HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1928-12-06, Page 6We -CUs Has Come -Lara Us"
The PatheticPlea of Georgia Mountain Children to the Ber
Schools. Martha Berry, Founder of These Unique
Institutions, Has Just "Been Awarded the
Pictorial Review Prize for Out-
standing Achievement
1;y MARY FIELD PARTON.: Everywhere On these journeys she
"1t.tclk 1 crone" in an Ontario' 'for- found dirt, illiteracy, illness. Every-
gotten sectio x—Hallburton, parts of where oho found weary, worked -out.
Idu„koia e ctton15 Of Victoria, Vast- men unintelligently endeavoring 'to
ing» and 'Renfrew 2onntiies, we hall a Wrest a bare existence out of thepoor
t rs' similar condition to that tout in soil of the mountain side with the
the story of. the Georgia "Poor White most primitive: tools;everywhere
Tr.;sh, the Dopartment of Educe- tired women, bent over wash barrels
Oen, the lied "Cross and several mis- or cracking corn between fiat stones
sicuary ministers have improved the or doing the work of the beasts of the
mid conditions :in .these backward field, And everywhere, -too, she found
parts of our fair province.. The work tall, gaunt, blue-eyed men and women
is not yet completed much is yet to of her own proud Nordic stock who
be dine." Possibly the story in tho fiercely rejected even' the' 'larnin' "
New York 'Tribune of Martha Berry, they, craved because they -were 'too
and her, work may be an.inspiration poor, to pay for it.
to our;Go1crnmont to apply thesame,''Thy 'people shall be my people,"
principles for the betterment ofour said Martha Derry as she consecrated'
own under -privileged children. her "young life to the "poor whites" of
'i'wenty-six years ago, on a Sunday the. mountains,
afternoon, a star must have hung low
and luminous over a little log.0;111111
in the .mountains of Georgia. Here,
in obscurity, a dream was` born to a
gentle Southern:girl Few .were "wise
enough to foresee, the significance of
her vision -in the' lives of thousands of
poor and lowly folk.. _
To -day, however, that stream has, be-
come the brick and stone reality of a
great treining'`school for the boys and
girls of 'the'Appalachiaii Mountains: a
nebulous dreant ha become the -Berry
Schools .for the "poor .-whites" who
live their starved; proud lives on ;re-
mote upland .farms in ignorance' and
poverty.
Moreovcr;"to-day, Martha Berry, the
founder of the schools, is the•recipieet
of the annual .achievement award df
86,000 given py ''The Pictorial Re-
view" to that American;. woman who
within the last ten years has made
the mast distinguished contribution to
our national life in lettere, art,'scienee
or social welfare.
During these malty years lanky boys
and girls in 'ever -Increasing numbers
have beeu"coming' down from the up
lands,'. trudging --weary miles, 'hungry
for "larnin.:" Ragged, dirty, barefoot-
ed they come, all, all they possess: on
their backs and le a shoulder bundle.
"1 come to, 'git me larnin' hyar,'
they say- simply, dropping their bur-,
den at the entrance tothe grounds of
the school, whose wide gates 'swing
open onto the paved -elm -arched "Road
of Opportunityr Earn
`VC a uns has :come, ma'am
us, they say with the dignity of old
little children, a. tragic dignity which
offsetstheir rags, thole untutored
speech.
Martha Berry, the .founder of the
unique Berry Schools at Rome,
Georgia, was born to 'far more cul-
tured associations than those of the
simple mountain folk of her country.
For her was planned a more romantic
future than that Which she elected.
Boisind her lay all the gracious South-
ern traditions of story ani' picture: a
'great plantation, a white pillared house
with broad balconies and overhanging
Wistaria; servants to fetch and carry;
the polished education given to the
girls of wealthy families, Her days
wore to'be those of the aristocratic
Southern belle ... a laughing, joyous
girlhood; a brilliant marriage; nn as-
sured social ,poise n,' Then came the
• Sunday adventure and . out of it a
clteezn` which Cut athwart social con-
i'entions.
