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The British Government proposes to
build a very extensive barracks at Hali¬
fax, which, in case of war, would be oc¬
cupied by troops on their way to India
by way of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The site for these barracks has already
been selected. . •
One of the greatest modern industries,
asserts the San Francisco Chronicle , is
the production of beet sugar. Its crea¬
tion has given employment to a vast
number of persons, and has so cheapened
sugar that it is within the reach of tbs
lowest-waged workman.
The farm products of Vermont this
season will realize $30,000,000, which,
declares the New York Commercial Ad
tsertiser, is the best year’s showing for
the Green Mountain State farmers since
the war. Improved methods of culture
are largely credited with the prosperity.
The civilized nations of the earth have
agreed to oo-operate in taking a photo¬
graphic chart ot the heavens. Some
twenty telescopes are to work four years,
and will result in mapping proba¬
bly twenty-five millions of stars; with
longer exposures probably two thousand
millions could be photographed.
An expert (Hoard's Dairyman) says:
^‘The cow is winning her way into the
hearts of the Southern people. One in¬
stance in proof thereof is the first con¬
signment of cheese ever received in St.
Louis from Arkansas, which reached that
market lately from the Grand Prairie
Dairy Company, at Stuttgart, Ark. ”
Canada gives to its geological survey
only $60,000 a year, while, contrasts
the Chicago Herald, the various geologi¬
cal surveys in our own country absorb
nearly $1,000,000 annually. Yet Can¬
ada makes a fine showing with this
modest sum. The annual geological
records are in part records of original
discovery and research, and, with their
line maps and photogravures, etj as in¬
teresting as many books of travel. Can¬
ada contains the largest unknown areas
of the American continent.
Savage or half-civilized princes often
prefer death to exile in a foreign coun¬
try. Malietoa, the King of Samoa,
jumped overboard when the Germans
took him to the Gilbert Islands, and was
not rescued with his own consent. Three
chiefs of the Comoro Islands, off the
East African coast, were taken away
from home three months ago on account
of the revolution which they headed
against the French, They were very un¬
happy on board ship, and when the ves¬
sel reached Obock they tried to jump
overboard, and were placed in irons tf
prevent further suicidal attempts.
It is said that a few years ago some of
the members of foreign legations it
Washington gave the police no end o!
trouble. Thjy knew that they could
not be punished for any ordinary misde¬
meanor, and frequently raised a row or
the streets. Whea arrested they had
to be released as soon as identified. Fi
aally the police tried a new dodge. They
had a few sluggers loafing around the
station, who made it a point to pitch into
the foreigners, and give them black
eyes and bloody noses. This quieted the
riotous members of the legation, aud foi
some time past they have given the po¬
lice very little trouble.
Californians now engaging in the cul¬
tivation of prunes find the profits very
tempting, being about one dollar a tree,
or $100 the acre. This rate increases as
the tree grows older until the fruit each
year is worth almost two dollars. Ex
Secretary of State Thomas Beck ha 1 ! given
ap everything else to engage in the cul¬
tivation of the prune. The Pajaro Land
and Fruit Company was recently formed
for the purpose of raising this fruit in
large quantities. It has bought 600
acres of land in Pajaro Valley, an! will
plant an orchard of French prune trees.
They will be from four to six feet in
height when put into the ground. The
stock of these trees is to be two years old
and the grafting one year. Next year
they will begin to yield fruit. The av
«rage Ufa of a tree is thirty years.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
the BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
flnbjeet: “The Wonderi'M* Athens."
Text: "While Paul waited for them at
Athens the his city spirit was stirred in idolatry.”— him, when
he saw wholly given to
Acts xvii., 16.
It seemed as if morning would never come.
