REY. DR, TALUAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINK'S SUN. DAY SERMON, “The Wonders of Athens.” Subject: Text: “While Faul waited for them at Athens his spirit was storved in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.” — Acts xvii, 10, It seemed as if morning would never come, We had arrived alter dark in Athens Greece, and the night was sleepless with expecta- tion. and my wateh slowly announced to me one and two and three and four o'clock; and at the first ray of dawn I called our party to look out of the window upon that city to which Paul said he was a debtor, and to which the whole earth is debtor for Greek architecture, Greek sculpture, Greek poetry, Greek eloquence, Greek prowess and Greek history. That morning in Athens we sauntered forth armed with most generous and lovely | letters from the President the Upited Btates and his Becrotary State, and dur ing all our stay in that city those letters caused every door and every gate and every temple and every palace to swing open be- | fore us. The mightiest geographical name on earth to-day is America, ke signature of an American President and Secretary of | State will take a man where an army could | pot. Those names brought into the presence of a most gracious and beautiful sovereign, the Queen of Greece, and her | cordiality was more like that of a sister than | the occupant of a throne room. No formal bow as when monarchs are approached, but | a cordial shake of the hand, and questions about our personal welfare and our beloved country far away, But this morning we pass through where stood the Agora, the ancient marxet place, the locality where philosophers used to mest walking while they ed, the Christian logician, | toic and got the laugh ipicurean, The | cial of ol us earnest | their discipies, al wd where Paul, flung many a proud s on many an impertinent market place was the cen political life, and it was wople went to tell and Jooths and bazaars were s dise of all kinds except meat must be sold for cash, ar ing about the valu goranomi who severe punishment The different tinct places set Plateans must the Dect of pe H quarters I'be market place dred and fifty ru schools of apart { meet " tt ins at § mu little way incorrug have racer Stadium and 0h the hisses and there are the went to the t the laurel, In this place sometimes took pis emperor, sat on y« tairs up which the hill to be crowned pol it wild b and while Hadrian ander height one tl with Ris was chi to my (fend § Stadium the soot ground, JooKers ime »1 feet hight nore elaborate than and thr mn heavy Observer ever that Aristide thinge-Lireece Attica, the centre centre of Attioa tre of Athen Awas the © the sh Embassador un of the Acropolis Engl Constantinople, got pern tan to remove from the jeces of the building milding to moving them thousand doliars of the statu the General, wdiment the seulptu vl tory, but the clus it and all was lost, The Turks turned the bmilding n powder magazine where the Venetian guns dropped a fire that by expiosion sent the columns flying in the air and falling cracked and splintered. But after all that time and storm and war and ioconociasm have effected, the Acropolis is the monarch of all ruins and before it bow the learning, the genius, the poetry, the art, thy history of the ages I saw it as It was thousands of years ago | had read so much about It and dreamed so much about it that | needed no magicians wand to restore it, ] At one wave of my hand on lear morning in 1959 it rose before me ie “00 lorry i it had when Pericles ordered it and I-tinus | planned it and Phidias chiseled it and Pro. togines painted it and Pavsnias deseribad | it, Its gates, which were carefully guarded by the ancients, open to let von In and yom | ascend by ty marble steps ths prouyis which Eps. tiundas wanted to transfor to Thebes, but permission, I am glad to say, | could not be granted for the removal of this | architectural miracle. In the days when ten cents would do more than a doliar now, the bo ild ug cost two million three hundred thousar | dolls, Nee ita five ornamental gates, ‘ae keys intrnsted to an offi cer for only ome dey, lest the temp tation to go in and misappropriate the tressures be too great for him; its ceiling a mingling of blue and somrlet and green, ani the a abloom with utmost in thought and coloring. Yonder Ib a temple to a goddess eonlled “Vietory Without Wings” Ho many of the triumphs of the world had been followed by defeat that the Grooks wished In marble to indicate that virtory for Athens had come, never in to fy away, and henos this templs to *“Vietory Yelhout Wingy <a temple of marble, snow white and glittering, onder behold the mim of Agrippa, twenty-seven feet high A realy Leet square, at Sua fallen re wnse of eight hundred A storm overthrew many Arcropol