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unday choq the macedonian call acti 15 36 16 15 romans 151821 golden text go ye threfoie and make disciples of all the na tions matthew 2319 the lesson ix its skttixu time ad 50 place paul separated from barn abas and set out for liii missionary journey in autioch of syria cilieia is the province in asia minor directly west and north of syria derbo and lystra are cities of lycaonia o the road leading to autiocli of pisidia lhrygta was a province in tio centra part of western asia minor troas a city of mysia on the western shore of asia minor opposite macedonia ma cedonia occupied the northern part of the creek peninsula philippi was lo cated in the northeastern part of ma- scdonia about ten miles from the coast and they wejit through the region of phrygia and galatia phrygia de notes vaguely the western part of the central region mostly tableland of tho peninsula of asia minor see acts 210 ls2a the cities o lcon- ium and colesse were in phrygia ga latia was a roman province including lycaonia isauria the southeastern re gion of phrygia and a part of pisid- ia the area included in this name has been a matter of great discussion and cannot be gone into in our esson having been forbidden of the holy- spirit to speak the word in asia as asia in die new testament always means not the continent of asia but what we call asia minor including the old districts of mysia lydia and caria with its capital of epliesus and when they were come over against mysia they assayed to go into bithynia mysia was the northern part of proconsular asia paul intend ed to turn away from mysia and go northward into bithynia and the spirit of jesus suffered them not and passing by mysia they came down to troas no vork was done in mysia paul passed along its southern uiy preaching minis- ing this pronoun that he himsef here at troas joined tho missionary com pany and accompanied paul and si las and timothy as they went over into europe setting sail therefore from troas we cade a straight course to samoth- race this was an island off the coast of thrace colonized by men of samos and the day following to neapois this va3 a seaport town where ap parently the apostles had no reason for tarrying and from thence to philippi which is a city of macedonia the first of the district a roman colony and we were in this city tarrying certait days philippi a city of macedonia located in a plain surrounded by moutains refounded by philip the second of macedon the father of alexander tho great rorn which it derived its name the plain of philippi witnessed tlie death struggle of the roman repub lic when brutus and cassius were do deed the epistle to the romans was written by paul to the greatest city of the world to a people whom he had never seen about seven years after his visit to philippi st paul hero recognizes the lord jesus christ as the personal and present worker in the power of dgiis and wonders there can be no doubt that paul in this passage assumes that he posses- es the apostolic power of working miracles in the power of the holy spirit this demonstration of the power of the holy spirit consisted of partly in the miracles which he en abled the first preachers of the gos pel to perform ana partly in the in fluence in which he attended to the truth to the hearts and consciences of those that believe gal 325 heb 24 so that from jerusalem and round abort even unto illyricum 11- iyricum was an extensive district ly ing along the eastern ceast of the adriatic sea near macedonia i have fully preached the gospel of christ this verse means that he had carried the gospel message in every direction not that he had preached the full gos pel yes making it my aim so to preach the gospel not where christ was al ready named that 1 might not build upon another mans foundation 21 but as it is written they shall see to whom no tidings of him came aid they who have not heard shall under stand the quotation here is from isa 3215 see also 1 cor 310 in the tisst place paul knew that the unev- angelized area of the roman world was so vast that it was a waste of lime to devote his energies to a fied already occupied by another witness for christ in tho second place paul well knew that he was the outstand ing apostle for the christian church of his day and to go into a place where another christian worker was engaged iti preaching would have been to disturb whatever work his fel lowlaborer had established in the third place paul did everything he could to avoid other christian work ers being jealous of him he certainly was not jealous himself of any one keynote of flight kentuckians are noted judges of women border without try and thus came to the seascoast city made famous by homer once known as troy many a time in hist ory has supernatural restraint and constraint changed the course of the servants of god livingstone assayed to go into china which god suffered him not but sent him to africa to be its missionary general statesman ex plorer and a vision appeared to paul in lite night there was a man of mace donia standing macedonia was the territory located in the northern end of the greek peninsula extending from the adriatic sea on the west to the aegean sea on the east that this man from macedonia was ascertained by the words which he spoke which revealed his nationality beseeching hint and saying come over into ma cedonia and help us just how the macedonians had heard of the gospel of christ and exactly how god reveal ed to paul their longing to hear tho message of grace we do not know but this at least is clear that when god had shut every door which paul had attempted to enter he opened a door which paul had never dreamed of ooing opened to him and when he had seen tho vision straightway we sought to go forth to macedonia concluding that god had called us to preach the gospel unto them here should be carefully noted tho plural pronoun we certainly tho author of tho book of acts who was luke the physician means by us- feated by octavian and antony in 42 bc soon after which tho city was made a roman colony by augustus and on the sabbatli day wo went forth without the gate by a rivet side where we supposed there was a place of prayer wherever ten learned re putable jews lived within the con fines of any one city a synagogue was built and services could be regularly conducted tho fact that there was no synagogue in philippi is an indication of the scarcity of jews living in that city however it was allowed when synagogues were not possible for the jewish people to get together for tho prayer in what were called proseuchai which means literally a place of prayer and we sat down and spake unto the women that were come together and a certain woman named lydia a seller of purple of the city of thy- atira thyatira was a wealthy city in tho northern part of lydia in the pro vince of asia on tho river lycus and more about the trade guilds of thy atira is known than about those of any other asian city of that time and thyatiro like the lydian land in gen eral was famous for its dyeing lydia sold the purple dyed garments from thyatiro in philippi and she had no doubt a regular connection witli the firm in her native city whose agent she was one that worshipped god site was not a woman of jewish des cent but an asiatic who had been drawn to the