Since we are on our trial to-day for a kind act done to a helpless man, and are asked in what way the man here before you has been cured,

"What are we to do to these men?" they asked one another. "That a remarkable sign has been given through them is obvious to every one living in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

Judge for yourselves, for we cannot help speaking of what we have seen and heard."

At Jaffa there lived a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which is in Greek 'Dorcas'--a Gazelle. Her life was spent in doing kind and charitable actions.

"No, Lord, I cannot," answered Peter, "for I have never eaten anything 'defiled' and 'unclean'."

'No, Lord, I cannot,' I answered, 'for nothing 'defiled' or 'unclean' has ever passed my lips.'

After some stay, they were dismissed with kind farewells from the Brethren, and returned to those who had sent them.

God did miracles of no ordinary kind by Paul's hands;

But I count my life of no value to myself, if only I may complete the course marked out for me, and the task that was allotted me by the Lord Jesus--which was to declare the Good News of the Love of God.

And they cannot establish the charges which they are now making against me.

And, as I was at a loss how to enquire into questions of this kind, I asked Paul if he were willing to go up to Jerusalem, and there be put upon his trial.

It was while I was traveling to Damascus on an errand of this kind, entrusted with full powers by the Chief Priests,

When Paul said to the Roman Officer and his men: "Unless the sailors remain on board, you cannot be saved."

They got, however, into a kind of channel, and there ran the ship aground. The bows stuck fast and could not be moved, while the stern began breaking up under the strain.