The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-29

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 known god Now. every one among you has noticed that monument. It Il as much of a mystery to you thii morning as 1t was the first. time you | beheld it. But, men of AtheGss it is ( most remarkable thsng that came here especially to tell you about this very God that heretofore has been | unknown to you, although you have most graciousiy honored Him by erect ing an altar to Ills renown."
 He fattered the Athenians about their devotion to religion and conclud- ed with his wonderful appeal to their desire to worship some kind of a god, assuring them that he had a better 1 divinity to offer to them than the host of gods they already possessed. NO doubt. he told them, 1t was easier to worhsip one God than a hundred. Paul wasn't a person of the common place type. He was only . tentmaker. but 1t wasn't any trouble to him to show his goods.
 Tact As NeedfuI As Religion.
 Let us suppose that this converted pagan" had opened up in the Jona- than Edwards style: You're all dead wrong about your gods. They aren't worth a hii of beans. If you stick to them you'll go to place of eternal torment; you'll fall into pit of ilre and birthstone, not to mention the fact that you burn forever and suffer all manner of mental worry and re- gret." This isn't sad irreverently, and Is merely one of many samples culled from my early recollections as fol- lowers of the famous New England parson. (There was a period in my life when I had to attend divine ser vice twice on Sunday, whether need ed 1t or not.) The point l want to make about St. Paul--and 1t will lead rs back to M. Coquelin, as great a man in his day as Paul Of Tarsus in his is that he was dissembling. In the sew enteenth chapter of the Acts 1t is said that while Paul was waiting for Silas and Timothy at Athens. his indigna- tion was aroused at seeing the whole city full of idols" (Not having copy Of the St. James edition handy, I am using the original. text and the wording may vary, but the translation is accurately Therefore, it is admit ted that Paul had mad on." Did he show 1t? Not in the slightest. Not until he warmed to his theme did hC say disrespectful' word akout the worship of graven images. And In that criticism he may not have been accurate. because more than half of the Christian believers today disagree with him.
 M. Coouelin evidently agrees with Paul of Tarsus. The latter was. for the hour. the Sublime embodiment of the theory that not to be moved him. self is imperative. If the orator Cor actor) would move (sway) others Not the slightest doubt but that Paul would have liked to have told the grovelling idolators before him ex- actly what he thought of them and their religion--which Gibboa has so beautifully described as "a gentle. trusting faith, peopling the groves with beneficent divmities'--but ne dissembled.
 Phillips in storm.
 Only once in my brief life did wit ness the exercise of the same art It was during an agitation in Massa- chusetts for the reform of the lunacy laws. General Benjamin F. Butler was governor and had insisted that the insahe in thf hospitals should be treated with some consideration, 1 was asked to speak in Fremont Temple Wendell Phillips was on the platform and that explained the crowded house to my mind--because the Indians and the insane haven't many friends. Hardly had the speaker who made the opening address begun before an agita- ten started In the front of the house The keeper of a private "sanatarfum" in the suburbs had sent a score of de- manted women with their keepers to the meeting In the hope of creating a scene. A mentally unbalanced woman