The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-11-27
THE AGROP0LEs.
% Tstnasse Describes his visls 70
Athena.
VIE Great Market Place and tIis AorOpoIIl
Dsseribed-The Sensation Paul Created
on sIAEs aiH-LesBons Drawn From
the History OF Athsns.

II Nun EEEC4 ne ae-sf Tic ely FEAAEAAr
given up to idoIatry." DE-. Tsimage
saldk
It seemed as if morning would never
come. We had arrived after dark in
Athens, Greece, and the night was
sleepless with expectation, and at the
FIRST ray of dawn, I called 20 our party
10 look out of the window upon that
city 10 which Paul said he was debtor,
and TO which the whole earth is de btor
for Greek architecture, Greek sculpture,
Greek poetry, Greek eloquence. Greek
proves and Greek history. That morn
ing in Athens we saunSered forth
armed with most generous and lovely
letters from the president Of the United
States and his secretary Of state, and
during all our stay In that city those
letters caused every door and every
gate and every temple and every palace
to swing open before us The might
lest geographical name on earth to-day
Is America The signature of an Amer
lean president and secretary Of state
will take a man where an army could
not Those names brought US into the
presence of Il most gracious and beauti-
iul sovereign, the queen of Greece, and
her cordially was more like that of
sister than the occupant of a throne
room.
But this morning we pass through
where stood the Agora, the ancient
market place, the locality where phil
osophers used to meet their disciples,
walking while they talked, and where
Paul the Christian logician, flung
many n proud Stole, and got the laugh
on many an imPertinept epicurean-
The market place was the center of
social and political life, and it was the
place where people went TO tell and
hear the news. Booths and bazars
were set up for merchandise of all
kinds, except meat, but everything
must be sold for cash, and there must
be no lying about the value of com
modities, and the Agoranomi who
ruled the place could infiiet severe
punishment upon offenders The diff
ferent schools of thinkers had distinct
places set apart for convccation. The
market place was a space $50 yards
long and $50 wide, and it was given up
TO gossip and merchandise and Ioung-
ing and philosophizing. All this you
need to know in order to understand
the Bible whom it says OF Paul, There
fore disputed he IN the market daily
with them who met him" You see it
was the best place to get IA audience.
and if a man feels himself called to
preach he wants people to preach to.
The marble and gliding have been re-
moved, but the high mounds against
which the seats were piled are still
there. The Stadium is $50 feet long,
1870 feet wide and held 40, 600 spectators.
There Ais to-day the very tunnel
through which the defeated racer de-
parted from the Stadium and from the
Kisses of the people, and there are the
stairs up which the victor went to the
top of the hill to be crowned with the
laurel In this place contests with wild
beasts sometimes took place, and while
Hadrian, the emperor, sat on yondeT
height, 1, 900 beasts were slain in one
celebration. But IL was chiefly for
foot racing, so proposed to my friend
that day while we were in the Stadium
that we try which of US could run the
sooner from end to end OF this histOri-
cal ground, aud so at the
word given by the lookerson
we started side by side. but before ]
got through I found out what Paul
meant when he compares the spiritual
race with the race in this very Stadium,
as he says: Lay aside every weight "
My heavy overcoat and my friends
freedom from such incumbrance
showed the advantage in any kind of q
race of laying aside every weight"
We come now to the Acropolis. It is
q rock about two miles in circumfsr.
ence at the base and LOCO feet in cir
cuInference at the top a nd 500 feet high.
On It has been crowded more elaborate
architecture and sculpture than in any
GInGE p1lc- uuQGE Lna WlDlG heavens
Originally a fortress, afterWard con
gregation of temples and statues and
pillars, their ruins an enchantment
from which no observer ever breaks
away. No wonder that Aristides
thought it the center of all things
Greece. the center Of the world; Attica,
the center of Greece; Athens, the cen
ter of Attiea, and the AcroPolis, the
center OF Athens.
plundered il. Lord Elgin, the English
ambassador at COnstantinOple, got per
mission of the sultan to remove from
the Acropolis fallen pieces of the build
ing, and he took from the building to
England the finest statues, removing
them at an expense of $500. 600. A
storm overthrow many of the statues
of the Aeropolis. Morosini, the general,
attempted to remove from a pediment
the. sculptured car and horses of Vic
tory, but the clumsy machinery
dropped and all was lost The Turks
turned the building Into = powder
magazine where the Venetian guns
dropped a ere that by explosion sent
tine columns flying ia the air and fail
ing cracked and splintered. But after
all that time and storm and war aud
iconoclasm have effected, the AcroPoliA
IS the monarch OF all ruins, and before
It bow the learning, the genius
the poetry. the art, the history OF
the ages / saw it as 1t was thousands
= of years ago had read 50 much about
it aud dreamed SO much about It that
! needed no maEieisn's wand to restore
1t In the days when ten cents vyOul1
do more than a dollar now, the build
ing cost -. 500. COO See its ave orna
mented gates. the keys entrusted to ar
officer for only one day lest the tempt
alton to go in and missppropriats tbs
treasures be too great for him; il
ceiling a raingling OF blue and searle
and green. and the walls abloom will
pictures uttermost in thought ana
coloriEg.
Yonder IS temple to . goddess
called Victory without Winge." *
many Ofsthe triumphz Of the world has
been followed by defeat that tn.
Greeks wished in marble 70 indicate
that victory Tor Athens had come nsvel
sasain 70 dy away, aud hence this TEN
pie TO sYietoFy without WinEs"-i
temple of marble. snow white and gilt
tering. YoudeE behold the pedesta
az Agrip2s. tweDty-seven feet high ant
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