Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-10-28
TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
International lesson for October 81,
E>9T-PauI's Voyage and Shtpwreck
Acts 27.I3-2S


GOLDEN TENT.-Be Of good cheer: for
/ believe God. that it shall be even as il was
4 told me.-Acts p rs.
4 THE SECTION includes the whole chap
f, ter.
EXPLANATORY.
/ L The Voyage and the Ship.-As soon
as sufficient company of prisoners
bound for Rome could be gathered to
4 go under one military escort, Paul was
sent with them. This required about
20 days, or till August p. There was
no ship to take them directly from
/ Cesarea to Rome, so that they EN-
barked ON vessel which coasted along
the shores till they came to Myra, in
! Lyeia, Asia Minor, a port the Egyptian
1 grain ships had 70 make at certain
/ seasons on their way 10 Rome, be-
cause of the strong west winds. Here
they found one of these ships on its
! way to Rome. After they had entered
the new ship, the voyage was south
westerly, and slow, because the pre-
vailing winds at this season were from
the west, and therefore against them.
They reached Fairhavens, on the south
of Crete, about the Goth of Ser+em
Der, the season of storms on the Medic Ter
ranean. Paul advised them to remain
here, for the sake of safety. The CEN
turion naturally trusted the opinion
OF the master of the ship in preference
to Pau's and they set sail on a calm
and pleasant day for Phenice, more
commodious port of Crete.
/ Ii. The Hurricane-Ns. 1920. 10.
when the south wind blew softly"
The south wind was favorable for
reaching Phenice, as they proposed.
IA. "A tempestuous wind" Greek,
typhonic, of the nature of whirlwind
or cyclone. Called Euroclydon: +"
From eqlros, east, and Clydou, a wave,
an east wind raising great waves.
IS. When the vessel was caught
very strong expression implying that
the wind seized hold of the ship, as it
i We're, and whirled her our Of her course.
/ Gould not bear up into the wind"
Literally, could not look the wind in
the eye I'VE let her drive:' Literally,
| having given it up, we were borne along.
16. "A certain island (the Greek is di-
minutive, small island'0 which is
called Clauda" (the better reading is
i Cauda) This island was about Is miles
nearly due south from the port of
j Phenice, which the sailors desired to
reach. ITO come by the boat" TO
become masters of the boat; to bring
/ upon deck the small boat which was
! usually towed astern the ship.
II. They used helps" Ropes, chains,
4 any apparatus they had. "Undergird-
ling the Ship" BY ropes, or chains
passing around the vessel, on account
OF the strain of the mast with its great
sail Lest they should fall into the
! quicksands:" The Syrtis Major, on the
coast of Africa, a long distance away,
but the wind was blowing them direct
/ ~ towards those dangerous shoals.
"Strake seil:" They lowered the sail,
leaving tust enough sail to keep the
ships head to the wind.
20. when neither sun nor stars
appeared" We have to re-
member that before the invention of
the compass the sun and stars were the
only guides of sailors who were out
of sight of land. I'm many days" The
storm lasted IA days in all ". 27.) All
hope was taken away:" No
one who has never been in leaking
ship in a long-continued gale can know
what is suffered under such circum-
stances.
III. Paul Brings Good Cheer-vs.
21-26. 81. "After long abstinence:'
There was no means of cooking; no
fire could be lighted; the provisions had
probably been spoiled and sodden by
the waves that broke over the ship; be-
side, with death staring Them in the
face, no one cared to eat. paul stood
forth in the midst of them" Sailors.
soldiers and passengers, now willingly
crowding round him. 'Ye should have
hearkened unto me-" Paul recalls to
mind their former mistake in disre-
/ garding his advice (Vs. OLD. not to re-
/ proaeh them, but in order to show his
claim to their confidence with reference
to the present communication.
%. IL eNhort you 10 be Of good
cheer" 1t is the prisoner who trusts
in God who has the source of cheer in
his soul
%. There stood by me this night the
1 (an) angel of God:" To reassure Paul,
i hAN " SlduAillg Aut lives VI luS OtueTS
! for his sake to dead them to trust in
] his Saviour and to gain power and OPP
portunity for more successful work IN
Rome, for all this would be reported.
". The Wreck and the Escape-On
/ the fourteenth night of the storm, by
the sound of breakers and the shallow
! ing OF the water. they learned that they
were near some land Anchors were
cast out Of the stern, keeping the bow
/ Of the ship toward the shore in case they
should drift upon it. They had drifted
| about $50 miles toward Malta. Some Of
the sailors We're acting meanly, trying
TO escape themselves, but leaving all
tire others to their fate. But Paul said:
Except thes abide in the ship We can
rot be saved" although he had prom
ised that all should be saved.
Finally all, at Pauls suggestion, took
food after he had blessed it. The ship