Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-12-17
WHERE ST. PAUL STOOD
AND HURLED THE CHRISTIAN
TRUTHS AT THE CRECiANS,
Talmage Draws Comparison TIE.
tween AcrOpoIIs aud AerOp~gua
Rttis-Trutlss OF shc Latter Live,
the Id olaaries Of the Former Dead

rs If morning would never come. We
had arrived after dark in Athens,
Greece. and the night was slcepless
with expectation. and my watch slow
ly announced to me one and two and
Three and four o'clock; and at the first
ray of dawn. called our party to look
out OF the window upon that city 10
which Paul said he was u de- btor, and
to which the whole earth is ebtor for
Greek architecture, Greek sculpture,
Hreek poetry, Greek eloquence, Greek
prowess and Greek history. Tha:
morning in Athens we sauntered forth
ARMED with most generous and lovely
letters from the President OF the
United States, and his Secretary Of
State, and during all of our stay in
that city those letters caused every
door and every gate and every temple
and every palace to swing open before
us We pass through where stood the
Agora, the ancient market.placc. the
locality where philosophers used to
meet their disciples, walking while
they talked. and where Paul the Chris
tan logician flung many proud Stole,
and got the laugh on many an imperti.
our chief visits of to. dav we must take
. turn at the Stadium. 1t is a little
way out, but go we must The Stadium
was the place where the foot races
occurred.
We come now to the Acropolis IT
is rock about two miles in clrcumfer-
ence at the base and 1000 feet in
circumference at the top, and 800 feet
high. On it has been crowded more
elaborate architecture and sculpture
than in any other place under the
whole heavens Originally fortress,
afterward congregation of temples
and statues and pillars, their ruins an
enchantment from which no observer
ever breaks away. No wonder that
Aristides thought it the center of all
things-Grcece the center of the
world: Attica the center of Greece:
Athens, the center of Attica, and the
Acropolis tho center Of Athens.
Earthquakes have shaken it; Verres
plurdered it
The Turks turned tho building into
q powder magazine where the Vene.
tian guns dropped q fire that by explo.
sion sent the columns flying in the air
and falling cracked and splintercd.
But after all that time and storm and
war and iconoclasm have effected, the
Acropolis is the monarch Of all ruins,
and before it bow the learning. the
genius. the poetry, the art, the history
of the ages saw 1t IS it was thou
sands Of years ago.
!! Yonder behold the pedestal oil
Agr,ppa, twenty-seven feet high and
twelve feet square. But the over
J shadowing wonder of all the hill i.
the Parthenon In days when money
| was ten times more valua BILE than now
/ it cost ~, 600, 600. 1t is Doric grand
eur, having forty-seven columns, eacl
column thirty-four feet high and sis
, feet two inches in diameter. Wondrou,
DETERMINATIONS! Painted porticos
. architraves tinged with ochre, shield.
Of gold hung up, lines OF mos
delicate curve, figures of horse.
and men and women and gods
oxen on the wav to sacrifice
l statues of the deities Dionysius, Prone
! theus, Hermes, Demeter. Zcus. Ilera
Poseidon; in one frieze twelve divini
ties; centaurs in battle; weaponry from
Marathon; chariot OF night; chariot o
, the morning: horses of the sun, TIL
fates, the furies; statue Of Jupiter hold
ing in his right hand the thundcrbolt
; silver footed chair in which Xerxe
1 watched the battle of Salamis ONLY
n few miles away. Here is the colossa
statue OF Minerva in full armor. eyes o
gray-colored stone; figure of a Sphinx
Q on her head. griftins by her side (whic
{ are lions with eagles beak). spear il
ono hand, statue OF Liberty in tn
other, . shield carved with bal
: tie scenes, and even the shipper
a sculpturcd, and tied on wit
thongs OF gold. Far ont at sea tn
sailors saw the statue of Minerva ris
Ing high above all the temples, glitter
ing in the sun. Hero are statues O
: equcstrians. statue OF lioness, an,
there are the Graces, and yonder
horse in bronze There is statu
said in the time of Augustus to hav
r OF its own accord turned aroun,
from east to west and spit blood
statues made out of shields conqucre,
in battle: statue OF Apollo. the ex
r peller OF locusts: statue of Anacreon
/. drunk and singing; statue Of OLYMPIC
(. dorus, Greek, memorable 70
the fact that he was Cheerful
when others were cast down.
trait worthy of sculpture. Blu
walk on and around the Acropolis AM
yonder you sec statue of Hygeia
! and the statue OF Thescus fighting tn
a Minotaur and the statue OF Hercule
l SNA RSANc. ANO WouuCT Jud
petroniua said that it was easier L
4 find u god than a nan in Athens. oh
r the Acropolis. The most of ITS cmplc
and statues made from the marb
. quarries OF Mount Pestelicum, a littl
a way from the city. have here o,
a my table u blo.k OF the Parthcno,
made out of this marble, and on it i
= the sculpture of Phidiax | brough
1t from the Acropol;s This speci
men has on it the dust OF ages, an,
, the marks OF explosion and battle, bu
= you can get from it some idea o
the delicate lustre Of the Acropoli
r when 1t was covered with q mountain
> Of this marble cut into oil the exquis
lite shar es that genius could ccntriv
and striped with silver. and ATTAIN,
, with gold. The Acropolis in the morn
r ing light of those ancients must hav,
!. shown AS though it were an aerolit
cast of from the MONDAY sun. TIL
. temples must have looked like rctrifie
foam. The whole Acropolis must hav
= seemed like the white breakers of til
great ocean OF time.
We next hasten down the Acropoli
i to ascend the Are opagus. or Mars Hill
1 n ~ is Had