The Red Cloud chief., 1891-12-04


!a.es the furie.. statue % Jupiter hold
ing In his right hand the ,hsndereols
silver footed chair tn which Nerxs,
watched the hattie If salarnis only {
few miles AWAY. Herr i, the colo~ka
statue Of Minerva in full a-nor. eve,
Of grey colorei stone. Hgur- Of q
sphinx. on her head. gr.e5as on her ssds
which Are lions with eagles bcaki
spear in one hand. statue q: hbsriy IA
the other. a.hicid carved with hattie
scenes. and eve the slippers sculp;ered
and tied On with thongs Of gold Far
out NJ sea the sailors Jaw this statae Of
Minerva rising high Above all the tom
pies. g%!it,erins in the sun Hcrc arc
statues o! equc.,rianS, A,atsc OF .
lioness. and there Are the grace. and
yonder q hor>c in bronze
There Is = statue sshd IN the time %,
Augustus ~ havo % it, own Aecord
turned around from cast - west ani
spit blood. statues mai, on; os shield,
conquered In battle. statue % Apollo.
the exp~ller OF locust>. statue o. Ana
creon drunk and singing. statue o!
olympodoruS n Greek. memorable .ur
the fact that he WAS Cheerful! when
others were cast down. n ua!I worthy
Of sculpture But walk on and around
the AcrUpoliA aad yondcr you see a
statue u HySeia and the statue CO;
Thcseus hghting the M!notaur aad the
statue of Iiercules staying scrpcntS-
No wonder that rretonius sad 10 WAS
easier 10 find n god than n man IN
AtheuA q. the Acrupols' The most ~
It's temples and statues made from The
marble quarric, Of Mount I'rn,clicutn. .
little way from the city. The AcrOpu-
lis in the morning ligh, 81 those an
clients must have shonc n though IL
were an Aeroiite cast OF from the
noonday sun. The temples must have
looked like petr!hcd foam The whole
Acropoln must have seemed like the
white breakers on the great ocean OF
tia.e.
But We cannot stop longer here. for
there n o hill near 10y OF more interest
though u has not II chip Of marble -
q status or : tempe We
hasten dowa the A~eropoIis - ascend
the AreopaxaA or Mars hill. a. Il i
called. II took only about three min
uscs TO walk the distance. and the two
hill tops are so usar that what I said
in religious discourse on Mars hill was
heard distinctly by some English gen
on the AcropolN
This Mara hill Is . rough pile OF rock
ffty feet high II was famous long
before New Testament tines The
easily and terribly assaulted
the Acropolis from this hill top Here
assembled the court To try crilaipa!A
II was held In the night time 70 tina,
the faces Of the judges could noe b.
seen, nor tho faces o! the lawyers WIN
made the plea, and so. instead of trial
being one Of emotion. IL mus, have been
one OF cool justice. But there was one
occasion on this hill memorable abov~
all Others. A little man. physicsiiy
and his rhetoric described by
h,mscli- as contemplate. hsI by his
rocked Athens With commo-
ton, and he was sumwo nsd either by
writ Of law or teartv invitation Ia come
upon that pulpit OF rock and give n
specimen Of lis theology All the
81: Athens turned out aud
rp u hear him. The more
vcnereo ole OF them sat In IN amphi.
the granite seats ~ which
ere still visible. bu. ether
swarmed ON all sid~s OF
the hill and Mt the base Of IL 10
near this man. whom some called
a fanatic, and others called n maicap.
and others n blasphcmcr. and others
contemporary this fellow.
Paul arrived in nswcr IN the writ ar
and confronted them and
rave them the biggest dose that NOR
tails ever took. What ! have 10 far sail
this discourse was ncccs>ary in order
that you may understand the boldnesN
the defiance. the holy reck'cssnrsH. tho
maguificence Of raul's speech The
first ihunderbolt lac launched at tho
opposite hili-ths Acropolis-that mo-
all aglittcr with Ills and temples.
lie cries out God who made the
Why they thought tina;
made IL Ina, Mercury
made IL, that Apllo made H. tina;
Poseidon made IL that Frs made u,
that Paudrocus made IL that lIoreas
made IL that i, took all the gOds Of the
yea all the gods and god
iesses Of the Acropolis TO make H. an!
here stands a man without any c~cclesi.
title, declaring ;ha, the world
made 10y the Lord Of Heaven and
and hence the inference that all
the splendid covering - the AcropolsN
40 near that the people standing on the
Of the Parthenon could hear IL
a deceit a falSehooi. \ sham. n
blastphcmy. Look Mt the fac 81 his
auditors; they &C turning pale. and
then red. and then wra,hfuL There
had been several earthquakes ia tina,
but that was the serercst shocA
men had ever felt
On, Paul. stop for a moment and give
these startled and overwhelmed audi
tors time To catch their breath Make
a rhetorical pause! Take sloOk around
you at the interesting landscape, and
give your hearers time 20 recover No.
he does not make even q period. or 81
much as q colon or S~emtcOl0n, ed;
launches a second thund.rblit right
the frst, and Ia the same breath
yoes on IN say: Col ''dwelleih Dot In
,e mples made with hands" Oh Pau
l. not Deity more IN the PAr;asnou. or
more in the Erech;hesgm. OF more Ia
the temple Of Zsus Olympus than IN
the open air. more than on the htli
where we are sitting. more than OF
Hyme,tas cot yOndsr. from
the bees get their hoary No
responds Paul. He dvelleth
no. in temples made with hands
IIu, surely the preacher on tho Palpti
o. rock on Mars hill will stop nov Ht'
audieuc. can endure no more TSo
,hundcrboius are enough No. IN .
breath he launches tho thirS
.~hundcrbolt which 20 them - more
hery, more terrible. mor- dsnoilshing
the others "A he cries 0at Hath
Of one blood AL nations %
Paal! you forget tha; yoa arc speaking
10 the yroud~s, sst mort e~u~!ussv~
audience 40 the word ID N; ear ut
one blood Yos ca7 not n~An 'aai
Hal Socrates and Pluto ard r<Dos
and Soon. and LToargss and
Draoo. ard sophocl-s. and Eaups5>s
.od ~~hxIns n7a PsrrAra ard