Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03

slonc SooPS oue au tlle native rncs y,
I top is spacious and nearly level The
many may stand or sit. On the waere
it, onlya few rods away, is tho East Of
of Jupiter and the Prison Of s1enple
on the south and much lower tho haates;
of Demosthenes. from which tho jena
orators OF Athens addressed the m treat
tudes. This also is native rock iuulu>
what uneven at the top. but yerv h sume-
accommodating thousands. Form noaa,
the orator stood facing the sea n lerly
is seen only a few miles away w; Mhlch
hack to the people. but in snc caeuh no
times ne turned his back to the sea ans
spoke to the people directly; as, in 1 ,ha
Roman Forum. the speakers in cove ,ae
history addressed the Capitol ~i,y
their faces from the people, but l %.tn
on they turned around and spoke to a thl
popular heart. On the west ia t tm0
Temple of Theseus and the modem ' y:
ty of Athens; on the north the Acrom,;;a'
the wonderful art center of the arc,on.
world, its massive gates facing Mansss
Hill. and upon its summit the polIon
statue Of Minerva, and the Parthanon
with its Incompatible grace and bean
ty.
Mars Hill is not nearly as high AZ ~.
Acropolis, and a wide road-space senas
rates them; yet Mars Hill seems hiepb
and the view from it is command;na
and impressive. More ages of culturs
and art and thought gather about tki.
spot than any other in history. II t.
where the ancient world reached Ss
highest point. It would require a thou
sand wedding days to take in the fiji
splendor of the SCENE. DR.. Constantine
I'D US that Joseph Cook came to
Athens to spend nine days, and ~.
NAMED nine weeks.
ton, but no man has seen the end Of
fine art in Athens. Paul preached here
on Mars Hill inpresence Of Areopae,te.
philosopher and poet, and a curisus
crowd who ''had nothing to do but to
hear and tell some new thing" It ~as
the supreme point of refined, subtle In.
tellectual culture, where all the pr.ces
of art met; yet here the great Apostle
won two converts for his Lord, and an
invitation to preach again. D%ionysins'
heart yielded to the story of the cross.
and Damaris, an honorable woman
heartily received that faith which was
to conquer the world; and others. un.
named, date their new life from that
hour. This was a good beginning for
that mastery discourse recorded in the
seventeenth chapter of Acts. which has
been preaching the foundation prin.
ciples of the Gospel to the unbelieyipp
down eighteen centuries.
When philosophy had lost its way in
Athens among its thirty Thousand gods,
Paul lifted up the Unknown God, the
God unknown to them. ant declared his
power and wisdom aud pl evidence and
resurrection glory. as the morning sun
rises on the darkness of the night.
Paul's spirit was stirred within him
when he saw the city wholly given to
idolatry. The sight of m,n lost in spir-
itual dearth and death ard withholding
from God the glory which is His due,
kept the great Apostle to the white heat
Of missionary endeavor. While men
were estranged from the bounteous and
glorious Lord, Paul must warn them Of
their danger, and teach them that it
was in Him whom they rejected that
they lived and moved and had their be-
ng.-Constantinopte Cor. in Chicago
advance.