Wehad arrived after dark in Athens,Greece,
and the night was sleepless with expecta¬
tion, and my watch 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 Greek Greek sculpture, Greek and poetry,
history. eloquence, prowess Greek
That morning in Athens we sauntered
forth armed with most generous and lovely
letters from the President of the United
States and his Secretary of State, and dur¬
ing all our stay in that city those letters
caused every door and every gate and every
temple and every mightiest palace to swing open be¬
fore us. The geographical name
on earth to-day is America. The signature
of an American President and Secretary of
State will take a man where an army could
not. Those names brought us into the
presence of a most gracious and beautiful
sovereign, cordiality the Queen like of that Greece, of sister and than her
was more a
the occupant of a throne room. No formal
bow as when monarchs are approached, but
a cordial -hake of the hand, and earnest
questions about our personal welfare
and our beloved country far away.
But this morning we pass through where
stood locality the Agora, the philosophers ancient market U8ed place,
the where to meet
their disciples, walking while they talked,
flung and where Paul, the Christian the logician, laugh
many a proud impertinent stoic and Epicurean. got The
market on many an social
political place was the center of and
life, and tell it was the place the where
people went to and hear news.
Booths and bazaars were set up for merchan¬
dise of be ail kinds except meat, but everything be
must sold for cash, and there must no
lying about the values of commodities, and
inflict the Agoranomi who ruled the place could
severe punishment upon offenders.
The different schools of thinkers had dis¬
tinct places set apart for convocation. The
Platoeans must meet at the cheese market,
the Decelians at the barber shop, the sellers
of perfumes at the frankincense head¬
quarters. The three
market place was a space hun¬
dred and fifty yards long and two hundred
and gossip fifty yards wide, and it was given up to
and merchandise, and lounging and
philosophizing. order All this you the Bible need to when know it
in to understand
says of Paul, “Therefore disputed he in the
market daily with them that met him.”
You see it w r as the best place to get an au¬
dience# and if a man feels himself called to
preach he wants people to preach to. But
belorewe make our chief visits of to-day wo
must take a turn at the Stadium. It is a
little way out, but go we must. The Sta¬
dium was the place where the foot races oc¬
curred.
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 obtain set before us,” and again, but “They do
it to a corruptible garland, we an
incorruptible.” The marble and the gilding
have been removed, but the high mounds
against which the seats were piled are still
there. The Stadium is six hundred and
eighty feet long, held one hundred and thirty feet
There wide, and forty thousand spectators.
which is the to-day the very departed tunnel from through the
defeated racer
Stadium and from the hisses of the people,
and there are the stairs up which the victor
went to the top of the hill to be crowned with
the laurel.
In this place contests with wild beasts
sometimes took place,and while Hadrian,the
emperor, sat on yonder height one thousand
beasts were slain in one celebration. But it
was chiefly for foot racing,and so I proposed
to my frieud that day while we were in the
Stadium that we try which of us could run
tke sooner from end to end of this historical
ground, lookers and so at the side word side, given but by before the
on we started by
I got through I found out what Paul meant
when he compares the spiritual race with the
race in this very weight.” Stadium, My as he says, “Lay
aside every heavy overcoat
and my friend’s freedom from such iucum
brance showed the advantage in any kind of
a race of “laying aside every Acropolis. weight.”
We come now to the It is a
rock about two miles in circumference at
the base and a thousand feet in circumfer
enee at the top and three hundred feet high.
On it has been crowded more elaborate
architecture and sculpture than in any
other place under the whole heavens,
Originally a fortress, and afterward and a congre- pillars,
gation their of temples statues which
ruins an enchantment from no
observer ever breaks away. No wonder
that Aristides thought it the centre of all
things—Greece, the centre Greece; of the world,
Attica, the centre of Athens, the
centre of Attica, and the Acropolis the cen
tre Veins of Athens. Earthquakes have shaken it,
plundered it.
Lord Elgin, the English Embassador at
Constantinople, got permission of the Sul
tan to remove from the Acropolis fallen
pieces of the building, but he took from the
building to England the finest statues, re
moving them at an expense of eight hundred
thousand dollars. A storm overthrew Morosini, many
of the statues of the Acropolis.
the General, attempted to remove from a
pediment the sculptured car and horses of
Victory, but the clumsy machinery dropped
it and all was lost.
