Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-29

THE DOCTOR breaches IN ATHENS
ON PAUL'S MISSION THERE.
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The mrth of all people spOrted in her
Isthmian games and the beauty Of all
lands sat in her theatres, walked her
pOruCos and threw itself on the altar
of her StuneudOus designations. Column, and
statue, and temple bewlldered the beholder.
There We're white marble fountains, into
which. from apertureS at the side, there
pushed waters everywhere known Tor health
giving qualities. Around these basins.
twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all
the beauties of sculpture and architecture:
while standing, as If t. guard the costly dis
play was statue OF Hercules OF FURNISHED
Corinthian brass. Vases Of terra Gotta
adorned the cemeteries OF the dead-vases 50
costly that Julius Caesar was not satisfied I'M
I'll he had captured them for Rome. Armed
officials, the corintharii, paced up and down
to see that no statue was defuced, no pedestal
overthrown, no bas-rcief touched. From the
edge of the city the hill held its magnificent
burden Of columns and towers ana temples
Il o)0 slaves waiting at one shrine, and a
citadel 50 thoroughly impreSnahlc that Glib
raltGr is heap Of sand compared with 1t.
Amid all that strength and magniicence
Corinth stood and detiei the world.
PAUL ADDREssED HIGH INTELLIGENCE.
On. it was not to rusucs who had never
seen anything grand that Paul uttered one of
my texts. They had heard the best music
that had come from tho best instruments IN
all the world; they had heard 73neN floating
from morning portlcos and melting IN even
ing groves; they had passed their whole lives
among pictures and sculpture and architect
ture and Corlntlian brass, which had been
nodded and shaped until there was no
chariot wheel III which it had not sped, and
no tower i'll which it had not giittered, and
no gateway that it had not adorned. All, 1t
was bold thing for Paul to stand there amid
all that and say: "All this is nothing. These
sounds that come from the temple OF Neptune
are not music compared with the harmomos
of winch speak These waters rushing IN
the basin of Pyrene are not pure. These