BARNABAS AND PAUL DISPATCHED WITH THE MONEY TO JERUSALEM. Of the _amount_ of the eleemosynary harvest, no intimation is to be found. As to the _consequence_ of it, Barnabas, we see, is the man stated as having, with obvious propriety, been chosen for the important trust: Barnabas--of whose opulence, trustworthiness, steadiness, and zeal, such ample proofs, not to speak of those subsequent ones, which will be seen in their place, had already manifested themselves. In consequence of the information, already received by the Mother Church in Jerusalem, of the prosperity of the Daughter Church, Acts 11:20, 21, planted, as above, in the capital of Syria,--this most active of all Christian citizens had been sent to give increase to it. But, of the talents and activity of Paul, his indefatigable supporter and powerful patron had had full occasion to be apprized. Accordingly, without the aid of this his not less indefatigable helper, still was the strength of the rising church, in the eyes of the patron, incomplete. "A prophet," says a not ill-grounded proverb, "has no honor in his own country." In his native city, among the witnesses of his youth, Paul had indeed found _safety_: but, as the nature of the case manifests, in a circle, from which respect stood excluded by familiarity, safety had not been accompanied with _influence_: and, in eyes such as those of Paul, safety without influence was valueless. Under these circumstances,--the patron, going to Tarsus in person in quest of his protegé, could not naturally find much difficulty in regaining possession of him, and bringing with him the so highly-valued prize, on his return to Antioch. "Then," says the Acts, 11:25, 26, "departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch." At this place, with their united powers, they had been carrying on their operations for the space of a twelvemonth, when the petition for pecuniary assistance was received there.