sembly.

III

FAREWELLS TO THE CHURCHES.

_Paul Starts on a Fateful Journey_.

And after the uproar was ceased, Paul having sent for the disciples and
exhorted them, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
And when he had gone through those parts, and had given them much
exhortation, he came into Greece. And when he had spent three months
there, and a plot was laid against him by the Jews, as he was about to
set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

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[Illustration]
HARBOR OF ASSOS
Copyright by Underwood & Underwood and used by special permission.

"Of the city of Assos itself, we must conclude, if we compare the
description of the ancients with present appearances, that its aspect
as seen from the sea was sumptuous and grand. A terrace with a long
portico was raised by a wall of rock above the water line. Above this
was a magnificent gate, approached by a flight of steps. Higher still
was the theater, which commanded a glorious view of Lesbos and the
sea, and those various buildings which are now a wilderness of broken
columns, triglyphs, and friezes. The whole was crowned by a citadel of
Greek masonry on a cliff of granite. Such was the view which gradually
faded into indistinctness as the vessel retired from the shore, and
the summits of Ida rose in the evening sky."
[End illustration]

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And there accompanied him as far as Asia a company of men from the
various churches. But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at
Troas. And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened
bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we tarried seven
days.

And upon the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to
break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to depart on the
morrow; and prolonged his speech until midnight. And there were many
lights in the upper chamber, where we were gathered together. And there
sat in the window a certain young man named Eutychus, overpowered with
deep sleep; and as Paul discoursed yet longer, he fell down from the
third story, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him,
and embracing him said, "Make ye no ado; for his life is in him."

And when he was gone up, and had broken the bread, and eaten, and had
talked with them a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
And they brought the lad alive, and were not a little comforted.