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lowed by defeat that the Greeks wi3ted
in marble to indicate that victoryfor
Athens had come never again to'fy
away, and hence this temple to "vic-
tory without Wings, "a temple of far
BILE, snow white and glimmering. Yon-
der behold the pedestal Of Agrippa,
feet high and twelve feet
square. But the overshadowing won
der OF all the hill is the Parthenon. In
days when money was ten times more
valuable than now, it cost "a, 600, 900.
It is Doric grandeur, having forty-six
columns, each column thirty.four feet
high and six feet two inches in dame
ter. Wondrous intercolumniations!
Painted porticos. architraves tinged
with ocher, shields of gold hung up,
lines of most delicate curve, figures OF
horses and men and women and gods,
oxen on the way to sacrifice, statues OF
the deities Dionysius, Prometheus,
Hermes, Demeter, Zeus, Hera, Boseidon;
in one frieze twelve divinities, centaurs
in battle; weaponary from Marathon;
chariot Of night; chariot of the morn
ing; horses Of. the sun, the
fates, the furies; statue Of Jupiter hold
ing in his right hand the thunderbolt;
chair in which Xerxes
watched the battle of Salanis, only a
faw miles away. Here is the colossal
statue of Minerva in full armor, eyes
of gray colored stone, figure of a
sphinx on her head, grifins by her
side (which are lions with eagles beak),
spear in one hand, statue of Liberty in
the other, a shield carved with battle
scenes, and even the slippers sculp-
tured, and tied on with thongs of gold.
Far out at sea the sailors saw this
statue of Minerva raising high above
all the temples, glittering in the sun.
Here are statues of equestrians. statue
of a lioness, and there are the graces,
and yonder horse in bronze.
Oh, the Acropolis! The most Of its
temples and statues made from the
II -rble quarries Of Mount Petroleum,
little way from the city. ! have here
on my table q block of the Pantheon
made out of this marble, and on it is
the sculpture Of Phidias I brought it
from the Acropolis. This specimen
has on it the dust Of ages and the marks
of explosion and battle, but you can get
from it some idea of the delicate luster
of the Acropolis when it was covered
with mountain of this marble cut into
all the exquisite shapes that genius
could contrive and striped with silver
and aflame with gold The Acropolis
in the morning light Of those ancients
must have shone as though II
were an aerolite cast off from
the MONDAY sun. The temples must
have looked like petrified foam; the
whole Acropolis must have seemedlike
the white breakers of the great ocean
of time --4.l
But we can not stop longer here, for
there is hill near by of more inte1est,
though it has not one chip Of mart ITO
suggest statue or Q temp}G1 w
hasten down the Acropolis to ascend
the Areogagus, or Mars Hill, 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 said in
religious discourse on Mars Hill wa.
heard distinctly by some English gen
tleman on the Acropolis.
This Mars Hill is rough pile Of rocl
fifty feet high 1t was famous long be
fore New Testament times. The Per
SLAMS easily and terribly assaulted the
Acrop oils from this hilltop Here as
sem bled the court to try criminals. 1
was held in the night time, so that thu
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 on,
of cool justice. But there was one &C
casion ON this hill memorable above al
others A little man, physically weak
and his rhetoric described by himsel
as contemplate, had by his sermon
rocked Athens with commotion, and h
was summoned either by writ of law o
by hearty invitation to come upon tn
pulpit Of rock and give specimen o
! his theology.
All the wiseacres of Athens turne
out and turned up to hear him. TIL
more venerable of them sat in an amph
theater, the granite seats of which ar
still visible, but the other peopl
swarmed on all sides of the hill and a
the base of it to hear this man, whor
some called lunatic and others Gale
a mad. cap, and others a blasphemel
and others styled contemporary "thi
fellow" Paul arrived in answer to tn
writ of invitation and confronted ther
and gave them the biggest dose tha
mortals ever took. He was so bull
that nothing could scare him, aid g
for Jupiter and Athena, the god an
goddess, whose images were in flu
sight on the adjoining hill, he ha
not SO much regard for them as he ha
for the ant that was crawling in tn
sand under his feet In that audienC
were the first orators of the world, an
they had voices like flutes when the
were passive and like trumpets whe
they were aroused, and l think the
laughed in the sleeves of their gowr
as this Notwithstanding man ro'
to speak. In that audience were S
cialists, who knew every thing, ,
thought they did, and from the end
the longest hair on the top of the
craniums to the end of the nail of ii
longest toe, they were stuffed wit
hypercriticism, and they leaned bae
with supercilious look to listen.
in 1889, / stood on that rock whe
Paul stood, and slab of which
brought from Athens by consent of Il
queen, through Mr.. Tricoupis, Il
prime minister, and had placed in 20