The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-12-01

Met TO Hear or Tell some New THING
st. Paul on Mars H3Ii---A City who'll,
Given TO IdoIatry.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 22.-The congrega
tioD at the Tabernacle, led by cornel
an organ, sang this morning NTH grea
power The hymn OF Isaac Watts, begin
: ming:
Our God, our help in ages past,
Onr hope for years to come.
The sermon, which was on the Aero.
polls, is tho sixth OF tue series DIR, Tai
mage is preaching on the subjects sug
Z gested by his tour in Bible lands. His
text was taken from Acts xvii, I6
/ ,sWhile Paul waited for them at Athens
his spirit was stirred In him, when he
saw the city wholly given to idolatry.'
u seemed as II morning would never
come. We had arrived after dark in
Athens, Greece, and the night was sleep.
less With expectation, and my watch
slowly ANNOUNCED to mo one and two
and three and four o'clock; and at the
hrsIray OF dawn / called our party to
: look out OF the windowaupon that city
TO WINCH pa1l said he was debtor, and
TO WHICH Tho whole earth Is debtor ior
Greek architecture, Greek sculpture,
Greek poetry. Greek eloquen 20, Greek
prowess and Greek history.
Ihat morning in Athens we sauntcred
torth armed with most generous and
lovely letters from the president OF the
United States and his secretary of state,
ana duringal our stay in that city those
letters caused every door and every gate
and every temple and every palace to
swing open before .us, eF!Ts mishtiost
geographical name on 3aafth todpS Is
America. ~ -
But this morning we pase Though
where stood tDe Aeora, tho s(cient
market place, the Slncality whss i,lhi,t--
sol 9ers used to maestheir disciples.
walking while theyialked, anSwhere
Paul, the Chris tianSo sic,an. flung many
a proud Slo'c and9 The laugh on many.
an inpertinent Eisurean. The mar, ct
place was the G'ster ofsoclai aud politi-
Cal lite, and it tie place where peo.
pie went TO Tan Sal2&N,ear the news.
The maiat place 8a,s a spa :e three
hupdre9md fifty yaras lon9 and two
hnndrs and fifty wide, aud il was given
nps%a gossip, a,6d merchandise. and
bloIsing and /phileso phizlng. Ali this
j yyt..1 ne lt.SS IS know i'm order to understand
5the BlSye when it says ,fPaui, ",rhere-
3ore disputed he in the market daily with
them that met pim." You see 1t was
athe best place t8get an audience, and if
, q nan feels himself called to preach he
wants people to preach to. But before
we make our chief visits Of today we
must take turn at the Stadium. 1t is
little way our, but 90 we must. The
Stadium was the place where the foot
races occurred. III
Paul had been out there no doubt, for
he frequently uses the scenes of That
place as figures when hettells us, .siet
us run the race that is set before us,
and again. ''IheY do it tosobtain acor-
ruptib!e garland, but we an inc orrupti.
!ble," Tie marble and the gliding have
been removed, but the high mounds
against W ch the seats were piled are
still there. TIE Stadium is six hundrei
and eighty feet long, one hundred aud
thirty feet wide, and held forty thousand
spectators. There is today the very
tt r.el through which the defeated racer
departed f ON the Stadium and from the
Kisses of the people, and there are the
stairs up which the victor went, to the
top OF the hill TO be crowned with the
LAUREL.
In this place contests with wild beasts
sometimes toos place, sard while Had
rian, lie empe5o sat oa yonder height
one thousand beasts where slain in one
ceiebral l2.n,. But i was chiefly for foot
racing, arfsgs6 L proposed to my:friend
that day while we were in the Stadium
that We Try which of US could run the
sooner frOm end TO end of ftbis historical
ground, and so at The word given by the
lockers on we started side by side hut
before got through l. found out what
PAM meant when he compares the
spiritual'race with the race in this very
Stadium, as he says. stay aside every
weight" My heavy oYercoat aud my
friends freedom from suchlncumbrance
showed the advantage in any kind of a
race OF Laying aside every weight,
We come nov TO the Acropolls; 1t
is rock about two miles in circumfer-
ence at the base and a thousand feet in
circumference at the top and three hun.
dred feet hish. On 1t has been crowded
more elaborate architecture and sculp-
tufe than in any other place under tie
whole heavens. Originally q fortress,
aftcrward a congregation of temples and
statues and pillars. their ruins an en-
chantment from which no observer eve.
breaks away. No,wonder that Arlstides
thought it the center of all things-
Greece. the ceoter of the world, Attica,
the center OF Greece; Athens. the center
OF &ttica, and The Acropolis, the center
OF Athens. Earthquakes have shaken
1t, Verres plupdered iE.
Lord Elgin, the EDglish ambassador
at Constantinople, got permission of the
sultan to remove from the Acropols fall
len pieces ofthe building, but he took
from The building to England the fines,
ststues, removing themat an expense oil
eight hundced thousand dollars. a storm
over threw many Of the statues ofthe
Acropolis. MorosIni, The general, at.
tempted to remove from pediment the
scuiptured car and horses Of Victory
but tho clumsy machinery dropped il
and all was lost.
Butthe overshadouing wonder of all
dyinities; cer.laurs in battle; weaponry
from Marathon; chariot OF night; char.oI
oil the morning; horses Of the sun, The
fates, the furies; statue Of fJupiter holding
in his right hand the thunderbolt; silyel
foQted chair In which Xerxes watched
tho battle of Sa'amis only few miles
away.
Here is the colossal statue of Minerys
In full armor, eyes,of gray colored stone
figure of Sphinx on her head, grifIins
by her side (which are lions with eaole,,