The Turks turned the building into a
powder magazine where the Venetian guns
dropped a fire that by explosion sent the
columns flying in the air ana falling cracked
and splintered. But after all that time and
storm and war and iconoclasm have effected,
the Acropolis is the monarch of all ruins.
and before it bow the learning, the genius,
the poetry, the art, the history of the ages, I
I saw it as it was thousands of years ago.
had read so much about it and dreamed
much about it that I needed no magician’s
wand to restore it.
At one wave of my hand on that clear
morning in 1889 it rose before me in the glory
it had when Pericles ordered it and Ictinus
planned it and Phidias chiseled it and Pro
togines painted it and Pausanias described
it. Its gates, which were carefully guarded
by the ancients, open to let you in and you
ascend by sixty marble steps the pronyke,
Thebes, which Epaminondas wanted I to glad transfer to
but permission, am to say,
could not be granted for the removal of this
architectural miracle, in the days when
ten cents would do more than a dollar now,
the building cost two million three hundred
thousand dollars. See its fiva ornamental
gates, the keys intrusted to an offi¬
cer for only oue day, lest the temp
tation to go in and misappropriate the
treasures be too great for him; its ceiling and a
mingling of blue and scarlet and green,
the walls abloom with pictures utmost in
bought and coloring. Yonder is a temple
to a goddess called “Victory Without
Wings.” So many of the triumphs of the
world bad been followed by defeat that the
Greeks wished in marble to indicate that
victory for Athens had come, never again to
fly away, and hence this temple to “Victory
Without Wings’’—a temple of marble, snow
white and glittering. Yonder behold the
pedestal of Agrippa, twenty-seven feet high
and twelve feet square.
But the overshadowing wonder of all the
hill is the Parthenon, in days when money
was ten times more valuable than now it cost
four million six hundrod thousand dollars,
It is a Doric grandeur, having forty-six high
1 columns, each column thirty-four feet
and six feet two inches in diameter. Won
drous inter-columniations! Painted shields porti- of
cos, architraves tinged with ochor,
gold hung up, lines of most delicate curve,
figures of horses and men and women and
gods, oxen on the way to sacrifice, statues of
the deities Dionysius, Prometheus, Hermes,
Denieter, 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 suu,
the fates, thefuries; statue of Jupiter hold
ing in his right hand the thunderbolt; silver
footed chair in which Xerxes watched the
battle of Salamis only a few miles away.
Here is the colossal statute of T liners In
full armoi*, eyes of gray colored 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 sculpturedand tied on with
thongs of gold. Far out at sea the sailors
saw fbls statue of Minerva rising high above Here
all the temples, glittering in the sun.
are statutes of equestrians, statue of a lion
uess, and there are the Graces, and yonder a
horse in bronze.
There is a statue said in the time of
Augustus to have of its own accord turned
around from east to west and spit blood;
statues made out of shields conquered expeller in of
battle; statue of Apollo, the
locusts; statue 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
of sculpture. But walk on and around the
Acropolis and yonier you sea a statu© of
iygeia, and the statue of the Theseus Hercules fight
in* the Minotaur and the statue of
slaying serpents. No wonder that Petronius
said it was easier to find a god than a man in
Athens. Oh. the Acropolis 1 The most of
its temples and statues made from the mar
ble quarries of Mount Peatelieum, a little
wav from the city.
1 have here on my-table a block of the
Parthenon made out of this marble, and on
it is the sculpture of Phidias. I brought it
from the Acropolis. This specimen has ou
it the dust of ages and the marks of explo
lion and battle, but you can get from it
some idea of the delicate luster of the Aero
polls when it was covered with a mountain
of this marble cut into all the exquisite
shapes that genius aud could aflame contrive gold. and
striped with silver with
The Acropolis in the morning light of those
mcients must have shone as though it were
m aerolite cast off from the noonday sun.
The temples must have looked like muSt petrified have
foam. ’The whole Acropolis
seemed like the white breakers of the great
Deean t ,i mG
But hill we cannot stop longer here, though for there it
is a near by of more interest,
has not one chip of marble to suggest a
statue or a temple. We hasten down the
Acropolis to ascend the Areopagus, or Mars
Hill, as it is called. It took only about three
minutes to walk the distance, and I the two
hilltops are so near that what said in re¬
ligious discourse on Mars Hill was heard dis¬
tinctly by some English Hill gentlemen pile on the
Acropolis. This Mars is a rough of
rock fitty feet high. It was famous long be¬
fore New Testament times.
