The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-12-25


ishing than the others, as he cries out,
Hath made of ono blood all nations"
oh, Paul you forget you are speaking
TO the proudest and most exclusive
audience in the world. Do not say ''of
one blood" You can not mean that
Had Socrates, and Plato, and Demos
themes, and Scion, and Lycurgus
and Brace, and Sophocles, and
Euripides, and Eschylus, aud Per-
icles, and Phidias, aud Miltiades blood
just like the Persians, like the Turks,
like the Egyptians, like the common
herd of humanity? EYES," says Paul,
'of one blood, all nations"
Surely that must be the closing par
agraph of the sermon. His auditors
must oe let down from the nervous
strain. Paul has smashed the Acropo-
lis and smashed the national pride OF
the Greeks, and what more can he sayf
Those Grecian orators, standing on that
place, always closed their addresses
with something sublime and climacteric,
peroration, and Paul is going to give
them peroration which will eclipse in
power and majesty all that he has yet
said. Heretofore he hns hurled one
thunderbolt Mt time: now he will
close by hurting two at once The lit
tie, old man, under the power OF his
speech, has Strengthened himself up,
and the stoop has gone out of his shout
ders, and he looks about three feet
taller than when he began, and his
eyes, which were quiet, became two
flames Of FIRE, and his face, which was
calm in the introduction, now depicts
whirlwind of emotion as he ties the
two thunderbolts together with cord
Of inconsumable courage and hurls
them at the crowd now standing or sit
ting aghast--the two thunderbolts OF
resurrection and last Judgment. His
closing words were: Because He hath
appointed day in which lie will judge
the world in righteousness by that man
whom He hath ordained; whereof He
hath given assurance unto all men in
that he Hath raised Him from the
dead"
Remember those thoughts were 20
them novel and provocative; that
Christ, the despised Nazarene, would
come to be their judge, and they should
have to get up out of their cemeteries to
stand before Him and take their eternal
doom. Mightiest burst of elecutionary
power ever heard. The ancestors OF
some of those Greeks had heard De-
mosthencs in his Grafton on
tho Crown, had heard Esethines
in his speeches against Timarchus
and Ctcsipho, had heard Plato in
his great argument for immortality of
the soul, had heard Socrates on his
death bed, suicidal cup of Hemlock In
hand, leave his hearers in emotion too
great to bear, had in the theater OF
Dionysius at the foot of the Acropolis
the ruins of its piled-up amphitheater
and the marble floor of its orchestra
still thcre) seen enacted the tragedies
Of Eschylus and Sophocles, but
neither had the ancestors of these
Grecians on Mars Hill or themselves,
ever heard or witnessed such tornadoes
IF moral power as that with which
Paul now whelmcd his hearers AZ
those two thoughts OF resurrection and
Judgment the audience sprang to it's
'eet Some moved they adjourn to
some other day to hear more on the
same theme, but others would have
torn the sacred orator to pieces. The
record says: Some moclted" / sup
pose it means that they mimicked the
Solemnity Of his voice; that they took
of his imprisoned gesticulation, and
they cried out: jew! jew! Where did
YOU study rhetoric? You ought TO
hear our orators speak! You had better
go back to your business of tent-rlak-
ing Our Lycurgus knew more in min
ute than you will know in month.
Say, where did you get that crooked
back, and those weak eyes from? Ha!
Hal You try to teach us Grecians!
What nonsense you talk about when
you speak of resurrection and judg-
ment Now, little old man. climb
down the side OF Mars Hill and get out
Of sight as soon as possible" "Some
mocked." But that scene adjourned
TO the day of which the sacred orator
had spoken-the day ~ resurrection
and Judgment
Companionship Healthful.