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That work, however, in its entirety, was far +too costly for the larger and ever-widening circle of M. Dore's +admirers, and to meet the felt and often-expressed want of this +class, and to provide a volume of choice and valuable designs +upon sacred subjects for art-loving Biblical students generally, +this work was projected and has been carried forward. The aim has +been to introduce subjects of general interest—that is, those +relating to the most prominent events and personages of +Scripture—those most familiar to all readers; the plates being +chosen with special reference to the known taste of the American +people. To each cut is prefixed a page of letter-press—in, +narrative form, and containing generally a brief analysis of the +design. Aside from the labors of the editor and publishers, the +work, while in progress, was under the pains-taking and careful +scrutiny of artists and scholars not directly interested in the +undertaking, but still having a generous solicitude for its +success. It is hoped, therefore, that its general plan and +execution will render it acceptable both to the appreciative and +friendly patrons of the great artist, and to those who would wish +to possess such a work solely as a choice collection of +illustrations upon sacred themes.</p> +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2>GUSTAVE DORE.</h2></center> +<br> +<p>The subject of this sketch is, perhaps, the most original and +variously gifted designer the world has ever known. At an age +when most men have scarcely passed their novitiate in art, and +are still under the direction and discipline of their masters and +the schools, he had won a brilliant reputation, and readers and +scholars everywhere were gazing on his work with ever-increasing +wonder and delight at his fine fancy and multifarious gifts. He +has raised illustrative art to a dignity and importance before +unknown, and has developed capacities for the pencil before +unsuspected. He has laid all subjects tribute to his genius, +explored and embellished fields hitherto lying waste, and opened +new and shining paths and vistas where none before had trod. To +the works of the great he has added the lustre of his genius, +bringing their beauties into clearer view and warming them to a +fuller life.</p> + +<p>His delineations of character, in the different phases of +life, from the horrible to the grotesque, the grand to the comic, +attest the versatility of his powers; and, whatever faults may be +found by critics, the public will heartily render their quota of +admiration to his magic touch, his rich and facile rendering of +almost every thought that stirs, or lies yet dormant, in the +human heart. It is useless to attempt a sketch of his various +beauties; those who would know them best must seek them in the +treasure—house that his genius is constantly augmenting with +fresh gems and wealth. To one, however, of his most prominent +traits we will refer—his wonderful rendering of the powers of +Nature.</p> + +<p>His early wanderings in the wild and romantic passes of the +Vosges doubtless developed this inherent tendency of his mind. +There he wandered, and there, mayhap, imbibed that deep delight +of wood and valley, mountain—pass and rich ravine, whose variety +of form and detail seems endless to the enchanted eye. He has +caught the very spell of the wilderness; she has laid her hand +upon him, and he has gone forth with her blessing. So bold and +truthful and minute are his countless representations of forest +scenery; so delicate the tracery of branch and stem; so +patriarchal the giant boles of his woodland monarchs, that the' +gazer is at once satisfied and entranced. His vistas lie +slumbering with repose either in shadowy glade or fell ravine, +either with glint of lake or the glad, long course of some +rejoicing stream, and above all, supreme in a beauty all its own, +he spreads a canopy of peerless sky, or a wilderness, perhaps, of +angry storm, or peaceful stretches of soft, fleecy cloud, or +heavens serene and fair—another kingdom to his teeming art, +after the earth has rendered all her gifts.</p> + +<p>Paul Gustave Dore was born in the city of Strasburg, January +10, 1833. Of his boyhood we have no very particular account. At +eleven years of age, however, he essayed his first artistic +creation—a set' of lithographs, published in his native city. +The following year found him in Paris, entered as a 7. student at +the Charlemagne Lyceum. His first actual work began in 1848, when +his fine series of sketches, the "Labors of Hercules," was given +to the public through the medium of an illustrated, journal with +which he was for a long time connected as designer. In 1856 were +published the illustrations for Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" and +those for "The Wandering Jew "—the first humorous and grotesque +in the highest degree—indeed, showing a perfect abandonment to +fancy; the other weird and supernatural, with fierce battles, +shipwrecks, turbulent mobs, and nature in her most forbidding and +terrible aspects. Every incident or suggestion that could +possibly make the story more effective, or add to the horror of +the scenes was seized upon and portrayed with wonderful power. +These at once gave the young designer a great reputation, which +was still more enhanced by his subsequent works.</p> + +<p>With all his love for nature and his power of interpreting her +in her varying moods, Dore was a dreamer, and many of his finest +achievements were in the realm of the imagination. But he was at +home in the actual world also, as witness his designs for +"Atala," "London—a Pilgrimage," and many of the scenes in "Don +Quixote."</p> + +<p>When account is taken of the variety of his designs, and the +fact considered that in almost every task he attempted none had +ventured before him, the amount of work he accomplished is fairly +incredible. To enumerate the immense tasks he undertook—some +single volumes alone containing hundreds of illustrations—will +give some faint idea of his industry. Besides those already +mentioned are Montaigne, Dante, the Bible, Milton, Rabelais, +Tennyson's "Idyls of the King," "The Ancient Mariner, +Shakespeare, "Legende de Croquemitaine," La Fontaine's "Fables," +and others still.</p> + +<p>Take one of these works—the Dante, La Fontaine, or "Don +Quixote"—and glance at the pictures. The mere hand labor +involved in their production is surprising; but when the quality +of the work is properly estimated, what he accomplished seems +prodigious. No particular mention need be made of him as painter +or sculptor, for his reputation rests solely upon his work as an +illustrator.</p> + +<p>Dore's nature was exuberant and buoyant, and he was youthful +in appearance. He had a passion for music, possessed rare skill +as a violinist, and it is assumed that, had he failed to succeed +with his pencil, he could have won a brilliant reputation as a +musician.</p> + +<p>He was a bachelor, and lived a quiet, retired life with his +mother—married, as he expressed it, to her and his art. His +death occurred on January 23, 1883.</p> +<br><br><br><br> + +<center> +<table summary="Illustrations"> +<tr><td> +<h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> +<br> + +<a href="#front">GUSTAVE DORE</a><br> +<a href="#090">THE BURIAL OF JESUS</a><br> +<a href="#091">THE ANGEL AT THE SEPULCHER</a><br> +<a href="#092">THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS</a><br> +<a href="#093">THE ASCENSION</a><br> +<a href="#094">THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. STEPHEN</a><br> +<a href="#095">SAUL'S CONVERSION</a><br> +<a href="#096">THE DELIVERANCE OF ST. PETER</a><br> +<a href="#097">PAUL AT EPHESUS</a><br> +<a href="#098">PAUL MENACED BY THE JEWS</a><br> +<a href="#099">PAUL'S SHIPWRECK</a><br> +<a href="#100">DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE</a> + + + + + + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + + +<br><br> +<a name="090"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE BURIAL OF JESUS.