Show I I s Dj y S SI j I Oli j II By ROBERT RODERT II H. HARPER Lute Lake Physician and nil a Lassoes Luke Luht 1 It h 4 1 1 2 1 16 Yd 6 10 Colossi 4 14 It Gold Aels is 1 8 S. LUKE T was a physician and he became one of the greatest of It all historians He lie was the only author among those of the It of the Bible Dible who was was not cot a Jew The author of the Gospel that bears bears' his hit n name me and nd of the book of Acts he undertook to give an accurate It account Luke 1 13 3 of of Jesus and of the heroic doings of the apostles i In both the Gospel and the Acts the work w was s undertaken for Th The ophius evidently a m man of some distinction And Luke wrote that his hla purpose was was to bring the reader ader to know the certainty concerning the things he would record recent And we find that Luke in an unscientific age was a scientific historian who had consulted eyewitnesses and ministers of the word in preparing his manuscript Luke had opportunity to talk with those who had known Christ and It heard his teaching and he was personally personally per per- acquainted with Paul and I other great men of the new faith In the account of the vision of the theman theman man of Macedonia we note what have been called the we sections in the narrative indicating that I the author himself was then with Paul So Luke was himself an eyewitness eye I eyo-I witness of much that he records It should strengthen our faith in 1 the record to learn of the labor and f care that Luke gave to the writing I of the life We of our Lord and of the heroic activity of Paul and others in planting Christian churches here and there f |