St Pauls Friendships And His Friends 1911

Author : Carl Hermon Dudley
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230407487
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book St. Paul's Friendships and His Friends written by Carl Hermon Dudley and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...that a fellowcraftsman in dire straits physically, socially, and mentally, had arrived in their town. That was enough for them, no matter who he was or that others looked at him askance, their hearts and home flew open to receive him. They gave to him their hearts and their home, he gave them entrance into the joy of his life mission. Years afterwards from this same city he wrote to the church at Rome where Aquila and Priscilla were again living, calling them his "helpers in Christ Jesus,"--a blessed and grateful remembrance of what they had been to him and his work in Corinth and later on in Ephesus. Nor were their generous hospitality, tender friendship, and loyal co-operation the only services they rendered Paul. At some period of their labors together in the cause of Christ, they fearlessly imperiled their own lives that they might save his. Paul's words concerning this occurrence are--"who have for my sake laid down their own necks." Friendship could go no farther, loyalty to Christ's service could go no farther. They deemed his life more indispensable to Christianity than their own, death had threatened him, they stepped into the breach, Paul was saved. Here is another obligation Paul was under to his friends. Without friends his world-service could never have been what it was; nay, his life itself would have been forfeited long years before the end finally came, for again and again during his perilous travels and labors did they save his life. Here then is another tribute to the glory of friendship, another measurement of the inestimable value of the friendships of St. Paul. This deed of Priscilla and Aquila was well known to the early church. And the obligations under which the church of that day rested because...