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

his EAtf1sE 4aL1l4- -rlE L--l-As1- -
I silver footed chair in which AerNes
/ watched the battle OF Salamis only q
/ few miies away. Here l. the colossal
I statue OF Minerva in full armor, eyes
/ OF grey eolOred stone; figure Of q
| sphinx, On her head gEifins on her side
4 (which are lions with eagles 5eal<l,
/ spear in one hand, statue of liberty in
| abe other, a shield carved with battle
| scenes, and even the slippers scuiPtered
| and tied on with thongs Of gold Far
| out at sea the sailors saw this statue of
/ Minerva rising high shove ali the tenn
| pies, glittsring IN the sun Here are
/ statues of equestriana, statue OF 2
lioness, and there are the graces, and
| yonder q horse IN bronze.
] There is a statue said IN the time of
Augustus to have of its own accord
| turned around from east to west and
/ spit blood; statues made out OF shields
/ conquered in battle; statue of Apollo,
the expelier Of iOcusts; statue of Ana
creon, drunk and singing; statue of
1 OiympOdorus, Greek memorable for
/ the fact that he was cheerful when
others were cast down, a trait worthy
| of sculpture But, walk on and around
the AcrOpoiis, and yOnder you see a
! statue of Hygeias and the statue OF
/ Theseus fightin the Minotaur and the
statue of Hercules staying serpents.
No wonder that Pretonius said it was
| easier to find a god than a man in
/ Athens o, the AcrOpolisl The most of
its temples and statues made from the
marble quarriss of Mount Pentelicum,
/ little way from the city. The Acropo-
/ lis in the morning light Of those an
clients must have shone as though it
| were an asrOlits cast of from the
| MONDAY sun The temples must have
looked like Petri6ed foam. The whole
| Acropolis must have seemed like the
white breakers on the great ocean of
time.
But we cannot stop longer here, for
there is hill near by of more interest,
though it has not one chip of marble to
/ suggest a statue or q temple. We
hasten down the Acropolis to ascend
| the AreoPagus, or Mars hil., as it is
called. It took only about three min
utes to walk the distance, and the two
hill tops are SO near that what I said
in religious discourse on Mars hill was
| heard distinctly by some English gem
tlemen on the AcropoliA
This Mars hill is a rough pile of rock
fifty feet high It was famous long
before New Testament times. The
PersiRns easily and terribly assaulted
the AcrOpolis from this hill top. Here
assembled the court to try criminals
1t was held in the night time so that
the faces of the judges could not be
seen, nor the faces OF the lawyers who
made the plea, and So instead of trial
being one of emotion, it must have been
one of cool justice. But there was one
occasion on this hill memorable above
all others. a little man, physically
weak, and his rhetoric described by
himself as contemplate, had by his
sermons rocked Athens with cOmmo-
ton, and he was summoned either by
writ of law or hearty invitation to come
upon that pulpit of rock and give a
| specimen of his theology. All the
wiseacres of Athens turned out and
turned up to hear him. The more
venerable of them sat in an amphi-
theater, the granite seats of which
| are still visible, but the other
people swarmed on all sides OF
the hill and at the base OF it to
hear this man, whom some called
a fanatic, and others called a madcap,
and others a blasphemer and others
| styled contemptuOusly this fellow, "
Paul arrived in answer to the writ or
invitation and confronted them and
gave them the biggest dose that NOR
tails ever took. What have so far said
in this discourse was necessary in order
that you may understand the bOldness,
the defiance, the holy EeclSlessness, the
magnihcence OF PauPs speech The
first thunderbolt he launched at the
| opposite hill-the Acropolis-that mo-
ment all aglitter with id 1ls and temples.
| He cries out God who made the
world" Why they thought that
PrOmetheUs made it, that Mercury
made it. that Apllo 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 god
desses of the AcrOpOIis to make it, and
here stands a man without any ecclesi-
astical title, declaring that the world
was made by the Lord Of Heaven and
earth, and hence the inference that all
the splendid covering of the Acropolis,
| SO near that the people standing the
steps OF the ParthenOn could hear it.
was a deceit a falsehood, a sham, a
| blGstphemy. Look at the faces of his
auditors; they a's turning pale, and
then red, and then yvrathful. There
| had been several earthquakes in that
regioni but that was the severest shock
these men had ever felt
oh, Paul, stop for a moment and give
these startled and overwhelmed audi
tors time to catch their BREATH Make
j | g rhetorical pausel Take look around
you at the interesting landscape, and
give your hearers time to recoverI No.
he does not make even a period, or so
much as a colon or semi-eolon, but
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 Erechthetum, or more in
the temple OF Zeus Olympus than in
the open air, more than on the hill
| where we are sitting, more than on
| Mount Hymettus out yonder, from
which the bees get their honey. mo
morep' responds Paul, HE dwelleth
not in temples made with hands"
But surely the preacher on the pulpit
Of rock on Mars hill will stop now. His
audience can endure no more. Two
thunderbolts are enough, No, ia the
same breath he launches the third
tlunderbOlt, which to them is more
fiery, more terrible, more demclishing
t than the others, as he cries out: Hath
made OF one blood ali nations" o,
; PAUL. you forget that you are speaking
! | TO the proudest and most exclusive
. audience in she world Do not say ''of
p one blood" You can not mean that
s'HSd Socrates. and Pluto, and Demos
= tbsnese, and Scion, and Lycurgus, and
, DFaco, and S0phocies, and Euripedes,