It is an old story now in the moun-
tains, worn old as a folk tale by twen-
ty-six years of telling and retelling—
the story of the humble beginnings of
the Berry Schools. . A summer
Sunday afternoon when Martha Berry,
a young girl just home from finishing
school, told Bible stories in the cabin
on her father's estate to three dusty
mountain lads she chanced upon as
she drove home from cnurch. Perch.
ed on a soap box, with the children
squatting on shuck mats at her 'feet
listening -breathlessly, Martba Berry
realized the poignant bunger`of these
starved children for knowledge.
"Pa ez 'got him a Bible, on'y he
• cain't read it," sighed a lad.
'The next Sunday—"There's white
trash chil'uns waitin' to see you,' an-
-nounced the old family cook.
"We_brang us. some Meters," said
the boys.
Cleanliness and Godliness
3'
Martha Berry looked at their hands
and faces, caked with grime and soil;
at their matted, unkept hair; at the
rags they wore. She saw with quick
sympathy that their negleeted bodies
needed training and care as well as,
their darkened little souls. To the
telling of Bible stories were added
lessons in washing.
Every Sunday that summer brought
more children, walking miles to hear
the wonderful things the "Sunday
Lady" told them; stQ ries abort Adam
and. Eve, about Mins, about George
Washington. But it was not until fall
that Martha Berry discovered that 'she
had begun a life work, started a career
that she could not stop; that she had
lightedthe candle of hope in darken-
ed lives around whose flickering flame
she must cup soft, white hands lest it
blow out. Parents began to come
down from themountains begging for
"larnin" along with their children.
Against the opposition of friends
aired shocked relatives, Martha Berry
opened her first day school in the fol-
lowing spring; a one-ropm cabin with
planks laid across soap boxes for tho
children's benches, a large packing
box for the teacher's desk. Reading,
writing, ciphering, Bib:3 stories—thin
was the curriculum. From miles away
came mountain boys, walking barefoot
up and down the stony trails, Their
number grew. '
"tarn 'us, Mies Berry": they eats,
"tarn us what you -all know,"
Old As Well As Young'
But for each child who came, hum,
deeds there were who could riot'make
the long journey or whose parents
thought "larnin"' a waste of time or
whose labor was needed on the farm,
Martha Berry discovered hulndreds of
such children when she Bode on horse-
back through the highways and by-
ways of the mountains, comm': ,upon
weather-beaten .shacks filled' to' the
door and window sills wit)! Mager].
teildreo:`
The Project Started
Her,: next step was to open .at her
own expense schools nearer to the
'remote settlements of the people, but
it was not long before she, realized.
that her effort$ on behalf -of the chit
dren were defeated by ;the home en-
vironment. Of what use to talk -about
eleauliness and godliness to children
whose parents were too poor to buy
soap and -combs?', It wasn't Sunday
schools, it wasn't • week -day •schools
that these children heeded. It was a
boarding school, a complete :change
of environment that was essential.
Sq Martha Berry deeded -her share
of her father's estate to the first of
the Berry Schools, a dormitory which
she built with her own money. Prom
the inception of the school itwas de-
cidedthat in return for an education,
for food and lodging, the boys could
work. They were too poor to pay; too
proud to accept charity. A dozen boys
came.
"You aim to tarn us?" thee Asked.
"Yes, I' aim tee"
"Weil, we -ane has come, ma -am."
So in return for the opportunity to
learn there -was wood to cut, land to
clear, a cow to milk, crops to sow and
harvest, •Gradually the plan and type
of school most needed for the moon-
tain children took form in the mind of
Martha Berry; education, she decided,
must be like the mystic Trinity, three-
fold yet one; of the hand, of the mind
and of the- heart. Education must
teach these raw minds and untrained
hands to think, to do and to feel,
Essentially it must be agricultural,
,Stting lads to return to the soil from
which they sprang.'
With the coming of spring, six
more boys came, one of them walking
forty.miles, drivibg a yoke of oxen,
"'Tis the Yee for larnin' me, ma'am,"
be said proudly! "They're broke ter
clown'." •
From a distant valley, leading his
"fee" by a rope, came a lad with a
sow, starved and dirty as the lad him.
self. Others came, bringing chickens,
ducks to exchange for an education,
More often they' bropght nothing but
strong, telling ';ands. Tall, lanky
boys eame'who, at the age of fifteen
or "sixteen, could Pot read or write
but who in three years showed as
great progress as the average senior
In .a northern college.