The Persians easily and terribly assaulted
the Acropolis from this hilltop. Here as¬
sembled the court to try criminals. It was
held in the night time,so that the faces of the
judges could not be seen,nor the faces of the
lawyers who made the plea, and so, it instead
ef the trial being cool one justice. of emotion, But must
have been one of there was
one occasion on this hill memorable above
ill others.
A little described man, physically by himself weak, contempti- and his
rhetoric as
ble, had by his sermons rocked Athens with
commotion, and he was summoned either by
writ of law or hearty invitation to come
upon that of pulpit of rook All and the give wiseacres a spec- of
imeu his theology.
Athens turned out and turned up to hear
him. The more venerable of them sat in an
amphitheater, the granite seats of whica
are still visible, but the the hill other and people the
swarmed on all sides of at
base of it to hear this man, waorn some
called a fanatic, and others called a mad
cap, and others a blasphemer, fellow.” and others
styled contemptuously “this
Paul arrived in answer to the writ or in¬
vitation, and conirontei them and gave
them the biggest dose that mortals ever took,
He was so built that nothing could scare
him, and as tor Jupiter whose and Athenia, the in
god aud the goddess, images were
full sight on the ad joining he hill, had he had not so
much regard for them as for under the ant his
that was In that crawiing audience in the sand the first
feet. were orators
of the world, and they had voices like flutes
when they were passive, and like trumpets
when they were aroused, and I think they
laughed in the sleeves of their gowns as this
insignificant man rose to speak, Scholiasts,
In that audience were who
knew everything, or thought longest they did, and
from the end of the hair on the top
of their omniums to the end of the nail ou
the longest toe, they were stuffed with
hypercriticism, aud they leaned back with a
supercilious look to listen. As in 18S9, I
stood on that rock where Paul stood, and a
stab of which I brought from Athens by
consent of the queen, through Mr. Tricoupis,
the prime minister, and had placed whole in yon
der Memorial Wall, I read the story,
Bible in hand,
What I have so far said in this discourse
was necesseary in-order that you may un¬
derstand the boldness, the defiance, the holy
recklessness, the magnificence of Paul’s
speech. The first thunderbolt he launched
at the opposite hill—the Acropolis—that
moment all aglitter with idols and temples,
He cries out. “God who made the world.”
Why.they thought that Prometheus made it,
that Mercury made it, that Apollo made it,
that Poseidon made it, that Enos made it,
y^ade Pam irwcus made it, that Boreas
< it, that it took all the gods of
the Parthenon, yea, all the gods and god¬
desses of the Acropolis to make ecclesiastical it, and
here stands a man without any
title, neither a D. D., nor even a reverend,
declaring that the world was made by the
Lord of heaven and earth, aud hence the in¬
ference that all the splendid covering of the
Acropolis, so near that the people could standiug hear
on the steps of the Parthenon it,
was a deceit, a falsehood, a sham, a blasphe¬
my. Look at the faces of his auditors; and they
are turning pale, and then red, then
wrathful. There had been several earth
quakes in that region, but that was the se¬
verest shock these men had ever felt.
The Persians had bombarded Hill, the Acropo¬
lis from the heights of Mars but this
Pauline bombardment was greater and more
terrific. “What,” said his hearas, “have
we been hauling with many yokes of oxen for
centuries these blocks from the quarries of
Mount Pentelicum, and have we had our
architects patting op these structures of un-
paralleled splendor, and have we had the
greatest of all sculptors, Phidias, with his
men chiseling away at those wondrous friezes,and peii
ra ents and cutting away nation’s at these the
have we taxed the resources to
utmost, now to be told that those statues see
nothing, hear nothing, know nothing?
these oh, startled Paul, stop and for overwhelmed a moment and auditors give
time to catch their breath! Make a rhetorical
pause I Take a look around you at the inter
esting landscape, and give your hearers time
to recover! No, ho does not make even a
period, ( or so much as a colon or semicolon,
)U t launches the second thunderbolt right
after the first, aud iu the same breath goes
on to say, God “rtwolleth not in temples
made with hands.” Ou, Paul! Is not deity
more in the Parthenon, or more in the The
seum, or more in the Erechtheium, or more
in the temple of Zeus Olympius than in the
open air, more than on the hill whore we are
sitting, more than on Mount Hymettus out
yonder, from which the bees get their
honey? “No more!” responds Paul, “He
dwelleth not in temples made with hands.”
