St. Peter led to Joppa Unconsciously--His Period of Repose--Joppa and Missions to the Gentile World-- Jonah--Peter and the Hour of Prayer--Value of Forms-- Canonical Hours--Tertullian's Testimony--Nature of Peter's Vision--Conditioned by his Natural State-- Exactly suited to Destroy his Prejudices--John Calvin's View--St. Peter at Cæsarea--His Sermon--Not Latitudinarian, as some Think--But Truly Catholic--Peter presupposes some Knowledge of Gospel Facts--Evidence of Resurrection--Necessarily Limited--Unless Course of Human Affairs was to be Upset--And God's Usual Laws set Aside--Outpouring of Holy Ghost on Gentiles--Baptism of Cornelius 115-141 CHAPTER VII. THE HARVEST OF THE GENTILES. ACTS xi. 26. Reception of News of Gentile Conversion at Jerusalem-- Debate and Strife with St. Peter--The Early Church Knew Nothing of the Privilegium Petri--Fable of Pope Marcellinus--Origin of Antiochene Church--Foundation of Antioch--Scenery and History--Orators and Water Supply--Arrival of Barnabas and of Saul--Invention of the Name Christians--Remarks of Archbishop Trench-- The Prophet Agabus and the Outgoings of Charity 142-163 CHAPTER VIII. THE DEFEAT OF PRIDE. ACTS xii. 1-3, 23, 24. Contact of Sacred and Secular History in this Chapter-- Story of Herod Agrippa--Illustration of Principle of Heredity--First Martyrdom among Apostles--Character of James, Son of Zebedee--His Spiritual Eminence--His Death a Real Answer to Prayer--St. Peter's Deliverance--Granted to a Pleading Church--Angelic Interference--And the Proprieties of Christianity--Clement of Alexandria and the Pædagogue--Herod's Ostentation and Miserable Death-- Testimony of Josephus 164-187 CHAPTER IX. ST. PAUL'S ORDINATION AND FIRST MISSIONARY TOUR ACTS xiii. 2-4, 14; xiv. 1, 26. Thirteenth Chapter may be called the Watershed of the Acts--Calvin and St. Paul's Ordination--Title Apostle Henceforth Applied to Him--Ember Seasons, Reason of-- First Formal Mission to the Gentile World--Outline of Apostolic Tour--Saul and Sergius Paulus--Discoveries of General Cesnola--St. Paul's Sermon at the Pisidian Antioch--Jewish Jealousy and Opposition--Iconium--Lystra and Greek Legends--Discovery of Site of Lystra--Roman Police in Asia Minor--Dialects of Asia Minor--_Museum of the Evangelical School at Smyrna_--St. Paul and Church Organisation 188-218 CHAPTER X. THE FIRST CHRISTIAN COUNCIL. ACTS xv. 1, 2, 6, 19.