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SAUL CONVERTED BY BIG MIRACLE Wealthy, Aristocratic and Self- Satisfied, He Became an Apostle to the Gentiles The International Sunday School Ij*»- son For April 2 Is "The Conversion of Saul."—Acts 0:1-31. (By William T. Ellis) How a strong man. going the wrong way, was violently stopped and set to moving in the opposite direction. Is the lesson of to-day. The man ws.« known by the city of his birth; now that city is known by the man; for where the records once spoke of Saul of Tarsus they now speak of the Tar sus of Saul. As for the man himself, he belongs to that select little com pany who are fully described by the 'mention of his name. There have been many millions of Pauls In the world, but only one of them is meant when we simply say "Paul." Bigger than any news that gets into the newspapers are the decisions made by great men. The real turning points of history axe the convictions formulated in the silence by men of strength. It may be years before the events that sprang from the decision are known; but the real crisis was when the choice was made. Before ever the public sees an engagement ring on a girl's finger she herself has known the revelation of the love that it represents. So Paul on Mars' Hill, or before Agrippa. when all the com munity was set by the ears, was merely reflecting the consequences of that great day on the road outside of Da mascus. when he ceased being Saul, the persecutor of Christians, and be came Paul, Christ's apostle to the Gen tiles. Please observe that Saul was going somewhere; he was not sitting on a fence finding fault with the looks and walk and equipment of other travel els. The men and women who have not even gumption enough to be bad are the real problem of society. The virile youngster—the "bad boy"—who is always getting itno scrapes is really less to be worried about than the col or less lad whose goodness is merely lack of force and courage. There Is , more hope of an out-and-out persecu tor and blasphemer than of the spine less. feckless, fearful fellow who is best represented by a minus or a zero sinn. It Is often the big sinners who make the great saints. It took a miracle to convert Saul of Tarsus. But he was worth it. He was stopped In midcareer by a blind- j ing vision of the while on the \ way to Damascus to harry the Chris tians. Like the good workman that he always was, whether serving God or Satan. Saul had made careful preparation for his task, carrying with i I him letters from the high priest at •Jerusalem to the Damascus svna- 5 gogues. Whatever he did. he did it with all of his might. It was no sec ond-rate character that saw the light on the road of persecution. Why is it. I wonder, that the churches do not deliberately go after the strong men who are not Christians? It does al most seem at times as If present-dav church work were ?auged to the level ,of the mediocre and the common ■ place. A lot of little men want a special i miracle to persuade them to do right but God does not drive tacks with a j sledge hammer. Paul was worth a miracle. Looking back over what he | has meant to the world, we can see now God could have afforded to emptv Heaven of angels and archangels that ! flay. In order to cause that brilliant yoaii* man to "right about face." Titers was no bigger business on hand ! in Heaven that day than the conver j sion of Saul. Every mother and everv teacher dreams of the day when one 1 of her boys will become a groat man: j and that goal is an inspiration to ut most and tireless effort. It niav be that some woman who has the destinv of a future Wesley or Luther or St ' Francis or Phillips Brooks is reading I these lines. | Wealthy, aristocratic, self-assured ! Saul rode on toward the oldest city I in the world, musing, perhaps, upon the sacred associations of this beauti ful place, with Its memories of Abra ham and Xaaman and the proud Syrian kings whom the armies of Is rael had put to naught. And he felt himself to be on the same service His retinue rode respectfully in .the rear. If there was any one thing farther from the young sealot's mind than another, it was uncertainty about i his course. He was right, absolutely right, and all who differed with him should suffer even as that mad blas phemer Stephen had suffered. His every breath was a threat against these Christian dissenters. Then something happened. Tn a few marvelously clear sentences the story is told by the most compact book j in the world: "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 beard a voice saying unto -him. Saul, i Saul, why persecutest thou me? And ! he said. Who art thou. Lord? and the Lord said. T am Jesus whom thou per- ! secutest: 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 th» city, and it shall be told thee what : thou must do. And the men which Journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. ! i And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, j and brought him into Damascus. And | he was three days without sight, and ! neither did eat nor drink." , What Saul needed was light, and ! I he got it. with an intensity and an ! abundance that felled him. 