The Brinkley argus., 1909-05-07
PAUL AT ANTIOCH IN PISIDA
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 LESSON TExT.-Acts 1a:1s-s2 Memory verses 3s 8.
 GOLDEN TExT.-"The word of tho Lord was published throughout all the region."-Acts 13:4e
 TIME-Immediateiy after the last les son: probably taccording to Prof. Ram say). in the summer of A. D. ~ or 47.
 PBACE.-Perga the capital of Pam Minor. and Antioch. the capital of Pisidia. southern 0alatia, about 100 miles nortn.
 Suggestion and Practical Thought.
 Hitherto (see Acts 13:7. etc.) 1t had been "Barnabas and 5aui;" now 1t is Paul and Barnabas" tvs. 43, 46), or Paul and his company" including Barnabas. John Mark, and perhaps others. Paurs ability as leader has been proved at Cyprus, and vas after. wards unquestioned.
 V. 1s. John (Mark) departing from them returned to Jerusalcm." his home. i. Perhaps he did not Nike to zee Paul approaching his cousin Barnabas. 2. Perhaps his mother was sick. 3. Perhaps. as one brought up strictly in Jerusalem. he objected to Paul's free interc0urse with the Gen tiles. {. Perhaps he dreaded the per Ills of travel in the wild. bandltsinfested re8ion that lay before them. 5. Per. haps he had been weakened by the fever and felt unable to go on. Paul was not eatisfled with the reason, whatever 1t was (Acts IS: 5:37-40), 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 PauTs good opinion (sec In ductive Study 9. No man ever be- came gfeat or good except through many and great mistakes. Glad stone. ''The only people who make no mistakes are dead people. saw 2 man last week who has not made a mistake for 4,000 years. He Is mum my in the Egyptian department of the British museum .''-H l.. Wayiand. V. 24. 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 . Whole. "The tash before Paul was dfnlcult. He had tc win the confidence and hold the atten ton of an audience to which he wa quite unknown. He had to keep the ground of Israers peculiar history and hope, and yet to show that at the holy city itself the Messiah had been re | jected and crucifled. But St. Paul wal the very man for an emergency. - 1 Donald Fraser, D. D.
 They keynote of Paul's sole mes sage, repeated on a hundred occasions | and with infinite variations of empha sis, Is found in St. Lule's account Q l his visit to Athens, in the words, 'ht l preached Jesus and the resurrection. l This first of his sermons of which VI p0ssess any portion may perhaps b' regarded as . type of the Pauline ser
 mon."-Rev. George Francis Greene.
 It was (1) tactful. taking his nearer
 on their own ground; (7) humble, lea,
 ing himself ont and exalting Christ
 (3) courageous and frank. not hesitat
 in1 to state the truth though t wOul offend preconceived views: (4) Bfbl
 cal, bound up with the Scriptur
 throughou; (5) practical, coming to
 personal application, ending, as Ly
 man Beecher said every sectiol
 should end, with snapper"
 Forgiveness, through Christ. Tha
 truth, as always in Paul's preaching
 was the climax of this sermon. For
 gfveness," 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 l mediately all the consequences of sin ! It includes the cleansing of the hear
 from sin and restoration to God
 favor. These are wondeful and price
 less gifts, and Christ offers them t
 us for the asking.
 q V. 45. Envy (jealousy). when tn 1 Jews saw the multitudes" (of Gen 'I tiles). Tho Jewish leaders were ansr, 'l (1) because others and strangers di what they could not do themselves q (2) because they differed from Paul T teaching, and especially hts applies q ton of the Messianic hopes to tn condemned and crucified Jesus: @
 becauae they themselves felt cor demned by such warnings as those | Il vs. 40, fl; (4) because. though the ! would be pleased If the Gentiles woul become Jewish proselytes by conform !l eity to circumcision and other require ! ments, they objected strenuously t II their admission on easier terms, sucl as Paul proposed.
 l Missionary Expulsions. This was tn I first of many similar expulsions sul fered by Paul. and those were only tn :. beginnings of such experiences CT !! dared by missionayies in all lands 'l Thus Judson and his comrades wcr Il driven from Calcutta. Thus Miln 1 vas driven from Canton. and con boiled to begin missionary labors fo 1 China from the Malay Peninsula. Thu in 1885 all the missionaries wer ] driven from Japan for two centuries ] Thus John c. Pston, after thousan porils, was driven from the Island c 1 Tanna. But in every case Christianit
 has returned, all the stronger for 1t arnerience of persecution.