The Forrest City times., 1891-11-27
WHERE ST. PAUL STOOD
AND HURLED THE CHRISTIAN
 TRUTHS AT THE CRECIANS.
Ta1mage Draws . Comparison Be-
 tween Acropolis and Aeropagus Bius-Truths of the Latter Live, Che ldolatrIes or the Former Dead.

BROOKLYN, N. Y., Nov. 2o.-It seemed
 as if morning would never come. w, ! had arrived after dark in Athens
 Greece, and the night was sleeples. | with expectation, and my watch slow | ly announced to me one aud two anC
 three and four o'clock; and at the first ray of dawn, I called our party to look out of the window upon that city te
 which Paul said he was debtor, and
 to which the whole earth is debtor for Greek architecture, Greek sculpture
 Greek poetry, Creek eloquence, Greek prowess and Greek history. Tha; morning in Athens we sauntered forth armed with most generous and lovely letters from the President of the | United States. and his Secretary of State, and during all of our stay in that city those letters caused every door and every gate and every temple and every palace 10 swing open before us We pass through where stood the Agora. the ancient marketplace, the locality where philosophers used to meet their disciples, walking while they talked, and where Paul the Chris. tian logician flung many proud Stolc, and got the laugh on many an imperti- | nent Epicureap But before we make our chief visits of today we must take | turn at the Stadium. It is little way out, but go we must. The Stadium was the place where the foot-racea occurred
 We come now to the Acropolis. It is a rock about two miles in circumfer- ence at the base and 1000 feet in circumference at the top, and 300 feet high. On it has been crowded more elaborate architecture and sculpture than in any other place under the whole heavens Originally fortress, | afterward congregation of temples and statues and pillars. their ruins an cnchantment from which no observer ever breaks away. No wonder that Aristidcs thought it the center of all things-Creece the center of the world: Attica the center of Greece: Athens, the center of Attica, and the Acropolis the center of Athens. Earthquakes have shaken it; Verres plundered 1t
 The Turks turned the building into powder magazine where the Vene- tian guns dropped fire that by explo- sion sent the columns flying in the air and falling cracked and splintered. But after all that time and storm and war and iconoclasm have effected, the Acropoiis is the monarch of all ruins, and before 1t bow the learning, the genius, the poetry, the art, the history of the ages l saw 1t as 1t was thou sands of years ago.
 Wonder behold the pedestal of Agrlppa, twenty-seven feet high and twelve feet square. But the over shadowing wonder of all the hill is the Parthenon. In days when money was ten times more valuable than now, 1t cost Si, COOL ,000. It is Doric grand eur, having forty-seven columns, each column thirty-four feet high and six feet two inches in diameter. Wondrous intercolumniations. Painted porticos, architraves tinged with ochre, 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, Prone theus, Hermes, Demeter. Zeus. Hera, Poseidon; in one frieze twelve divini- ties; centaurs in battle: weaponry from Marathon; chariot of night: chariot of the morning: horses of the sun, the fates, the furies: statue of Jupiter hold
  silver footed chair in which Xerxes watched the battle of Salamis only a few miles away. Here is the colossal statue of Minerva in full armor. eyes of gray-colored stone; figure of Sphinx, on her head, grittins by her side (which are lions with eagles beak), spear iu one hand, statue of Liberty in the other, a shield carved with bat tie scenes, and even the slippers sculptured. and tied on with thongs of gold Far out at sea the sailors saw the statue of Minerva ris- ing high above all the temples, glitter ing in the sun. Here are statues of equestrians, statue of a lioness, and there are the Graces, and wonder horse in bronze. There is a statue said in the time of Augustus to have of its own accord turned around from east to west and spit blood statues made out of shields conquered in battle; statue of Apollo, the ex- peller of locusts; statue of Anscreon, drunk and singing; statue of Olympo- dorus, a Creek, memorable for the fact that he was cheerful when others were cast down, trait worthy of sculpture. But walk on and around the Acropolis and wonder you see a statue of Hygeia, and the statue of Theseus fighting the Minotaur and the statue of Hercules staying serpents. No wonder that Petronius said that it was easier to find god than a man in Athens. Oh, the Acropolis. The most of its temples and statues made from the marble quarries of Mount Pestelicum, a little way from the city. have here on my table a block of the Parthenon made out of thls marble, and on it is the sculpture of Phidias 1 brought 1t from the Acropolis Thls speei- men has on it the dust of ages, and the marks of explosion and battle, but you can get from 1t some idea of the delicate lustre of the Acropolis when it was covered with mountain of this marble cut into all the exquis- ite shapes that genius could contrive and striped with silver, and afiame with gold. The Acropolis in the mora ing light of those ancients must have shown as though it were an aerolite cast off from the monday sun. The temples must have looked like petrified foam The whole Acropolis must have seemed like the white breakers of the great ocean of time.
 We next hasten down the Acropolis to ascend the Are opagus, or Mars lilll, as it is called. It took only about three minutes to walk the distance. and the two hill tops are so near that what said in religious discourse on Mars Hill was heard distinctly by some English gentlemen on the Acropolis. This Mars Hill is a rough pile of rock fifty feet high. It was famous long before New Testame at