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DK TALJUGE IN AillMSS
WONDERS OF THE ACROPOLIS AND
IT8 SUQQESTIONS.
Xht Market Wtmro tho AttimiUiia .Itnlly
Met In llimr or Xult Houm New Thing.
St. I'mil on Mum 4III1 A City Wholly
Ulvon t Itlutiitry.
UltOOiaVN, No 33. Tlio cotiKreKitlon
at the Tulwrimclo, led ly cornut ami orKiiti,
saiiK this morning with Krent power the
iiynui of Inane Watts, beliiiiliiK:
Our Clotl, our help In ijkcs insl.
Our hopo for years to come.
The Roriiion, which was on the Acrnpolla,
Is thu Hixth uf thu Hurler Dr. TiiIiiiiiku it
prcnchliiK on tlio huIiJucU HUgKi-ttitl by hl.n
tour In lliblu IiuhIh. 111h tuxt was taken
from AoUt xvll, 10, "While Paul waited
for them at Athens his nplrlt wan Htlrred
In him, when he wiw the city wholly glveii
to hlolatry."
It Reeiued an If morning would nover
come. Wo had arrived after dark tit Ath
ens, Grave?, mid the night was sleepiest
with expectation, and my watch idowly
announced to me onu and two and three
Ami four o'clock; and at tha Una ray of
dawn 1 called our party to look out of the
. window upon that city to which Paul mild
he WH8 a debtor, ami to which the whole
earth Is debtor for 'Greek architecture,
Greek sculpture, Greek poetry, Greek elo
quence, Greek prowetm ami Greek history.
That mornluK In Athens we sauntered
forth armed with most KeiiorotiM and lovely
letters from the president of the .United
States anil his ticcrctury of state, ami dur
ing all our stay in that city those letters
luuscd every door and every gate ami overy
temple ami overy palace to swing open be
fore us. The mightiest geographical name
on earth today Is America. The signature
of an American president and secretary of
state will take a man where au army could
not. Those names brought us Into tho
presence of u most gracious and beautiful
eovcrelgu, the queen of Greece, and iter
cordiality was more like that of a sister
than the oocupaut of a throne room. Kc
formal bow as when mouarchs nro ap
proached, luttu cordial shake of the hand,
and earnest questions about our personal
welfare and our beloved country far away.
But this morning we pass through where
stood tho Agora, the ancient market place,
tho locality where philosophers used to
meet thtlr disciples, walking whilo they
talked, and where Paul, the Christian lo
gician, flung many a proud Stole and got
tho laugh on many au impertinent Epi
curean. The market place was thu center
of social and political life, and it wuh the
place where people went to tell and hear
tho news, lioothsoind buzuurs were set up
for merchandise of all kinds except meat,
but everything must be sold for cash, and
thero must be no lying about the value of
commodities, and the Agorauoml who
ruled the place could lulllct severe punish
ment upon olTeuders. Thedltrereutschoola
of thinkers had distinct places set apart
for convocation. The Plotwaus must meet
at the cheese market, the Decellaus at. the
barber shop, the sellers of perfumes at the
frankincense headquarters.
Tho market place was u space three hun
dred aiid llfty yards long und two hundred
and fifty wide, and It was given up to gos
sip and merchandise, und lounging and
philosophizing. All this you need to kuow
in order to understand the Ulhle when it
says of Paul, "Therefore disputed he in the
market dully with them tliut met him."
You see it was the bust place to get mi au
dience, and if u man feels himself culled to
preach he wants people to preach to. Hut
beforo we muke our chief visits of today
we must take u turn at the Stadium. It is
a little way out, but go we must The
Stadium was the place where the footrace)
occurred.
TIIK HACK IK TI1K STADIUM.
Paul had been out there no doubt, for he
frequently uses the scenes of that place as
figures when he tells us, "Let us run the
race that is set before us," und again.
