Telegram-herald., 1891-11-23

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told tlsaS skass ssesaes ses Rothlng. hear
nothfns, kno~ ootatngr
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tksse startled ana overs asisost suditon
sias 20 czztca their breafAi Make . rks-
scsio~i pause, Take lock areand you ~
tAs interesting lAndscaps. and give your
hearsrs tsaas 20 rseoveri No. ss does not
make even period. or % much ~ colon
or s<mieoloa. but launches the second
thuoderoolt right after the drsss and In the
saIae breath goes On 70 say, God "dwelleth
NOT IN temples made with hands" Oh,
PAUL. Is not deity more in the Parthenen.
or more In the Theseam, or more In the
krschtheiun1, or moro ia the temple Of
ZeGs Olympus than In the open air. more
than OF the hin where we are sitting, more
than on Mount Hymettns out yonder,
from which the bees get their honeys ''No
morei" responds Paul, He dweIlesh not
IN ssmpies made with hands"
Bat surely the preacher on the pulpit Of
rock on Mars HUI will stop now His au-
dience can endure no more. Two thun-
derbolts are snoagh. No, In the same
breath he launches the third thunderbo
which To them is more fiery. mere tsrrfble,
more emosishing than the others, a. he
cries out, hath made Of one blood all na-
tions." Oh, Paul, you forget yon are
speaking 10 the proudest and most exclu-
sive audience IN the world. Do not say .'ef
one blood" You cannot mean that. Had
Socrates aud Plato and Dslnost henes and
Solnn and Lycurgus and Draco and Sopho-
eles and Euripides and Rschylus and Peri
cles and Phidias aad Miltisdcs blood Just
like the Persians, like tho Turks, like this
Egyptians. like the common herd Of hu-
rlanityi YES" says Paul. "of one blood
all nations"
rua ORATORS or GREECE.
Surely that must be the closing para
graph Of the sermon. His auditors must
let up from the nervous strain. Paul has
smashed the Acropoiis and smashed tho
national pride of the Greeks. and what
more can be ssys Those Grecian orators,
standing on that place. always closed their
addresses with something sublime and oil
rnacteric-a peroration--and Paul is gong
I to give them peroration which will eclipse
In power and majesty all that he ass YET
said. Heretofore lie has hurled one tnun-
derbolt at time: new he will close by
hurting two ut once The little old man,
urtler the power OF his speech, has straight
ened himself up, 4. the stoop has gone
/ out of his shoulders, and he looks about
three feet taller than when ne began; and
his eyes, which wore quiet. became two
flames Of FIRE; and his face, which was
calm in the Introduction, now depicts .
whiriwlnd Of emotion as he ties the two
! thunderbolts togstaer with cord OF in
! consUDsble courage and hurls them at the
crowd now standing or sitting aghass-the
two thunderbolts of Resurrection and Last
Judgment His closinS words were, "Be-
Gauss he hath appointed day in the
which he will judge tho world in righteous
ness by that man whom he hath ordained,
whereof hs hath given assurance unto all
men in that he hath raised ham from the
dead"
Remember those thoughts wero to them
novel and provocative; that Christ, the
despised Naznrene, wonld come to be their
judge, and shey should have to get up out
| OF their cemeteries to stand before him and
take their eternal doom. Mightiest burst
of eiocutionsry power ever heard. The an
! cestors OF some Of those Greeks had heard
Demosthsnes in his Grafton on the Gro wn,
had heard Rschines in his speeches
against Hnarchus aud Ctesiphon, had
heard Plato in his great argument for
Immortality Of the soul, had heard Socra-
tes on his deathbed, suicidal cup of hem
lock in hand, leave MS hearers in emotion
too great TO bear; had in the theater OF
Diouysius at the foot Of the Acropolis (the
ruins OF its piled up asnphitheater aud the
marble Eoor OF Its orchestra still there)
seen enacted the tragedies OF A1schylus and
Sophocles, but neither had the ancestors
OF these Grecians on Mars Hill or them
selves ever heard or witnessed such tor
nedoes ct moral power RS that with which
Paul now whelmed his hearers. At those
two thoughts OF resurrection and judg-
mert tho audience spranx 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, s'Some mocked." Isup-
pose it means that they mimicked the
soieu,nity Of his voice; that they took OF
his impassioned Gesticulatien. and they
cried cut: "Jewi JEW! Where did you
study rhetorics You ought TO hear our
orators speaki Yea bad better 90 back to
your business Of tsntmaking. Our Lycur-
gus knew more in = minute than you will
know In month. Say, where did you get
that crooked back, and those weak eyes
fromi Hal hal You try to teach us Gro
ciausI What nonsense you talk about
when you speak Of resurrection and jadR-
meat. Now, little old man. climb down
the side OK Mars Hill and get out OF sight
as soon a. possible" 'Some Knocked" 1"
But that scene adjourned TO the day Of
which the sacred orxtor had epoken--ths
day Of resurrection and Judgment.
wEAKNyss OF THE GRyHxa
A In Athens, that evening IN 1850, We
climbed down the pile Of slippery rocks.
whers all this had occurred. on our way
back to our hotel, stood half way b.
tween the Acropel;s and Mars Hill IN the
gathering shadows OF eventide. seemed
to hear those two lalls in sublime and sw-
fuf con verse. IT am chiefly Of the pasts"
said the AcxcpoAa Il an chiefly Of the
fusurs;" replied Nass HHl The Aeropois
said; "ny orators arv dead. ~ lawRivsss
ere dead. Ny poets are dead Ny asshi-
tects are dead. My sculptors are dad ]
m, . monument OF the dead pas& shall
never again hear song sung. Win nsver
again SEQ . column lifted / Will never
again behold q goddess crowned"
Mars Hill responded: II, too, have bis
tori. had on my heights Warrior who
viii never again unsheath the sweed, and
judges who win never sgain utter . doom
and orators who will never again make .