head of
the apostle of the world rolled down in the dust.

189. So sin did its uttermost and its worst. Yet how poor and empty
was its triumph! The blow of the axe only smote off the lock of the
prison and let the spirit go forth to its home and to its crown. The
city falsely called eternal dismissed him with execration from her
gates; but ten thousand times ten thousand welcomed him in the same
hour at the gates of the city which is really eternal. Even on earth
Paul could not die. He lives among us to-day with a life a hundredfold
more influential than that which throbbed in his brain whilst the
earthly form which made him visible still lingered on the earth.
Wherever the feet of them who publish the glad tidings go forth
beautiful upon the mountains, he walks by their side as an inspirer and
a guide; in ten thousand churches every Sabbath and on a thousand
thousand hearths every day his eloquent lips still teach that gospel of
which he was never ashamed; and, wherever there are human souls
searching for the white flower of holiness or climbing the difficult
heights of self-denial, there he whose life was so pure, whose devotion
to Christ was so entire, and whose pursuit of a single purpose was so
unceasing, is welcomed as the best of friends.

HINTS TO TEACHERS AND QUESTIONS FOR PUPILS

Teacher's Apparatus.--English theology has no juster cause for pride
than the books it has produced on the Life of Paul. Perhaps there is
no other subject in which it has so outdistanced all rivals. Conybeare
and Howson's _Life and Epistles of St. Paul_ will probably always keep
the foremost place; in many respects it is nearly perfect; and a
teacher who has mastered it will be sufficiently equipped for his work
and require no other help. The works of Lewin and Farrar are written
on the same lines; the former is rich in maps of countries and plans of
towns; and the strong point of the latter is the analysis of Paul's
writings--the exposition of the mind of Paul. Sir William Ramsay has
made the whole subject peculiarly his own by the enthusiasm and labors
of a lifetime. The German books are not nearly so valuable.
Hausrath's _The Apostle Paul_ is a brilliant performance, but it is as
weak in handling the deeper things as it is strong in coloring up the
external and picturesque features of the subject. Baur's work is an
amazingly clever _tour de force_, but it is not so much a
well-proportioned picture of the apo