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Unheeded by most newspaper readers, war on a large scale, with {armies of hundreds of thousands of {men arrayed against each other. still rages in Bible Lands. Greeks and { Turks are doing the actual fighting, but the interests of all the leading | nations are involved. The outcome may ultimately be of even more far- reaching importance than the decis- lon on the western front. As the newspaper often turns ent instance, the Scripture Lessons which are being studied by thirty million members of the Sunday Schools throughout the world may turn many minds to the day's cable- grams, Asia Minor, where the lar- gest-scale fighting now to be seen on earth is under way, is the iden- tical scene of the new campaign of Christianity's greater soldier, the Apostle Paul. The best map from which to study the day's despatches are those printed in the backs of modern Bibles, This coincidence of modern news with ancient history is only one of the ways wherein the Sunday School begets large-minded- ness, and makes for world citizen- ship. It is incumbent upon Chris- tians to think and live spaciously. The Greatest Work in the World. We are brought squarely up against a big idea by this Wesson. For here begins, in the Acts history, that campaign of world conquest which burst the Judean and Syrian boundaries of Christianity, and car- ried the Tidings quickly to the cen- tres of Roman power, and even to the borders of Europe; and --hich continue todcy to bear the same banner across the borders of Tribet, into 'the centre of the centre of Africa," as one missionary letter I have received is dated: into the far islands of the sea, and tu every peo- ple under heaven. We have to do with a movement which has changed maps, moulded nations and altered the course of history. It is a fat lesson that crowds us today, so there is no room to recatr how the known world, then centre- ing about "the Great Sea," which is afresh the scene of the deepest per- plexities that confront modern state- craft, was prepared for this swift ex- tension of the Good News of a Sav- iour for all mankind. Gresce had imposed a common language of cul- ture upon all peoples, so that the missionaries could be understood everywhere. Rome had laid a net- work of good roads and legal pro- tection over the known world. Judea had provided the religious back- ground for the new Message. So it was as the Man of the Hour--God's own hour--that Paul set forth. 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The fleld is prepared; the Message is ready and adequate; the need is surpassing; all that lacks is the statesman-soldier-saint to fol- low in Paul's steps. Little Men in Big Places. In no censorious spirit, I hope, I am bound to record the great and growing conviction that organized Christian work needs a better type or leadership. The smallest of the aging _and exasperating. Few of jobs. They are often only clerkly- minded occupants of salaried posi- safety and success of their own or- ganizations. Their compl' cency is as remarkable as their incompetence. Most of them think themselves 'leaders': whereas they are often found in opposition to real advance- ment and to large kingdom projects. The pioneering spirit of Barnabas and Saul is utterly lacking in them. One. sometimes wishes that it might be possible for all salaried workers in organized Christianity, excepting possibly the active minis- ters of the Gospel, to spend a period of,.say, five years in self-supporting secular pursulfs. Then there would ensue a wholesome testing of the reality of all the professional beliefs and activities; and also, it is to be hoped, a mighty accession of Chris- tian activity into the ordinary walks of life. We have gone a long way from the self-supporting missionary work of the pioneers about whom we are now studying. It it is true that strange 'limita- tions, intellectual, spiritual and so- cial, seem to encompass the official leadership of religioue organiza- tiens, it is even more true--and somewhat a corrective of this condi- tion--that the ordinary company of Christians are strangely ready now- adays to rise to the largest concep- tions and presentations of religious orportunity hd duty. No state- ment of the Church's present mission can be too told or sweeping for the average religious congregation or convention, The time-spirit of crisis has moved powerfully upon the vopu- lar mind. Christian generally believe that Chris: is calling His people to unexampled service; and they really clamor. for brave, big lead..ship, The Church is impatient of all atiampts to compress the Gospel of Christ into a mere formula of petty proscriptions and prescriptions: 'she wants to go with Saul into the dificult places and to attempt the audaciors tasks. One reason 'why there is today an alarm- ing shortage of candicates for the ministry is that perfunctory and pro- fessional ecclesiasticism does not ap- peal to high-souled youth: there is not enough that is herolc and sac- rificial and great-visioned and Paul- ine in the present form of call to the pulpit, A Preacher Hero. Cosmopolitan, indeed, was the Church at Antioch which bade fare- well to the three pioneers upon the Great Adventure--the greatest ad- venture, indeed in all history, Caesar crossing the Rubjcon, Columbus brav- | ing unknown seas, were of less signi- for re- ficapce than the setting* forth of Bar- nabas, Saul and John Mark from this tender Christian fellowship of the home church to attempt the Chris- tian conquest of the world. At the outset, Barnabas was the big man of the trio. It was to his homeland of Cyrus that the trio sail- ed. He was evidently the large, grac- {ous figure, of imposing physical pre- sence; so that later he was mistaken for Jupiter by the heathen. Saul was an undersized Jew, of insignificant appearance. But the exigencies of travel and danger and work bring the real leader to the fore; and we soon find Saul the head of the party. Up to Crprus it Nad been "Barnabas and Saul"; thereafter it was' "Paul and Barnabas." Sau] got a'new name (still a common practice