The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-16

Test burst Of evolutionary power ever
| heard. At those two thoughts Of rssur
recti5a and Judgment the audience sprang
20 their feet Some moved they adjourn
20 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 I suppose IL means
| that they mimicked the solemnity ef
/ his voice; that they took OF his iIupas-
| stoned geEticuIatfon. and they cried out.
Jew. Jewi Where did you study rhet-
i oriey You ought to hear our orators
| speak. You had better so back to your
business Of tent-maklng Our Lycurgus
knew more in minute than you VIII
know In a month. Sayi where did you
get that crooked back and those weak
eyes frnm2 Hal Hai You try TO teach Us
Gresksi What NONSENSE you talk about
when you speak Of resurrection and tUdg-
| ment Now. little old man, climb down
| the side OF Mars Hill and get out Of sight
/ as soon as possible Some Knocked But
/ tue sacred orator had spoken-the day OF
resurrection and Judgment.
Converse of the Hills.
AS. in Athens. that evening we climbed
| down the pile Of slippery rocks. where all
| this had occurred. on our way back 10
our hotel. | stood half way between the
| Aeropolis and Mars HIn in the gather
ing shadows of eventide. ! seemed TO hear
those two hills In sublime and awful
| converse. am chiefly CT the past said
the Acropois. I am chiefly OF the fu-
ture,' replied Mars Hill TIE Acropolis
said: My orators are dead: NY lawgiv-
ers are dead: my poets are dead; my ar
cnitects are dead: my sculptors are dead
/ am a monument OF the dead past; I
snail never again hear a song sung; / will
never again see column lifted: | viii
never again behold goddess crowned
Mars Hill responded: I, too. have had
history; had on my heights warriors
VINO VIII never again sheath the sword,
ana judges who viii never again utter
a COON. and orators who VIII never again
I make plea. But my influence is TO he
| more In the future than IL ever was in
! here long enough to witness that your gods
are no gods at all Your Boreas could
| not control the winds; your Neptune could
| not manage the sea: your Apollo never
| evoked musical note; your god Ceres
never grew harvest; your goddess of
wisdom. Minerva never knew the Greek
alphabet; your Jupiter could not handle
| the lightnings. But the God whom I
| proclaimed on the day when Paul preached
| before the astounGed aSsemblage on my
Of wisdom. the God OF power. the God Of
mercy. the God OF love. the God Of storms.
the God Of sunshine, the God of the land
and the God Of the sea, the God over all,
| blessed forever
Greek Philosophers and Pail.
Then the Acropolis spake and said. as
though In self-defense: My Plato argued
for the immortality of the soul. and my
Socrates praised virtue. and my Militiades
iof 10,
pressors.' Yes said Mars Hill. your
Plato laboriously guessed at the immor-
tally of the soul: but my Paul. diyinely
inspired. declared IT as a fact straight
from God Your Socrates praised virtue.
but expired, at the command of the court.
as a suicide Your Militiades was brave
against earthly foes, yet died from a
wound ANONYMOUSLY gotten in after-de-
feat. But my Paul challenged all earth
and al hell with this battle shout: We
wres;le not against flesh and blood. but
against principalities. against powers.
against the rulers of the darkness of this
world. against the spiritual wickedness
/ in high places and then on the 18th of
June. in the year 66. on the road TO Ostia.
after the sword of the headsman had
given one keen stroke, he took the crown
Of martyrdom.'
Moarned for Giories Past.
After a moments silence by both hills
the Acropolis moaned out in the dark
ness Alas Alas! and Mars Hill respond
ed. 'Hosanna! Hosannar Then the voices
of both hills became indistinct and as l
passed on and away in the twilight, I
seemed TO hear only two sounds frag
ment of Pentelicon marble from the archi-
trave of the Acropolis dropping down on
the ruins of a shattered idol. and the
rock on Mars Hill. from which We had
JUS descended. But We were by this time
so FAR off that the fragments of sentences
were smaller when dropping from Mars
Hill than were the fragments of fallen
marble on the Aeropolis. and could only
hear parts of disconnected sentences
waited on the night air-'God, who made
the world of one blood all nations, 'Ap-
pointed day in which He will judge the
world Raised Him from the dead
AS that night in Athens / put my tired
head on my pillow, and the exciting
scenes of the day passed through my
mind, / thought on the same subject on
which as boy | made my commencement
speech in Niblo's Theater, on graduation
day. from the New York University viz
The moral effects of sculpture and archi-
lecture but further than i could have
thought In boyhood. i thought IN Athens
that night that the moral effects of archi-
lecture and sculpture depend on what
you do in great buildings after they are
put up. and upon the haracter Of the
men whose forms you cut N the marble;
yea, ] thought that night what struggles
the martyrs went through in order tnat
in our time the Gospel might have fun
swing. And ] thought that night what
brainy religion it must be that could abb
sorb a hero like him whom We have con-
sidered to-day; man the superior of the
whole human race; the infdels but Zig
mics or homunculi compared with Him:
and / thought what a rapturous consider
alton IL is that through the same grace
that saved Paul we shall greet this great
apostle and shall have the opportunity
amid the familiarities of the skies, OF
asking him what was the greatest coca
sion OF all his life.
Bible Account Was True.
He may say, The shipwreek OF Melita'
He may say. The riot at Ephesls' He
may say, My last walk out on the road
to Ostia.' But / think he will say, THE
day stood on Mars Hill addressing the
indignant Areopagite and looking OF upon
the towering form Of the goddess Minerva
and the majesty of the Parthenon. and all
the brilliant divinities of the Acropolis
That account in the Bible was true MY
spirit was stirred within me when j saw
the city wholly given up 10 idOlatry."
VATICAN Fkv0RS AMERICAN RULE.
Result Of Archbishop Irelaud's Represen.
TIA lens 10 the Pore.