
vince. .Asslyed: Tense suggests pro-
longed trial, indicating that, though
the hlndrance was supernatural, the
discovery OF It was due to human effort.
Horswell. E. The Spirit suffered them
not: H. ". Spirit Of Jesus only oc-.
currence OF expression. Man OF
Macedonia: This mysterious man was u
representative Of human souls In moral
twilight longing for the true light
Whedon. Troas was a very fitting
place In which this vision should APP
pear. In days OF classical fable. Troas
had been the place where Europe and
Asia had met In stern conflict. Again
they meet at Troas, but no longer In
carnAl conflict Stokes. Immediate
Iy: All men who make history, act with
utmost prudence -Cffate lfnTbe lhmh
utmost promptltude. .Assuredly ga
therlng: Verb has sense OF coming to
conclusion by putting things side by
side. Cambridge Bible =. .Looslng:
r. ", Setting sail .. "A colony; A Ro-
man colony was a miniature OF the I'M
perlal city. governed by its own senate
and maHistrates Schaff. Prayer
was wont: II. ". Where we supposed
there was q place Of prayer. =. Seller
OF purple: Doubleday wool In that
day cost 1870 per pound. Heart OPP
oned: Probable the opening was pro-
cess that had been going on for long
time. Arnot
The Teachers Culver.
% Asia and Blthynla, where Paul
was Inhibited from preaching, were not
objects OF Divine preterltion. II was
only time shrdlu hrdlu rdlurdluhrdl
only a questiO nof time and agent. That
they were aually gospellzed Is evident
from Peters address 60 believers there
(2) Il Is worthy OF not that the first
convert In the new field was from one
Of the interdicted proYinces-nnd may
have become the nlmoner OF grace 10
her fellow provlnclals, The seeming
passing over OF pro-consular Asia may
have been Gods way OF visiting X,
-. (S) II N said that the California
trees, those tnllest spires OF natures ca
thodral. spring from tiny seed. SO tho
Christian Church IN Europe had small
beginning. A womln's prayer-mcetlng:
Paul, Sins Timothy and Luke, no.
bodies as the world estimates -. "a.
Roman imperialism was born at Philip
NJ whe Brutus and Cassius went down
before Anthony and Augustus. But an
empire more universal aud enduring
gained It's first Victory In Europe q
hundred years later on the Same spot.
-. (D Lydia was remembering the
Sabbath. day 20 keep Il holy when she
received tho glad tidlnEH. She might
have considered herself excused from
the commandment IN her present on
vlronmcnt. No Bynngogue. Hebrew
males all bnnlshod. Gentle ashops all
open. hut mol Sabbath came, ana up
went hoe shutters. She n immortal be-
cause she remembered the Sabbath.
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