"So the school- grew, Martha Berry's
resources wore exhausted, Still, not
until she had literally /told or deeded
all that she had given to the Door did
shoe tura to outsiders for help, did she
go beyond the disapproving circle of
her friends with the story of the
mountain boys begging for an educa.
tion; ;willing ' to work Jong hours with
plow and' axe and scythe that they
might know something .oi' the world
of becks, might learn how be live more
intelligently.
Money Secured
Money began coming •ir; from her
"begging tours," ae she called them
and ever more children kept come
ing, making more and more money
neceaaary, From all over the country
tiny atrmama of contributions began
'flowing over the Appalachians 'into
Georgia to the Berry Schools, Yet
never, never suncient, never commen-
surate with the need of the children
of the uplands, An unending ;file of
boys kept trickling down the moun:
tain trails, their packs on 't'heir backe,
their overcoats patched, their hate
battered, )Footsore, she, they Steed
gazing through the open grates dawn
the "Road 'of Opportunity,'
Gradually, the story oe the Berry'
Schools and the sublime devotion of
its founder apread beyond the state
of Georgie, Men like Andrew Oar-
negie heard and heeded the story and
started an endowment, which assured
a small annual sum, Women's etude
heard. Churches heard, Theodore
Roosevelt exclaimed; "This is the
real' thing!" when he listened to
Martha Berry tell the story of her
school, "There should bo a school for
girls, too," he announced,
Through his influence it became
possible to build the first girls' derma -
tote, "Sunshine Shanty," With the
opening of this dormitory, slim, sun•
browned girls in sunbonnets, calico
aprons tied about their waists in, the
manner of -little old .grandmothers,
walked deign the trails their b1•otherri
had walked to enter the Berry, School,
to work with thou, hands for tee privi-
lege of ,pen edroatien, ."
"Wo -um has come," they .said.
"Wimmin folks wants larnin' 'name's
men -folks," '
So the school grew and grew 1, grew
front its dozen into, the hundreds,
front its dozen jiito , the hundreds.
Buildings multiplied, ltMore• thedlove
came, Moreav;•ee Were leeiellilY.4eqe.
There .were : additions to llerdg • l}4
hock$,. And with PTA.tPTA.'Pi ;'lie
achgol.' its enehuntetle feendoe `':nail'}
continually the' prgbleot q.f 111o47. fR
its maintenance+ for 'equipment, for
teardrop:, '
Itis txow twpontyy44, eeFe dls oq` ti4t1
three . little deed hee'e 1 -1st 1}mrl iq
Martha Berry tellmaple OF/0@n Zh l}.
tiny Sack, T»oy a4.9 FFg7yi1 Peen
naw, "And Martha• porrYi iv tt�•jla#r
ed, gentle? With. eyed IMP} eileeni;-
and tenders jggke di}, 4 tFpne Flirt
=wimp 0' Prealpe,ff v ! jl PIP' PM.
ani girls themse ye 1t t l e' 1}
t xl. I 1
tble summit of 1-4ayeu44F eN.Pli?{1
i$J
Perpetuating in Picture the. Balaclava Charge
A
INTO THE' -VALLEY OF . DEATH RODE THE Gr.ANT SIX HUNDRED
The of charge i
g he Light, Brigade at the battle of Balaclava, re-enacteSd by British cavalrymen at Aldershot for
a film of the battle in 1852.
upon the spreading realization +o her
girlhood's dream,
.' Nearly all the. builttings have been
constructed by the boys themselves.
In the warm meadows beyond the
campus sturdy boys 'In the uniform.
of the school—overalls—are 'plowing.