"They do it to obtain a corruptible gar
land, but we an incorruptible." The
marble and thu gilding have been removed,
but thu high mounds against which the
seats were piled are still there. The Stadium
Is six hundred and eighty feet long, one
hundred and thirty feet wide, and held
forty thousand spectators. There is today
tho very tunnel through which thu defeat
ed racer departed from thu Stadium and
from the hisses of thu people, und there aro
tho stairs up which thu victor went to thu
top of the hill to ho crowned with thu
laurel.
In this placo contests with wild beasts
sometimes took plr.ee, and while Hadrian,
tho emperor, sat on yonder height one
thousand beasts were slain iu onu celebra
tion. Hut it was chiefly for foot racing,
and so I proposed to my friend that day
while we were iu thu Stadium that we try
which of us could run thu sooner from end
to end of this historical ground, and so at
the word given by tho lookers on westarted
side by side, but beforo I got through I
found out what Paul meant when ho com
pares the spiritual race with tho race In
this very Stadium, as ho says, "Lay aside
very weight." My heavy overcoat and
my friend's freedom from such Incum
brance showed the advuutagu iu any kind
of iiracu of "laying asldu overy weight."
We come now to the Acropolis, It is a
rock about two miles In circumference at
the babeitud a thousand feet In circumfer
ence at thu top and three hundred feet
high. On It has been crowded more elab
orate architecture and sculpture than in
any other place under tho wholu heavens.
Originally u fortress, afterward a congre
gation of templeti und statues and pillars,
their ruins uu enchantment from which
no observer ever breaks away. No won
der that Aristldes thought It the center of
all things Greece, thu center of the world,
Attica, thu center of Greece; Athens, tho
center of Attica, und thu Acropolis the
center of Athens. Kurthquukes have
shaken It, Vi-rreu plundered it.
Iinl Klglu, thu Kugllsh embassador at
Constantinople, got permission of the
sultan to remove from tho Acropolis fallen
pieces of thu building, but ho took from
the building to Kughtud tho flutist statues,
romoviug them at au expense of eight
hundred thousand dollars. A storm over
threw, many of thu statues of tho Acropolis.
Morosinl, tho general, attempted to re
move from a pediment thu sculptured car
and horses of Victory, but the clunuy ma
chinery dropped it and all was lost.
The Turks turned the building Into a
powder magazine where thu VuiietiauguuB
dropped a lire that by explosion sent the
columns Hying iu the air und falling
crucked and splintered. liut after all that
time and storm ami war and Iconoclasin
have elTevted, the Acropolis is the monarch
of ill ruins, and beforo it bow thu learning,
the guulus, the poetry, tho art, the history
of the ages. I saw it as it was thousands
of years ago. I had read so much about it
and dreamed so much about It that I need
ed no maglciau'H wand to restore it.
At one wave of my hand on that clear
morning In 188'J It rose before mo in tho
f !nry It iiad when Pericles ordered It and
dersUuul thu Imldness, thu deflanco, the
hoi) rnekk'ssueM, thu magnificence of
l'aili'a 'och. 'I'lm Hrst thunderbolt he
launched at thu opposite hill thu Acropo
lis t hat moment all aglltter wit h Idols and
temples. Ho cries out, "God who tnado
thu world." Why, they thought that Pro
mutheiis mndu It, that Mercury tnado It,
that Apollo nmdo It, that 1'oscldou made It,
that Kros madu It, that Pandroctts tnado It,
that Boreas madu It, that It took all the gods
of the Parthenon, yea, all tho gods and god
desMvs of tho Acropolis to maku It, and
hum stands a man without any ecclesias
tical title, neither a D. I)., nor oven a
reverend, declaring that thu world was
made by tho Iord of heaven and earth, and
hence the Inference that nil thu splendid
covering of tho Acropolis, so near that the
ipeoplu standing on thu steps of thu Par
thenon could hear It, was a deceit, a false
hood, a sham, a blasphemy. Iok at thu
faces of his auditors; thuy aro turning iiale.
and then red, and then wrathful. Thero
hud been several earthquakes In that
region, but that was thu severest shock
these men had ever felt.
