=Journey to Rome.= In this last long journey his courage and faith, as well as his wide experience as a traveller, were dramatically illustrated. Sailing from Cæsarea, he, with his Roman guard, trans-shipped at Myra, a city of southern Lycia, on an Alexandrian merchant ship. Thence the usual sea route was followed along the southern shore of Crete until the storm drove them south of their course, past Sicily, to the island of Melita, the modern Malta. There the ship was wrecked and they were obliged to remain through the winter. Then by another Alexandrian merchantman they sailed northward, landing at Puteoli, and thence proceeded by land to Rome along the Appian Way.^{(140)} At last at this goal of all his missionary journeying, Paul was able to extend widely the bounds of the church, already established in the capital, and through the medium of letters and messengers keep in close touch with the churches which he had founded. =The World-wide Conquests of Christianity.= Whether or not Paul was able later to visit distant Spain, as certain early church traditions assert, cannot be definitely determined. At least it is certain that the goal which he had set before himself had been, in one sense, fully attained. Within less than thirty years after the death of Jesus, active, growing Christian communities were to be found in all of the important cities of the eastern and northern Mediterranean. Two or three centuries later heathenism was vanquished and Christianity was master of the empire. This marvellous achievement would have been impossible if Rome, in the course of its natural development, had not broken down all national and racial barriers and bound together the peoples of that ancient world into one great empire. It had opened and developed the natural highways, making communication comparatively quick and easy. The natural trend of civilization was also from the east to the west, and Christianity moved on the crest of a great wave which was sweeping over the western world. Thus the faith of the Hebrew prophets and of Jesus, first proclaimed among the hilltops of Judea and Galilee, was able to enter upon that world-wide conquest which is the most significant fact in human history. APPENDIX I SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY THE PHYSICAL CONTOUR AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PALESTINE Baedeker, _Palestine and Syria_, 1911. Buhl, _Geographie des alten Palästina_, 1896. Conder, _Heth and Moab_, 1883. ---- _Tent Work in Palestine_, 1895. Dawson, _Egypt and Syria. Their Physical Features in Relation to Bible History_, 1885. Dunning, _To-day in Palestine_, 1907. Forbush, _The Travel Lessons on the Old Testament_, 1900. Fullylove, _The Holy Land Painted by John Fullylove._ Described by John Kelman, 1902. Guérin, _Description de la Palestine_, 1868-89. Guthe, _Palästina_, 1908. Hull, _The Survey of Western Palestine_, 1888. Huntington, _Palestine and Its Transformation_, 1911.