Girls In blue dresses and pink sun-
bonnets bend, like flowers themsel-
ves, over flower gardens and vege-
table rows. "Blue ribbon" cattle
graze in the meadows. ,Fruit ripens
in the orchard, 7.1
The Harvest
From the very first the Berry
Schools were essentially agricultural.
ritish m.ire
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IE
Called nFactor
World
'nPeace
��
Sir Austen Chamberlain Says
Canada's Counsel Will Be •
Highly Valued
Ottawa, Ont,—llanada's part in in
tertmperlal and international -affairs
was the subject of two inspiring ad-
dresses given by Sir Austen Cham-
berlain, British Foreign Secretary,' as
The five courses that are__ given-- the guest ;of the Canadian Govern- his death from lung trouble a few
agriculture, 'home economics, me- ment,
The L.,; dy of Tears
Marie Feodorovne ' is dead—the
"lady of tears," the most tragio figs
ure among tbe crowned heads, Not
even the Empress' Eugenie's chroni-
cle of misery and grief exceeds hers,
Both were as If created to eonylnee
the world that the path of glory loads.
but to the grave as • aurely among
queens as among peasants; that roy-
alty wears tie talisman against sor-
row. Born the •Princes:: Dagmar de
Denmark, fate affianced her to the
Czareyitch Nicholas of. Russia, and
fate stole him away from Lor thrdugh
r.
'shanks, literature and science and a White Canada's, increasing inlu. Mame
before the date with
his rang
normal' course—train boys andgirls once contained elements of danger, hinge, Ine married vrith, of dying
y request, see married his brother on
for a practical, work -a -day life, To. Sir Austen had a 'profound faith that October 20 2800 Fifteen yearn late
day, when a mountain boy graduates
from - Berry he not only has an
academic education, but he is an ef-
fioient farmer, who has lamed farm.
Mg by doing It. He knowsthe caro
of herds and 'cocks. Ho can build
with wood and brick or the stones
of his mountains. He is ready to
take up,life on the soil intelligently,
Ho has been taught scientific! ;node,
ods of cultivation and fertilization;
how to put nitrogenous cover crops
back into the earth, how to select
seed, how to rotate crepe, how to
Barry on the daily routine of farm
an ddaiiy A generation separates
him from his father, Two hundred
years separate him from lits father's
underatanding,
When a girl leaves Berry alio a an
efficient homemaker, a good mate for
her farmer husband, She can cook
and preserve and saw, She can keep
house, barnyard and dairy tidily, She
can, weave and spin -ancient arts,
Site can work out a family budget
and 0, balanced diet as well a5 an
algebra problem, She is prepared
for wifehood and motherhood, for the '
physical care of herself and those de,
pendent upon her,
She is but a generation separated
from her mother, Two hundred
yearn separate her from her mother's
understanding of life, She may bo,
come a teacher to little mountal.;
children, but' in all events, both bore
and girls leave Berry tq beeenie
crusaders to their kinfolk, eager to
battle against ignorance and poverty,
There are no servants at Berry,.
All, must work, All Want to, It was
a naw and difficult idea to spread in
the mountains that hand labor' is
dignified and honorable, Martha
Berry taught lade that lesson+ wprli.,
ing a profound psychologist ahatefls lr} 1
the male point of 'view Many other
subtle things are taught—an appredL-
ation for tbe beauty that Hee all
about them, of the power of character,
Martha Berry counts 8,609 boys wile,
have gone o),t from }ler school skill::
ed farmers; .871 wile have boceme'
teaebers and principal; to ruraj
schools, 807 housewives, 85 #iursee
and• 6 preachers, Othere till secre:
tarial and ofilce jobs, She seed i;ep
school • anal 11 methods copied by
other backward sections, The her-
vest is in,
Nothinglike a mix-up M. the ai
cause a orm of protect,
0.
"always our commons sense will er, the Czar Alexander II, her father.
solve these difficulties as they arise," in-law, was assassinated by Nihilists
Ile considered that the British Em- at be was driving through the streets
plro was a factor of immense im-' et St, Petorsbarg, Her own busband,
Alexander III died in 7.894, at the age
of 49, It was ber soli who was the
last of the Romney czars, It Was
her son to whom elle once said,
"Nicholas, be Czar"; bo who palled
the first Hague Conference for peace,
but he looked for the dominions, whose statesman; later insured the
from their more detached positions, to World War by mobilizing after thew
bo ready with their counsel and ad be Czar had ordered them to re.
vie*, He designated the British Elm. (rain, It was he who with his whole
pare'as a constant puzzle to the rest family, was murdered he that her,
ib's ostler 7]katerinbnrg,
of the world, but as a puzzle that was not In her ji te end
. I1 But
being Solved with amazing sucpersuadedwas
cors, bat be lyed In She
"guarding peace among ourseives and ng, Before her eollapeed h ole
workin for peace throughout the p
world," great Russian fabric, the great on,
WLMackenzie King, Prime i4Iin. Aire built of blood and tears and hit,
istor, of, Canada, Spoke of Sir Aumten man misery that the /tomalleys might
i
as being as dstinguished as h1; great talo and' the arietoerato play 'ithe
father, der distinguished
of bis having splendor of their r•,iohee apeaten by
by the imolai pf the lnnjute, Snit
portance for the peace of the world,
and "we will welcome any counsel
and criticism you may contribute to
the foreign policy of the Empire,"
Sir Austen said it was geographi.