Thu'Perslanshad bombarded thu Acropo
lis from thu heights of Mars Hill, hut this
Pnulluu iKxubardmcut was greater and
more terrific. "What," said Ills hearers,
"have we been hauling with many yokes of
oxen for centuries these blocks from thu
quarries of Mount Peutcllcum, and havu wo
had our architects putting up these struc
tures of unparalleled splendor, and havu
we had thu greatest of all sculptors, Phid
ias, with his men chiseling away at those
wondrous pediments and cutting away at
these frle.es, and havu wu taxed thu na
tion's resources to tho utmost, now to bo
told that those statues seo nothing, hear
nothing, know nothing?"
Oh, Paul, stop for a moment and give
these startled and overwhelmed auditors
time to catch their breath I Maku a rhe
torical pause! Taku a look around you at
the Interesting landscape, and glvu your
hearers time to recover I No, he docs not
make even a period, or so much as a colon
or semicolon, but launches the second
thunderbolt right after tho first, anil In thu
same breath goes on to say, God "dwelletlt
not In temples madu with hands." Oh,
Paul! Is not deity more In thu Parthenon,
or more Iu the Thesuum, or more In thu
Krechthuiitm, or moru in thu temple of
Zeus Olymplus than In tho open air, moru
than on thu hill where wu are sitting, mora
than on Mount Ilymuttus out yonder,
from which tho bees get their honey? "No
morel" responds Paul, "Hu dwelleth not
tu temples madu with hands."
liut surely thu preacher on tho pulpit of
rock on Mars Hill will stop now. Ills au
dience can enduru no more. Two thun
derbolts are enough. No, In the samo
breath hu launches thu third thunderbolt,
which to them Is more fiery, moru terrible,
more demolishing than the others, as hu
cries out, "hath madu of onu blood all na
tions." Oh, Paul! you forget you uru
speaking to thu proudest and most exclu
sive audience in thu world. Do not say "of
onu blood." You cannot mean that. Had
Socrates und Plato and Demosthenes and
Solon and Lycurgusuml Draco and Sopho
cles and Kuripldesuml iKschylus and Peri
cles and Phidias ami Mlltiadcs blood just
like tho Persians, like the Turks, like tho
Hgyptiaus, Jiku thu common herd of hu
manity? "Yes," says Paul, "of onu blood
all nations."
TIJIl OltATOKS OF OltKHCK.
Surely that must bu thu closing para
graph of the sermon. His auditors must
let up from the nervous strain. Paul has
smashed the Acropolis and smashed thu
national pride of thu Greeks, and what
more can hu say? Those Grecian orators,
standing on that place, always closed their
addtesses with something stibllmu and cli
macteric a peroration ami Paul Is going
to give them a peroration which will ecllpsu
iu power and majesty all that ho has yet
said. Heretofore hu has hurled one thun
derbolt at u time; now lie will closu by
hurling two at once. The llttlu old man,
iinderthu pouerof his speech, has straight
ened himself up, and the stoop has gone
out. of his shoulder, and he looks about
thnsj feet taller than when he began; and
liU eyes, which were quiet, became, two
Haines of fire; and his face, which was
calm in the Introduction, now depicts u
whirlwind of emotion as ho tie the two
thuinlerlxilts together with a cord of In
consumable courage and hurls them at thu
crowd now standing or sitting aghast thu
two thunderbolts of Resurrection and Last
Tiiilgmuut. Ills closing words were, "He
cause ho hath appointed a day in thu
which he will judge the world in righteous
ness by that man whom he hath ordained,
whereof he hath given assurance unto nil
men In that hu hath raised him from thu
dead."
Hemeiuler those thoughts were to them
novel and provocative; that Christ, the
despised Nazarene, would come to be their
judge, and they should havu to get up out
of their cemeteries to stand before him and
taku their eternal doom. Mightiest burst
of elocutionary power ever heard. Thu an
cestors of koiiio of those Greeks had heard
Demosthenes Iu his oration on the crown,
had heard Ksehlnes iu his speeches
against Tlinarchim ami Ctesiphon, had
heard Plato iu his great argument for
Immortality of the soul, had heard Socra
tes on his deathbed, suicidal cup of hem
lock In hand, leave his hearers iu emotion
too great to hear; had In thu theater of
Diouysius at the foot of thu Acropolis (the
ruins of its piled up amphitheater ami the
marblu floor of Its orchestra still there)
seen unacted the tragedies of iUschyltisaml
Sophocles, hut neither had the aticestois
of these Grecians on Mars Hill or them
selves ever heard or witnessed such tor
nadoes of moral power as that with which
Paul now whelmed his hearers. At those
two thoughts of resurrection and judg
ment thu audience sprung to their feet.
