dants, and were liable to be shifted from place to place,
being sold according to the necessities or caprices of their masters.
A religion the chief boast of which it was to preach glad tidings to
the poor could not neglect these down-trodden classes, and, although
the conflict of Christianity with the forces of the time which had
possession of the fate of the world naturally attracts attention, it
must not be forgotten that its best triumph has always consisted in the
sweetening and brightening of the lot of the humble.

CHAPTER VI

HIS MISSIONARY TRAVELS

Paragraphs 70-114.

79-88. THE FIRST JOURNEY. 79, 80. His Companions.
81. Cyprus. Change of his Name. 82-87.
The Mainland of Asia Minor. 83. Desertion of Mark.
84. Antioch-in-Pisidia and Iconium. 86-87. Lystra
and Derbe. 88. Return.
89-108. THE SECOND JOURNEY. 90, 91. Separation
from Barnabas. 92, 93. Unrecorded Half of
the Journey. 94-96. Crossing to Europe. 97-108.
Greece. 97-101. Macedonia. 99. Women and the
Gospel. 100. Liberality of Churches. 102-108.
Achaia. 103-105. Athens. 106-108. Corinth.
109-114. THE THIRD JOURNEY. Ephesus, Polemic
against Superstition.

THE FIRST JOURNEY

79. Paul's Companions.--From the beginning it had been the wont of the
preachers of Christianity not to go alone on their expeditions, but two
by two. Paul improved on this practise by going generally with two
companions, one of them being a younger man, who perhaps took charge of
the traveling arrangements. On his first journey his comrades were
Barnabas and John Mark, the nephew of Barnabas.

80. We have already seen that Barnabas may be called the discoverer of
Paul; and, when they set out on this journey together, he was probably
in a position to act as Paul's patron; for he enjoyed much
consideration in the Christian community. Converted apparently on the
day of Pentecost, he had played a leading part in the subsequent
events. He was a man of high social position, a landed proprietor in
the island of Cyprus; and he sacrificed all to the new movement into
which he had been drawn. In the outburst of enthusiasm which led the
first Christians to share their property with one another, he sold his
estate and laid the money at the apostles' feet. He was constantly
employed thereafter in the work of preaching, and he had so