Telegram-herald., 1891-11-23

Fsnxo fsssrsousty Gussssc . sne imnor
tnlify q shs sosl. bat ny tsni. envtneay
inspirsd, declared it - fact sesaghs oeu
Go1 ysaz sosssso praise1 vsssoA eas
.xDsrsd q . sasssls. Year Anasdes wes
hssvs sexinss saxshiy fos& 20 died frso
vound ixuoaiDiously gpsten In aftSs De-
A. Bus my Psul esaileaesa al sAxta
nd sli asal With this ssssls shout. I'VE
vrsssls not against Assh ssd taeed. b0t
.xainss pr1aSpaits,sA. sgins pswsrA
ssniust sas rulers Of the darkness Of this
world. asxsnsx spiritual wieke6ness In high
c,.ess. and then on the 1oth a Jass. In
shs ysar "a ea shs road 70 Ossia, Aftss the
.vord Of tae Assdsman had given one keen
stroke, tosk rae CROWN Of martyrdon-"
REFLECTIONS on THE DAT.
Aftsr . moments silencs By both hilis
the Acropoiis moaned out I'm the darkness.
.Alas! Alasi' and Mars Eiii responded.
.Hosannah, HosannAhi" Then the voices
of both halls became indissipcs. and as /
pssssd on and swAy in tns twilight
seemed to hear only two Sounds frag-
msnt of Psntelicon marble fion the archi-
travs OF The Aeropolis dropping down on
the ruins Of q shattered idol. and the other
sound seemed TO come from the rock on
Mars Hill. from which we had just de-
scenaed. But We wers by this time 20 far
OF that the fszGnents Of sentences were
smaller when dropping from ASs Hill
than weru tho fragments OF falsen marble
on the Acropolis, and I eoald only hear
parts Of disconnected sentences waited on
the night sr-"God who made the world"
-sof one blood all nations" appointed
day ia which he will judge the world
s.rsised from the dead"
As that night In Athens put my tired
head on my pillow. and the exciting scenes
OF the day passed through my mind.
thought on the Same subject on which. a.
q boy, made my commensurate speech
In Nibio's thsnser on graduation day from
the New York university, viz. ''The moral
effects of sculpture ard architecture" but
further than could have thought In boy
hood, I thought In Athens that night
that the moral effects Of architecture aud
sculpture depend on what you do In greet
buildings after thsy are pat up, and upon
the character Of the men whose forms you
cut in the marble.
Veal thought that night what struggles
the martyrs went through in order that in
our tisae the Gospel might have full swing;
and thought that night what q braiay
religion It must be that could absorb a
hero like him whom we have considered
today, q man the superior of the whole
human race, the inddels but pigmies or
homanouh coEpsred with him; and
thought whas a rapsurous consideration it
Is that earoush the same grace that saved
Paul. we shall confront this great apostle,
and shall have the opportunity, amid the
faniliari>ies Of the skies, of asking him
what was the grcatest OCCASION Of sll his
lie.
He may say. "Ths shipwreek Of Melita. {"
He may say, ''Ths rio: at Ephesus." He
rlay say, my last walk out on the road to
Ostia-" But, think he will say, '.The
day stood on Mars Hill addressing the in
dignant Areopagitss. aud looking eG upon
the towering form OF Lac goddess Minerva.
and the majesty Of the Parthenon and all
the brilliant diyinisies Of the Acropelis.
That account in the Bible was true Ny
spirit was stirred within me when / saw
the city wholly given up TO idolatryr'