Some moed they adjourn to some other
day to hear more on the sumo theme, hut
others would havu torn thu sacred orator
to pieces.
Thu record says, "Somu mocked." I sup
pose it means that they mimicked thu
solemnity of his voice; that they took oil
his Impassioned gesticulation, and they
cried out: ".low! Jowl Where did you
study rhetoric? You ought to hear our
orators speakl You had better go back to
your business of teiitmakiug. OurLycur
gus knew more Iu a minute than you will
kuow iu a mouth. Say, where did you get
that ciooked back, and those weak eye
from? Hal hal You try to teach us Gre
cians! What nonsense you talk about
when you speak of resurrection and judg
ment. Now, llttlu old man, climb down
thu side of Mars Hill ami get out of sight
as soon as possible." "Some mocked."
Hut that scene adjourned to the day of
which the saered orator had spokeu tho
day of resurrection and Judgment.
WKAKNKbS OK Tllh OKI KK8.
As ill Athens, that evening Iu lbSO, wo
climbed down Hie pile of slippery rocks,
where all this had Declined, on our way
hack to our hotel, I stood half way be
tween thu Acropolis ami Mars Hill In the
gathering so iiluw - of i ve.-.tide, I seemed
to hear those two hills In sublime and aw
ful converse. "I am chlellyof thu past;"
said the Acropolis. "I am chiefly of the
future;" replied Mars Hill. Thu Acropolis
Ic'.l litis planned It and I'hidlas chiseled It
find Protoglucs painted It and Pausanlas
described It. Its gates, which were care
fully guarded by the ancients, open to let
)ou Iu mid joii ascend by sixty marble
steps thu propyhea, which Kpamluoudas
wanted to transfer to Thebes, but permis
sion, I am glad to say, could not lie grant
ed for thu removal of this architectural
miracle. Iu I ho days when ten cents would
do iiuiru than a dollar now, thu building
to -a two million three hundred thou
sand dollarn. Seu Its llvu ornamental
gates, thu keys Intrusted to an oili
er r for only onu day, lust the temp
tation to go In and misappropriate tho
Measures bo too great for him; its celling
n mingling of blue and scarlet and green,
and tho walls abloom with pictures ut
most In thought ami coloring. Yonder Is
a temple to a goddess called "Victory
Without Wings." So many of tho tri
umphs of thu 'vorhl had been followed by
defeat that the Greeks wished In marblu to
Indicate that victory for Athens had come,
never again to lly away, and hence this
temple to "Victory Without Wings" a
temple of marble, snow white and glitter
ing. Yonder behold thu pedestal of Agrlp
pa, twenty-seven feet high and twelve fet
square.
WONDKItS OK TIIK. I'AltTIIKKON.
Hut the overshadowing wonder of aP
thu hill Is thu Parthenon. Iu days when
money was ten times moru valuable than
now It cost four million six hundred
thousand dollars, It Is a Doric grand
eur, having forty-six columns, each col
umn thirty-four feet high and six feet
two Inches Iu diameter. Wondrous Inter
coliimniatlousl Painted porticos, archi
traves tinged with ocher, shields of gold
hung up, Hues of most dellcatu curve, fig
tiles of horses and men ami women and
gods, oxen on tho way to sacrifice, statues
of thu deities Diouysius, Prometheus,
Hermes, Demeter, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon;
iu one frieze twelve divinities; ceutauis In
battle; weaponry from Marathon; chariot
of night; chariot of thu morning; horses
of thu sun, thu fates, thu furies; statuu of
.luplter holding In his right hand thu
thunderbolt; silver footed chair In which
Xerxes watched thu battle of Salainls only
it few miles away.
