Show ONCE VISITED BY PAUL The recent occurrences in I Turk Turkey and nd Aaa Asta Minor linor open the flood floodgates 11 od gates gat of ot history and bring brine to mind mm many man facts In connection with th the planting of the Christian faith falt by b th the in a country which bl b was waa ii In 1 i after years overrun by b the Arabs Arabe of oC th the I and other converts Overa to the doe toc trine trines of Islam When Paul heard he d tin the Macedonian cry el for tor help in hi a i CA was wa na one of 0 the cities ii In I which he It bore testimony for the lias Mas Master ter and nd founded a church The Thessa Ionic of the early eart Christian fathers ii ill I Ithe the of ot or today toda where Abdu Abdul Hl nid tilt the sultan of Turkey i b to spend spid the days dys or ui years yeans of hU hla captivity was waa located loea at the Ore bead Of a gulf lf o of the Aegean sea and pos po n I peculiar pec flax Interest and ami charn f ff fr r Paul who s e said to have mue paid for foi Ms his board and while white preaching the be gospel by working at his hie trade oi ot o tent maker in which work ork by b the way he hf h U Is L said eald to have excelled While ir in i Athena Atten Paul rot two e to th t the second one to im Irn impress impress press preas upon Ute the minds of the recent con converts converts verts to the fath faith that the second corn rom romIn cornIng Ins Ing In of el 0 Christ was as not to be expected immediately Imme latel This was ca necessary I be because beuse cause cuge use the T lonian expected the tM end of things earthly and the establish establishment h ment of the Ule kingdom of the laster al at atan a any an moment and ami were inclined to th do nothing else chic but sit around and talk ol of the glorious future in store for those t tho e who held out faithful to the end Paul rebuked them for their k e habits and called attention to the fact fad that in we wrought with labor and travail night and day da that we e might not be chargeable to te teany any of you Timothy and ami Sites Slie been with the apostle apo on his hia mission He concluded by sayin for fer even when w WI we were ere with you ou this we e commanded you that if any would not work ork neith neither er 01 should hould he eat The church burch at Thee had bad the usual experiences of the congregations Ir fr the t east ea t and met t the tM fate common to most of them conversion Oft by b the to the tile faith of Mahomet laho t As to the of today a writer In the Brooklyn B lyn Eagle Ea le says Whatever it may have hae been in hi th t the early days clays of or our era It Is a dirty wretched city elt today toda Its population is le probably about although a cen census sue sus is never neTer taken in a Mohammedan town ton HP It walls wila are five mites miles and are painted and deco decorated decorated decorated rated much as are the Italian villas villan one sees in the Riviera Indeed the milte of are famous through throughout out the Orient The T city rises rileS on a side Mil hm very ver much as u does doea Genoa with a background of the most meet mournful trees tr that grow ro the cypress It must fOt be forgotten that Oleere spent a part of Ill his exile at Thes Tha Th it was wa sacked by the Saracens in A D 14 and Sul Sultan Sultan Sultan The Normans took it in tan Murad Murd II TI in 14 In the tM citadel placed as such INch fortresses always were pre preat at the highest point is a triumphal arch erected to commemorate a visit of Marcus Aurelius Several Seral of the old ok Christian much mosques possess churches churcher now no to Interest to followers of or the Nax Nez arene If It Constantinople Con be excepted not tOt a a place in the ancient Greek Greak empire contains O so many mD churches Especially to be remembered embere 1 f that thai of o 0 St George which b Turkish name now flow known WR by a Is III almost a ft a of the Pantheon at Rome Its interior contains some of ot the most moat beautiful b mosaic work in the world orld It is ia believed to have ben been con converted converted from a 4 Pagan temple t into a Christian church about 4 The church chunh of or the tM of St Sophia Sophie is a miniature copy COP great church of the same name in On Ceo and anti both edifices are now new |