°ally Impossible for Great Britain to
be indifferent to the' peace of Europe;
filled nearly all the portfolios in tate Denmark wart left to her and efaria
abinot, and of being the 'Loearao Feodoroyna returned to her Aimee,
peace peat itself," teal home, If not tq heir ancestral
Sia Robert Borden, foram Pre;: faith, but not until the war had and.
Mier of Canada, referred to their e4 and the revoluatlon had plainly
tl a poet f
canes i a p n n o a rare an .come t4'ptay, And there she died.-
sane • Idealism, and greater n peace York,0705 than"during war, The Nation, New York,
"Tog hi" PADRE 'HOME
Rev,, "Tubby'! Claytoe arrived in
-ngland after a ton; pf three months
event in South America in the Inter.
pats of the "Too kiln of which he Is
the founder.,
Little Gift} (iq hey playmate) r
"Wizen j was born 1 Was 10 s'priseel
couldn't speak for is whole year and
a half I'r '
FirsY vember the month of the axen
t the politiclae gets is, then the
turkorr1
Dome Lights Restrain
`Matters" in Japan's Carrs
peattim,—Automobile makers in AM:
erica have been advised el the "anti,
necking lamp Jaw" In ;Tapan, enc of
00 most peculiar of malty goyeening
the operation of motor yehicles In the
empire, The recent atatuto requires
that All motor cars must be equipped
with dome lights -which must be tight,
ge when driving eftee ea*, While
the law wee ;ieslgnated In proteet
J#aesengera, it /me ethos been palled
the "anti -necking lamp law," Unless
pare tare sq lighted at night the Jap-
anese police confecato them.
A l (i yati
By deep self -probing be aspired to
find,.
The 'fey to knowledge in his town
deep ;uinil .
Until, immer red:ea and with • tor.
Malted sari,
He lost life mind when he had neared
thq goal:
-Stanton 4, Oobientz he the New
Law to Force
Reckless Drivers
Off Road Urged
Safety 'and Responsibility
Law, With Interlocking
State Clauses, , Indorsed
Accident Curb h Seen
Compulsory Insurance Is Not
Upheld in the Report
Washington.—After several years
of exhaustive investigationthe Ameri-
pan Automobile Associatin has spon-
sored 'basic principles to be embodied
In a safety responsibility law capable
of nationwide adaptation.
Tho principles underlying the pro-
posed A.A.A. safety responsibility law
were announced after a conunittee of
seyenteen, representative of the mo-
torists of the entire coutnry, had sub-
mitted an exhaustive report, coupled
with 'recommendations to the execu-
tive committee of the national motor-
ing body.
The report covered an analysis of
all proposed and attempted solutions
of the problem presented by the reck-
less driver and the relation of this
problem to the question, of financial
responsibility for damages incurred.
Compulsory automobile liability Inns,
tune wag definitely discarded,
Remedy le Suggested
"With forty-two Legislatures- sobbed=
uteri to meet within the next few
months and with the failure .of the
Massachusetts compulsory liability in-
suranve'law now generally conceded,
Cie time is most opportune to put for-
ward the basis for a sane measure to
curb the roc -Ideas driver and to pro-
mote payment'01 legally secured Jude -
;polite," Thomas P. henry, president
of the A.A.A., declared,
Tho atatement of the national com-
mittee of seventeen, approved by the
A.A.A. executive committee and out-
lining suggeetod principloo, followsi
-"It 1s believed,. first and foremost,
that the problem should be approached
from the standpoint gf safety—a fad
wield' was overlooked in tho case of
the Massachusetts compulsory auto
mobile Insurance law and In other
radical measures proposed from time
to time, '
"Tho primary aim.. should bo to put
the reckless driver oft the highways,
The moat effective way of accomplish -
Ing this is through the universal adop-
tion of a drivers' license law,
"An effective measure !should make
stringent provision for the suppres.
sten of driving permits of all persona
found guilty of parlous yfohltions of
motor vehlcloe laws, such as driving
while intoxicated and leaving the
merle of an automobile accident in.
solving Injury or damage,
Punishment Is Outlined
"Tho ansa of peroons against whom
a judgment has been rendered by a
court of competent jurisdiction, but
who ban failed to liquidate that judg.
