TABULAR MEMOIR OF ST. PAUL-Continued. 08 HELPS TO THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE. RECORDED EVENTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. Syria and Cilicia PAUL, with a number of others, goes back to Antioch, bearing the decision to the Gentile Churches in takes with him on his tour. He passes through Syria and Cilicia to Derbe and Lystra, where he meets with TIMOTHY, whom he He travels from city to city, accomplishing much good. to abide at her house PAUL exorcises a spirit of divination from a young girl, whose masters bring him and SILAS before he and his family are baptized. many converts PAUL and his company go to Berea, where they are very successful Thence to Athens, where PAUL delivers a powerful sermon, making, however, but a small number of converts... He soon goes to Corinth; here preaches on the Sabbath; among the converts, considerable in number, He goes to Ephesus; thence, touching at Cæsarea, he hastens to Jerusalem, and returns to Antioch He goes again to Ephesus, where he baptizes in JESUS' name twelve of St. JOHN BAPTIST's disciples, PAUL leaves Ephesus and visits Macedonia and Greece; then returns to Philippi He goes to Troas, where EUTYCHUS is killed by a fall from a window of a room where PAUL was preach- goes to Jerusalem. PAUL is seized and cast out of the Temple by a mob, but is rescued by a Roman officer; as he is being Roman soldier LYSIUS Acts xvi. 16-24. Acts xvi. 25-34. 29 The HOLY GHOST 29 & 30 The Apostles. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MIRACLES. The Power of Speaking Languages they had not learned Their Commission is attested by many Signs and Wonders The Angel of the LORD Some of the Apostles, having been cast into prison, are delivered without the doors being opened or the guard disturbed. St. STEPHEN, the Deacon. Being "full of Faith and Power," does Wonders and Mira cles among the people Unclean Spirits are cast out, and many cases of Palsy, Lameness, etc., are cured A series of miracles connected with the conversion of ENEAS, who had been Bedfast with Palsy for eight years, St. PETER, being in chains and in prison, is accordingly WHERE WROUGHT. THE RECORD. St. PHILIP, the Deacon. A city of Samaria 32 SPIRIT of THE LORD... St. PHILIP, having baptized the Eunuch, is" caught away" and taken to Azotus. Near Gaza 33 The Glorified JESUS Near Damascus Acts vi. 8. DORCAS (or TABITHA) is raised from the dead Lydda Joppa HEROD AGRIPPA I. dies, because he fails to rebuke impious flattery Cæsarea 45 St. PAUL, the Apostle ELYMAS, the Sorcerer, trying to prevent the conversion of ness. A Man who had been such a Cripple from Birth that he Paphos. Acts xiii. 6-12. Lystra Acts xiv. 8-11. St. PAUL and SILAS having been cast into prison, their feet Philippi Acts xvi. 23--34. Special Miracles are wrought without his seeing the objects. EUTYCHUS, killed by a fall from a window, is restored to St. PAUL. 62 St. PAUL. A Deadly Viper proves harmless Island of Melita Acts xxviii. 3-6. The father of PUBLIUS, and many other Sick Persons, are cured. Island of Melita Acts xxviii. 7-9. HELPS TO THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE. THE APOSTLES OF OUR LORD. CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE WHEN our LORD entered upon His ministry He was followed by great multitudes of people from Galilee and from Decapolis, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan. He now proceeded to provide for His Church the teachers who were to edify His people, and He commenced to proclaim His doctrines by the celebrated Sermon on the Mount. The TWELVE APOSTLES whom He selected were needed to bear witness to His own deeds and words (Matt. iv. 17-25; x. 2-4; Mark iii. 1, 13-19; Luke vi. 12-49). He ordained them "that they should be with Him, and that He might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out devils." After His Ascension it became a chief part of their mission to bear witness to the fact of His Resurrection, a fundamental truth in the System of the Gospel. For this duty it was essential that their personal intercourse with Him should be constant; and, hence, ST. PETER speaks of them as "witnesses chosen before of GOD. . . who did eat and drink with Him after He rose from the dead" (Acts i. 21, 22; comp. x. 41). The marks of the Apostolic office were these: Personal intercourse with CHRIST; appointed by Himself; the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT breathed on them by CHRIST, and more plentifully bestowed on the day of Pentecost, thus enabling them to work miracles and to speak in foreign tongues; to which was added the power to confer that gift on others. The union of these qualifications rendered it impossible for the Apostles to have successors in office, and thus they were distinguished from every other class of ministers, whether Deacons, Evangelists, Pastors or Bishops. The time is not certainly determined when our LORD separated the Apostles from His disciples and followers to their distinctive office. They were from the lower ranks of life, and it appears that some of them at least had been with Him before they were called as Apostles, but after their appointment they remained continuously in His service. They were all on an equality, so far as official rank was concerned, during and after the ministry of CHRIST on earth. ST. PETER, indeed, from his emotional and energetic character, was usually prominent among them, and enjoyed the distinguished honor of founding the Jewish and Gentile Churches (Acts ii. 14, 42; xi. 11; comp. Rev. xxi. 14; Eph. ii. 20); but we never find in Scripture the slightest trace of primacy or official superiority assigned to him. It is true that he and JAMES and JOHN, the sons of ZEBEDEE, are admitted to the inner privacy of our LORD'S acts and experiences on several occasions (Matt. xvii. 1-9; xxvi. 37; Mark v. 37), but this is no evidence of superiority and distinction in office. Peter. His original name was SIMON. He was the son of JONAS, and was brought up to his father's occupation as a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee. He and his brother ANDREW were partners of JOHN and JAMES, the sons of ZEBEDEE. Various allusions in the sacred narrative seem to indicate that their social position was easy, and that they had a fair measure of education. PETER lived first at Bethsaida and afterward at Capernaum, in a house which he or his mother-in-law owned; and it must have been a large one, as he received in it not only our LORD, but multitudes who were attracted by the miracles and the preaching of JESUS (Matt. xix. 27, etc.). The passage in Acts iv. 13, where PETER and JOHN are called "unlearned and ignorant men," does not necessarily mean that they were illiterate, but rather that they were "laymen," i. e., men of ordinary education, when contrasted with those who were educated in the schools of the Rabbis. That he was an affectionate husband and married in early life are facts inferred from Scripture. CLEMENT of Alexandria, and others, tell us that his wife's name was |