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...most iron man of that time for a hero, and while the fabulous First Century colors, passions and mysteries of the Near East are heaped in the pages like exotic scenery beside a straight white road, the story is a lean dark runner on the road, Saul of Tarsus coursing the world with his vision. It is the first non-love-story Donn Byrne has written, the attempt of a prose-poet in his late thirties to achieve an ascetic spiritual masterpiece. The success of the effort will be strongest felt by strangers to the earlier Byrne manner. People...
...Harold Klump, "he-Christian," sounds the keynote of large-scale production as applied to the spiritual side of life. He will get men into his church if he has to run prize fights in the pulpit, foot races down the aisles, and circularize through the mail. "If Paul of Tarsus [loud cheers for Paul, 'the first Christian go-getter'] was not above inditing epistles to Thessalonia, I'm not above writing letters to the Bronx." When a belated spark of rebellion lights up Mr. Midge's poor soul, family responsibilities smother it to death. Mr. McEvoy...
...Paul of Tarsus was only one of the Apostles. He was not, like Paul von Hindenburg, of the divine lineage itself. . . . This old soldier, too illiterate to even educate himself by reading . . . rises in the glory of his godhead . . . President of the German Republic . . . and is surrounded by a swarm of blissful slaves...
...homes during the past six years. Last winter, in a cold rain, we picked up on the quay at Smyrna 40 students, all of whom had known deportation and exile, the loss of home and loved ones, and who had now fled suddenly from St. Paul's College in Tarsus to Symrua because of the French evacuation, and the turning over of Cilicia once more to the Turks. Today I do not know whether a single one of these boys is alive or where he is, for within the past few weeks you have read of the calamity which came...
Robert College at Constantinople and Syrian Protestant College at Beirut were the first of these American colleges historically. The first of the interior colleges, Central Turkey College, established at Aintab in 1876, came next, and it was followed by other colleges at Harpout, Marsovan, Tarsus, Konia, Sivas...