Mani, calla for speolai consideration,
Their driving permits 5110'1'4 bo sup•
pended until puck time as they have
fully liquidated the judgment and so
tabliahed o future guaranty of Mum.sial responsibility,
!'One of the current !lulls confront,
Ing motordoni ilea in the fact that 4
driver who is put Melte roads In one
ptatq amove to another state, ,
cure a licensane and pursue, his l'cakiessa
ceurse, This situation im capable Of
completn control, Such control eau
be brought about by Abe Insertion in
the drivers' Became law of every state
Ot n proviso which will forbid the
Jtisilenee of a driving permit to any
person .whose permit is at that time
suspended in any other rotate for
faiiul'e to respond to damages or be,
amuse of other sorione yiolations of
motor vehicle laws, Thie would ren-
der the suspension et penalty national.
ly reciprocal,
"It will be noted that these sugges-
tions are directed at the drive}• peso Is
Proved to be reckless and irrespone
Bible, They are based on ascertained;
facts which show that accident; are
caused Jiy a minority of reckless per,
Eons and which show that only a email
;minority of irresponsible drivers fall
to meet judgments," -
Cheerfulness
Ns part of my religion to look well
after the ,cheerfulness of life, and let
the dismaie shift fop themselves, be.
Roving with; good file Thomas More
time It le Wise to be "metria in God."
—Louis May Acott.
0
Jlriticb jntereste have recently ea,
tallileiied 8 plant for the manufacture
pf worsteds at Victoria, British Co-
lumbia. This plant has 6,400 spindles
and promises to prove an Important
industry, for the capital of British
Columbia,
1
"A Hunting "We Will Go"
Jxia iiic hlalic]ng'Asti}rq•}Fns
WH�N, THE R11SLE ; AFI THE HUNTSMEN IS SOUNDeet
slFe4 while; e$illy nut}rmu winds WM)K stit, the start of thQ .,sestR PO* l3-upt at $sad'tis Gate, Glad$tstg.
December 9. Lesson X. -Paul 'Goes
to Rome -Acts 28: 11.24, 80, 31.
Golden Text -1 am not :ashamed of
'the gospel of Chrlet for 11 le the
p10older of God unto saivatlon to
every one that belleveth.—Rom. 1:
.
ANALYSIS
I TIIE VOYAGE PROM -MALTA TO -ROME,
Ch. 28: '11-16,
II. RECEPTION AT ROME, Ch, 28: 16-24,
80-31.
INTIionlICTIOx—The' closing chap-
ters of Acts are full of romanoc, espe-
cially teethes° who care for tales of
the sea. It is said that. Nelson was
reading Acts, chap. 27, on the morn-
ing of the battle of Copenhagen. The
story . reflects, as perhaps -no other
book of the time does, the actual con-
ditions of travel by sea during the
first century of cur era; and these
were painflu enough to moonlit ' for
the general depreciation of the sea in
ancient literature. 'she contrast with
Modern means of travel is very strik-
ing. The voyage which tools Paul five.
months to perform can now be dons
in about three days, Luke bi a vivid'
writer, and he .eejoices•'in showing
how noble were the actions of hie.
friend' and hero. le is quite evident
that Paul is the outetanding figure on
this occasion. "In the hour of dam,
ger he commanded like •a captain, like
a priest he offers thanks to God, and.,
like a deliverer bringsthea, into a
haven of safety.
