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The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-08-23, Page 7• • ThUrsday, Ailgust 23.4 1928 410WOMMIWWWWSnalkinonwennesswaiwwWWWWW*1 ITHE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON 0014,NoweeragroalwaisTuansvemoomoalmmoK,11.Kti," LESSON IX.--AUOUST 26- " "Paul In a Prison", —Acts 16. 16-40,, GOLDEN TEXT,—Rejoice in the :Lord always: again I will say, Re- joice,—Phil. 4:4, LES$01:1"IN ITS SBTTING, because they could no more make Th./ie.—A.A. 50. , Place.--PhiliPPL the market place and the jail. FREED BY AN EARTHQUAKE. But when her masters saw that the hope of her gain was gone, Instead of rejoicing, over the inestim- able blessing that had come to the girl, these selfish 'men were enraged, money it of her misfortune. Thus does greed always harden the hearts of men. They laid hold on 'Paul and Silas and dragged them into the mar- ketplace ,before the rulers. 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The title in the Greek seems to indicate some- what of a military authority, which could adniinister summary punish- ment, They said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city. The fact that, Paul and Silas were Jews had really nothing to do with the matter, but was craftily in- troduced by the complainants in or- der to arouse prejudice against the two missionaries; for the Jews, be- cause of their religion pride and ex- clusiveness were very unpopular a- mong the Romans. And set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, , being Romans. It is hard to see how Paul's teaching could be twisted into a semblance of sedition, unless he had referred to "the king- dom of God" so prominent in Christ's teachings, arid to Jesus Himself as the "King" of that spiritual realm. But, in any case, Christianity was a new religion, not recognized by Rome, or licensed to be taught and pro- pagated. And'the multitude rose up together against them. It was a mob, with all of a mob's unreasoning passion and determined prejudices. And the magistrates rent their garments off them. The garments of Paul and Silas; the Greek implies that they were stripped naked. We have a chance here to be grateful for our courts of justice where such arbitr- ary and brutal proceedings would be impossible. And commanded to beat them with rods Paul suffered this form of punishment three times (2 Cor. 11:25). It was a cruel inflic- tion, cutting deep into the bleeding flesh, and often leaving the victim permanently maimed. And when they had laid many stripes upon them. - "The Jewish practice was to give forty less one (2 Cor. 11:24), but we do not know how many blows were given by these colonial Roman magistrates." They cast them into prison. As it seem- ed to be on offenece against the Ro- man government, the magistrates were eager to show their zeal by a doubly severe sentence. _Charging the jailor to keep them safely. That such an injuction was necessary is a commentary on the efficiency of the ancient judical system. Who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison. The inner prison was back of the outer prison, with no exit ex- cept through it. And made their feet fast in the stocks. The stocks consisted of two heavy planks, each plank notched so that when they were fastened together over the an- kles holes were thus formed which held the legs, and were too small for the feet to be pulled through. Some- times these holes were four or more in number so that the legs could be stretched apart, producing extreme suffering. But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto Goi. The awful circumstances pre- se,surer79-1,777P:,' vented sleep, but the missionaries could still pray and sing psalms. And the prisoners were listening to them. It must, have been a novelty indeed, this voice of praise and pray- er and song in that abode of misery. We may be sure, too, that the mission- aries did not miss the opportunity of telling their fellow -prisoners about their Saviour, who came ."to pro- claim release to the captives, to set at liberty them that are bruised" (Luke 4;18, 21). , And suddenly there was a great earthquake. Luke himself felt the effects of the earthquake, though not in the prison, and knew that it was "great" So that the foundation of the prison -house were shaken. It was built of stone or possibly of brick on a stone foundation, and such buildings crumble easily in an earth- quake. And inimediately all the doors were opened; and every one's bands were loosed. THE CONVERSION OF THE JAILER. And the jailor, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open. The rocking earth, the sounds of falling objects, of rending and of crashing, filled him with confusion as he was roused from deep slumber. Drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the pris- oners had escaped. It was death for a jailer to let his prisoners es-, cape; see Acts 12:19, where the pen- alty was enforced after the angel had released Peter from the Prison in Jer- osalem. But Paul cried with a loud voice, Do thyself no harm; for we are all here. The other prisoners were evi- dently too terrified to utilize thier chance of escape. Paul must have been in some position from which he could see the room in which the jailer was. And he called for lights and sprang in, and, trembling for fear,* fell down before Paul and Silas. The jailer probably knew of the miraculous cure of the demoniac slave girl, so closely connected with the incarnation of Paul and Silas. Instantly in his mind he connected the earthquake with the onder-worker; their God, who was so powerful, was thus freeing them from prison. He fell down and wor- shipped them as the messengers of a god, perhaps as gods themselves. And brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I, do, to be saved? Paul and Silas had not run away when they could, so they might safe- ly be brought out of the inner prison. "Sirs" is in the Greek a term of great honor, virtually "Lords." They had instantly risen in a most exalt- ed position in the jailer's opinion. But from what 'did he wish to be saved? However it happened, the jailer asked the one question best worth asking by every man, and he asked it of the one man in all the world most capable of answering it wisely. And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. Here is the esssence of Christianity. Here is all we need to know for our eternal happiness and safety. All who do this will be saved from their sins. And they spoke the word of the Lord unto him. It was not long after midnight, in a troubled time, but Paul knew that "now is the ac- ceptable time," that the present hour is the only sure hour of salvation. Nothing is more important than et- ernal salvation. In season and out of season, Paul believed in preaching the gospel. With all that were in his house. Here we have household re ligion again, as in the case of Lydia and that of Cornelius. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes. They had been thrust into the inner prison with their bleeding wounds sm- eared for, and with no means of car- ing for them themselves. And was baptized, he and all his, immediately. Here we see the earnestness of the jailer. He was a man of action. Hav- ing just had an impressive warning, he realized that there is no time like the present for the doing of any duty. And he brought them up into his house. "Up" implies that the inner prison was underground, or else that the jailer's residence was on higher ground than the prison. And set food before them. He would be well aware that they had had nothing to eat since their exhausting experience of the afternoon before. The proof of a . true conversion to Christ is Christlike deeds. 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