Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1918-01-13

And so far as the records these Jews have
neither eaten nor drunk that day this matter
of some twenty centuries Paul worked and preached
many years after that taken and he died from
Roman not Jewish hands Pauls ministry traught
with more peril and hardship than that of other
preacher this world has known unless it Peter,
Paurs fire and eIoquence feariessness marked him
for especial persecution at of all psgsns and
his high Jewish birth marked him for especial
ance of the Jews He spent OF the years Of his
ministry either in prison exile hiding in
danger Of cruel death his fiery soul only burned
the brighter dauntess heart beat the stronger
for all the efforts enemies Of his faith and his
stewardship
How many many times must this high born Jewish
parician and humble impetuOus. lovable
brother apostle Peter have thought their efforts
were both useless upon earth and unapprecisted in
Heaven They trudged the rough and sandy highways
with weary and wounded feet; they slept under the
stars sQuad huts of the cities they fled in
the night chained their prison bench;
they never looked upward towards Heaven but they
saw sword of the Roman the Of the Jew
suspended between them and the skies,
They preached in stables and deserted cemeteries
and mountain gOrges and upon the sands of the
Their audiences were composed in of the poor
and the ignorant and unkempt the unfortunate
Their stricken with poverty and broken by
tod and their friends were either fugtives from the
foreign and domestic tyrants Their enemies
sat in the high places velvet drank from
golden cups
How cfIen oh. how often. must Peter and Paul have
wondered at the distance to the skies and the
of futity their steadfsstness to
righteous
Did they weep ana pray: Did they pause and
ponder? Did they doab. and despair, II they did who
blame them?
But they kept with their work They
their faith They held the right they had been
given signs for their eyes conscience for
their hearts The Jews handed together and
took oath neither drink they had slain
the apostle Paul And these Jews fasting still in
death and darkness. But Paul lives on Paul bearded
throne braved death in the before
his wasted and wounded form became still forever
Was his work appreciated upon earth? His only
earthly home either prison highway a
in the days of his ministry But today in every Christian
there St PauFs cathedral whose spires glitter
IN GooNe ali the Duli0ngS ROUND ABOUT his
and followers peasants psupers then
they princes and the high of the earth today
The Jews we're handed to slsy him. bD: he was saved
from their time again until his work
done hour of his greatness in humble
work and neglected suffering appreciated as no
work has ever been appreciated before since
earth or in Heaven
Take heart. oh. We that plOd in humble places
ing simple ans keeping faith in both great
things. for the all We do shall be render
ed in your favor and the least the your faith
shall be multiplied for you by both and angels
Every right ye do VII hack some time like
lighted lamp the shadows and every wrong We do
return again after many days with scorpions sting
Steadfastness and staunohness and dependAbiIity
these in vain The chdrens children OF the