The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-29
PAUL AT
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Sunday School Lesson for May 2, 1903
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LESSON TEXT.-Acts BILE Memory
verses ,, 8
GOLDEN TEXT.-"Go We into all the
creature. Mark 1918.
TIME.-Probably in the spring and
summer of A. y. A.
PLACE.-Antioch in Syria, and the ip
land of Cyprus
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Caesar. emperor o. =
Rome, IA Cuspius Fadus. governor of
Judea. The Romans are in Britain, seek
ing to subjugate the country.
Suggestion and Practical Thought.
The church at Antioch, from
which Pauls missionary journey
started. Jerusalem had before been
the center of influence, it's heat and
light radiating to Samaria, Joppa.
Ethiopia. Cyrene, Damascus, Tarsus,
Antioch. The ray that reached Anti
och kindled, as it were. a new sun,
which became a center of radiation
for Asia Minor and Europe
II was a small and struggling church
Paul and Barnabas We're the strongest
men in it, the leaders. How could
Nlt'l NC oIdi ttl 'JUT modern
churches and Christians need to learn
that it is not keeping. but giving
away, that enriches and strengthens
Missionaries Are Your Representa-
tives.-Those whom you have commits
stoned. the official heads of the church.
have sent the missionaries forth for
you. They are your proxies. When
you joined the church, you made its
enterprises yours. and assumed re-
spOnsibility for them. You became a
partner in a business, the greatest
business in the world. If the missions
Of your denomination fail or grow
weak through your neglect, it is as
great a disgrace as for you to become
bankrupt in any other business to
which you have made yourself part,
ner
Lessons for Our Work. Paul
and Barnabas went first to Cyprus.
where they would find beginning
easiest. Wise workers always work
along lines of least resistance.
2. They worked in the center of in
fuence, a large city, where they could
reach the most people The church
must never neglect the city
3. They based their work upon the
| word of God. We shall fail if we do
not do the same.
4 They did not try to do their
work alone. but utilized John Mark,
and doubtless all the other helpers
they could find. The most useful
workers are those that know how to
set others TO work
;. They were ignorant. as vet,
| that their great work was to be for
| the Gentiles. but they followed along
| the line OF providence. "A flower will
| often remain furIed for days till a sun.
| beam touches it, when instantly it will
expand. Barring Gould. Their nj
sion was preparing for full unfolu
ing
V s. "Elymas,' not necessarily
proper name, being merely Aramaic
| for magician. He was a Jew: a false
| prophet, an impostor pretending to
| knowledge of the future and teaching
| untrue doctrines: and he was a "sor-
cerer," magician or sage, the name
| given to the wise men from the East,
| the Magi of Matt. .: 1, Z 16. In those
| days superstition and science were
commingled, and the scholar did not
| consider beneath him the arts of the
fortune-teller and the magician.
There stood before the proconsul
| the apostle of truth and the emissary
of falsehood, like Moses and the magi-
| clans before Pharaoh Dean Waugh
an. Victory over the opposition of the
sorcerer was a specimen OF all the
missionary victories that have been
| won since, in countless numbers. all
over the world. 1t was won by three
| means:
|, BY the power of the spirit w.
81. Saul, (who also is called Paul.
and henceforth, to mark his change OF
labors, the history drops his Jewish
name, Saul, and uses the Gentle name
solely was filled with the Holy Ghost"
The tense OF the Greek participle
implies sudden access of spiritual
power, showing itself at once in in
sight into character, righteous indig-
nation, and provision OF the divine
| chastisement. "-Ellicott.
2. BY bold speech w. 10). Paul
never minced matters. He spoke out
| his full heart. Thoughts were made
| for words, with him, With a stern
| face, his eyes fixed intently upon the
sneering sorcerer ". 81, he burst out
with stern words: 20 full OF all sub
| tility" Or. V. guile" receiD and all
| mischief (the Greek word implies the
easy doing OF villainy), thou child
of the devil" Though named, alas.
| Bar-Jesus, child of Jesus) thou
enemy of all righteousness flor the
| Greek word devil. means slanderer,
| false accuser, and therefore enemy OF
the truth and right, wilt thou not
cease to pervert." C'distort. turn
asidel the right (straightl ways of
the Lord" 1t was frankness and
| truth rebuking craftiness and lies, and
! doubtless every one within hearing
and perhaps the wretch's own con.
science-recognized the justice Of the
condemnation.
Minds Obedient Unto Christ.
Our minds are dominated constant