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It is fitting that at this season of the year we receive a letter from Miss Anne Dwyer, a Baptist missionary nurse, serving in a hospital in Ajloun, Jordan, In the following excerpt she tells of a trip she took through some of the eastern Mediterranean countries.
It was my privilege to make a trip through Turkey and Greece this summer. The Paul Smiths planned to camp and invited me to go with them. Certainly every Christian is interested in the sites of the early churches and Paul’s missionary journeys. We spent the first night in Antioch from which Paul and Barnabas set out on their first missionary journey. It was thrilling to be there. From the mountainside where the church is located, one has a good view of Antioch and the fertile plain surrounding. Also, the path that leads across the hill to the nearby port of Seleucia is visible. They sailed from Seleucia. The original church seems to have been a cave in the mountain with a secret entrance or tunnel through the mountain. It has since been added onto and is now a Catholic Church. Old coins were plentiful and cheap here, and I made my best buy of the trip--a Roman tear bottle complete and which stands. The mourners filled these with their tears, and they were buried with the person, so I am told. About half way up the mountain from the church is the remains of a Roman prison. You can see some of the ruins of the fortress on top which was impregnable except from one side. They held out for over a year against the Crusaders, and it finally fell by treachery. You remember that this was the city where the people first T>ung the nickname of "Christians* on the disciple of Jesus, mean- 1 ing by it “those Christers, always talking about their Christ.” I often wonder if wej deserve to be called “Christians” since we talk so little about Him, and our life often denies Him? Then via Ankara the growing, modern capital of Turkey and Istanbul we found ourselves in Greece. Though I had been to Greece before it was thrilling to stand on Mars Hill again and read the account of Paul’s being there. The following day we were in Corinth where Paul “Determined to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” We had three weeks but always felt the need to spend more time, see something more or the places were so interesting and delightful we
jwere not ready to leave. In thinking of the Books of the New Testament we passed through or saw: Corinth, Ephesus, P h i 1 i p p i, ColoSse and Thessalonica. Of the seven early churches we saw: Pergamum, Ephesus, and Smyrna. We were near Laodicea but missed the sign and the turn. To get the most out of such a trip you need someone who speaks Turkish and English and an archeologist. The port of Neapolis is a gem on the Aegean Sea. It has a natural harbor and nestles against the mountain. The afternoon sun was gleaming on the red terra Icotta roofs. It is a 2 day journey from Troas. This is the port where Paul landed I when he heard and answered the Macedonian call--“Come over and help us.” (Acts 16:9) IFrom here Christianity spread to the Balkans and Europe. From Europe it went to England and the New World.
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