The Book of Missionary Heroes by Basil Mathews
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[Footnote 3: The plateau on which Lystra, Derbe, Iconium, and Antioch-in-Pisidia stood is from 3000 to 4000 feet above sea-level.] [Footnote 4: The aqueduct was standing there in 1914, when the author was at Antioch-in-Pisidia (now called Yalowatch).] [Footnote 5: A Bible with maps attached will give the route from Antioch in Syria, round the Gulf of Alexandretta, past Tarsus, up the Cilician Gates to Derbe, Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch-in-Pisidia.] [Footnote 6: Compare Acts ix. I-8, xxvi. 12-20.] [Footnote 7: St. Paul's motive and message are developed more fully in the Author's _Paul the Dauntless_.] CHAPTER II THE MEN OF THE SHINGLE BEACH _Wilfrid of Sussex_ (Date, born A.D. 634. Incidents A.D. 666 and 681[8]) Twelve hundred and fifty years ago a man named Wilfrid sailed along the south coast of a great island in the North Seas. With him in the |
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