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We regard as a unique tribute to this store and its methods the increasing numbe of women who come here to help men folks pick the right clothes and who make this their shopping headquarters in purchasing neckwear, collars, hosiery or any of the other things a man likes to find in his chiffonier. Kirschbaum Clothes sls S2O $25 the sun at noon. But the light of the face of the glorified Christ made the Syrian sun seem as darkness. A great many persons are arguing, by what they call "natural laws," against the phenomena of religion: yet the ex perience of countless saints, and thank God. often of the sceptics themselves, confutes the abstract philosophing of the overwise. Saul learned that day, what myriads of saints in glory al ready knew, that the Lamb who is the light of the City Celestial is the very brightness of God, before whose face the sun is dimmed. Just as if to reveal the foolishness of mortal wisdom, this young scholar, this logician, this philosopher, was converted by an experience, and not by an intellectual process. All through his wonderful ministry we find the great apostle appealing to his experi ence. What he personally knew of Christ meant more to him than all the operations of the greatest brain that ever has worked within a human head. That experience on the Damas cus road made Paul a Christo-centric Christian, and gave the church a Christo-centric theology. Of all the mighty implications of this story the greatest is the precious truth wrapped up in the phrase "I am Jesus." It means that the very same Jesus is in Heaven who was on earth. All the solicitude that He showed when He walked the fields of Galilee with His fisher friends ile carried with Him to His Father's throne. He could not remain seated while Stephen was being stoned and He could not keep silent while such a possible disciple as Paul was to be converted. Our too-sophisticated time is prone to rob the risen Redeemer of this His rarest crown—His concern for His children on earth and all that touches them. The enthroned Christ is not too great to give heed to the prayers of little children or to be af fected by the cries of tempted and suffering saints. His eye is in the streets of our city even .as it was on the road to Damascus. B - the way, the guides still point out the traditional site of Saul's con version. Likewise, the most popular resort of tourists is "the street called "Straight." Damascus is better known to the Christian world for what hap pened there to Paul than for anv of its heaped-up events in connection with kings and conquerors. Tt Is worth while to visit the scene of God's deal ings with Saul in Damascus, but it Is better worth while to behold what God Is doing to-day in the lives of men and Women. The pilgrimages that are being made to "Billy" Sun day tabernacles and to rescue missions are worth while. Perhaps, as a re sult of this lesson, some teacher or parent will take a group of boys to visit a rescue mission, where Saul's Damascus road experience is being re peated to-day. Whil» we are thinking about what befell Saul, and his Instant ohedience t' the Heavenly vision, we must not overlook the other character who is named in the story, nis easy to talk only about the preacher or the evange list and to speak of church work as if done by them alone. In truth, as everybody who knows anything about churches understands, it Is the plai.-i folk, whose names are never men tioned in the newspaper reports of church affairs, who really bear the burden of the work. The angels know that the prayers of the people prevail more than the preaching of the pastors. It would be a surprise to ! all concerned if we could know who really is who in the average church. The obscure man who emerges in this story is a Christian named An anias. a man of truer quality than the famous one who was smitten for ; his avarice and falsehood. Let us 1 turn to the text for a description of Ananias' part in tills great day's > work, which affected all the subse quent history in the world: "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. And the Lord said unto him. Arise, and go into the street which Is called Straight, and inquire 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. 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Go thy way; for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to hear my name before the Gentiles, and kings. and the children of Israel; for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake, and Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said. Brother Saul the Lord, leven Jesus, that ap peared unto thee in the way as thou tamest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be tilled with the Holy Ghost. And im mediately 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. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus." The sort of man Ananias was is re vealed by the manner in which he saluted his late enemy as "Brother Saul." He went the whole way. He did not receive the new convert with jealousy and suspicion and coldness. On the instant, Paul was received into llie whole fellowship, even be ing given the sacrament of baptism, lie knew himself at once a member of | that family whose bonds are stronger I than death, being ties of blood shed on Calvary. In his warm and open approach to Saul, Ananias was typical of the Christian brotherhood to-day, which i welcomes to its membership on a basis of perfect equality, the pent* i tent outcast and the converted scholar. ' We can imagine the rejoicing that there was in the Damascus church i that day. What prayers had been answered! The hand of persecution had been stayed. A notable recruit had been won. A fresh evidence of the truth of the resurrection and of the guardianship of the Lord over His own had been given. If it was a great day for the saints in Damascus, how much greater was it for the Church universal! Caesar's crossing the Rubi con was a trifling incident In its ef fect upon history, as compared with the consequences of the conversion of | Saul of Tarsus at Damascus. 11
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