Mor i to ove from and horses o 8Y machinery dropped wm of the ain attempted n Ito | ston and battle, | some idea { of this maria figures of horses and men and women and ods, GREG on the way to sacrifice, statues of he deities Dionysius, Prometheus, Hermes, Demeter, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon; in one frieze twelve divinities; centaurs in battle; wea- ponary from Marathon; chariot of night; chariot of the morning; horses of the sun, the fates, the furies; statue of Jupiter hold- ing in his right hand the thunderoolt; silver footed chair in which Xerxes watched the battle of Salamis only a few miles away. Here is the colossal statute of Minerva in full armor, eyes of gray colorad stone, figure | of a Sphinx on her head, griffins by her side | (which are lions with eagle's beak), spear in one hand, statue of liberty in the other, a shield carved with the battle scenes, and even the slippers sculptured and tied on with thongs of gold. Far out at sea the sailors saw this statue of Minerva rising high above all the temples, glittering in the sun, Hero are statutes of equestrians, statue of a lion. ness, and there are the Graces, and yonder a borse in bronze, There is a statue sakl in the time Augustus to have of {ts own accord turned os j around from east to west and spit blood; | statues made out of shields conquered in battle; statue of Apolio, the expeller of locust; status of Anacreon, drunk and singing: statue of Olympodorus, a Greek, memorable for the fact that be was cheerful when others were cast down, a trait worthy scuipture But walk on and around the Acropolis and yonder you see a statue of Hygela, and the statue of the Theseus tight ing the Minotaur and the statue of Hercules slaying serpents. No wonder that Petronius said it was easier to find a god than a man in Athens. Oh, the Acropolis! he most of ’ of of | its temples and statues made from the mar ble quarries of Mount Pentelicum, a little | way from the city I have here on my table a block of the Parthenon made out of this marble, and on it is the sculpture of hidias I brought it from the / is specimen bas o it the dust of ages and the marks but you can get fre of the delicate luster of the J when it was coverad with a cut all the exqui that g wild contrive ed with silver and aflame with # In the morniog ¥ of exp wus © ocean of time But we canpot LY] has I statue or a temple. Wo hasten dis 10 ascend the Ar il, as it is called, It * Ay alk the down sop to0X on listar > distance re SO near that un Mars Hill . rite I a fanatic, a cap, and ot siyviel © Rid mten Paul arriv vitation, an thea the big Ho was wo 1 him, and as god and the goldew, fall «t 10 = SCAre tor J the Jupiter and whose Athenia, NAST Were In had not ght on i regal Wa p aid had I read the Pla on rod who made the Why. they ti mt Promet that Mercury made it, that Ag that Poseidon made it, that Eu that Pandroous made if that Boreas made it, that it 1 ail the gods of the Parthenon, yea, all the gods and god desses of the Acro s to make it, and bere stands a man wit it any ecclesiastical neither a DD. D., not a reverend, ciaring that t world was made bLiy the Lord of heaven and earth, and henee toe in ference that all the splendid covering of the Acronclis that the people standing the Pe w Parthenon could hear it a stam, a blasphe Look at his auditors: they are turning pale, snd then rel, and wrathfa! had besn several quakes in that region, but that was verest shook these men had ever felt The Persians had bombarded the Acroj« lis from the heights of Mars HL but this Pauline bombardment was greater and more terrific. “What,” sid his hearers ‘‘have we heen hauliog with many yokes of oxen for centuries these blocks from the quarries of Mount Pentelicum, and haves we had our architects puting up these structures of un paralleled splendor, and have wo bad tas greatest of all scuiptors, Puldias, with his mer: chiseling away at those wondrous pedi. ments and cutting anay at these frieges and have we taxed the nation’s resources to the utmost. now to be told that those statues see nothing, bear nothing, know nothing? Ob, Paul stop for a moment and give these startled and overwhelmed auditors time to catch their breath! Make a rhetorical pause! Tage a look around you at the inter. esting landscape, and pve your hearers time to recover! No, he does not make even a ght t ae an lo » H . w made it, Wl a i LO Toe or was a deceit, eho, i the faces my they earth the » yo A ere mt launches the second thunderbolt right after the first, and in the samo breath goes God “dwelleth not in temples made with hands” Oa, Paul! ls not deity more in the Parthenon, or more in the The seum, or more in the Erechthelum, or more in the temple of Zeus Olymplus than in the air, more than on the hill whore we are iting, more than