Here is thu colossal statuu of Minerva iu
full armor, ejes of gray coloied stone, fig
ure of a Sphinx on her head, grlllliis by
her side (which aro lions with eagle's
beak), spear Iu one hand, statuu of liber
ty In thu other, a shield carved with battle
scenes, ami even thu slippers sculptured
and tied on with thongs of gold. Far out
at sea thu sailors saw this statuu of Miner
va rising high ubnvu all the temples, glit
tering Iu the sun. Hero aru statues of
equestrians, statuu of a Holiness, and there
are thu Graces, ami yonder a horse In
bronze.
Theio Is a statue said Iu thu time of
Augustus to havu of its own accord turned
around from east to west and spit blood;
statues made out of shields conquered lu
battle; statuu of Apollo, thu uxpeller of
locusts; statuu of Auacrcon, drunk and
hinging; statue of Olympodorus, a Greek,
memorable for the fact that hu was cheer
ful when others were cast down, a trait
woithy of sculpture. Hut walk on and
around the Acropolis ami yonder you seu
a statue of Hygela, ami the statue of The
seus lighting the Minotaur and the statuu
of Hercules slaying serpents. No wonder
that Petroiilussahl It was easier to Hud a
god than a man Iu Athens. Oh, tho Acrop
olis! Thu most of Its temples and statues
made fioin the marble quarries of Mount
Peiitelicum, a little way from the city.
I have heio on my tablu a block of thu
Paitheiiou made out of this marble, and
on it. Is thu sculpture of Phidias. I brought
It from the Acropolis. This specimen has
on it thediistuf ages and the marks of
explosion ami battle, but you can get from
It some, idea of thu delicate luster of thu
Acropolis when it was covered with a
mountain of this marble cut into nil the
exquisite shapes that genius could con
trive ami striped with silver and aflame
with gold. Thu Acropolis lu thu morning
light of thosu ancients must havu shone, as
though It were an aerolltu cast nir from
tho noonday sun. Thu temples must havu
looked like petrified foam. The wholu
Acropolis must haveseemed like thu whltu
breakers of the great ocean of time.
tiii: AitKoi'.uius, on t.vi:s him..
Hut wu cannot stop longer lieie, for there
Is a hill near by of more Interest, though
It has not one chip of marble to suggest a
statue or a temple. Wu hasten down thu
Acropolis to ascend thu Areopagus, or
Mars Hill, as It Is called. It took only
about three minutes to walk the distance,
and tho two hilltops are so near that what
I said lu religious discourse on Mars Hill
was heard distinctly by somu Kugllsh gen
tlemen on the Acropolis. This Mars Hill is
a rough pile of rock fifty feet high. It was
famous long beforo New Testament times.
The Persians easily ami terribly assault
ed tho Acropolis from this hilltop. Hero
assembled thu court to try criminals. It
was held lu thu nighttime, so that thu
faces of the judges could not bu Been, nor
the faces of thu lawyers who madu thu
plea, uud so, instead of a trial being onu of
emotion, It must havu been one of cool jus
tice. Hut there was one occasion on this
hill memorable above all others.
A little man, physically weak, ami his
rhetoric described by himself as contemn-
I tlhle, hail by his sermons rocked Athens
'with commotion, and hu was summoned
i either by writ of law or hearty invitation
to co mo upon that pulpit of rock and give
usitecimeli of his theology. All tho wise
I acres of Athens turned out and turned up
to hear lilm. The more venerable of them
I sat lu au amphitheater, the granite seats
I of which are still visible, but thu other
' peoplu swarmed on all sides of thu hill uud
I at tint base of it to hear this man, whom
somu called a fanatic, and others called a
I madcap, and others a blasphemer, and
! others styled contemptuously "this fel
1 low."
