The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-08-31

he started for Damascus 10 butcher
Christians, but after that hard fan
from his horse he was a changed man
and preached Christ IN Damascus tn
the city was shaken 10 rs foundation
The mayor gives authority for his
arrest, and the popular cry Is. "Km
himl Kin him." The city Is sur
rounded by a high wall and the gates
are watched by the police lest the
Ciiician preacher escape Many OF the
houses are built on the wall. and their
balconies projected clear over ana
hovered above the gardens outside. Il
was customary 10 lower baskets Out Of
these balconies and pun mp fruits and
flowers from the gardens To this day
visitors az the monastery Of Mount
Sinai are lifted and iet down IN has.
kets- Detectives proWled around from
house 70 house looking for Paul. but
bis friends hid him. now IN one plsca
nov IN another He Is no coward as
% Incidents IN his life demonstrate
but he feels his work Is not done vet
ana 90 he evades assassination. rs
that preacher lunatie heregp the foam
ing mob shout al one house door rs
that lunatic here ?" the police shout Al
another house door Sometimes on ,aa
street incognito he passes through
cloud q elipehed hsis and sometimes
ne secrets himself on The house top.
faurs rrosIdenliai Escape.
Al last the iumriAie p0pulace get on
sure track OF him. They have positive
evidence that he ls in the house o. one
uf the Christians. the balcony of whose
home reaches over the vail Herr he
isl Here he lsla The goeifsration and
biasnhemy and bowling 81 ihe Dur.
suers are AZ the front door They
break IL. "Fetch out that eospellner
and Tea us hang his bead on the city
gale. Whore ls heg' The emergency
was terrible. Provldenuaiiy there was
a good stout basket In the house
Pauih friends iasten a rope 70 the
basket Paul steps into o. The basket
is lifted 20 the edge Of the balcony on
tAe wall. and then while Paul holds the
rope with both hands bis friends lower
away, carefully and cautiously. slow,
but surely. farther down and farther
down. until the basket strikes the
earth and the apostle steps out and
afoot and alone starts on that famous
missionary tour the story d which has
astonlshed earth and heaven Appro-
PIRATE entry in panls diary Of travels.
"rhuush a window in a basket uHn /
let down By the wailT
observe arsl On shat a slender ton
ure great results hang The rope maker
who twisted that cord fastened 10
That lowering basket never knew how
mach would depend upon the strength I
Of o. How y q had been broken and
the apostles IRE had been dashed outi
What would have become of ire Chris- Z
tian church, An that marnihcent
missionary work NJ pamphylia. Capra. I
docla. Calatla. Macedonia would never I
hafr been accomplished an hia Writ- 4
ines that make up IS indispensable /
ans enchanting a part of the New
Testament would never have been
written. The story Of resurrection
would never have been 90 glorlously
told a. hs told a. That example of
heroic and triumphant endurance a.
phillppI. Do tle Mediterranean Euro.
ciyd0n. under hareiislion. and e.. hls
beheadinr. would not have kindied the
courage 81 iQ.oQF martyrdoms But
that rope holding thar basket. how
much depended on iii So again and
again great results have hung On sien-
der circumstances
Dld ever ship Of many thousand tons
crossing the sea have such an Import
ant passenger as had once a boat OF
leaves. from taHraii 20 stern only three
or four feet the vessel made water.
proof By q coat Of hitumon and floating
on the Nile with the infant lawgfrer of
ihc Jews on hoardf what N acme
crocodile should crunch itf What n
some cattle vading ID fof drink
should sink be- Vessels OF var s.,ns-
times carry 40 guns looking through
the portfolios ready 10 open battle but
the tiny craft nn the Nlie seems 70 b.
armed with az the guns OF thunder
that b1mbarded Sinai Ct the iawrivinf
On how fragile craft sailed hom much
of historical lmporiancei
Eariy struggle and saeriace.
There are said 10 be- about a hundred
and fffy Thousand ministers Of religion
IN this coantrf Ahoai s30oo var
rant came from early homes which
had 20 struggle Tor fhe necssssr.es OF
nia. The sons Of rica bankers and
merchants generally become bankers
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