The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-11-26
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IKE kie white breakers OF the great
ocean Of time.
THL APOSTLE PAIL on MARS HILL
But we cannot stop longer here, for
there h hin near by OF more interest,
though 1t has not one clip Of marble to
suggest statue or temple. We has
ten down the Acropolis to ascend the
Arsopag,B, or Mars Hill, as 1t is called.
Il took only about three minutes to
walk the distance. and the two hill
tops are 30 near that what sai1 Ia re-
lgious discourse on Mars Hill was heard
distinctly by some English gentlemen
On the AcropolS This Mars Hill is
rough pile Of rock fifty feet high. 1t
w@ famouA long before New Tesla
mont times.
The Persians easily and terribly as,
sauited, the Acropolis from this hilltop.
asAe assembled the court to try crimi-
pals. It was held in the nighttime, SO
thai the faces Of the Judges could not
be seen, nor the faces of the lawyers
who made the plea, and SO, instead Of
o trial being one Of emotion, it must
have been one Of cool Justice; but there
yes ons occasion on this hill mernora-
bic above all others.
A little man, physically weak, and
bis rhetoric described by himself as
contemplate, had by his sermons
rocked Athens with commotion, and he
was summoned either by writ of law or
hearty invitation to come upon that
pulpit of rock and give a specimen of
his theology. All the wiseacres of Ath-
ems turned out and turned up to hear
him. The more venerable of them sat
In an amphitheater, the granite seats
Of which are still visible, but the other
people swarmed on all sides of the hill
and at the base Of 1t to hear this man,
whom some called a fanatic and others
called o madcap and others bias
phemer and others styled contemptu-
ously, This fellow"
Paul arrived In answer to the writ or
invitation, and confronted them and
gave them the biggest dose that NOR
tails ever took. He was so built that
nothing could scare him, and as fol-. Ju-
pitex and Athena, the god and the
goddess whose images 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 I'M
Der his feet. In that audience were the
erst orators Of the world, and they had
voices Like flutes when they were pass
I've and like trumpets when they were
aroused. and think they laughed in
the aeeves OF their gowns as this insig,
nifcAnt looking man rose to speak
In aSaudiehce were Scholiasts, who
knev everything. or thought they did,
and from the end Of the longest hair on
the bot of their oraniums to the end OF
ths nar bn the longest toe they were
stuffed with hypercriticism, and they
ha1.sd back with a supercilious look to
listen. Aa b 1889, I stood on that
sock where Paul stood, and a slab Of
which ! brought from Athens by con
scot Of The queen, through Mr.. Tri
soopls, the prime minister, and had
placed m yonder memorial wall, read
the whole story, Bible In hand.
GOD WHO MADE THR WORLD.
What have 30 far said in this dis
course was necessary in order that you
map understand the boldness, the de
eance, the holy reoklessness. the mag
aiacenee Of Paul's speech. The frs
thundeEbolt he launched at the oppo
6te hili-the Acropolis-that momen
~ agiitter with idols and temples. II,
cries but "God, who made the world.
Why, they thought that Prometheu
made II, that Mercury made it, tina
Apollo made II, that Poseidon mad
4, that Eros made II, that Pandrocu
made II, that Boreas made 1t, that
took all the gods Of the Parthenon
yee, all the gods and goddesse
q the Acropolis, to make 1t, an,
here stands man without any eccles
AstIcI title, neither a d. D., nor even
reverend, declaring that the world wa
made BY the Lord of heaven and earth
and hence the inference that all tn
splendid covering Of the Acropolis, s
near that the people standing on tn
steps Of the Parthenon could hear il
vas q deceit, q falsehood, sham,
blasphemy. Look at the faces of til
auditors; they are turning pale, an
then red, end then wrathful. Their
had been several earthquakes in tina
region, but that was the severest shoe
these men lad ever felt.
The Perslans had bombarded til
Aeropolis from the heights of Ma
Hill, bot this Pauline bombardmer
Sas greater and more terrific. what,
said his hearers, shave we been hau
lne with many yokes of oxen for Gel
turtles these blocks from the quarries
Mount Pentelicum, and have we ha
our architects putting up these stru
lures Of unparalleled splendor, an
have we had the greatest of all soul
ters, Phidias, with his men, chiselir
away at those wondrous pediment
and cutting away at these friezes, ar
have We taxed the nations, resources
De utmost, now 10 be told that tho
tAtnss ee nothing, hear nothing, kno
hethingt'
On, Paul, stop for moment ar
I'VE tirsss startled and overwhelmt
Alditsp time 10 >sAtch their breatl
NAAe o rhetorical pause! Take Loo
eiasnd too 1t the interesting iandscal
- sws yoa1 hearers time to recove
10. b dossnot make even a period
q mnsh - colon or semicolon, b,
hfNAes he second thonderbolt rigl
e9ee The erst apd Ia the same breat
eoas On to say. God 'dwelleth not
emp2es made with hands"
Oh, Paal! Ia not deity more In t
AxShenon, or more In the Theseum,
ebe In the Hrechthelum, or more
HE temple Of Zeus Olympus than
Sbe open air, more than on the b
ShRs Ne are sitting, more than
Mount Hymettus ont yonder, fro
which the bees get their honey1 80
nsoreT responds Paul, HE dweIle
not In temples made With hands"
But suDly the preacher on the p