I Paul arrived lu answer to tho writ qr In
! vltatlon, ami confronted them ami gavu
J them the biggest dose that mortals ever
took. Hu was so built that nothing could
scare him, ami as for .luplter and Atheuia,
the god and thu goddess, whose Images
were lu fulksight on the adjoining hill, ho
had not so much regard for them as hu
had for thu ant that was crawling In thu
sand under Ills feet. In that audience were
thu llrnt orators of the world, ami they had
voices llku flutes when they were passive,
ami like trumpets when they weiu
aroused, ami 1 think they laughed in th'j
sleeves of their gowns as this Insignificant
looking man rose to speak.
lu that audience were Scholiasts, who
knew everything, or thought they did, and
from the end of thu longest hair on thu
top of their criiilums to thu end of the
nail on the longest toe, they wero stutTcd
with hypercrltlclsm, and they leaned back
witli a supercilious look to listen. As iu
ISb'i, I stood on that rock where Paul
stood, and a slab of which I brought from
Athens byc'ousuut of the queen, through
Mr. Tritoupls, the prime minister, and hail
plan-i in under Memorial Wall, I read
Uio wl.oie st jo, lllble lu hand.
I'AUf-'S DKKIANCK TO IIKATIIKNISM.
What I havu so far said lu this discourse,
wits uecessary lu order that you may un
said! "My orutoisundead. My lawgivers
are dead. My poets are dead. My archi
tects are dead. My sculptors ate dead. 1
am a monument of the dead past, I shall
never again hear a song sung, I will never
again see a column lifted, I will never
again bel.o'd a goddess crowned,"
Mam Hill responded! "I, too, have n his
tory. 1 had ou my heights wf.rrlors win
will inner again uiisheath thu sword, and
Judges who will never again utter a doom
and orators who will liever again make a
plea. Hut my Inllueiice Is to hu moru In
the futuiu than It ever was lu tho past.
The wouls (hat missionary, Paul, uttered
that exciting day lu the hearing of thu
wlsesf men and the populace on my rocky
shoulders have only begun their majestlo
role; the biolherhood of man, ami the
Christ of Clod, ami thu peroration of resur
rection and hist Judgment, with which thu
Tarslau orator closed his sermon that
day amid tho mocking crowd shall yet
revoliilliiulre thu planet. Oh, Acrop
oils! I havu stood heiu long enough
to witness that your gods aru no
gods at all. Your Dorcas could not con
trol tho winds. Your Neptune could not
manage the sea. Your Apollo never
evoked a musical mite, Your god Ceres
nover grew a harest. Your goddess of
wisdom, Minerva, never knew the Greek
alphabet. Your .luplter could not. handle,
the lightnings. Hut thu God whom I pro
claimed ou thu day when Paul preached
beforo Hie astounded assemblage uu my
rough heights Is thu God of music, thn
God of w IsiIoiii, thu God of power, thu God
of mercy, thu God of loe, thu God of
storms, (lie God of sunshine, thu God of
thu land and the God of thu sua, thu God
over all, blessed foiever."
Then the Acropolis spako ami said, as
though lu self defense, "My Plato argued
for tlio Immortality of thu soul, and my
Socrates praised virtue, and my Mlltiadcs
at Marathon drove back thu Persian op
pressois." "Yes," said Mars Hill, "your
Plato laboriously guessed at thu Immor
tality of thu soul, but my Paul, divinely
Inspiied, declined It as a fact straight from
God. Your Socrates praised virtue, hut
expired as a sulcldu. Your MllthideS was
liruvo against earthly foes, yet died from a
wound Iguomlnlously gotten iu after du
feat. Hut my Paul challenged all earth
ami all hell with this baltlu shout, "Wu
wrestlu not against llesh and blood, hut
against principalities, against powers,
against thu rdleis of thu darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness lu high
places, and thuu ou thu '.".tth of June, In
thu year tit), ou thu road to Ostla, after thu
sword of thu headsman had given one keen
stroke, took thu crown of martyrdom."
IIKKMXTIOKtt ON Tin: iay.