jewish faith in a long ing to know the only true god whom tho jews alone worshipped heard us whose heart the lord opened to give heed unto the things which were spoken by paul the opened heart of one woman in a great city is a foot hold for god and if it be but yielded wholly to him from that vantage ground from that base of operations he can proceed to wondoful victories and when she was baptized and household she besought us say- lf ye have judged me to be faith ful to the lord come into my house and abide there and she constrained us the word here translated con strained is used only once elsewhere in the new testament luke 24 2l and in the same sense as here the word expresses urgency but not com pulsion this has been called the first instance of the hospitality which was afterwards so characteristic of the early church and enforced by the words of st peter st paul and st john alike for i will not dare to speak of any things save those which christ has wrought through me tor the obed ience of the gentiles by word and by her iris jean slergerle left miss blue grass and charlotte llilemsn miss kentucky the choices of tho state where men are good judges of horses women and liquor snapped at atlantic city nj after taking part in bicycle race of beauties who will compete for title of miss america future war guns and cannon drop ped from planes by parachutes moscow the soviet army air corps today set a world record for the unit transport of men and muni- lions by airplane when by parachutes it dropped 1200 soldiers 150 machine- guns and is cannon in the ear of the celebrate victory enemy during manoeuvres in the volga region the men and guns were dropped in a strategic position behind the en emy troops in eight minutes an an nouncement aid presumably this force quickly appearing from the skies would bo able to make a highly- effective surprise attack on the en emy defenses against the sudden foray included antitank traps masked tren ches barbedwire entanglements and machinegun nests while the blues and reds fought it out their general staffs remained under ground in electrical caverns blues scouted the red defenses cavalry and tanks forcint the enemy back to a new line along tho volga b 3 mrs beryl markham englishwoman who flew the atlantic re ceives the key to the city of new york from mayor fiorella i la guardia during official greeting on the steps of the city hall range buck an wing f zm v i owens kennewich wash cowboy engages in a range adagio tihiica v iiie oi his way to earth from the back of a lunging brahma steer ho tried to take for a ride during the rodeo at ellens- burg wash he got a wrong steer noted british women at power conference miss caroline haslett left director of british electrical as sociation for women mrs gertrude ruth ziani de eerranti widow of britains edison pictured as they attended third world power conference in washington dc why the salmon run fet j mm ii the jubilant new york yankees celebrating in tho club houge at league park cleveland o follow ing their victory over the indians which clinched the american leaguo pennant for them crods gathered to watch the sum of annual ben paris salmon derby at dunamish waterway seattle wash in which 350 entries angled for prize male female to discover if the subject is pre dominant masculine or feminine a new game in boston calls for the leader to ask each guest to 1 light a match 2 drink out of a glass 3 look across the room and i look at his or her nails one of dominant masculinity will scratch the match toward him look into the glass while drinking stare directly when told to look across tho room and cup his hand to look at the fingernails one dominant feminine on tho other hand will scratch the match away from herself look over tho rim of the glass while drinking let the glance wander when ordered to look at something and raise tho whole hand to inspect the finger nails popular song life about six weeks new yoke the average lifo of a popular song nowadays is about six weeks gene buck said last week and its got him worried buck is president of the american society of composers authors and publish ers im greatly disturbed over the future of any music written to day buck said in the old days it took three or four years for an american song to sink into tho hearts of the american people to day with more than coo broadcast stations the popularity of any song no matter how splendid it is is not more than six weeks host to the world london next year will act as host to the whole world and already it is apparent that the coronation will tax her hospitality to the limit from this if the figures reflect tho its the crowning of king edward the eighth will assuredly be tha most splendid spectacle of this cen tury and promises london the most lavish season in her history we must make ready to receive worthily the foreign rulers and po tentates and our kinsmen from over seas the sober streets under tho guidance of famous architects will put on fresh raiment the lengthen ed coronation route will see thj most resplendent state progress that any british sovereign ever made at night the towers and tall build ings of london will glimmer whips against the sky the capital sending a glow into the clouds that will bo seen from distant counties but amid the merriment and re joicing the profound inward mean ing of the event must not be for gotten a new king dedicates himself to the service of his people scattered about the globe and the crown which he assumes is the supreme and today the only symbol which holds together the mightiest of em pires that fact should be recognized by tho presence of troops from over seas and by finding a part for tho empires representatives in the age- old ritual of the abbey the cor onation must show afresh to tho world the singlehearted loyally and common destiny of the empire telephone calls the number of telephone conver sations in the united states for 1034 the last year for which comparable- figures are available was 24250- 000000 ad the number of tele grams was 100000000 japan used the telephone and telegraph to a greater extent than any european country during that year and holds second place with 4051000000 telephone conversa tions and 54571000 telegrams next comes canada with 229850b- 000 telephone conversations and 9- 857000 telegrams germany loads the countries of europe with 8288596000 tele phone conbersations and 17233000 telegrams the system serving great britain and northern ire land ranks next in umber of tele- phono conversations and next come sweden france spain denmark and austria in the order named in number of telegrams great britain and northern ireland have a com manding lead over any european country with france second spam third and germany fourth in compiling these figures tele phone conversations represent com pleted local and toll or long dis tance messages and telegrams in clude internal messages and out ward international messages the national institute for tho blind in great britain has finished two monumental tasks the first greek new testament and the first revised edition of the biblo in braille under the mud of an old crater in new zealand the bones of a moa be- llovcd to have been trapped whifo feeding ages ago havo been found and have enabled scientists to recon- j struct tha skeleton of this extinct wingless bird