Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-12-10
See its five ornamented gates, the keys

misappropriate the treasures be too
great for him; its ceiling mingling OF
blue and scarlet and green, and the
walls abloom with pictures utmost in
thought and coloring. Yonder is
temple to goddess called "Victory
Without wings" So many Of the tri-
umphs CT the world had been followed
by defeat that the Greeks wished in
marble to indicate chat victory for
| Athens had come never again to
fly away, and hence this temple to
Victory Without Wings, "a temple
| Of marble, snow-white and gilt
tering. Wonder beyond the pedestal
Of Agrippa, 81 feet high and - feet
square. But, the everlasting wonder
| OF all the hill is the Parthenon. In
| days when money was ten times more
| valuable than now, it cost S4,6OO,OOO.
1t is a Doric grandeur, having 46 col
umns, each column 81 feet high and 6
feet inches in diameter. Wondrous
intercolumniations! Painted porticos,
architraves tinged with ochre, shields
OF gold hung up, lines OF most delicate
| curves, figures OF horses and men ind
women and gods, oxen on the way to
| sacrifice, statues OF the deities Diony-
sius, Prometheus, Hermes, Demeter,
Zeus, Hera, Proseidon;ln one frieze ~
| dlvlnltles; centaursin battle; weaponry
| from Marathon; chariot of night;
| chariot OF the morning; horses OF the
sun, the fstes, the furies; statue OF
Jupiter holding in his right hand the
thunderbolt; silver-tooted chair in
which Xerxes watched the battle of
Salamis only a few miles away
What have SO far said in this dis
course was necessary in order that
you may understand the boldness, the
defiance,
THE HOLY RECKLESSNESS,
the lnagnifcence of Paul's speech.
The first thunderbolt he launched at
the opposite hill-the Acropolis-t
moment all aglitter with idols and
temples. He cries out, 'God who
made the world" Why, they thought
that Aromethius made it, that Mer-
curry made it, that Apollo made it,
that Poseidon made it, that Eros
made it, that Pandrocus made it,
that Boreas made it, that it took all
the gods OF the Parthenon, yea, all
the gods and goldesses OF the Aero
polls to make it, and here stands a
man without any ecclesiastical title,
neither a D. d., nor even I, reverend,
declaring that the world was made
by the Lord of Heaven and earth, and
hence the inference that all the splen-
did covering of the Acropolis, so near
that the people standing on the steps
OF the Parthenon could hear it, was q
deceit, faisehood, a sham, q BIAS
| phemy. Look at the faces OF his au-
ditors; 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
Persians had bombarded the Ac-
ropolis from the heights of
Mars Hill, but this Pauline lombard
ment was greater and more terrific.
Oh, Paul stopped for moment and
give these startled and overwhelmed
auditors time to catch their breath!
Make q rhetorical pause! Take look
al ound you at the interesting land
scape, and give your hearers time to
recover! No, he does not make even
a period, or SO much rs q colon or
semicolon, but launches the second
thunderbolt 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
more in the Parthenon, or more in
the Theseum, or more in the E1ech-
Zeus Olympus than in the open air,
more than on the hill where we are
sitting, more than on Mt. Hymettus
out yonder, from which the bees get
their honey. NO more!" responds
Paul. "He dwelleth not in temples
made with hands,"
But surely the preacher on the pull
pit OF rock on Mars Hill, will stop
now. His audience
CAN ENDURE NO MORE.
Two thunderbolts are enough. No,
in the same breath he launches the
third thunderbolt, which, to them, is
more fiery, more terrible more de-
molishing than the others, as he cries
ont "hath made of one blood all ma
tiCns." Oh, Paul! you forgot you are
speaking to the proudest and most
exclusive audience in the world. Do
not say ''of one blood" You cannot
mean that. Had Socrates, and Plato,
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Lycurgus, and Draco, and Sophocles,
and Euripedes, and Eschylus, and
Pericles, and Phidias, and Miitiades
blood just like the Persians, like the
Turks, like the Egyptians, like the
common herd OF humanity" Yes"
says Paul, "of one blood, all nations"
Surely that must be the closing
paragraph OF the sermon. His audi
tors must be let up from the nervous
strain. Paul has smashed the Aero
polls and smashed the national pride
of the Greeks, and what more can he
say? Those Grecian orators, stand
ing on that place, always closed their
addresses with something sublime and
climacteric, peroration, and Paul is
going to give them a pei grafton which
will eclispe in power and majesty all
that he has yet said. Heretofore he
has hurled one thunderbolt at a time;
now, he will close by hurting two at