After a moment's sllencu by both hllla
thu Acropolis moaned out lu thu darkness,
"Alasl Alast" ami Mars Hill responded,
"Hosauuah! llosuuuulil" Then tho voices
of both hills hecainu Indistinct, and as 1
passed ou and away lu thu twilight I
seemed to hear only two sounds a frag
ment of I'entellcon marble from the archi
trave of the Acropolis dropping down ou
thu ruins of a shattered Idol, and the other
sound seemed to comu from thu rock ou
Mars Hill, from which wu had just de
scended. But wu were by this tlmu so far
oil' that the fragments of sentences wuru
smaller when diopplug from Mars Hill
than were thu fragments of fallen marblu
ou the Acropolis, and I could only hear
parts of disconnected sentences wafted on
the night air "God who made the world"
"of one blood all nations" "appointed
a day lu which ho will Judgo thu world"
"raised from tho dead."
As that night In Athens I put my tired
head on my pillow, and thu exciting scenes
of the day passed through my mind, I
thought on thusamu subject ou which, as
a hoy, 1 madu my commencement speech
lu Nlhlo's theater ou graduation day front
thu New York university, vl..,"Tho moral
clTccts of sculpt ii re ami architecture," but
further than I could havu thought lu boy
hood, I thought lu Athens that night
that the moral eiTects of architecture and
sculpture depend on what you do lu great
buildings after they are put up, ami upon
thu chaiacter of thu men whosu forms you
cut In tho marble.
Yea! I thought that night whatdtruggles
thu martyrs went through In order that In
our time tho Gospel might have full swing;
and I thought, that night what a brainy
religion It must bo that could absorb a
hero like liiiu whom wo havu considered
today, a man thu superior of tho wholu
human race, thu lulldels but pigmies or
homuiicull compared with him; ami I
thought what a rapturous consideration it
Is that through tho samii gracu that saved
Paul, we shall confront this great apostle,
and shall have thu opportunity, amid tho
familiarities of thu skies, of asking him
what was thu greatest occasion of all Ids
life.
Hu may say, "The shipwreck of Melltu."
Hu may say, "Thu riot at Kphesus." He
may say, "My last walk out on thu road to
Ostla." Hut, I think hu will say, "Thu
day I stood on Mars Hill addressing thu In
dignant Areopagitus, and looking oil upon
the towering form of thu goddess Minerva,
and the majesty of the Parthenon and all
thu brilliant divinities of thu Acropolis.
That account iu thu lliblu was true. My
spirit was stirred within mu when I saw
the city wholly given up to Idolatry!"
Colors In Mm' Itrein.
Down in thu business quarter you won't
know the dilTeieucu between summer and
I winter clothes this season. Light hues aru
I all the style for day wear, and many a man
will be t'leillteil with wearing a summer
suit this December when ho Is simply com
plying with thu dictates of fashion. Thu
cloth is, of course, a great deal heavier
than that used lu summer uud fall suits,
but the shades are just the same ami tlio
tint not very diUVieut. Hlack clothing for
winter wear Is always best, uud gives more
tervlco than highly colored goods.
The natty spilug elicits which will greet
you ou thu street this winter will bu a wel
come relief, however, and will lend a lesj
somber touu to men ou dark and rainy
days. The cloth used Is of a better quality
than most of the hlack suits worn. Thu
new fad Is simply for daylight. As soon
us night comes you havu got to dou a dress
sult.n Pi luce Albert, which is returning
to favor, or a three buttoned, long tailed
cutaway. With four suits madu iu these
stiles you can ho iu the swim very cislty.
-New York Cor. St, Louis Globu-Detuo-crat.
Wiimt-ii no llnmi'luick.
Women riders look very natty. It Is
said that a woman uuver looks so well any
wheru hs ouhoisubick. And so she does,
If shii bus tlio style of Hguru that elicit thu
comment, "sliu sits high," which, being
translated, means she Is long waisted,
broad In the hips, short legged ami straight
backed, Very tall, slender, llthu women
look horriblu on horseback. This Is thu
onu place their broad ami chunky sWtur
havu the advantage- of them. A riding
habit Is, also, a try lug costume. It lequlreu
an extremely umiked llgure to stand thu
rigid lines of thu riding dress especially
as they now maku It. New York Cor.
Pittsburg Uulletiti
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