Description: Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1916 Paul The Dauntless The Course Of A Great Adventure by Basil Mathews Book PAUL THE DAUNTLESSTHE COURSE OF A GREAT ADVENTUREBYBASIL MATHEWS, M.AILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR AND BLACK-AND-WHITEFROM DRAWINGS BY ERNEST PRATERAND WITH REPRODUCTIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHSBY THE AUTHORAND MAPSNew YorkChicagoTorontoFleming H. Revell CompanyLondonandEdinburghINTRODUCTIONIT was at night, on the deck of a ship in the East-ern Mediterranean and watching the masts swingdizzily across the face of the moon, that I firsthad the feeling of really beginning to know Paul.The stars above were the same that he had watchedas he sailed for Cyprus on his first adventure. Therewas the lift and fall of the same sea, the same splashof water from the plunging bows; the same stir of thefresh night breeze that had cooled his temples. Ina strange, intimate way Paul seemed to be standingthere looking westward over the rail—just as he stoodwith Barnabas when they headed for Cyprus.So, during the long journey in Paul’s footsteps, wefelt every day that we could see him more clearly.We walked in Tarsus, the city where he was born;and saw boys repeating the verses that he learnedthere. With him we watched the tawny river Cydnusrun from the white mountains of Taurus through thegreat plain down to the shimmering sea.From Jerusalem, where, as an undergraduate, hesat at the feet of Gamaliel, we followed him toCaesarea, where the foundations of the great Romancitadel in which Paul stood before Felix and Festusstill defy the breakers of the Mediterranean, and toDamascus, where you can still walk under the Romanarch through the city wall that led him into the Street9called Straight, and watch the tent-maker at work inthe bazaar.We walked the beach of Salamis, where he landedon the island of Cyprus, and watched the sailing boatscreep out of the little old harbour at Paphos, whencehe sailed to Pamphylia. We climbed the glorious greygorges of the Taurus mountains and shared with Paulthe awful silence and solitude of the Cilician Gates.To do this and to go beyond the Taurus on to the highplateau, and all day—and day after day—to fol-low in his steps, side by side with the soft-footedcamels, from Iconium to Lystra and thence to Derbe,westward to Antioch in Pisidia and on and on toEphesus, was to begin to understand a little of thematchless power and patience of this hero of “ theforward tread.”Sailing from Smyrna to Athens, the glory of apurple sunset in the 2Egean Sea—“ as it were a glassy sea mingled with fire ”—the deathless beauty of the Parthenon and all themajesty of the Acropolis, still spread themselves forus as they did long ago for him. Yet more wonderfulthan the Parthenon itself is the majestic temple ofPaul’s thought—so lofty, so spacious, so glorious inits beauty and dazzling in its daring. These swift-racing, passionate letters of his seemed as though theink on them was hardly dry—so fresh they were—aswe read them on the vast plain of the Galatian cities,in the valley going down to Ephesus, on the great hillover Corinth.We stood on the quay at Puteoli, where he landed... e34
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