on Mount Hymettus out y the on rock on Mars Hill will stop now. 5% SEEF : f | standing or sitting | derbolts of | man whom | novel periad, or so much as a colon or semicolon, | if —————— — ao A Ar nn — and Draco and Sophocles and Buripides and Aschylus and Pericles and Phidias and Mil tindes blood just like the Persians, Hke the Turke like the Bzvptinos, like the common herd of humanity® "Yes" says Paul, ‘of one blood all nations.” Surely that must be the closing paragraph of the sermon. His auditors must let up from the nervous strain, Paul has smashed the Acropoliy and smashed the national pride of the Greeks and what more can he say? Those Urecian orators, standing on that place, always closed thelr addresses with something sublime and climacteric—a perore ation—snd Paul is golag to give them a | peroration which will eclipse in power and | majesty all that he has yet said, Heroto- | fore he has hurled one thunderbolt at a time; now he will close by hurling two at onee, The little old man, under the power of his speech, has straightened | himself up, and the stoop has gone out bis shoulders, and he looks about three feot taller than when he began; and his eves, which were guiet became two lames of fire; and his face, which was calm in the introduction, now depicts a whirl of | wind of emotion as he ties the two thunder. bolts together with a cord of inconsumable courage and hurls them at the crowd now agzhast—the two thun- Resurrection and Last Judg- ment. His closing words were, *‘Hecause He hath appointed a day in the waich He will judge the world in righteousness by thas He hath ordained, whereof He hath given assurance unto all roen in that He hath raised him from the dead, Roamember those thoughts were to | and provocative: that Christ Nazarene, would come to their ind they should have to get up out jes to stand before Him and take their eternal doom, Mightiest burst of slocutionary power ever heard The ances tors of some of those Greeks had hoard Demosthenes in his oration on own, had heard Fschines in his speeches against Timarohus nud Ctesipbon, had heard Plato argument for immortality of heard Bo his death up of hemlock in hand, leave his heay in mot too Dear; had in the t the foot them the de- spised be judge, of their csnele the in bis great the soul bh rates on Wl al enter y fonry nt 111 s on Mars Hill rd or witnessod such tornadoes « wnt with which Paul now whelmed AL those thoughts of re on and judgment the audience sprang noved they adjourn to a the same un the { two BACT r ption and last ars orator 3 | he MOCK Mn fy s the planet. Oh, hav i hore ag enough that our gods are no Your Boreas could not con Your Neptune could not 4 never evolis) grew Min. Your wittieaa t all, of Deve is tae of wisdom, the the (pd the God of we God of meres som sun d and the od i forever polis pakke and said as NE — ‘My Plato argusd ty of fhe = and my virtue, and my Miltiades swe back the Persian said Mars Hill, “your ruessed at the immortality my Pilato, divinely ine it as a fact straight from rates nralssd virtoe, but ex. You ’ {owes > r Miltiades was brave yet be died from a yoni tien in after defeat allenged all earth and all bell ut. ‘We wrestle not x, but againt principal the rulers of eartiuy usly go against gs. and then on the 64, on the road to of the headsman had one took the crown of given keen martyrdom.” After a moment's silence by the Acropolis moaned out in the ‘Alas! Alas™ and Mars Hill “Hosannak! Hosannah™ Then the volo both hills became indistinct, and as | passed on and away in the terilight I seemad to hear two sounds-fragment of Pentelicon marble from ths architrave of the Acropolis dropping down on the ruins of a shattered idol and the other sound seemed 10 « from the reek on Mars Kill, from which we bad just descended Hut we were by this time so (ar off that the fragments of sentences were smaller when dropping from Mars Hills than were the fragments of fallen marble on the Acropolis, and 1 could only hear parts of disconnected sentences wafted on the night air—"God who made the world" "of one blood all nations” "ap pointed a day in which He will judge the world” —"“ramed from the dead.” As that nizht in Athens | put my tired head onmy pillow, and the exciting scenes of the day, passed throughmy mind, | thought | on the same subject on which, se a boy, | made my commencement speech IN Niblo's Toeatre on graduation day from the New | York University, viz, “The moral affects of sculpture and architecture,” but further | than I could have thought in boyhood, I | thought in Athens that night that the moral effects of architecture and sculpture depend on what you do in great buildings after they are put up, and upon the character of the men whose forms you cut in the marble, Yea! 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