The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-11-27

To them IQHEA anu pr -aa-4A--e47H
that Christ, the despised Nazarene.
would come to be their judge ana that
they would have 70 get ap out of their
ceneteriss to stand before Him and
take their eternal doom
Rightiest burst of elOcutiOuary power
ever heard The ancestors Of some OF
those Greeks had heard Dsmosthenss
in his Grafton on the crown had heard
.Eschines in his speeches against tt
Enarchus aud CtesiphOn, had heard Plato
in his great argument for Immortality
of the soul, had heard Socrates On his
death bed, suicidal cup OF hemlOci< in
hand, leave his hearers in emotion too
great to bear, had in the theater OF
Dionvsius at the foot Of the Aeropolis
tths ruins of its piled-uP amphitheater
and the marble floor Of its orchestra
still there) seen enacted the tragedies
Of H1schylus and SOphOcies, but neither
had the ancestors of the Grecians on
Mars hill, or themselves, ever heard or
witnessed such tOrnadoes Of moral
power as that with which Paul now
Whelmed his hearers
At those two thoughts OF resurrection
and judgment, the audience sprang to
their feet Some moved they adjourn
to some other day to hear more on the
same theme, but others would have
torn the sacred orator to pieces. The
record says; Some Knocked" I sup
pose it means that they mimiczed the
solemnitv of his voice, that they took
of his impassioned OSCILLATIONS and
they cried out: "Jewi Jewl Where
did you-study rhetoric? YOu ought to
hear our orators speak
AS in Athens that evening in 1889 we
elm bed down the pile Of slippery rocks,
where all this had occurred, on our
way back to our hotel. I stood half
way between the Acropolis and Mars
L ~ 49, -
tide, seemed to hear those two hills
in sublime and awful converse: 81 am
chiefly of the past" said the Acropolis
Il am chiefly of the future, " replied
Mars hill. The AcrOpolis said: MY
poets are dead. ] am a monument of
the dead past 1 shall never again
hear song sung. 1 will never again
see a column filed will never again
behold a goddess crowned. - Mars hill re-
| sponded: 81, too, have had q history. I
had on my heights warriors who will
never again unsheath the sword and
/ Judges who will never again utter a
doom, and orators who will never again
make plea But my influence is to
I be more in the future than it ever was
in the past. The words that Mission
/ airy Paul uttered that exciting day in
the hearing of the yvisest men and the
populace on my rocky shoulders have
| only begun their majestic roll The
brotherhood of man, and the Christ of
| God, and the perOratiOn of resurrection
and last judgment with which the
| Tarsian orator closed his sermon that
/ day amid the hooking crowd shall yet
/ revOlutionise the planet. Oh, AcroPO-
/ lis! I have stood here long enough
! to witness that your gods are no
/ gods at all Your Boreas could not
| control the winds Your Neptune
could not manage the sea Your
! Apollo never evoked a musical note.
! Your goddess Ceres never grew har-
/ vest Your goddess of wisd ON, Mi
nerva, never knew the Greek alphabet.
| Your Jupiter could not handle the
/ lightnings- But the God whom pro-
/ claimed on the day when Paul preached
! before the astounded assemblage on
my rough heights, is the God OF music,
/ the God of wisdom, the God of power,
the God of mercy, the God of love, the
| God of storms, the God of sunshine, the
/ God of the land and the God of the sea,
/ the God over all, blessed forever"
/ Then, the AcroPolis spake and said,
/ as though in self defense: "My Plato
| argued for the immortality of the soul
| aud my Socrates praised virtue, and
| my Miltiades at Marathon drove back
| the Persian opPressors-"
YES" said Mars hill, your Plato
| labOriOusly guessed at the Immortality
/ of the soul. but my Paul, divinely in
! spired, declared it as a fact straight
/ from God. Your Socrates praised viz
| tue but expired as a suicide. Your
| Miltiades was brave against earthly
| foes yet died from a wound ignomin-
| Ously gotten in after-defeat- But my
| Paul challenged all earth and all hell
| with this battle shout; 1--WE wrestle
| not against flesh and blood, but
| against principalities, against powers
/ against the rulers of the darkness OF
| this world, against spiritual wiolKedness
/ in high places, and on June %, in the
| year 66, on the road to Ostia, after the
| sword of the headsmau had given one
| keen stroke, took the crown Of martyr
! dom. ."
After a moments silence by both
| hills, the AcropOiis mOaned out in the
| darkness: ''Hosannahl Hosannahv'
! Then the voices of both hills became
| indistinct, ana as I passed on and
away in the twilight, I seemed to
/ hear only two sounds fragment
| of Pentelicon marble from the archi-
traves of the AcrOPOlis dropping down
/ on the ruins of a shattered idol, and
/ the other sound seemed to come from
/ the rock on Mars hill. from which we
/ had Just descended. But we were by
this time so far off that the fragments
of sentences were smaller when drop
| ping from Mars hill than were the frag-
| ments of fallen marble on the Acropo-
lis, and could only hear parts Of dis
| connected sentences waited on the
night air-''GOd Who made the world"
-''Of one blood all appoint
/ ed a day in which He viii judge the
| yvorId''-''raised Him from the dead"
As that night in Athens 1 put my
tired head on my pillow, and the e1cit-
| ing scenes of the day passed through my
mind. thought on the same subject on
/ which as boy made my commence
ment speech in NiblO's theater on
| graduation day from the New York
/ university, viz: THE Moral Effects of
Sculpture and Architecture" but fur
/ Their than could have thought in boy
hood, I thought in Athens that night
| the moral effects in architecture and
sculpture depend on what you do in
great buildings after they are put up,
| and upon the character of the men
| whose forms you cut in marble,
veal 7 thought that night what
struggles the martyrs went through "a
order that in our time the gospel might
| have full swing; and I thought that