The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-11-27
goes on to say, God "dwelleth not In

goes on to say. God "dwelleth not In
temples made with hands"
Oh, Paul! Is not deity more In the
Parthenon, or more In the Theseum, u
more In the Erechtheium, or more In
the temple of Zeus Olympus than Ia
the open air, more than on the hill
where we are sitting, more than on
Mount Hymettus out yonder, from
which the bees get their honeyf mo
morel" responds Paul, HE dwelleth
not In temples made with hands,"
But surely the preacher on the pull
pit of rock ON Mars Hill will stop now.
His audience can endure no more.
Two thunderbolts are enough. No, In
the same breath he launches the third
thunderbolt, which to them is more
fiery, more terrible. more demolishing
than the others, as he cries out: Hath
made of one blood all nations" Oh,
Paul! you forget you are speaking to
the proudest and most exclusive au-
dience In the world. Do not say "of
one blood" You cannot mean that.
Had Socrates and Plato and Demos.
themes and Scion and Lycurgus and
Draco and Sophocles and Euripides
and Eschylus and Pericles and Phidias
and Miltiades blood just like the Per
slams, like the Turks, like the Egyp-
tians, like the common herd of human
ity9 eyes" says Paul, "of one blood,
all nations"
RESURRECTION AND LAST JUDGMENT.
Surely that must be the closing para
graph of the sermon. His auditors
must be let up from the nervous strain.
Paul has smashed the Acropolis and
smashed the national pride of the
Greeks, and what more can he say2
Those Grecian orators, standing on
that place, always closed their adj
dresses with something sublime and eli
macteric, peroration, and Paul is going
to give them a peroration which will
eclipse in power and majesty all that
he has yet said. Heretofore he has
hurled one thunderbolt at a time; now
he will close by hurting two at once.
The little old man, under the power
of his speech, has Strengthened him
self up and the stoop has gone out
of his shoulders. and he looks about
three feet taller than when he began,
and his eyes, which were quiet, became
two flames of fire, and his face, which
was calm in the introduction, now de-
picts whirlwind of emotion as he ties
the two thunderbolts together with a
cord of inconsumable courage and
hurls them at the crowd now standing
or sitting aghast-the two thunderbolts
of Resurrection and Last Judgment.
His closing words were: Because He
hath appointed day in which he will
Judge the world in righteousness by that
man whom he hath ordained; whereof
he hath given assurance unto all men
in that he hath raised him from the
dead"
Remember those thoughts were to
them novel. and provocative; that
Christ, the sdespised Nazarene, would
come to be their judge, and they should
have to get up out of their cemeteries
to stand before him and take their
eternal doom. Mightiest burst of elo-
cutionary power ever heard. The an.
cestors of some of those Greeks had
heard Demosthenes in his Grafton on
the Crown, had heard Eschines in his
speeches against Timarchus and Ctesi
phon, had heard Plato in his great ar.
gument for Immortality of the soul, had
heard Socrates on his deathbed, sui
cidal cup of hemlock in hand, leave
his hearers in emotion too great
to bear; had in the theater of
Dionysius, at the foot of the Acropolis
(the ruins of its piled up amphitheater
and the marble floor of it's orchestra
still there), seen enacted the tragedies
of Eschylus 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 Judg-
ment, 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 Knocked" l
suppose it means that they mimicked
,he solemnity of his voice, that they
;ook off his impassioned gesticulation,
md they cried out: "Jewl Jew! Where
lid you study rhetoric9 You ought to
hear our orators speak! You had bet
er go back to your business of tent
making. Our Lycurgus knew more in
. minute than you will know in a
month. Say, where did you get that
rocked back, and those weak eyes
roma Ha Ha! You try to teach us Gre
,iansl What nonsense you talk about
When you speak of Resurrection and
Judgment. Now, little old man, climb
lown the side of Mars Hill and get out
# sight as soon as possible" ''Some
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