The Tupelo journal., 1903-04-24
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson In the international series
for April 20. 1OO3-Pnul'~ Jour-
ney to Jerusalem.
THE LESSON TEXT.

(Acts q :3-12) !
3. Now when we had discovered Cyprus.
We left it on the left hand, and sailed into
Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the
ship was to unlade her burden.
T. And finding disciples, We tarried
there seven days; who said to Paul through
the Spirit. that he should not go up to
Jerusalem.
8. And when we had accomplished those
days. We departed and went our way;
ana they all brought us on our way. with
wives ana children, till we were out of
the city; and we kneeled down ON the
shore, and prayed.
.. And when We had taken our leave one
OF another. we took ship; and they returned
home again.
Z. And when we had finished our course
from Tyre, We came to Ptolemais, and sa-
luted the brethren, and abode with them
one day.
8. And the next day we that, were of
Pauls company departed, and came unto
Caesarea: and We entered into the house
OF Philip the evangelist, which was one
OF the seven; ana abode with him.
y. And the same man had four daughters.
virgins, which did %prophesy.
10. And as we tarried there many days.
there came down from Judaea a certain
prophet, named Agabus-
II. And when he was come unto us, he
took PauPs girdle. and bound his own
hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the
Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusa-
lem bind the man that owneth this girdle,
and shall deliver him into the hands of the
Gentiles.
u. And when we heard these things,
both we, and they of that place. besought
him not to so up to Jerusalem.
TEXT.-I'he will of the
Lord be dOne.-Acts FL: ID.
OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION.
Pau Warned Against Going to
Jerusalem N:1-4.
A Second Warming. ..............Acts q :5-12.
Pauls Noble Resolution........Acts q :l3-16.
Paul Warned Against Going to Je-
rusalem.-After leaving Miletus, where
Paul had interviewed and taken his
final leave-taking from the leaders of
the Ephesian church, he sailed again
toward Jerusalem, touching by the
way Coos, Rhodes, Patara, on past
Cyprus and landing at Tyre, where the
vessel on which he sailed stopped to
unlade. At Tyre there was a company
of disciples, and Paul and his compan-
ions stopped with them for the space
of seven days. We have already seen
that f~orebodings of certain danger to
LIZ III tolhISttloH Win lie "Olh
possessed the mind of Paul. Yet with
composure he could say: "But none
of these things me. neither count
| my life dear unto myself, so | might
finish my ITS with joy, and the min
istry l have received. to tes-
tify the Gospel of the grace of God"
The foreboding of danger possessed
nnf o1nuo Tho r,;p1 Nf Do,1 hut ,1eOof
these disciples at Tyre for Paul. They
urged Paul not TO go to Jerusalem in
the face of the growing opposition
there to the preachers of the Gospel
of Christ. What Paul said in reply to
these disciples is not recorded.
A Second Warning.-After seven
days at Tyre Paul and his companions
took ship again and sailed to Ptole-
mais. where they stay one day with
the disciples of that place, and from
thence to Caesarea. There they
stopped in the house of an evangelist
named Philip. While Paul was there
a prophet named -Agabus came from
Judea. The prophet took Paul's girdle
and bound his W hands and feet, and
Az LINUS Sditu Tx IlOlN bIlOSt, So
shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the
mar that owneth this girdle, and shall
deliver him into the hand of the Gem
tiles" Then the disciples of Caesarea
and even Paul's travelling companions
besought him not to go to Jerusalem.
Paul's Noble Resolution.-Paul was
not absolutely proof against such
n1ao1inr for tho orpot NAME haort
was near to breaking, but his resolu-
ton to face his duty regardless of the
danger besetting that pathway never
wavered.
what mean We to weep" he asks,
"and to break mine heart? for I am
ready MOTTO be bound only, but also to
die at Jerusalem for the name of the
spring passages of Scripture than this
narrative of Pauls journey toward
Jerusalem. 1t was in some respects
like the last journey of Christ to the
same place. That was the goal to
which duty, to which service of God
and mankind pointed. No human
pleading turned either a hairs l&eadth
from his course. In spite of all Ian
gers. hidden or apparent. Paul, like
the Son of Man, moves steadily and
without %wavering to his goal. The
conclusion of the matter was: "The
will of the Lord be DONE" and Paul
took to Jerusalem with him not only
his original companions. but also GER
tain of the Caesarean disciples.