The Improvement Era, Vol. 10

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Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 10: March, 1907 The voyage after leaving Sidon, which place they reached on the day following their embarkation at Caesarea, was, as we find recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, very unpropitious, storms and counter winds succeeding one another to such an extent as to greatly retard the ship's progress. Arriving at length at Myra, the then capital of Lycia, Julius the centurion found an Alexan drian corn ship sailing to Italy in which he secured accommodation for his prisoners and their escort. Ba¿iing gales and heavy seas continued apparently to accompany the party, until at' length the series of dangers through which they had to pass culminated in the total wreck of their ship on a cold and dismal morning in the month of November, A. D. 60, on the wild coast of the island of Melita (malta). Fortunately, not one of the two hundred and seventy-six souls on board was lost. In that island they were compelled to remain for the space of three months, during which time Paul healed the father of Publius, the chief man /of the place, and cured also many others who were diseased and af¿icted in various ways. Here it was that he shook off into the fire the venomous viper that had fastened onto his hand as he was gathering sticks, and yet received no harm there from. (acts xxviii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.