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/090.jpg"><img alt="090th.jpg (35K)" src="images/090th.jpg" height="483" width="387"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, +named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple he went to +Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the +body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he +wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new +tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great +stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.</p> + +<p>And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over +against the sepulchre.—Matthew xxvii, 57-61</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="091"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE ANGEL AT THE SEPULCHRE.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/091.jpg"><img alt="091th.jpg (30K)" src="images/091th.jpg" height="485" width="385"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the +first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to +see the sepulchre.</p> + +<p>And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of +the Lord descended from, heaven, and came and rolled back the +stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like +lightning, and his raiment white as snow: and for fear of him the +keepers did shake, and became as dead men.</p> + +<p>And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: +for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not +here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the +Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen +from the dead and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; +there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.</p> + +<p>And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and +great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.—Matthew +xxviii, 1-8.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="092"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/092.jpg"><img alt="092th.jpg (30K)" src="images/092th.jpg" height="474" width="389"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village +called Emmaus which was from Jerusalem about threescore +furlongs.</p> + +<p>And they talked together of all these things which had +happened. And it came to pass that, while they communed together +and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But +their eyes were holden that they should not know him.</p> + +<p>And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these +that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?</p> + +<p>And the one of them, whose, name was Cleopas, answering said +unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not +known the things which are come to pass there in these days?</p> + +<p>And he said unto them, What things?</p> + +<p>And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which +was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the +people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to +be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted +that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside +all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done. +Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, +which were early at the sepulchre; and when they found not his +body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of +angels, which said that he was alive. And certain of them which +were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the +women had said: but him they saw not.</p> + +<p>Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe +all that the prophets have spoken: ought not Christ to have +suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?</p> + +<p>And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto +them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.</p> + +<p>And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he +made as though he would have gone further. But they constrained +him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day +is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took +bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their +eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their +sight.</p> + +<p>And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within +us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us +the scriptures?</p> + +<p>And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and +found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, +saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.</p> + +<p>And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was +known of them in breaking of bread.—Luke xxiv, 13-35.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="093"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE ASCENSION.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/093.jpg"><img alt="093th.jpg (26K)" src="images/093th.jpg" height="474" width="387"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, +they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had +prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone +rolled away from the sepulchre.</p> + +<p>And they remembered his words. And returned from the +sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all +the rest. * * *</p> + +<p>And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village +called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore +furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had +happened. * * *</p> + +<p>And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and +found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, +saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. And +they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known +of them in breaking of bread. And as they thus spake, Jesus +himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be +unto you. * * *</p> + +<p>And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but +tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power +from on high.</p> + +<p>And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his +hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed +them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. And +they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. +Luke xxiv, 1-2, 8-9, 13-14, 33-36, 49-52.</p> + +<p>The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that +Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was +taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given +commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: to whom also +he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible +proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things +pertaining to the kingdom of God: and, being assembled together +with them, commanded them that they should not depart from +Jerusalem, but, wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith +he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but +ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.</p> + +<p>When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, +saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom of +Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the +times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. +But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come +upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, +and all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of +the earth.</p> + +<p>And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was +taken up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while +they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two +men stood by them in white apparel.