But surely the preacher ou the pulpit of
rock on Mars Hill will stop now. His au
dienco can endure no more. Two thunder
bolts are enough. No, in the same breath he
launches the third thunderbolt, which to
them is more fiery, more terrible, more de
molishing than the others, blood as nations.” he cries out: Oh,
“hath made of one all
Paul 1 you forget you exclusive are speaking to iu the
proudest and most audience the
world. Do not say “of one blood.” You
cannot mean that. Had Socrates and Plato
and Demosthenes and Solon and Lycurgus
and Draco aud. Sonhocles aud Eurioides and
-cEschylus and Pericles and Phidias and Mil
bades blood just like the Persians, like the
lurks, like the Egyptians, “Yes,” like the common
herd blood of humanity? nations.” says Paul, “ol
one all
Eurely that must be the closing paragraph
the sermon. His auditors must let up
from the nervous strain. Paul has smashed
the Acropolis and smashed the national pride
oi the Greeks and what more can he say?
Those Grecian orators, standing on that
place, always closed their addresses witn
something sublime and oumacteric-a paror
ft tion and i aut is going to give them a
p©ioration which will eclipse in power and
majesty all that he has yet said. Hereto
;? re ^ as burled one thunderbolt at a
time noW u e nl close by hurling two
’ mi:
RIi ouce> *“e iittie old man, nnuer the
power of his spee«^ has straightened
b ‘ mS S ®,ih p ~ U0 AT S°°£
three Kf* to]i pr (-hnn than wi, when he began; and
fl am Z of fGe• 1 .Tvfpff« which ; J? ecam0 was calm *7°
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d thoughts were to them
a ^ P r °™Chnst the de
"P 1 ®!? r COn \ 0 t0 be thelr
J“ d ? e> and tile T should have to get up out
of their . cemeteries to stand before Him and
take their eternal doom. Mightiest burst of
elocutionary of power ever heard. The ances¬
tors some of those Greeks had heard
Demosthenes in his ora'iou on the crown,
had heard ..^JSschines in his speeches against
Timarchus and Ctesiphon, had heard Plato
in his great argument for immortality of
the soul, had heard Socrates on his death¬
bed, suicidal cup of hemlock in hand, leave
his hearers in emotion too great too bear;
had in the theater of Dionysius, at the
foot of the Acropolis (the ruins
of its piled up amphitheater and the
marble floor of its orchestra still there) seen
enacted the tragedies of ASsehylus and Sopho¬
cles. but neither had the ancestors of these
Grecians on Mars Hill or themselves ever
heard or witnessed such tornadoes of moral
power as that with which Paul now whelmed
ttis hearers. At those two thoughts of re¬
surrection and judgment the audience sprang
to their feet. Some moved they adjourn to
some other day to hear more on the same
theme, but others would have tom the sacred
orator to pieces.
The record says, “Some mocked.” I sup¬
pose it means that they mimicked the
solemnity of his voice; that they took off
his impassioned gesticulation, and they cried
out: “Jew! Jew.' Where did you study
rhetoric? You ought to hear otir orators
speak! You had better go back to your
business of tentmaking. Our Lycurgus
kuew more in a minute than you will know
in a month. Say, where did you get that
crooked back, aud those weak eyes from?
Ha! ha! You try to teach us Grecians!
What nonsense you talk about wnen you
speak of resurrection and judgment. Now,
little old man, climb down the side of Mars
Hill and get out of sight as soon as possible."
