_Queen Bernice_.
_Publius, a Roman officer_.
_The people of many towns and cities, Roman officials,
soldiers, sailors, Christian disciples_.

PLACES OF THE STORY.

_The places which Paul visited are given elsewhere_.

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[Illustration]
ST. PAUL
By Raphael (1483-1520)
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[Illustration]
THE SHIPWRECK--PAUL AND THE ROMAN CENTURION

"And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there
shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship."

And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship,
when they had let the boat into the sea . . . Paul said
to the centurion and to the soldiers,
"Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved."
[End illustration]

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PAUL THE APOSTLE

Now there enters into our story one whose life by any standard of
measurement, in its boldness and audacity of plan, in its brilliancy of
achievement, in its personal courage and daring, compares favorably with
that of any of the heroes of history,--Paul the Apostle. In many
respects he resembled the modern successful man of business, the captain
of industry, except that his work was done with a purely unselfish
motive, loyalty to Jesus Christ and love for his fellowmen.

Paul was born in the Roman city of Tarsus, which is beautifully situated
at the mouth of the river Cydnus. It was a city full of delight for an
adventurous boy. There was the river sweeping down cold and clear from
its mountain snows, the harbor with its great basins and stone quays and
the shipping from every land. How Paul must have loved to linger on
those wharves, watching the ships and the merchandise and hearing the
songs of the sailors. In later days he always loved the city and the
sea. He was never far away from them; never far distant from the smell
of the sea breeze and the blue waters of the Mediterranean; very often
he sailed on those waters, and more than once suffered shipwreck. He was
a freeborn Roman, that is, he was so {368} fortunate as to have been
born in a free city. A free Roman city had all the political rights and
privileges of the city of Rome itself. This distinction was eagerly
sought after, and was often bought with a large price by men who did not
possess it by birth. When Paul was a lad he was sent away to Jerusalem
to school, where he was taught by one of the most famous teachers. But
Paul was always more Roman than Jewish in the actual experiences of his
life. When the fi