Milford chronicle., 1906-01-12
Calnnage
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmage. D. D.

Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 7.-ApprO
PIRATE for the new year as the season
for. good resolutions and turning over
a new Leaf is this sermon, the text for
which is taken from Acts xvii, 90, "And
the times Of this ignorance God winked
at"
What trem0r of excitement must
have stirred the minds ana the hearts
of his men when Horati0 Nelson the
celebrated English admiral gave the
order to clear the gun deck for action
at Trafalgar All. yes, we can truly
say the one armed naval hero whose
body now sleeps in St. Pauls cathedral
by the side Of the Waterloo chieftain
was no novice in the art of war. Way
back in the uprising of the American
colonies he fought as a young captain
Of twenty-0ne under Lord Howe. He
was in the midst Of the British strug-
giles off Cape Vincent in 179S. He was
the commander who destroyed the
French fleet in the harbor of Aboukir
when Napoleon was making his Egyp-
ton conquests. He was part Of the
naval history of England from 1870 up
20 the time Of his tragic death, but all
bis previous engagements We're mere
preparation for his great battle Of Traf-
algar. Then he gripped Napoleon's
admiral-Villeneuve by name-and
grimly said, Thou shalt not make it |
possible for the conquerors of Prussia /
and Spain and Austria and Italy and /
Holland and Westphalia to cross the
clannql e,1d fight under the shadow Of
Vest .ter abbey and Windsor cas-
nlp,,V rat Trafalgar order, ENG
NNSoctvery man to do his duty"
"a eSp f9used the heroic in every
,st w for Trafalgar was the SUI
prytisN r3f Horatio Nelson's life.
,,eene larter deck of the British
Npes ship Victory was to Mel
Wne % gar Mars hill was to the
800 e'warrior Paul Like Mel
erea0as no novice. He had
eon' ny a conflict for Christ.
foNearred veteran Of many
Aeigns. In Damascus, at
Ger in COrinth in Ephesus,
his martial footsteps
had fought many bat
It the supreme battle Of
rs witnessed at Mars hill.
in the annals of the
ote the historian, 'has
canoe than that in which 7
Nj the living Christ came in {
SAntact at Athens with the 5
N& Of paganism, its philosophy s
81 ience." Here it was that L
Es only had to grapple with S
PHILOSOPHY and with the teach O
Se Stoies and the Epicureans, g"
also he had to preach Christ s
-. me Of the drama and preach o
Ssm the rostrum made memora- Ii
-, ae orations Of the greatest ora b
!, the past, whose silver tongues d
-, ,~ted armies and made laws and n
a. sTforth Greece on its conquest OF, Il
lid. C
, Paul looked up and waved his (.
NAabove him he saw the famous 81
oils crowned with its many tenn a
Brain There is the Parthenon with its r,
u vaiful statue Of Pallas, the guard A
nth oddess Of Athens, which city was q
hing ONE Of Demosthenes and Lysias h
Ve Hycurgus and Aeschines, the ora re
nde, and Of Aesehylus and Sophocles, OF
art iramatists, and of Thucydides and n,
ardophon, the historians, and of Solon. III
o. lawyer, and of Socrates, the teach 10
\, and Of Pericles, the poet, and Of si
midas, the Michael Angelo Of the *
ireeks. To the right Of this famous 2
emple was the marvellous colossal
-atue Of Athanae Promachus. And CT
lere is a beautiful poem in marble by
1iled "The Temple of Wingless Vic rio
'ry.' Every column, every shrine, ev- VI
y intricate covering of that citadel sh
ancient Athens was chiseled by the as
and Of a master. John Keats once W:
rote: ~
sauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all mi
know on earth and all ye need to know. nm
that is true, then truth was every ina
here intrenched on the heights over wi
piping Mars hill For beauty in her of
ost exquisite proportions was there tor
imperishable marble. VII
Not Preaching to savaees. eli
When Paul ceased to look up and as his
student Of the beautiful looked down for
E1ln ~ AlAdAEAltuL WduuGEGQ over LII
2 massive proportions of the great be
nple Of Jupiter Olympus, which was a
e Of the seven wonders OF the world Jes
e few huge columns of this mighty he
nple still standing inspire more awe he
the minds Of the modern students Jes
ID do even the gigantic stones Of the sue
ramids or the ruined foundations Of rev
ancient statue Of the god Helios we
e bestriding the harbor of Rhodes. dln
ere was also the beautiful temple Of apo
Theseium. perhaps the most per- Tor
tly preserved temple Of all the an Jes
nts And there before him was the sio'
antic temple Of Mars, the god Of mo 40
T. Paul was not preaching Christ , sole
ong q set OF ignorant sayages. He w
Christ to the .gTeatnE ~
scat n acbitecture, Of fXsr The, 70, q
hit all git th 'la'0ry Py,.ss took away can
them, an ldenSsee were we'd is
in this cO1nfrxr alta