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even w h e n t h e y know they will see one another again. But it is more sad to say g o o d - b y when we do not ex pect to see the loved one again. LESSON: Toward the close of Paul's missionary w o r k , he f e l t t h a t he
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who condemned Paul as a trouble mak er because he insisted on the need for correct belief (cf. Acts 24:5). You cannot preach and argue for the truth without getting into trouble sooner or later. 3. “Which made silver shrines for Diana” (Acts 19:24). Diana was a female diety who was worshiped under different names in various places of the ancient world. Her image was intended to represent the reproductive powers of men and animals and other life. The temple was not, strictly speaking, the home of this goddess. She was sup posed to be the principle in nature out of which all natural life springs. To symbolize this "mother-principle,” her image was made with rows of breasts crudely hung from the whole of her upper body. The worship of Diana in cluded sacrifices and ceremonial prosti tution. This is what always happens when men teach the error of a “female- principle” in their gods. Such a worship always runs into moral degradation fi nally. Beware of any teaching which talks about a "feminine-principle” in the Godhead. It is significant that in the true Godhead one Person is spoken of as “father,” and another as "Son,” but there is no Person called "Mother.” There is no "goddess” in the Christian Trinity. Such notions belong to false and dangerous religious cults.
Two poverty-stricken, illiterate men, one blind and the other at death’s door, came to a mission hospital in India. On leaving the hospital some time later, the blind man asked for a copy of the “Jesus Book.” "Of what use is it to you? You can not read.” “No,” replied the blind man; .“but we will take it to those who can do so.” They returned to their village, the happy possessors of a Gospel. They were weavers by trade. Whenever men came to purchase cloth in that village, they were met with the remark, "Be fore we do any business with you, you must read us a few pages out of our Book.” . . . When the doctor from the hospital visited that village two years afterward, he found the heathen temple permanently closed and a church built, and the whole village won for Christ. —Life of Faith. Good-by, Paul A cts 2 0 :3 6 -3 8 ; 2 1 :5 -1 7 MEMORY VERSE: "Tl\e Lord bless thee, and keep, thee” (Num. 6:24). APPROACH: Did one of your play mates ever move to another town and leave you behind? Did you hate to say good-by? It is hard for friends to part,
should go up to Jerusalem. His friends tried to persuade him not to go, but he felt he must. He called them all together and talked to them. He told them many things that they were glad to hear, but one thing that made them very sad. He said, “I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more” (Acts 20:25). They cried and kissed him. He prayed with them and went away in a boat. Wherever he stopped on the way, people told him not to go to Jeru salem. At one place a prophet took Paul’s girdle and bound his own hands and feet, saying, “Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.” But Paul went right on. Perhaps God was trying to warn him. But, anyway, Paul thought he was
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