The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-14
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

There is always a way out. No hu- man soul is ever utterly hemmed in by troubles. Deliverance is Gods program for his distraught friends. He is pledged to make a way of escape. Some times the way to Rome--or any other goal---is devious and beset by difficul- ties. It may lead through Jerusalem rnobs, corrupt Caesarea courts, ship wrecks on the Mediterranean and three months on Malta. The journey may be personally conducted by the military power of imperial Rome; and chain may link the traveller to a soldier Of the legion. But the arrival at Rome is certain. The goal is sure.
 A terrific Northeastern had landed Paul and the other two hundred and seven ty-five members of the ships company on Malta's shores. What a storm that was! How helpless was the arm of all-conquering Rome when Jehovah opened his fist and let loose his winds! It must have seemed to the sailors as if all the other winds of heaven had gone out of business for themselves. and had been merged into the deadly Northeastern. Their personal experience had made them pessimists, even as some people think that the whole world Is encircled only by the Northeast winds VI tEOuDlc. put tuS StitAc Scath arose in due season, to bear the ship wrecked sailors away from the island where they had spent three months. There Is always a south wind. While the Northeast winds are bowling most fercely, 1t is well to remember that Gods good South wind is on the way. There's a gude time coming" Here was the optimistic Paul's interpretation of his experience, as he wrote to his friends in Philippi. Now l would have you know, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the Gospel" That Is another way of ex- pressing this lessons deepest life-mes- sage: "All things work together for good to them that love God"
 Over Storied Waters.
 Let us stand at the brow of the Twin Brothers" above the images of Castor and Pollux. and perhaps with the little missionary, whose slight frame makes us think he is all soul, standing beside us. sheltered from the Mediterranean winds by a cloak given him by a grateful Maltese. we shall see much to stir our imagination. over sapphire seas, sparkling in the sum light. with the salt air blowing in our faces, we come to Syracuse. Here we have three days to traverse the histor- ic city, with its memories of Demos themes, in whom our or-companion Paul is especially interested.
 A short journey away, reached, how ever, only after good seamanship. we come to the city of Rhegium, at the entrance to the storied strait where Scylla and Charybdis ue in wait for the unwary ship. Paul had his own thoughts of the famous events con- nected with this region; he could not know that twenty centuries later world fertilization unexpected by him would be -anguished by the overthrow by earthquake of thls same Rhegium. afterward to. be called Reggio, and of the city of Messina. across the narrow neck of water. A day in Rhegium, and then we attempt the hazardous Journey through the strait. As we pass suc- cessfully, we see in imagination many famous wr0cks along the rocks.
 Toward the beautiful blue of the Bay of Naples (aIthough Paul knew 1t as the Bay of PuteolD the Twin Broth CTS" drew a steady course. Vesuvius waved his sulphurous plume above the horizon. beautiful but ominous Here