[17] Acts xv. 36-41. The last mention of St. Barnabas in the Book of Acts. [18] Compare Acts xvi. 3; and Gal. ii. 3, 4. [19] Acts xvii. 7. Comp. Acts vi. 11. [20] Comp. St. Mark xiv. 58; and St. Luke xxiii. 2. [21] Both Philippi and Thessalonica eventually became the seats of flourishing Christian Churches, to whom St. Paul wrote Epistles. [22] Acts xvii. 16-33. [23] There are some reasons for thinking that men of cultivated minds and high social position were preferred for Bishops in the early as well as in later ages of the Church. [24] Acts xix. 1-20. [25] Acts xx. 17-35. [26] Acts xix. 21. [27] Acts xx. 23; xxi. 11. [28] From Blunt's "Household Theology." {45} CHAPTER IV Final Settlement of the Church by St. John A.D. 67-100 It seems probable that most of the Apostles had entered into rest before the Destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 70, and that St. John the Divine was the only one of the Apostolic body who long survived that event. [Sidenote: St. Peter began to found the Church, St. John completed its foundation.] To St. Peter, one of the "pillars" of the Church, it had been given to begin the great work of laying the foundation of the Mystical Temple of God; to St. John, the other of the two, was allotted the task of perfecting what had been begun, so that a sure and steady basis should not be wanting on which the New Jerusalem might rise through time to eternity[1]. {46} Section 1. _Second Council at Jerusalem._ [Sidenote: A.D. 67.] [Sidenote: Purposes of the Second Council.] There is good reason for believing[2] that after the martyrdoms of St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. James, the first Bishop of Jerusalem, and about the time of the invasion of the Holy City by Vespasian, a Second Council of such of the Apostles as still survived was held for the purpose of electing a successor to the See of Jerusalem, and definitely settling the future government of the Church. [Sidenote: Bishops only rarely appointed at first,] Bishops had already been consecrated in certain cases, as at Ephesus, Crete, and Rome; but during the time that the Apostles were still engaged in founding and governing the different branches of the great Christian community, the appointment of Bishops (in the sense of heads of the Church) seems to have been the exception rather than the rule. [Sidenote: but now everywhere to replace the Apostles.] A new era was, however, now coming upon the Church; her Founders were gradually being withdrawn from her, and it was necessary that she should receive such a complete and permanent organization as would enable her to transmit to succeeding ages the saving grace of which the Apostles had been the first channels, that so what had been founded through their instrumentality might be continued and extended through the ministry of others. {47} [Sidenote: The establishment of the Apostolical Succession the special work of St. John,]