st be
advancing the work of Jesus Christ.

+The Companions+ (Acts 15:37-40).--Barnabas
proposed to take John Mark, his nephew, with them on this
second journey. But Paul strenuously objected, basing
his objection on the ground that this young man had
deserted them (Acts 13:13) at a very important juncture
in the first journey. We are told that the contention was
very sharp between Barnabas and Paul over this matter.
It was finally settled by Barnabas taking John Mark and
sailing for the island of Cyprus and Paul choosing Silas
for his companion. When Paul came to Derbe and
Lystra Timotheus was invited to join him, which he did
(Acts 16:1-4). Luke, the author of the Acts, goes with
this company into Macedonia (Acts 16:10). We can
trace Luke's connection with the missionaries by the
"we" passages.

That Paul was afterwards reconciled to Barnabas and
John Mark is shown by his kindly mention of them in his
Epistles (1 Cor. 9:6; Col. 4:10; 2 Tim 4:11;
Philem. 24).

+The Wide Scope+ is a marked feature of this journey of
about 3,200 miles.

The first journey was through Cyprus, where Barnabas
was well acquainted, and through that section of Asia
Minor roundabout the province of Cilicia, where Paul was
practically at home. Paul was born in Tarsus in Cilicia
and it was to this region that he went for some part of
the time between his conversion and his call to the
missionary work (Acts 9:30; Gal. 1:21).

The second journey carries Paul into entirely, to him,
new provinces of Asia Minor and into Macedonia and
Achaia. He comes into close contact not only with the
rough native populations of the Asian provinces but with
the cultivated philosophers of Greece and the effeminate
voluptuaries of the heathen temples. Here are new tests
for this missionary and the gospel which he preaches, but
he meets them all. This journey had a large significance
for the spread of Christianity. Had the gospel failed to
meet the wants of all sorts and conditions of men, there
would have been no further triumphs for it.

+Value to the World.+--"This journey was not only the
greatest which Paul achieved but perhaps the most
momentous recorded in the annals of the human race. In
its issues it far outrivalled the expedition of Alexander the
Great when he carried the arms and civilization of Greece
into the heart of Asia, or that of Caesar when he landed
on the shores of Britain, or even the voyage of Columbus
when he discovered