The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23

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Sc. tks.- Eo1syi We more ras2o1ds Paul.
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But surely ths preacher o. the palpit Of
r rock on Lsrs 4 u vii stop 1oT- Ills audi
I eDce can endure no more. Two thunder
I bits are enough No. u tie ssDs breath
he Launches the third thun5srb7lt, which, .
them. Is more oery. more terrible. more de-
mo.sshing t1sl the o-1srs. Is be cries out:
''Hslh msis 4 one blood al usdooS-n ..
Paul, you forget yo1 ars Speaking 70 the
proudsst snd mcs: exclusive aucis7cs II the
world. Do 10. say IT ore blood" You
cannot mean that Had Socrates. ard Plato.
and Dsmosths1es. SD Sol0u, and LycurZ1s,
and Draco, sod Sopboclss. aid E1ripedes,
and lTschyIus. and Psriclss. and Phidias.
and MItisdss blood Just Ike the PersiA1s.
ike The TURKS, ike tie Egyptians. Ike the
common hard OF humanity Yes says
Paul, of one blood. al uEti0azn
Surely that must Be the closing paragraph
of the ssrmOn- dis auditors must Be let up
TIE AcrOpolls and smashed the national
pride Of the Greeks, and was. more can be
sayi Thoss Grecien orators. standing on
that place. always closed their addresses
with something sublime AID clmacteric, q
perorstiol, and Paul - going % give them
peroratiOn which Will eclipse II power and
majesty all that be has yet said Heretofore
be hss hurlei one th1nderbols AZ q time:
on he viii close by hurting two az olce.
/ The little. old man, under tie power Of his
speech, has sEraighte1ed himself up, and the
stoop bas gone out Of his shoulders, and be
1 Jocks sbo g three feet taller
thaa when he began, and his
/ eyes. which were quiet, became two
l flames OF FIRE. and mis- face, which was
calm in the introduct on, now depicts q
/ Ehiri wind % emotlon as he ties t5e two
! thuBdsrb0its tOzeshsr with 9 cord OF incon-
sumAnle courage eod whirls them a. the
/ crowd now standing or sitting sghsst-tbe
/ two thunds-boits Of resurrection and last
/ judgment His closing words were: Be
causs be hath app 5i1ted day in which he
/ viii judge the world in righteousness BY
that mau Ibon be hath ordained, whereof
be hath given Assurance 70 al mea ia that
I he hath raised him from the dead Re
/ msmber those thoughts were % them novel
l aud provocative: that Christ, the despised
Z Nszareae, would come - Be their Judge,
I and they should have to get up out Of thsir
I Q
| eternal doom. MiZnrlest burst OF elOcutlOn-
/ airy power ever heard. The ancestors Of some
Of those Greeks lad heard Demosthenes in
I bis Grafton on the Crown, had heard 4Lschi-
nes in his speeches against Timarchus and
/ Ctssiphon, had heard Plato in his great ar
| gumsot for Immortality Of the soul, had
/ heard Socrates on his death-bed, suicidal
cup Of hemlock in hand, leave his hearers
| in emotion too great % bear. had in the
theater Of Dionysius, at the foot Of the
/ AcrOpolis tthe ruins OF its piled-up amphi-
thsstsr and the marble floor Of It's orches-
| ira Sill there, seen enacted the tragedies Of
Aschylus and SOphOcles. but neither had
the ancestors Of these Grecians on Mars
hill, or themselves, ever heard or witnessed
such tornadOes Of moral power as that with
which Paul now whelmed his hearers At
those two thoughts Of Resurrection and
Judgment the audience sprang TO their
feet. Some moved they adjourn
TO some other day to hear more
on the same theme, but others would
have torn the sacred orator TO
pieces. The record says: "Some mockedn
solsmnity Of his yoics. that they took of
his impassloosd gesticulstion, and they
cried out: Jew! Jewl Where did
/ you study rhetoric You ought 70 hear
| our orators speak You had better 90 back
TO your business Of tent-making. Our
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viii know in month. Say, where did you
get that crooked back, ana those weak eyes
fromt Hal Hal You try 70 teach US
Grecians! What nonsense yOu talk about
when you speak Of resurrection and iudR-
ment. Now. little old man, climb down
the side Of Mars Hill and get out Of sight as
soon as possible 4" Some Knocked. " But
that scene adjourned 70 the day Of which
the sacred orator had spoken-the day Of
resurrection and judgment
AS in Athens, that evening in 1885, we
climbed down the pile Of slippery rocks,
where all this had occurred, on our way
back to our hotel stood between the
Acropolis and Mars Hill in the gathering
shadows Of eyentide, seemed to hear those
two hills in sublime and awful converse. II
am chiefly Of the past, " said the Acropolis
II am chiefly Of the future" replied Mars
Hill. The Acropohs said: 'My orators are
dead. Ny law-givers are dead. by poets
are dead. Ny architects are dead. NV
sculptors are dead am a monument Of
the dead past. / shall never again hear a
song sung. ! win never again ses a column
lifted. | will never again behold goddess
crowned" Mars Hill responded: al, too
have had a history. / had Ga my nights
warriors who win never again
unsheath the sword and judges who will
| never again utter doom, and orators who
viii never again make plea. But my in
nuence Is 70 De more In the future than II ever
was IN tae past. The words that missionary,
| Paul, uttered that exciting day in the hear
| ing OF the wisest men and the populace on
my rocky shoulders, have only begun their
| majestic roll; the brotherhood of man, and
the Christ Of God, and the preroration of
resurrection and last Judgment with which
the Tarsian orator closed his sermon that
day amid the hooking crowd, shall yet revo-
lutionlze the planet. o.. Acropolisl 1 have
stood here long enough to witness that your
gods are no gods at all Your Boreas could
not control the winds. Your Neptune could
not manage the sea- Your Apollo never
evoked musical note. Your God Ceres
never grew a harvest. Your goddess of
wisdom, Minerva, never knew the Greek
alphabet. Your Jupiter could not handle
the liRhtnings. But the God whom l pro-
claimed on the day when Paul preached be.
fore the astounded assemblage on my rough
nights, is the God of music. the God of Wis
dom, the God of power, the God of mercy.
the God Of love- the God of storms, the God
of sunshine, the God OF the land, and the
God OF the sea, the God over all, blessed
forever Then, the Acropolis spake and
said, as though in self-defense: my Plato
argued for the Immortality of the soul,
and my Socrates praised virtue, and my
Miltiades at Marathon drove back the
Persian oppressors." YES" said Mars
Hill. your Plato laboriously guessed at the
immortality of the soul, but my Paul, de-
, I win Trad q.