in the East) at Paphos. in Cyprus, Paul means "Little," but the designation was won because he proved himself big by soul-measurement. : A Jewish sorcerer named Elymas had the Roman proconsul, Sergius Paulus, in his toils. There is a whole library of literature dealing with the aptitude of renegade Jews for witch- craft. This man Elymas played for high stakes; he was a daring fellow, of the sort whom most reformers would ' prefer to deal with in the fal sanctums. Paul, however, faced him in person and looked him in the eye and told him just the sort of sin- ner he was. In language that would not be permitted today in some of our best pulpits. Paul tagged Ely- mas with his family name as a son of ™ devil. He went further and laid years of Chris- | The making ready of the an- | cient world for Paul's missionary | dramatic than that which today lies | munications and identity of interest | men in high official positions of re- | ligious responsibility is both dscour- | them can see farther than their own | tions, whose supreme concern is the | safety of their own pulpits or editor-- | the blinding hand of G | evil eves. | proconsul w Ways are converte hen they see the fearless--Gospel of Christ operating with power. cd uron thps: M A Journalistic Slacker. While Paul played the hero, the third member of the party, John | Mark, secretary and reporter, play- ed the 'slacker." As a newspaper man I am proud of John Mark's | journalistic ability: he wrote the first and best "story" of his life and work of Jesus. But as an humble | fellow-craftsman I feel that he | brought discredit upon an honorable | profession when he flunked the perils of Asia Minor. In my own work as a foreign correspondent I Have known a few reporters who proved cowards' in danger, but they were the rare exception. John Mark shar- ed in the glorious farewells at Anti- | och; he was a hero in the beginning; but when Asia Minor was reached, and the prospects of robbers and mobs and other travel perils loomed ahead--and I can testify that this is a rough, though sublime region--he quit cold, and turned back to safety. Paul was angry. Every soldier | will understand his contempt for the coward; for at the front, in the great | war, there was almost only one vir- tue: courage. I am glad that Paul sent the timid young man off with blistering words, and refused to take him along the second time. For it seems as if of lite the Church has lost her capacity for indignation, and | her power to rebuke evil. Burning | and scorching condemnation of ethi- | cal transgressions is not nowadays a | characteristic of religion. This jelly- fish sort of sentimentality has scant | support in the example or teachings of the greatest interpreter of the Mind of Christ. Nevertheless, I am glad that when John Mark, repented and mended his ways, Paul was reconciled to him; and that John Mark later did his im- mortal work of writing the Second Gospel. Ours is a religion of the second chance, Telling The Story. We need to use our wits in trying to picture the methods of the first Christian . missionaries. As Dr. Stalker.says, "We naturally think of them as the most important psrson- ages in a city; to us their entry is as august as if they had been carried on a car of victory. Very different, however, was the reality. They en- tered a town as quietly and unnotic- ed as any two strangers who may walk into one of our towns any morn- ing. Their first care was to get a lodging; and then they had to seek for employment, for they worked at their trade wherever they went. Nothing could be more commonplace, - 7 i ij LH § tll ~--try that' Delicious French Cooked Meat Paste" -- » RIS PATE a - Bs -m Geta tin, Makes m delightful sandwiches, Kx { ) i Fi 2 l | i h hu bli Hd ¥ : it s 1 ' } i Baier Sse VaYorg 27% 8 ST. CHARLES EVAPORATED With Ra EB EFEEP : that the WE !Sabbath came rou cease from feil jike ti | in the place, and repair to the svna- | gogue, They joined in the psalms | and prayers with the other worship- { pers and listened to the redding of {the Scriptures. After this the pre- fEidise elder might ask if any one | deliver. This was Paul's opportunity, He would rise and with outstretched hand, begin to speak. At once the audience recognized the accents of { the cultivated rabbi; and the strange | voice won their attention. Taking up the passages which had been read, | he would soon be moving forward on | the stream of Jewish history, till he | led up to the astonishing announce- | ment that the Messiah hoped for by | their fathers and promised by their prophets had come, and he had been sent among them as His apostle, Then would follow the story of Jesus. "We can easily imagine the sen- sation produced by such a sermon from such a preacher, and the buzz of conversation which would arise among the congregation after the dismission of the synagogue: Dur- ing the week it would become the talk of the town; and Paul was will- ing to converse at his work or in the who might desire further informa- tion. Next Sabbath the synagogue would be crowded, not with Jews only, but Gentiles also, who were curious to see the strangers; and Paul now unfolded -the secret that salvation by Jesus Christ was as free to Gentiles as to Jews. This was gen- erally the sigmal for Jews to contra- dict and blaspheme; and, turning his back on them, Paul addressed him- self to the Gentiles. But meantime the fanaticism of the Jews was rous- ed and they either stirred up the mob, or secured the interest of the authorities against the strargers; and in a storm of popular tumult or by the breath of authority tho mi-s- sengers of the Gospel were swap: out of the town. This was what happen- ed at Antioch-in-Pisidia, their first halting place in the interior of Asia Minor; and it was repeated in a hundred instances in Paul's subse- quent life." + Observe that Paul's sermon, like those of Peter and Stephen, were chiefly the telling of the story. More facts and fewer thin homilies are a need of the pulpit. How seldom one hears the story told in its apos- tolic simplicity! 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