The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-11-28

81. ~ S. 49, xss!I
reocca The record says. ''Some
nockod. supposo a means that
thev mimicI<cd the solemnity OF HE
voice. that they took OF his inpa~-
stoned rost,cuIation. and they cried
out. jew. Jew! Where did you
study rhetor1c? You ought TO hear
our orators speak! You had better e.
| back 70 your business OF tent making
/ Our Lycurgus knew more In minute
! than you will know In \ month. Say.
where did you get that crooked back.
I and those weak eyes from? Ha! Ha
! You try to teach us Grecinns' What
| nonsense you talk ABOUT when YOU
speak Of resurrection and Judgment.
I Now, little old m3n. climb down tho
side OF Mars Hill and get out of sight
| ms soon as possible ''Some Knocked. :"
But that scene adjourned to the day Of
which the sacred orator had spoken
| the day of resurrection and Judgment
As in Athens that evening in 1889,
we climbed down the pile of slippery
rocks, where all this had occurred. on
/ our way back TO our hotel. | stood
halfway between the Acropolis and
Mars Hill in the gathering shadows of
eventide. seemed to hear those two
hills In sublime and awful converse
II am chiefly of the past" said the
| Acropolis II am chiefly of the flu
ture.' replied Mars Hill. The ..cro-
polls said. "My orators are dead. MY
law giyers are dead My poets are
dead. My architects are dead. My
sculptors are dead. am monument
of the dead past shall never again
hear song sung l will never again
see n column lifted. will
never again behold goddess
crowned" Mars Hill responded:
II, too, have had history. had on
my heights warriors who will never
again unsheath the sword, and Judges
who will never again utter n doom. ano
orators who will never again make a
plea But my influence is TO be more
In the future than IL ever was In the
past The words that missionary.
Paul, uttered that exciting day in the
hearing of the wisest men and the
populace on INV rocky shoulders, have
only begun their majestic roll; the
brotherhood of man. and the Christ of
| God and the peroration of resurrection
and lase Judgment with which the
Tars.an orator closed his sermon
that day amid the mocking crowd,
shall vet revolutionize the planet. Oh,
Acropolisl I have stood here long
enough To witness that your gods are
no gods mt all. Your Boreas could not
control the winds. Your Neptune
could not control the sea Your Apollo
never evoked musical note Your
god Ceres never grew harvest
Your goddess OF wisdom, Minerva,
never knew the Greek alphabet Your
Jupiter could not handle the light
nings. But the God whom ! pro-
| claimed on the day when Paul preached
( before the astonished assemblage on
my rough heights, Is the God OF music,
the God OF wisdom, the Goa 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 Acropohs
I spalSe and said as though in self-de-
\ Tense: my Plato argued for the inn
| mortality Of the soul. and my Socrates
/ praised virtue, and my Milt'ades at
4 Marathon drove back the Persian OPP
pressors. yes said Mars Hin,
''your Plato labor.ously guessed at the
immortality of the soul, but my
Paul divinely inspired, declared
it as a fact straight from God.
Your Socrates praised virtue
but expired as suicide. Your
Miltlades was brave against earthly
foes. yet died from wound ignomin-
ously gotten in after-defeat. But my
Paul challenged all earth and all hell
with this battle shout: We wrestle
not against flesh and blood, but
against princpalities. against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness OF
this world, against spiritual wicked
ness in high places, and then on the
2qth OF June in the year 81, on the
road TO Ostia. after the sword OF the
headsman had given one keen stroke,
took the crown of martyrdom.
After moments silence by both
hills, the Acropolis moaned out I'm the
darkness: "Alasl Alas" and Mars
Hill responded: "lIosannah! Hosan-
nah!" Then the voices of both hills
became indistinct. and rs | passed on
and away in the twilight, / seemed To
hear only two sounds fragment OF
Pentelicon marble from the architrave
OF the Acropolis dropping down on
the ruins of 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 dropping
from Mars Hill than were the frag-
ments of fallen marble on the Acr).
polls, and | could only hear parts OF
disconnected sentences waited on the
night air-''God who made the world
--''of one blood all nations"-"ap
pointed day in which he will ia lge
the world"--'raised him from the
dead"