The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-10-26
INTERNATIONAL,
SUNlAXSCI100L
LESSON
'(By %. 0. SELLERS, Acting Director OF
Sunday School Course. Moody Bible In
stitute, Chicago.)
tCopyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 20
THE VOYAGE.

LESSON TEXT-Acts 27:1-3s
GOLDEN TIXT-Commit thy way unto
JehoVah; trust also In Lin, and he Will
bring 1t to pass.-Ps 37:a
| Paul sailed from CacSarea August,
a: -. % (Ramsey), Il few days after
his address before Agrirpa. lie
reached Malta about November Is.
Paul knew how to meet robs,
l hut none of his adventures are more
! outstanding than Tie one we are
! St''"ying today. Luke, his physician,
was Il companion, ana the historian,
JoSephuS, states that on board the
Snip there were more than GOO DcoDlc
/ travelling with Paul. Paul was q man
OF distinction Il Roman citizen. He
lad his own hired house in Rome,
/ RrlStarchuS may possibly have been
MS servant to furnish comfort for
thc journey. Ramsey believes Paul
had received hereditary property, thus
making him Il RomaA citizen of rank
! OF learning and of standing finan-
clally.
!. Fair Weather and Contrary Wind,
! wv. LIZ. Sidon vas about 70
miles north Of CaesArca on the coast
/ OF Palestine. Here Paul received lib
erty to go ashore and visit his Chris
| tan friends. Myra is in Asia Minor.
1t requires ii days to reach this roint
from Sidon, n distance OF about 400
miles. Here, instead Of going un the
Aegean sea route, often used ip going
to Romc, the centurion found grain
snip bound from Alexandria to Italy,
and put his prisoners on board. Sep
tember 1 they started for Italy. The
direct course would have been west
ward but the wind was contrary, and
the progress was slow. On the 23d
they were opposite Cndus, the south
west point Of Asia Minor, 13C miles
from Myra. September 25 they
entered the harbor Of Fair Haven,
near the middle Of the south shore
OF the island Of Crete. The fast day,
October s, the day of the great atone
mcnt, was observed in this place Tie
question of going farther was Il de-
hatable one, yet the commander per-
sisted, and about the 10th of October
they sailed for Fair Haven.
II. The Hurricane wv. 1920. TAX
rut out Of Fair Haven, and almost
Immediately encountered the hurri-
cane. 1t was perhaps hard for Paul
during those Id days to discern the
wise, gentle hand of God. (JonaE
Id. Gods most faithful servants co
not always find smooth sailing. (Phil
4:6, z; Isaiah 2G:3; John 1G :33), but
they may, no matter how ficrcely tenn
pest tossed, know that God has not
ceased to look upon them with favor.
Sometimes the best thing for us to
do, when thus tempest tossed, is ito
tighten the ship" (v. 1S).
III. The Message Of Cheer: ri BE-
Iieve God" (vv. 20-2G). Neither sun
nor stars having shone for many days,
and all hope that any should he saved
seemingly taken away, yet God is able
to save In the darkness as well rs IN
the sunshine, in the tempest as we'll
MS In the calm, and there was in that
boat one man Mt least whose hope was
not gone, for God had said to him,
"rhou must bear witness at Rome
also" (23:1D. Paul's message OF
cheer in the midst Of this despair aid
after they had been SO long without
food. Immediately stamped him as a
leader of wisdom and power.
Paul could make this promise be-
and whom / serve" had come to him
and assured him that God would re-
deem the promise made two years be-
fore. This implies that Paul had given
himself to prayer. Observe how one
gOdly man can save many ungodly
men (Gcn. 18 :22-33). Gods vision
came to Paul, but Paul used it for the
comfort and cheer of the whole ships
company UI Cor 1-4). a modern IL
lustration of similar experience was
that Of Mr. Moody and General How
ard, returning from Europe on the
steamship Spree in 1892.
General Howard relates that Mr..
Moody did a great deal to cheer the
passengers, by both his words and his
actions during those days Of stress
and storm. The darker and stormier
the night, the more likely are the
angels of God to appear If we are in
deed his ". %: CT. Oh. 1S 1923 :11) /.
Sometimes these angels stand beside
us and we do not see them, we are
taken up with the darkness and the
bowling Of the storm. 1t is n great
thing to be able to look up to the in
finite God and say, II am his" To
make this statement intclligently, and
with deep realization of its meaning
will give significance and solcmnity to
all.
Nv. Paul, the Life Saver wv. 27-37)
Paul did not stop with simply saying
that God was his, but went on to say
SWhom also / serve" Many say they