—Acts i, 1-10</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="094"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. STEPHEN.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/094.jpg"><img alt="094th.jpg (39K)" src="images/094th.jpg" height="475" width="386"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and +miracles among the people.</p> + +<p>Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the +synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and +of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. And they +were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he +spake. Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him +speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God. And they +stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came +upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council. And set +up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak +blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: for we +have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy +this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered +us.</p> + +<p>And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, +saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.</p> + +<p>Then said the high priest, Are these things so?</p> + +<p>And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: [Stephen +here makes his defense, concluding with a terrible, denunciation +of the Jews as being stiffnecked and persecutors of their +prophets, and as betrayers and murderers of Jesus Christ.]</p> + +<p>When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and +they, gnashed on him with their teeth.</p> + +<p>But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly +into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the +right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, +and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.</p> + +<p>Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, +and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of, the city, +and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a +young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, +calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.</p> + +<p>And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay +not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell +asleep.</p> + +<p>And Saul was consenting unto his death.—Acts vi, 8-15; vii, +1-2, 54-56; viii, 1.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="095"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>SAUL'S CONVERSION.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/095.jpg"><img alt="095th.jpg (31K)" src="images/095th.jpg" height="476" width="383"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against +the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired +of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found +any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring +them bound unto Jerusalem.</p> + +<p>And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there +shined round about him a light from heaven: and he fell to the +earth, and heard a voice, saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why +persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the +Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest it is hard for thee +to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, +Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, +Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou +must do.</p> + +<p>And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing +a voice, but seeing no man.</p> + +<p>And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, +he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into +Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither did +eat nor drink.</p> + +<p>And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; +and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, +Behold, I am here, Lord.</p> + +<p>And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street +which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for +one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, and hath +seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his +hand on him, that he might receive his sight. Then Ananias +answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil +he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath +authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy +name. But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen +vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, +and the children of Israel: for I will shew him how great things +he must suffer for my name's sake.</p> + +<p>And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and +putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even +Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hash +sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with +the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it +had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose and +was baptized. And when he had received meat, he was +strengthened.</p> + +<p>Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at +Damascus. And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, +that he is the Son of God.—Acts ix, 1-20.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="096"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE DELIVERANCE OF ST. PETER.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/096.jpg"><img alt="096th.jpg (27K)" src="images/096th.jpg" height="486" width="389"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands +to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of +John with the sword.</p> + +<p>And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further +to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And +when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered +him to four quarternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after +Easter to bring him forth to the people.</p> + +<p>Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made +without ceasing of the church unto God for him.</p> + +<p>And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night +Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: +and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And, behold, the +angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the +prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, +saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. +And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy +sandals: And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment +about thee, and follow me. And he went out, and followed him; and +wist not that it was true which was done by the angel but thought +he saw a vision. When they were past the first and the second +ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; +which opened to them of his own accord and they went out and +passed on through one street and forthwith the angel departed +from him.</p> + +<p>And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a +surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me +out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the +people of the Jews.—Acts xii, 1-11</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="097"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>PAUL AT EPHESUS.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/097.jpg"><img alt="097th.jpg (34K)" src="images/097th.jpg" height="488" width="388"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul +having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus; and +finding certain disciples, he said unto them, Have ye, received +the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have +not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he, +said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, +Unto John's baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with +the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they +should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on +Christ Jesus.