“Some mocked.” But that scene adjourned
to the day of which the sacred orator had
spoken—the day of resurrection and judg¬
ment.
As in Athens, that evening in 18S9, we
climbed down the pile of . slipperv rocks,
where all this had occurred, on our way back
to our hotel, I stood half way between the
Acropolis and Mars Hill in the gathering
shadows of eventide, I seemed to hear those
two hills m sublime and awful converse. I
am chiefly of the past;” said the Acropolis.
“I am chiefly of the future;’’ replied Mai-s
Hill. The Acropolis said: “My orators are
dead. My lawgivers are dead. My poets
are dead. My architects are dead. My
sculptors are dead. 1 am a monument of
the dead past 1 shall never again hear a
soug sung. I will never again see a column
lifted. I will never again behold a goddess
"Mara Hill responded: “1, too, have a his
tory. I had on my heights warriors Who
will never again unsheath the sword, and
judges who will never again utter a doom,
° r Rn°t r Lr^fl ft eveT WiU wL^in ne - V f ii tho^t.^The lgain mak « a
future than
words that missionary, Paul, uttered that
exciting and day in the bearing of the wisest
men the populace on my rocky shoulders
have only begun their majestic role; the
brotherhood of man, and the Christ of God,
and the peroration of resurrection and last
judgment closed his with which the Tarsian orator
sermon that day amid the mocking
crowd Acropolis shall I vet revolutionize the planet. Oh°
1 have stood here long enough
to witness that your gods are no
gods at all. Your Boreas could not con¬
trol the winds. Your Neptune could not
manage the sea. Your Apollo never evoked
a musical note. Your god Ceres never grew
a harvest. Your goddess of wisdom, Min¬
erva, never knew the Greek alphabet. Your
Jupiter could not handle the lightnings
But the God whom I proclaimed ou the day
when Paul preached before the astounded
assemblage on God my rough heights is the God
of music, the of wisdom, the God of
power, the God of mercy, the God of love
the God of storms, the God of sunshine, the
S3 SSS/ u ‘* ”*■ “»
Then the Acropolis spake and said, as
sacysysrsi myMiltiadS
Socrates praised virtue, and
at Marathon drove back the Persian op
pressors.” “Yes," said Mars Hill, “your
THK reportg from Italy indicate that
Sns5»tupon1hUtKgo 0 /SS
Plato laboriously guessed at the immortality
of the soul, hut my Plato, straight d'T™®' W, from * n "
spired, declare*’, it as a fact
God. Your Socrates praised virtue, but ex¬
pired as a suicide. Your Miltiades was br ,ve
against earthly foes, yet he died rrom a
wound ignoininiously gotten in after deteat,
But my Paul challenged all earth and all hell
with this battle shout, “We wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but againt prmcipal
ities, against powers, against the rulers .or
the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places, and then on the
29th of June, in the year 68, on the road to
Ostia, after the sword of the headsman had
given one keen stroke, took the crown or
martyrdom." moment’s silence by both hills ....
After a moaned in the darkness,
the Acropolis out
“Alas! Alas!” and Mars Hill responded,
“Hosannah! Hosannah!” Then the voices
of both hills became indistinct, and as 1
passed on and away in the twilight I seemed
£o hear only two sounds—fragment of of
f\sn tel icon marble from the architrave
the Acropolis dropping down on the ruins of
a shattered idol,and the other sound seemed
to come from the rock on Mars Hill, from
which we had just descended. Butwe were
by this time so lar off that the fragments from of
sentences were smaller when dropping fallen
Mars Hills than were the fragments of
marble on tie Acropolis, and 1 could only
hear parts of disconnected sentences wafted
on the night air—“God who made the
world”—“of blood all nations 1 ’— ap
one will judge the
pointed a day in which He
world”—“raised from the dead.”
