250 AUSTRALIA AND HOMEWARD. 



ancient art and evidences of refinement and civiliza- 

 tion as have been of late unearthed at Rome and 

 Pompeii. 



We booked for Brindisi, in Italy. The distance is 

 from Alexandria eight hundred and twenty-five miles, 

 much greater than I had supposed. We read the 

 twenty- seventh chapter of the Acts of the Apostles 

 with largely increased interest. Paul and his com- 

 panions were put by the centurion into a ship which 

 had sailed, like ours, from Alexandria for Italy. We, 

 too, sailed close by (under) Crete, which having passed 

 we got more tossing about in the Adriatic Sea than 

 we had experienced in our voyage of over eight thou- 

 sand miles from Australia to Egypt ; for it was winter, 

 and that means, usually, in Mediterranean and Adri- 

 atic waters, very rough weather. 



However, we were not fourteen days or nights with- 

 out seeing either sun or stars ; we were not prisoners ; 

 we were not exceedingly tossed with a tempest. 



I could not but think of the amazing difference 

 generally between the condition of Christians of these 

 days and those who lived in the earlier centuries. If 

 they suffered with Him and for Him, as we know not 

 of, they shall be correspondingly glorified. Some way, 

 in that world to come, they who have suffered most for 

 Him here shall be most highly rewarded. Though we 



