Telegram-herald., 1891-11-23


taxayis - . Sotdss called Victory
WiEkoas Ytnsxs 80 naay of the tr1-
un-1ks ~ the world had besa followed by
defeat Sh2s shs Greeks wishss. tn rAzrole %
ind.esks saAt victory for Arhsas lad come,
Esssr again - g. swsy. &ad hs1ss tbs
temple - 'svicsory Wishous wiaxs'-s
ten pls cf marble. s1ow white and glics<r-
ing. Yosder sehold the PEDESTAL Of Agrip-
"a. t~sasy seven feet high Aad twelve lest
s44l2xe-
soEuzRs OF THE PATTERSON.
Bas tie o7srsh&dowing wonder of al
the nj is the YsTshsnoa. Ia days when
money vss Tea times moro valuable than
nov IL cost tour million six hundred
thousand cellars. IL Is . Dorie grand
eur. hAsins serty-six columns. each col
uEna thlrsy-fsur feet high aud six feet
two izebss Ia diameter. Wcrdroas inter
eotanaiatioL I Painted porticos. srcni-
traxes tinged with oehsr, shields Of god
hung up, hass Of most delicate curve, ng-
urea u horse. snd msn and women and
gods, oxen on the way % sacrifice, statues
OF the defties Dionysius. Prome.heus,
Hermes. Deneter, Zeus. Hera, Poseidon;
Ia ene frieze twelve divinities; centaurs in
battle; vsaponry from Marsthon; chariot
Of night, chariot OF the morning, horsss
jupiter holding in his right hand the
rhundsrbols; silver footed chair in which
Xsrxss watched the battle OF Salamis only
few miles away.
Here is the colossal statue Of Minerva In
full armes. eyes Of gray celored stone, fg-
ure Of Sphinx on her head, grifins by
hsr side (which are lions with eagles
beak) spear in one hand, statue Of hber-
ty In tho other. shield carved with battle
scenes. and even she siippers scnlptursd
and ried on with thongs Of gold. Far out
at sea the sailors saw this statue Of Miner
va rising high above al the temples. gilt
tering In the sun. Here are statues Of
J equestrians, statue OF lionness, and thers
are tho Graces. and yonder u horse in
bronze.
There II q statue said in the time Of
| Augustus to have OF It's own accord turned
around from east 20 west and spit blood;
statues made out Of shields conquered in
battle; statue OF Apollo. the expeiler OF
| locusss; statue Of Anacreon. drunk and
singing; stssue OF ClYin po6orus a Greek,
memorable for the fact that he was cheer
| ful when others were cast down. a trait
worthy OF sculpture. But walk on and
around the Acropohs and yonder you SEQ
statue OF Hygeia, and the statue Of The
| seus fighting the Minotaur and the statu.
! OF Hercules Staying ssrpents. No wonder
that Petrorius said r. was easier TO find a
god than q man in Athens. Oh, the Acrop-
olsi The NEST OF its temples and statues
made from ths marble quarr:os Of Mount
Penselican, little way from the city.
have here on my table block Of the
! Parthenon made out OF this marble, and
on it IL the sculpture of Phfdias brought
It from the Acropolis. This specimen has
on it the dust Of ages aud the marks of
explosion and battle. bat you can get from
It some idea Of the delicate luster of the
Acropolis when II was covered with
mountain of this marble cut into all the
exquisite shapes that genius could con-
trive and striped with silver and afiame
with gold. The Acropolis IN the morning
/ light Of those ancients must have shone rs
though IL were an aerolite cast of from
the MONDAY sun. The temples must have
looked like petrifed foam. The whole
Acropolis must have seemed like the white
breakers Of the great ocean Of time.
THE AREoPAGUs, OR MARS Hill.
But we cannot stop longer here, for there
Is a hill near by of more interest, though
! 1t has not one chip of marble to suggest q
statue or q temple. We hasten down the
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Mars Hill, as it is called. 1t took only
about three minutes to walk the distance,
and the two hilltops are so near that what
/ said in religious discourse on Mars Hill
was heard distinctly by some English gen.
tlemen on the Acropolis. This Mars Hill Ia
rough pile of rock hfty feet high. 1t was
/ famous long before Nav Testament times
Tho Persisns easily and terribly assault
ed the Acropolis from this hilltop. Here
I assembled the court TO try criminals. Il
was held in the nighttime, SO that the
faces OF the judges could not be seen, nor
| the faces Of the Sleyyers who made tie
plea, and so, instead OF q trial being one of
emotion, IL must have Keen one of cool jus
( tice- But there was one occasion on this
/ bill memorable above all others.
] A little n,sa, physically weak, and his
/ rhetoric described By himself a. contemp-
I tibls, had by his sermons rocked Athens
with connection. and he was summoned
either by writ OF law or hearty invitation
10 come upon that pulpit Of rock and give
a aspecimen Of his theology. All the WISE
acres Of Athens turned out sad turned up
\ to near min. The more venerable al them
sat In an amphitheater, the granite seats
I Of which ara still visible. but the other
people swarmed on all sides Of the hill and
az the beSe Of 1t TO hear this man, whom
some called fanatic. and Sshers called
madcap, and others siasphemer, and
Others styled conHnpsuously 'this fel-
low"
Paul arrived in answer tu the writ or in
vitatiop, and confronted them and gave
them the biggest dose that mortals ever
took. He was 60 built that nothing could
scare him. and ~ for Jupiter and Atbenis,
the god and the Uoddess, whose images
were In full sight on the adjoining hill, be
had not 90 much regard for them rs he
had for the rat that was crawling In the
sand under his feet. Ia that sadience were
the tirst orators Of the world. and they had
voices like flutes when they were passive,
and like trunpets when they wers
aroused. and saink they laughed In the
sleeves OF Their gowns as this Insignificant
, looking naa rose 70 speak.
In that audience were SchoIiasts, who
knew everything. or thought they did, and
from the end Of she longest hair on the
top OK their craaiums TO the end Of the
nail on the longest toe, they were stuffed
with hypercriticisr,. aud they leaned back
with a saperciiions look 20 listen. As in
1859. I stood on that rock where Paul
stood, and a slab Of which I broaght from
Athens by consent ef the queen. through
Mr. Tricoupis. the prins minister. and had
piseed Ia vondsr Memorisl Wall, ! rcd
the whole story. Bible In hand.
rAgL's nxrIAxcR TO BzATHRvYsM
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