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LEFT TIMOB 405 TIMOTHY 11,500 feet in height. It is less volcanic than its smaller neighbors of the Sunda group, but it contains some quiescent or extinct volcanoes. Magnetic iron, por- phyry, gold, copper, and sulphur are found. Otherwise the natural wealth of the island is not great, the comparatively dry climate producing a much less lux- uriant vegetation than in Java. The ex- ports are mainly maize, sandalwood, wax, tortoiseshell, and trepang. Sep- arated from the Australian region by the Arafura sea, the island shows few Australian types among its fauna and flora, which resemble those of Java, Celebes, and the Moluccas. The popula- tion is mainly Papuan, mixed with Malay and other elements. The smaller W. por- tion belongs to the Dutch, with its capital at Kupang; the E. part is Portuguese, capital Delhi; but native chiefs really govern the island. TIMOBLAUT (te-mor'lout) ("Timor lying to seaward"), a small group of islands in lat. 6' 40'-8° 23' S., Ion. 130° 26'-132'' E, 260 miles E. of Timor. It consists of eight considerable islands of volcanic formation and a great number of coral islets. The chief islands are Yani- dena, Larat, and Selaru; the first, by far the largest, has an area of 1,100 sq. m. All three are very moun- tainous. The group lying within the range of the damp S. E. winds which blow through Torres Strait has a much more humid climate than Timor, and luxuriant forests ascend to the very sum- mits of the mountains. The natural wealth of the islands is as yet undevel- oped, and tortoise-shell and beche-de-mer are the chief articles of trade. The na- tives resemble those of Northwestern New Guinea in appearance, and are fierce and treacherous. TIMOTHEUS, a famous Greek musi- cian and dithyram.bic poet. He died about 357 B. c. TIMOTHY ("one who honors God"), one of the companions of St. Paul on his missionary travels. Timothy was born either at Lystra or Derbe ; his father was a Greek, his mother a Jewess (Acts xvi: 1-2). Both his mother, Eunice, and his grandmother, Lois, were Christians (II Tim. i:5), having probably been convert- ed by St. Paul on his first missionary tour through Lycaonia (Acts xiv: 6). Hence Timothy early knew the [Jewish] scriptures, probably with Christian in- terpretations (II Tim. iii: 15); but his actual conversion seems to have been effected through the instrumentality of St. Paul, if, indeed, this be the meaning of the phrase "my own son in the faith" (I Tim. i: 2). His constitution was fee- ble, sensitive, with a certain tendency to asceticism, yet not free from temptation to "youthful lusts" (II Tim. ii: 22). He was strongly recommended to St. Paul by the Christians at Lystra and Iconium. The apostle therefore chose him as mis- sionary colleague, and had him circum- cised for the sake of facilitating his work among the Jews (Acts xvi: 3). He thor- oughly gained the confidence and affec- tion of St. Paul, and was with him in Macedonia and Corinth (a. d. 52-53; Acts xvii; 14, xviii: 5; I Thess. 1: 1), and at Ephesus, from which he was dis- patched for special duty to Corinth (a. d. 55-56; I Cor. iv: 17, xvi: 10). Return- ing, he was with St. Paul when the sec- ond epistle to the Corinthians and that to the Romans were penned (II Cor. i: 1; Rom. xvi: 21), as also when he passed through Asia Minor prior to his arrest (A. D. 57-58; Acts xx: 4), and during his imprisonment at Rome (a. D. 61-63; Col. i:l; Philem. 1; Phil. i:l). Prob- ably about A. D. 64 he was left in charge of the Ephesian church. I^. Heb. xiii: 23 his own imprisonment ani liberation are recorded. Tradition makes him ul- timately suffer martyrdom, either in a. d. 96 or in A. D. 109. The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy. — An epistle addressed by St. Paul to Timothy. Some persons in the Ephesian church had taught, or appear- ed disposed to teach, a doctrine different from that of the apostle. Paul there- fore, on departing from Macedonia, left Timothy behind to restrain these false teachers (I Tim. i: 3-7), pretentious men too much given to profitless "fables and endless genealogies" (verse 4). Paul charged Timothy to preach the Gospel, defining it as a "faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sin- ners" i: 5-20). Paul then commends prayer (ii: 1-8), defines the position of women in the Christian church (9-15), explains the duties of a bishop (iii: 1-7), and of a deacon and his wife (iii: 8-13), and, expressing the hope that he soon may see Timothy (iii: 14), he gives him personal counsel (15), presents as beyond controversy the mystery (hidden thing) of godliness (16), predicts by the Spirit perilous times (iv: 1-4), adds fresh in- junction to his younger colleague (v-vi), explaining what his action should be toward elderly and younger men, and eld- er and younger women (v: 1-16), the Christian functionaries called elders (17), slaves (vi: 1-2), the rich (17-19), and what should be his conduct in the office which he held in trust (20-21). Eu- sebius summed up the verdict of Chris-