The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-07-14
TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Iatcrna,ios Lesson for July TO- lSvS-
Paul 1T Athcns-Acts ls'ss-3t.


GoLpks TEXT God Is spirit and thes
that worship Him must worship Him In spsrN
and IN truth John ga
TlaE-A ID 81 levin thinks 10 was 10
November, from tho fact that with the an |
GENTS navigation In those seas closed Novem- |
Der H.
MOVEMENTS or rHB MIssIoSARlRs.-i.uke |
was left al Philippi. y we learn from the use
Of the third person instead OF the nrst. rom
the time Paul left that city. and return 10 the
first person. .'we," ''us.' when Paul reaches
Phuippi again ON his return journey (:o;o. %.
Silas and Timothy were left ~ berca tis'bO,
and Paul went alone to Athens
LESSON NOTES.
Founding OF the Thessalonian
Church. AFTER Paul's release from
prison, he, with Silas and Timothy.
went along the great Roman road.
about one hundred miles in q south
west direction to Thcssalonica. the
chief city of Macedonia. II j. now
called Salonica. or Salonilxi, OF modern
Turkey. and is city of ninety thou
sand to one hundred thousand inhab-
itants. OF whom fifty thousand are
Jews. Here Paul pre- achcd for several
weeks, when n disturbance arose
which compelled the missionaries to
leave. Dut tntiC VAs |" h~>sAy '"~-~-
Der Of converts. especially among the
| Greeks.
The Epistles to the Thessalonians.-
| The first epistle to the Thessalonians
was written by Paul to thisN church
| from Corinth. only a few months after
his first visit there IA. ID. 81, 53), on
the same missionary journey. 1t is the
Oldest book of the New Testament. the
earliest document of the Christian re-
ligion. The second cpistle was writ
ten soon after "a. ID. 53).
The Founding of the Church in
Berea. - Driven from Thessalonica.
Paul went sixty miles further to the
southwest on the way to Greece, to
city called Berea. Here many Jews
and Greeks. and especially many hon.
orable women, as in Thessalonica, be-
came disciples.
Paul ut Athcns.-As usual. persccu-
ton arose against the new religions;
and Paul. leaving Silas and Timothy at
Bcrea (ver l4) to follow on more leis-
urely, FASTENED secretly on in south
crly direction till he came to the
famous city of Athens, the capital of
the intellectual world, as Rome was of
the political. and Jerusalem of the re-
ligious.
The city Of Athens is situated about
FIVE miles inland northeast OF the
Saronic gulf. an arm of the .Egean sea.
1t lies between two small rivers. the
Cephissus and the lllyssus. Four ia
nous mountains lie around it, and four
still more famous hills are within the
city-the Acropolis, the Areopagus, or
Mars hill: the Pnyx, on which the as
semblies of the people were held and
Demosthenes spoke his GRAFTON, and the
Museum.
The People Of Athens.-The name OF
Athens was synonymous with the most
graceful conceptions OF art and the
profoundest study OF philosophy. There
! human wisdom had sat enthroned. AL
succeeding generations and civilized
nations have acknowledged her in
, tellectual supremacy. Athens was the
mother of the fine arts, the patron OF
poetry, the founder Of systems of phi
, losophy. She gave birth to the prod
, ucts Of genius in almost every depart
, mcnt of literature and art, which have
, scarcely. il ever, been surpassed. Pau
! waited eagerly the coming of his com
, panions. While waiting. probably fo
= some weeks. he walked ar md THU
1 celebrated city. amonr its counties
{ statues and idols, and mis- heart wa
. stirred within him. lie began To dis
! course to the Jews in the synagogue
. and with the people gathered In tn
, thronged market place. lie excited 81
much interest that the attention evel
of the Epicureans and Stoics. the lead
ers in philosophy and religion, wa
drawn towards him. After discussing
with them for time, they requests
him to leave the curious and throDgin
crowds Of the market, which was not
= proper arena for discussion; and TO
: the convenience of both parties, and i
order to give him fair hearing, the
' led him up the steps of the Arcopagus
Mars hill. 10 the platform on its sun
: init. where were assembled 1.-THE nc
blest blood of Athens, the first pol
! ticians, the first orators, the first phi
losophcrs: a court the most august. nc
only of Athens. but of Greece. and II
deed of the whole world" 1t was a
y this bar that Socrates was arraignc
: and condemned on the ground of inn'
waiting upon the state religion. Her
Paul was allowed To speak from tn
!" tribune of a regular court. where bot
speaker and audience would be fire.
!, from disturbance"
: Paul stood in the open air upon tn
I, Mars hill just described. name trace
= to the fable that here Mars was trie
before the assembled gods for II
! murder Of a son of Neptune. lie stoc
= In the presence of the famous cour
I. who sat on the crown Of the hill at Il
eastern end, and were ranged in col
centric circles, one above anothe
while the cave or hollow in the mi
die was occupied by the accuser ar
> tls accused and their legal advise
n he accuscr standing on an elevate
G. stone on the one side, and the accuse
on an elevated stone on the other.
n. Levin. On this latter stone In u
u hollow below the court Paul doubles
NJ stood. "Ye men of Athens" III
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