The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23

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temptation 70 20 in ard nlsappropriste u
treasures Be too great for him; is ceiling
minRIing Of blue and sea let and green. E
the walls sblOOm with I.ctgres utnus-
thou1ht and c0ioriDg. X1cder 3 q te-uo1
to a goddess called ~ Glory NIt11u
Wines So many Of tie trIumphs Of III
world hsd been fOllOEed : dsf=a- that ~
Greeks wished in msrhle = indicate tia
victory for Athens had come never again
70 ay away. and hence t-.- tesn1le % '-Nic
tory Without Wiugsn-a -e-nple Of marble,
suoU-xhite and giiIteriag. Wonder behold
the pedestal Of Agrippa. tEenty-ssve1 fes;
high and twelve fees square But the over
sbadowing wonder Of all the bill Is the
Parthsuon. In days when money vas tea
times more vslusbls than now It cost
four million six hundred thousand dol
lara Il IL Doric grande1-.
having forty-siK columns. each column
thirty-four feet high and SIX feet
two inches IN diamstsr. Wo1drous inter
columinationsi Painted porticos, arcai-
traves tingsd with Ochre. shields OF god
hung up, lines Of most delicate curve, 1g-
ures Of horses and men and women and
gods, oxsn on tie way % sacrifice, statues
81 the deitiss Dlonysi1s, Pr0meths1s,
Hermes. Demeter. Zsus, Hers, Pose-don; II
one friezs twelve diyInitles; centaurs IN
battle. veaponry from Marathon. charlo.
Of night: chariot Of the morning. horses q
the sun. the fetes, the furies; statue Of Jup-
iter holding 10 bis right hand The thunder
bolt. silver-footed chair IN which Asrxes
watched the battle Of Sslzmis only few
miles away. Here Is the colossal statue OF
Minerva IN full amor, eyes Of gray
colorsd ssto1e; figure Of a spaiax on her
head, grifins By her side which are lions
With eagles bsakl, spar in one hand, statue
OF Liberty IN TIE other, = shield carved with
battle scenss, and even the slippers sculpt-
ursd and Elsi on with thongs Of gold Far
out az sea the sailors saw this statue q
Minerva rising high above all tbe temples,
glittering IN the sun. Here are statues OF
equss,rlans, statue ola hoDess. end there
are the greces, and wonder horse Ia bronZe.
There Is q statue said in the time Of Angus
It's 70 have Of its own accord turned around
from east 70 west and spit blood; statues
made out Of shields conquered in battle;
statue Of Apollo, the expsller OF locusts
statue Of Anacreon. drunk and singing
statue Of OlympOdOrus. e Greek.
memorable for the fact that
be was cheerful when others were cast
down. trait worthy Of sculpture. But
UaIk on and around TIE Acr polls, and
yonder you Sc statue Ct Hygeis, and the
statue of Tbsse1s fighting the AinOta1r.
and the statue Of Herculss Staying serpe1ts
NO wonder that Petrocius said IL was easier
70 find god than g man in Athens. o, the
Acropolis. Tne most OF its temples and
statues made from the marble quarries OF
Mount Petroleum, little way from the
city. have here On my table block Of
tie Parthenon made out of this marble,
and on IL is the sculpture Of PhidiaA
brought Il from the Acrcpolis. This
specimen has on it the dust Of ages, and the
marks OF explosion and bettle. but you can
get from II some idea Of the delicate lusser
of the Acropolis when IL was covered with
q mountain Of this marble cut into all the
exquisite shapes that genius could contrive,
and STRIPED with silver and aeaue with
gold. The Acropolis in the morning light
Of thoae aneients must have shoae as
though it were al aerolits cast Of from the
monday SUD The temples must have
looked Ike pstrifed foam. The whole
Acropolis must have seemed like the white
breakers OF tbs great ocean Of time
But We cannot stop longer here, for there
Il hill near By Of more interest, though il
has not o-e chip Il marble 70 suggest a
statue or 6 temple. We hasten down the
AeropoliS 70 ascend the Areopagus, or Mars
Hill, - Il l. called Il took only about three
minutes to walk the distance, and the two
ball tops are 80 near that what said in re-
MgiOus discourse on Mars Hill was heard
distinctly by some Elglizh gentlemen on
the Acropolix. This Mara Hill IL a rough
pie Of rex fifty fest high. Il was famous
long before New Testament times. The
Persisns easily and terribly assaulted the
AcroDolis from this hill top. Here as
ssnblsd the court 10 try criminals II
was lad In the night time 50 that the
faces Of the iudzes could not be seen
nor ths faces Of the lawyers who made
the Plea, and %, instead Of trial being
one Of emotion. IL mus have been one OF
cool 1ustics. But, there was one occasion
on this bill memorable above all others. A
little man, physically weak, and his rhe-
toric described by himself as conference.-the
had by his sermons rocked Athens with
commodon, and be was summoned either
by writ OF law or hearty invitation to come
upon that pulpit Of rock and give a speci-
men Of bis theology. All the wiseacres Of
Athens turned out and turned up to hear
MIN The most venerable Of them sat in
an amphitheater. the granite seats of
which are still visible, but the other people
swarmed On all sides Of the bill and at
the bass OF It to hear this man. whom
some called q fanatic, and others called
med-cap. and others a blaspaemer. aud
others styled contemptuously this fellow .
Paul arrived in answer to the Wit or invi-
tation and confronted them and gave them
the biggest dose that mortals ever took. He
was so built that nothing could scare him.
and as for Jupiter and Athena, the god
and tie goddess, whose images were In full
sight on the adjoining hill be bad not 30
much regard fer them as be had for the
ant that was crawling ia the sand under his
feet In that audiencs were the first orators
OF the world, and they had voices like flutes
when they we're passive and like trumpets
when they were aroused and l think they
laughed in the sleeves Of their gowns as
this nsIguifcaut-looking man rise 10
speak. In that audience were
scnohasts. who knew everything
or thought they did, and from the end 81
the longest hair on the top Of their Grant
ums to the end of the nail on the longes,
toe. they were stuffed with bypercriticisu
and they leaned back with a superciliou,
look TO listen. AS in 1859, stood on that
rock where Paul stood, and a slab of which
brought from Athens by consent Of tn,
queen, though Mr.. Tricoupis. the prim.
minister. and had placed in wonder memo
rial wall, read the whole story, Bible il
hand.
What have 80 far said In this discourse
was necessary in order that you may under
stand the boldness, the defiance. the hol,
recklessness, the negnificence Of Pauli
speech. The first thunderbolt he launched
at the opposite hill-the Acropolis-thA
moment all aglitter with idols aud temnles
He cries out, God who made the world
Why, they thought that Prometheus mad
1t. that Mercury made 1t, that Apollo mad
1t, that Poseidon made it, that Eros mad,
it, that Pendrocus made it, that Boree
made IL. that 1t took all the gods of III
Parthenon, yea, all the gods and god
desses Of the Acropolis TO make it, an
here stands man without any ecclesial
tlc2l title. neither d. D. nor even