</p> + +<p>When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the +Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy +Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. +And all the men were about twelve.</p> + +<p>And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space +of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning +the kingdom of God.</p> + +<p>But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake +evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and +separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one +Tyrannus. And this continued by the space of two years; so that +all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, +both Jews and Greeks.</p> + +<p>And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: so that +from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, +and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went +out of them.</p> + +<p>Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them +to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord +Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And +there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the +priests, which did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, +Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the man in +whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and +prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked +and wounded.</p> + +<p>And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at +Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord +Jesus was magnified. And many that believed came, and confessed, +and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts +brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and +they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand +pieces of silver.</p> + +<p>So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.—Acts xix, +1—20.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="098"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>PAUL MENACED BY THE JEWS.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/098.jpg"><img alt="098th.jpg (40K)" src="images/098th.jpg" height="483" width="390"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which +have a vow on them; them take, and purify thyself with them, and +be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all +may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning +thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, +and keepest the law.</p> + +<p>Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself +with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment +of the days of purification, until that an offering should be +offered for every one of them.</p> + +<p>And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were +of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the +people, and laid hands on him, crying out, Men of Israel, help: +this is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the +people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks +also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place. (For +they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, +whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)</p> + +<p>And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and +they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the +doors were shut. And as they went about to kill him, tidings came +unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an +uproar: who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran +down unto them and when they saw the chief captain and the +soldiers, they left beating of Paul. Then the chief captain came +near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two +chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. And some +cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he +could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to +be carried into the castle. And when he came upon the stairs, so +it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the +people. For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, +Away with him.</p> + +<p>And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the +chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak +Greek? Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest +an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men +that were murderers? But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of +Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I +beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.</p> + +<p>And when he had given him license, Paul stood on the stairs, +and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was +made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew +tongue.—Acts xxi, 23-40.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="099"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>PAUL'S SHIPWRECK.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/099.jpg"><img alt="099th.jpg (31K)" src="images/099th.jpg" height="470" width="383"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to +take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have +tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I +pray you to take some meat; for this is for your health: for +there shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you.</p> + +<p>And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to +God in presence of them all; and when he had broken it, he began +to eat. Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some +meat.</p> + +<p>And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and +sixteen souls.</p> + +<p>And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and +cast out the wheat into the sea. And when it was day, they knew +not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, +into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust +in the ship. And when they had taken up the anchors, they +committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, +and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore. +And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship +aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but +the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. And +the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them +should swim out, and escape. But the centurion, willing to save +Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which +could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to +land: and the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of +the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to +land.</p> + +<p>And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was +called Melita.</p> + +<p>And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for +they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the +present rain, and because of the cold.—Acts xxvii, 33-44; +xxviii, 1-2</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="100"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/100.jpg"><img alt="100th.jpg (19K)" src="images/100th.jpg" height="492" width="386"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of +the fourth beast say, Come and see.</p> + +<p>And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat +on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given +unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, +and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the +earth. 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