The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1909-05-06
PAUL AT TANTIOCH
in PISIDIA
S,ndsy School Lesson for May ., 1909
Specially Arranged for This Paper

verses 50, ".
GOLDEN TExT.-"Ths word of the
Lord was published throughout all the
region."-Acts t3l9.
TIME.-Immediately after the last les
son; probably according TO Prof Ram
say), in the summer of A. ID. rs or AZ.
PBACE.-Perga the capital Of Pam
phyla, on the southern coast of Asia
Minor, and Antioch, the capital OF Pisidia,
southern Galatla, about 100 miles north.
Suggestion and Practical Thought.
Hitherto (see Acts 1871, etc. 1t had
been "Barnabas and SAUL" now 1t is
Paul and Barnabas" Tvs. 43, 46), or
Paul and his company" including
Barnabas, John Mark, and perhaps
others. Pauls ability as a leader has
been proved at Cyprus, and was after.
wards unquestioned.
v. 18. "John (Mark) departing from
them returned to Jerusalem" his
home. 1. Perhaps he did not like to
see Paul superseding his cousin
Barnabas. 2. Perhaps his mother was
sick. 8. Perhaps, as one brought up
strictly In Jerusalem, he objected to
Paul's free intercourse with the Gen.
tiles. 4. Perhaps he dreaded the per.
lis of travel in the wild, bandltinfested
region that lay before them. 5. Per.
haps he had been weakened by the
fever and felt unable to go on. Paul
was not satisfied with the reason,
whatever It was (Acts 15:3740), and
separated from Barnabas when, later,
he insisted on taking Mark along. But
Mark was ready for the second mis-
sionary journey, and was afterward re.
stored to Pau's good opinion (see In.
ductive Study 2). mo man ever be-
came great or good except through
many and great mistakes. Glad.
stone. "The only people who make no
mistakes are dead people. saw a
man last week who has not made a
mistake for 1000 years. He is a mum.
my in the Egyptian department OF the
British museum."-H. L. Wayland.
v. "a. "They went into the syna.
gogue on the Sabbath day" as was
their custom. Thus they wisely made
their first appeal to the Jews.
The Sermon as a Whole. "The task
before Paul was difficult. He had to
III lut COIHutuCt anu uOlu Illb dllNll-
tion of an audience to which he was
quite unknown. He had to keep the
ground of Israel's peculiar history and
hope, and yet to show that at the holy
city itself the Messiah had been re-
iected and crucified. But st. Paul was
the very man for an emergency."-
Donald Fraser, d. d.
"They keynote Of Pauls sole mes.
sage, repeated on hundred occasions
and with infinite variations of empha,
sis, is found in st. Luke's account OF
his visit to Athens, in the words he
preached Jesus and the resurrection.
| This first of his sermons Of which we
possess any portion may perhaps be
regarded as a type OF the Pauline ser
mon. REV. George Francis Greene.
It was (D tactful, taking his hearers
on their own ground; (2) humble, leav
ing himself out and exalting Christ
| (3) courageous and frank, not hesitat
ing to state the truth though II would
offend preconceived views: (4) Bibli
cal, bound up with the Scripture
throughou; (5) practical, coming to q
personal application, ending, as Ly
man Beecher said every section
should end, with a snapper"
Forgiveness, through Christ. Thai
truth, as always in Paurs preaching
was the climax Of this sermon. For
giveness," r. ", remission "of sins,
is, literally the putting or sendinl
them away. It includes the remova
of the penalty for sin, though not i'm
medlately all the consequences OF sin
It includes the cleansing Of the hear
from sin and restoration to God'i
favor. These are wondeful and price
less gifts, and Christ offers them Il
us for the asking.
V. As. Envy jealousy, when tn,
Jews saw the multitudes" (of Gen
tiles) The Jewish leaders were angr.
(D because others and strangers di'
what they could not do themselves
(2) because they differed from Paul
teaching, and especially his applica
ton of the Messianic hopes to tn
condemned and crucified Jesus; g
because they themselves felt con
demned by such warnings as those Il
vs.. 40, Al; (D because, though the,
would be pleased If the Gentiles woul
become Jewish proselytes by conform
ity to circumcision and other require
ments, they objected strenuously t
their admission on easier terms, sue
as Paul proposed.
Missionary Expulsions. This was tn
first of many similar expulslons sui
fered by Paul, and those were only tn
beginnings of such experiences er
dured by missionaries in all lands
Thus Judson and his comrades wer
driven from Calcutta. Thus Min
was driven from Canton, and con
PEELED to begin missionary labors 70
China from the Malay Peninsula. Thu
in 1885 all the missionaries wer
driven from Japan for two centuries
Thus John G. Patton, after a thousan
perils, was driven from the Island {
Tanna. But In every case Christlanit
has returned, all the stronger for II
experience OF persecution.