The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-25

all stu IS q. the hill aud at tile base OIL
to herr this man, whom some called 0
fapa, ana others called a mad-cap
and uakrs blasphemer, and Others
s,vled eo,f continuously ''ths fellow
Pan srrN in answer to the writ OF
invitation and confronted them and gave
them the b,gest dose that mortali
evrr iooS Hr was so built that moth
ing c,ui1 scate him, and as for Jupiter
ar A,a !. the rod and the goddess
whose were in f,ill sivht on the
edinlnif !. he had NOT 80 much re
gard Tor Stem Ms he had for the ant
that was crawling In the sand under hii
feet In TINT audience were the first
orator, o he world. and they had
voices lutes when they were pass
i've ard .i.s trumrc,s whom they were
arous d, anl / think they laughed in
tn envjs OF their gowns as this in.
s, .apt. ,ooking man rose to speak.
in snt aud.ence were Scholiasts, who
hnew aiu1. or Thought they did,
and from IL end OF the longest hair on
the to Of their craniums to the end OF
the nail on the longest toe, they were
stuffed with hypercr. .ticism and they
leaned back with sunercilious look tc
listen. As in 1889 ! stood on the rock
where Paul stood, and slab OF which
/ brought from Athens by consent OF
the queen, through Mr.. Tricoupis, the
prime minister, and had placed In yon.
der m.morial wall, read the whole
story Bi,li in hand.
What have so far said In this dis
C IS was necessary In order that you
may understand the boldness the def
ance, the h'ly rrcklrssncss, the mag
niicence OF Pauls soecch The first
thunderbolt he launched at the opposite
hill-the Acropolis that moment all
aglitter with idols and TEMPLES He
cries out. &c d who made the world. =
Why, they thourht that Prometheus
made it, that Mercury made It, that
Apollo made II, that Poseidon made 1t,
that Eros made IT, that Pandrocus made
it, that Boreas made it. that II
took all the gods OF the Parthenon,
yea, all the gods and goidesse OF the
Acropolis TO make 1t, and here stands
man without any ecclesiastical title,
neither D. D.. nor even a reverend
declaring that the world was made oy
the Lord OF heaven and earth. and hence
the inference that all the splendid COW
ering Of the Acropolis, so near that the
people standing on the steps Of the Par
thenon could hear it, was deceit, a
falsehood, sham, blasphemy Look
at the faces OF his auditors; they are
turning pale, and then red, and then
wrathful There had been several
earthquakes in that region, but that
was the severest shock these men had
ever felt The Persians had bonn
barded the Acropolis from the
heights Of Mars Hill, but this Paul
inc bombardment was greater and more
terrific. What" said his hearers.
have we been hauling with many
yokes Of oxen for centuries these blocks
from the quarries Of Mount Pentelicum.
and have we had our architects putting
up these structures Of unparalleled
splendor, and have we had the greatest
OF all sculptora Phidias,, with his men,
chiseling away at those wondrous pedi-
menis, and cutting away at these
freizes, and have we taxed the nations
resources 70 the utmost, now TO be told
that those statues see nothing, hear
nothing, know nothing?" O. Paul, stop
for moment and give these startled and
overwhelmed auditors time TO catch
their BREATH Made rhetorical pausel
Take look around you at the Interest,"
ing landscape, and give your hearers
time to recoverl No, he does not make
even period. or SO much as colon or
semicolon, but launches the second
thunderbolt right after the first, and in
the same breath goes on TO say; God
''dwelleth not In temples made with
hands" 0, Paul! is not deity more in
the Partheuon, or more In the Theseum,
or more in the Erechtheium, or more in
the temple OF Zeus Olympus than In
the open air, more than on Mount
Hymettus out yonder, from which the
bees get their honey. mo morer' re-
spends Paul. "He dwelleth not in tenn
pies 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 In the
same breath he launches the third
thunderbolt, which, to them, is more
fiery, more terrible. more demolishing
than the others, as he cries out: hath