( tv.XXXDCX)OOCXXXX)OOOOCXOOOOCG saturday sight talks V) Ey KSV. 1". E. DAVISON Rutland, Vt. BccccccccccccccoooccoooccS A LESSON IN TACT. International Bible Lesson for July 25, '09-(Acts 17: 16-34). In his minion nry journeylngs Paul came to tl celcbrntcd city of Athens, the neat and centre of nrt. eloquence and philosophy, the Intellectual cnpl tal of the world, Wonderful City. It wan his first and only visit to the ancient me tropolis and it mad, a deep lm presslon upon his mind. It was a city of temples and statues. Art and learning here had Iholr home. Around him were the BculptureJ forms of Minerva and Jupiter, Apollo and Mercury, the Muses and other representatives of heathen mythology. It wns said by an ancient satirist that It was easier to tind a god at Athens than a man, for thirty thotmand divinities were In cluded In the Greek and Roman pan theon. They were heroic, fantantlc or impure, but the city was full of them. There were streets so crowded with sellers of articles connected with Idolatry as to be almost Impassable. Wonderful Opportunity. It was In such a presence that the apostle now stood, and God gave him one single opportunity to declare his uiessage. How did he do It? A committee of distinguished Athen ians waited upon the famous preach er, and invited him to address them on Mars Hill. It was the opportunity of a lifetime and a smaller man would have made a miserable failure. To preuch In church behind a pulpit, to a devout and sympathetic people, who will accept whatever the preacher sr.ys simply because he says it, is one thing, to face such a company as the Athenian audience Is quite an other. Those people were critical, logical, hard-headed, accustomed to look into things, and accept nothing on the merejpse dixit of a speaker. They prided 'themselves on their in tellectuality and piety, and had no Idea that a mere peripatetic Jew would be able to Instruct them In either morality or rellgfon. Yet they were desirous of hearing all the new things, and they politely Invited Paul to deliver his message on that popu lar rostrum of discussion, Murs Hill. Wonderful Tact. The apostle's first word shows that he la not only a cultured Christian gentleman himself, but is master of the art of winsome speech. He dis arms criticism with his first sentence. Instead of railing at Idolatry as the old version implies, he courteously ieclares that his observation has led bim to the conclusion that the Athen ians are "very religious." 'I passed by, and beheld your devotions," he says, "and as I did so, I saw an altar with this inscription, 'To the Unknown God.' That is, you worship all those you know, und for fear that you should be guilty of Impiety lgnorantly, you put up another altar to the unknown God. Now I have a message to deliv er to you in regard to that unknown i'.oA." And then the preacher pre ceded to tnlk to them of the God that made the world, and all the peo ple In it. And In the most logical, sensible, courteous, and Christian way struck a blow at idolatry that is absolutely unanswerable from that day to this. Wonderful exhibition of tact! If you are going to win any one, you can never do It with an ec clesiastical blackjack. If you want to convince a Catholic, you had better teer clear of attacking the Virgin Mary. If you want to win a Jew, bet ter keep your hands oil from Moses. 'ou will never gain a Baptist by splashing over him the waters of Im mersion. To go at a heathen by de nouncing idoltry as of the devil, will only strengthen him in his views. To tell a man he is a fool because he doesn't believe as you do, puts It out of your power ever to Influence ilm to believe as you do. You can't split people's heads open with the battle axe of controversy and intro duce orthodoxy through the gash. The trouble with most modern controver sialists is, they have no patience with anybody who cannot see exactly as Ihey can, no matter what their birth, surroundings, education and training has been. Paul caught the attention of his audience and held It to the dose, first by the wonderful tact of his approach, and second by his quo tations from their own poets, which he iited In support of hia doctrine. The tactful person always seeks to find some common ground on which to stand, Instead of some bomb proor fort from . which to bombard the world. Paul argued that the very fi.ct of an altar to the unknown God proved the religious instinct In the 1 oi, and ho caught at that blind feel 'rs after God and fought to direct It t'l'i.nUt. Whatever the outcome of that Ecrmott, certainly tho people of Athens would have no hesitation In declaring that those who listened to Paul that day received a lesson In sacred elo quence that compared favorably with uny oration that had ever been deliv ered from the summ'.t of Mars II111. r . , . ..1 1 "if r' WW-' THE "SEATLESS GOWN" TO SAVE Empire 8tyle Makes Wearer Cripples and Coquettes, Says Grand Master of Tailors. Boston, Mass. Tho tight-fitting Em pire gown must go. That was the flat Issued by Samuel Paull, of New York, grand master of the United Tailors' Association of America, In an nddress at the convention of men who try. If Mr. Paull has his way, most of the Parisian fashions will go, along with the Umpire own which he ridi culed unsparingly. The "Scatless gown" he said, would prove the salva tion of womankind. He declared the Empire gown made cripples and coquettes of women. In his respect, he said, it was a fair type of all the other Paris fashions which has furnished American women the unspeakable sheath gown and the equally ridiculous pantaloon dress. "A fashionable woman, wearing an Empire gown, Is bound to acquire a boochee-koochee walk," he declared. "Women who are trying to excel tholr friends In style In order to make the Empire more effective, walk with straight knees. Some women have practiced this walk until they become experts at It. "If a woman wants to sit down In an Empire gown she either must unbut ton the buttons from the knees down and display the petticoat or she must get the help of three men to place her In a sitting posture. Shu Is unable, with the tight-fitting Empire that hubs the hips so closely, to do It herself.1 After scoring the sheath and the pantaloon gowns, Mr. Paull declared that It required "audacity and Impu dence to supply such styles to Amerl can women." 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