the fame spreading to Jerusalem, the Church thought fit to send Barnabas, a special commissioner, to promote and organise, and perhaps to report upon the work. His genial influence, which may well have been responsible for the conversion of those nameless Cypriot missionaries who had preceded him in the city, attracted still greater numbers, impelling him to fetch his protégé Saul from Tarsus, and they worked together for a whole year, with results of the greatest importance. He who was to be known
Page 68