Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-06

ligion of Cyprus was most licentious.
Aphrodite was the goddess of the
people and a phallic symbol in the
shape of a white comical shaft rep
resented her. Religion was delft
cation of lust. Very little is told of
prus, except that going through the
island into all the towns they came
to Pohphos, which was the seat of
government, for Cyprus had been
under Roman rule since B. c. So, ana
the proconsul had his residence at
New POphos.
Their preaching here must have
been very effective for the news of
it reached the palace, and the pro-
consul became interested enough to
send for Barnabas and Saul and
Mark to come to the palace and speak
to him.
A New Conflict With Satan
Satan never lets going work
alone. He's not concerned when
work is dead or dying. He had at
tackled it from other angles before,
but now he goes at it in a new
way. Elymis, a Magian, is in the
court of the prOconsul as one of his
advisers. By having someone to
delve into the mysteries of the fu-
ture and of the spirit-life Satan was
enabled then as now to divert the
minds of people from the truth, and
encourage them to believe a lie. This
was Elymas' function, and he became
very uneasy when he saw that his
rich, intellectual and influential sub
jeCt, the proconsul, was in danger of
becoming too much interested in the
new faith.
Christianity is always opposed to
false religions, and they are to
Christianity, because they offer their
blessings without the necessity for
q raipptiOn of tha old 1ifn
ism today is an example; it purports
to be life. The devil still has his
emissaries to turn men from the
faith. Many of these sons oe the
deviI' are in the ministry. One of
them recently has tried to unsettle
the belief of a man in the inspir2-
ton of the Scriptures, and came
nearly wrecking his faith in God as
a result. The devils had tried 10
shake this man in dozen ways and
couldn't, but in his new attack
through a minister-supposed -to-be-
true. almost succeeded.
A New Name
Saul assumed his Roman name,
Paul, after that experience; and
henceforth became the leader of the
party. Many conjectures have been
offered as to why the historian uses
most improbable one is that it was
a trophy of the conversion of the
Roman proconsul, Sergins Poulos.
Nothing would have been further
from Saul's thought and life. The
most reasonable answer seems to
me to be that a Roman name, which
he had always possessed would
probably be more appropriate, as
he was henceforth to be thrown
among Gentle nations.
John Mark left them at Perga.
fact which Paul afterwards resent
ed. The hardships may have been
too great for young man not so
firmly grounded in the faith; or
possibly he was not as yet thorough
ly in sympathy with the work among
the Gentiles, which was evidently
the trend of PauIs labors..
Perga is a seaport town, and al
most deserted in summer, because
it is so hot. Paul and his company
pushed on into the mountains and
on to Antioch and Pesidia. Here in
the synagogues of the Jews he
reached the crucified, risen, living
and coming Christ His success was
greatly to the rejoicing of the Cen
tiles and to the discontinue of the
Jews We shall leave him here I'M
til our next study and let us initiate
him in his zeal to bring everyone into
touch with His living Lord. How
many will you introduce to Jesus,
the Christ, this week?