As that night in Athens I put my tired
bead on my pillow, and the exciting thought scenes
of the dayjpassed througfcimy mind, I
on the same subject on which, as a boy, I
made my commencement speech iN Niblos
Theatre on graduation day from the New
York University, viz., “The moral effects of
sculpture and architecture,” but further
than I could have thought in boyhood, I
thought in Athens that night that tne moral
effects of architecture an i sculpture depend
on what you do in great buildings a, ter_taey of the
are put up, and upon the character
men whose forms you cut in the marble,
Yea! t thoU ght that night what struggles
the martyrs went through in order that in
our time the Gospel might have full swing;
a nd i thought that night what a brainy re¬
Ugion it must be that could absorb a hero
iik© him whom we have considered human to-day, a
nia n, the superior of the whole race,
the infidels but pigmies or homunculi com
P ared witn him; anJ 1 thou S bc what a ra p ~
turous consideration it is that through the ,
game grace that saved Paul, we shall con
front this great apostle, and shall have the
opportunity, amid the familiarities of the
skies, of asking him what was the greatest
occasion of all his life.
He may say, “The ship wreck of Melite.’ ,. , 1
He may say. “The riot at Ephesus.” H«
ina T say. “ M y last walk out on the road tc
Ostia.’’ But, I think he will say, “The day
I stood on Mars Hill addressing the indignant
Areopagites, aud looking off upon the tower
ing form of the goddess Minerva, and the
majesty of the Parthenon and all the brill
iantdivinities of the Acropolis. That account
m the Bible was true. My spirit was stirred
within me when I saw the city wholly given
THE CONGO RAILWAY.
Over Two Thousand Men Employed in
this Important Enterprise.
A cablegram of Monday from Brussels
says: On July 31st last, 1,719 workmen
were engaged upon the Congo railroad.
A little later 500 new laborers arrived,
and the actual number employed on Sep¬
tember 15 h was 2,220. These workmen,
who are largely Zanzibari, Krumen and
Haussa, are under the charge of 200
white men, including fifteen civil engi¬
neers, nine superintendents of grading,
seventeen boss carpenters, ten keepers of
machinery and supplies, twenty-one
blacksmiths, three machinists, three boss
stonecutters, nineteen masons, a number
of physicians, and other heads
of departrmnts. The track has been
laid from Matadi to the Mapozo Valley,
and some distance up the valley toward
the Palaballa highlands, and this point
once attained, the railroad will encounter
few other engineering difficulties all the
way to Stanley pooh Three locomotives
are now on the tracl^, and all the mate¬
rial is transported by sjeam. Foundations
have been laid for a large bridge across
the Mapoza river. The work is making
the most favorable progress. The health
of Europeans is excellent.
FIFTEEN RAILROADS
n»T© Secured an Entrance to th«
Grounds of the World’s Fair.
A Chicago dispatch says: The Balti •
and Ohio railroad is the prime
in the scheme to secure an entrance
‘“ e south end of Jackson park to the
fair, for all lines running south
the Union, Van Buren street and
p-ii. 0 k i-t/cet stations as «, well n as those . from c
BnhOls Central station. Under the
of arrangement, fifteen great rail
will have di ect entrance to the
n‘; f-ii- o-ron, d • Gmh.din™ " ^ rh» 6
’
Central, i Michigan l • Central, , , Balti- , -
more and Ohio, Big Four, Chicago and
Trunk, Wabash, Atchison, Topeka
^ b i? a ra° and Erie, Lake Shore,
' n ittsburg, r ort Wayne and Chic igo, Pan
Handle, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
and Alton aud Rock Island,
l .'! ie /' x P ()si[i,m management will assume
obligations for a lease of the grounds
which the tracks pass,
THE MAIN BURST
Fifty Thousand People Without
Work.
A dispatch of Monday from Brooklyn,
Y., says: The city is having a water
famine, due to the bursting of the con¬
duit Saturday. The Brooklyn bridge
cable is stopped and locomotives are used
to shove people across the bridge. All
factories, elevators and hotels using
steam have had their water turned off,
and, as a result, 59,000 people have no
work.
MINNEAPOLIS CHOSEN
18 «» f« Holding tta Republican
National Convention.
^ IlnneH olls <”»!>.!<* -wr
nat >onal convention. P g ets tbe republican held
It will be
June 7, 1892. General James 8. Clark
fon manage the republican presi
^ year<