The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-11-28

fanatic. end others called mod
cap, and Others bInsphemc<.
and others styled contcmptuously "thIz
fellow Paul arrived IN answer to the
writ or Invitation aud confronted them
and gave them the biggest dose that
mortals ever took He was so built that
nothing could scaro him, aud ~ for
Jupiter and Atheuia. the gol and the
| goddess, whose imagines were in full
sight on the adjoining hill, he had not
so much regard for them as he had for
the ant that was crawling in the sand
under his feet. In that audience were
the first orators of the world. and they
had voices like flutes when they were
passive and like trumpets when they
were arousee. and think they
laughed in the sleeves OF their gowns
as this insignificant looking man
rose TO speak. In THAI audience
were Scboliasts, who knew every thing.
or thought they did, and from the end
of the longest hair on the top OF their
craniums to the end of the nail on the
longest toe, they were stuffed with
hypercriticism and they leaned back
with supercilious look TO listen. As
in 1889. stood on that rock where
Paul stood, and a slab of which
brought from Athens by consent OF the
Queen, through Mr.: Tricoupis, the
prime minister, and had placed In
yondcr memorial wall, read the
whole story. bible in hand.
what | have SO far said In this
discourse was necessary in order
that You may understand the boldness,
the defiance, the holy recklcssness. the
magnificence OF Paurs speech. The
first thunderbolt he launched at the
opposite hill--the Arcopolis--that
moment all sglitter with idols and
temples He cries out, s'God who
made the world" Why they thought
that Promethus made IL. that Mercury
made IL. that Apollo made 1t, that
Posedion made IT.. that Eros
made it, that Pandrocus made
1T, that Boreas made 1t, that
IL took all the gods of the
Parthenon. yea, al the gods and god
desses of the Acropolis To make IT, and
here stands man without any eccle-
siastical title, neither ID. d., nor
even a reverend. declaring that the
world was made by the Lord of heaven
and earth. and hence the inference
i
Acropolis, so near that the people
standing on the steps of the Parthenon
could hear IL, was deceit, false
hood. a sham. a blasphemy. Look at
the faces of his auditors; they are
turning pale, and then red, and
then wrathful There had been
several earthquakes in that re-
gion; but that was the severest
shock these men had ever felt The
fersians had bomb nrded the Acropolis
from the heights OF Mars Hill, but this
Pauline bonn bardment was greater
and more terrific. What" said his
hearers, have we been hauling with
many yoles OF oxen for centuries
these blocks from the quarries OF
Mount Pentclicum. and have we had
our architects putting up these struc-
lures OF unparalleled splendor, and
have we had the create of all sculp-
tors, Ihidias, with his men, chiseling
away at those wondrous pediments,
and cutting away at these freezes, and
have we tuxed the nations resources
TO the almost, now TO be told that
those statues see nothing, hear
nothing, know nothing oh, Paul,
stop for moment and give
these startled and overwhelmed
auditors time u catch their
BREATH Make rhetorical pause.
Take a look around you at the inter
esting landscape, and give your hear.
ers time TO recover! No, he docs not
make even period, or so much as n
colon, but launches the sc ond thun-
derbolt right after the first, and in
the same breath goes on TO say: God
"dwelleth not in temples made with
hands" Oh. Paul. is not deity mo e
in the Parthenon, or more in the
Theseum, or more in the Erechtheium,
or more in the temple OF Zeus Olymp-
ius than in the open AIR, more than on
the hill where we are sitting
more than on Mount Hymettus out
yonder, from which the bees get their
honey. mo more responds Paul,
"He dwelleth not in temples made
with hands"
In the same breath he launches the
! third thunderbolt, which, to them, is
more fiery, more terrible. more demol-
! ishing than the others. as he cries out,
"nath made OF one blood all nations. -
Oh, Paul you forget you are speaking
To the proudest and most exclusive
audience in the world Donot say ''of
one blood You cannot mean that.
} Had Socrates, and Plato, and Demos
! themes and Scion, and Lycurgus, and
Draco, and sophocles, and Euripedes,
and Kschylus, and Pericles, and PHI
dias, and Miltiades blood just like the
Persians, like the Turks like the
Egyptians, like the common herd of
humanity? Yes" says Paul, "of one
o God, all nations
Surely that must be the closing para
graph Of the ssrmon. His auditors
must lie let up from the nervous strain.
Paul has smashed the Acropolis and
smashed the national pride of the
Greeks, and what more can he say?
Those Grecian orators standing on
that place, always closed their adj
dresses with something sublime and
climact ,ric. a peroration, and Paul is
going to give them peroration which
/, will eclipse in over and ma .esty all
that he has yet said. Heretofore he
has hurled one thunderbolt at time;
now. he will close by hurting two at
once. The little old man, under the
power OF his speech, has Strengthened
, himself up, and the stoop has gone out
OF his shoulders, and he looks about
, three Get taller than when he began,
. and his eyes which were quiet. be-
! came two flames OF fire, and his face,
which was calm In the introduction,
, now depicts whirlwind OF emotion
as he ties the two thunderbolts to-
gether with cord of .nconsumable
eouraOe and hurlg than MT the crnxy1