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St Paul's case furnishes a complete example of the 

 missionary ready for his work. Had he to shew the fulfil- 

 ment, and not the abrogation of the law by Christ? surely 

 the aptest pupil of Gamaliel now converted to the Christian 

 faith was furnished for the work. Were Moses and the 

 Prophets to be harmonized with Christianity ? — were the 

 Jewish ritual and ceremonial to be made to typify better 

 things than the blood of bulls and goats for the remission 

 of sins? — were Jewish prejudices to be met, and Rabbinical 

 disputations to be confuted? or was the scepticism of the 

 Sadducee to be cleared up, the pride of the Scribe to be 

 humbled, and the legality of the Pharisee to be exposed? — 

 surely one well versed in their mysteries, taught in their 

 own synagogues, lisping their own language in his infancy, 

 and now lighted in spirit with a live coal from off God's 

 altar of truth, was qualified for the task. But see him turn 

 to the Gentiles. Here he was a philosopher among phi- 

 losophers, — a poet, man of literature, orator and diploma- 

 tist, — among poets, literati, rhetoricians, politicians and 

 statesmen. He could be all things to all men in intellect as 

 well as in other things. Analyse his speech at Athens. 

 Almost every clause of it is a refutation of some deep 

 recognized axiom or dogma cherished among the Epicureans, 

 stoics, or other philosophers. Here was a man trained for his 

 work. The acutest of those Athenians, to their cost, soon 

 found out that Paul was no witless babbler after all. Before 

 the unjust Roman judge, and Judaea's puppet king, his 

 burning words savoured not ot madness, but of soberness 

 and truth. 



There is much value to be attached to a training in 

 natural science, as recommended by Dr Livingstone. No 

 missionary ought to go out, at any rate into the heathen 

 field of missions, without some knowledge of surgery, 

 medicine, and their attendant branches of scientific ac- 