I, THE VOYAGE FR00I MALTA TO ROME,
Ch. 28: 11-15. •
V. 11. Malta, where Paul had win-
tered, was :an important island be-
cause of its position between Egypt
and Italy, and still it is a leading mill-
tary base. Paul- had gained many
friends on the island because of the
great cures which he had effected, and
because of his teachings. However,
he was anxious to get to his destina-
tion, and must have been very glad
when he learned a ship was leaving
for the west, even before the usual
date for ,ppringgtravel. It was also a
vessel from Alexandria, named Dios
curie or The Twine, Castor and Pollux,;
who were protectors of sailors,
V. 12 Syracuse has always been an
important city of Sicily. Here they
remain for two days, probably wait-
ing for a favorable -wind.
V, 13, The wind still being fro:lz the
west, they had to tack till a change
came, and the south wind enabled
them to go directly north to Puteoli,
a distance of 180 miles, This was the
harbor of Rome, though 140 miles
away, and 1t was naturally the meet-
ing place of many different kinds or
people coming to do businera at the
famous cappital. Much of tho grain
used by. Rome passed through this
port. This is one of the most beauti-
ful sheets of wale_ in the world, and
Paul's eyes must have rested with
Wonder on the island, the beautiful
sea coast, and the famous Vesuvius
Which in a few year:: was tho cause of
puch destruction of Ilio.
V, 14. The fast that there was al-
ready a Christian community at Poe
Well Is proof that the gas o1 had boo
spreading very widely, It is possibla''.
that the church had been formed by,
Some of the many travolprs who had
passed through this seaport, Paul
Was asked to preach to them, and for. ;
tunately it was possible because of,
the fact that the conturlon bad to
remain for ale days before gong on,,
woul
y,d 16joi, n thtAhte ,A(!ppiaspunn Way, the , traveleraroad
very famous for its antiquity and still
1n rise after all those centuries, Ono
of the Roman poets hart desaribod the
road a; "Crowded with boatman and
tun -keepers and rogues," At .Appii,
tl''orum Paul is greatly encouraged by'
meeting with a deputetion of Chris..
Vans who had ache out to welcomo.
place ten miles neater to the city,
II, n1OEPTION AT Rosen, Ch. 281 16-24,,
30-81,
V, eetj, Paul's ambition was at last
H11[5iredrtooamkchiosw fualfillltetdaneone
more of the feeling and Impressions
which he must have had as he first
entered this ancient city, Julius, the
centurion, who had bean his friend
all along, in giving Paul unto the Ruse
tody of the Pretoria guard, no doubt
made a favorable report, so that con-
siderable freedom Was accorded tt the
apostle, He had his own pr vote
lodging, though he was always chain-,
ed to a soldier, so that in this way
many of the, guard came to know not
only Paul, ut the message wh1e t he
delivered. Paul was able thus to epee'
tend his influence quite widely, Bee,
Phil, 1; 7 13
V, 17, f'aui was anxious to confer
with the ,flews at Rome, and after li
few berme? rest he set off to see if
they wpuld not conte and visit him,
When they arrive, he at once de:laree,
that ite is innocent of any offenoo'
against the lowish law, He has al -
Ways been loyal to Israel
V. 18, The Romans also had dip.;
tinetly declared that he was not
guilty of any criminal offence, It was
tho Jews of Jerusalem who refused
to be reconciled,
V. 18, Aceordinglk-I Paul was cams
exiled to appeal to SAmer, But Ulla
Was not due to any eteloyalty on his,
part, but simply because oe the neves,
laity of guarding himself from the
danger •sf death,
V. 81, Strange to say these 7ews
had hoard nothing in writing from.
the officials at Jerusalem, Tine may
be due to the delay in the maila dui'
ing the winter, or to the fact that
some came before the Jews had been
expelled from the city, and they were
still not well organized.
V. 23; Paul delivers a big address,.
takingup most of the day, in which.
he sets forth the nature of the new
message, which includes the kingdom
tf God, and the teaching on Jesus as
he Messiah foretold by the scrip-
tures.
80, 81, These two verses give a
brief summary of the two years' work
in Ronie. Luke has new completed his
task. He has brought Paul as far as
the eepitae of the Eineire, and the two•
yeays reazdenc€ .es an Ephesus and
Corinth, was the means' of spreading
he news of salvatiort far and wide.
the
events of. the life of Paul after
bis release must be gathered from
other sources.
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on spur bead what ]rind of a man
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