THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 146, 27 April 1877, Page 2

THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.

» Some years since the pastor of a l<lew England village church adopted a plan to interest the members of his flock in the study of the Bible. It was this. At the Wednesday evening meeting he would give out some topic to be discussed in the ensuing week, thus giving a week for them to study up. One week the subject was St. Paul. After the preliminary devotional exercises, the pastor called upon his deacons to speak "to the question." One immediately arose and began to describe the personal appearance of the great Apostle to the Gentiles. He said St. Paul was a tall, rather spare man, with black hair and eyes, dark complexion, bilious temperament, etc. His picture of Paul was a faithful' portrait of himself. He sat down, and another pillar of the church arose and said ; "I think the brother preceding me has read the Scriptures to littlo purpose if his description of St. Paul is, a sample of. his biblical knowledge. St. Paul was, as I understan d it, a short thickset .man with sandy hair, grey eyes, florid complexion, and a, nervous-sanguine temperament," giving, like his predecessor, an accurate picture of himself. He was followed by another, who had a keen sense of the and who vvas withal an i-nye- !

terate stammerer. He spoke about J|| follows : " My bre-bre-brethren, I halfljy ne-never To-found much ah-ahout W_W-pe-pe-personal ap-pe-pearance of Sjßr P-p-paul. But one thing is clearlS* established, and tha-that is, St. P-patifß'' had an imp-pc-pediment in his speechSr The effect can be im*. g'med. A " tit]J|J| wave" of audible smiles swept over tljjl congregation, th j good clergyman tauß' ingyhis full quota He immediate!,^»arose and dismissed tho assembly. Jjjj Harper's Magazine. mm