. The Burton Holmes lectures;. CinRCII ol-- IIIi: IAXACIA CORCOIMKO THE OLYMPIAN GAMES 31 Just outside the doorway of this chapel there lies a largeblock of gray marble. On it is carved in Greek lettersan inscription which, if authentic, and many scholars admitits authority, gives to that stone a priceless value : Thisis the stone from Cana of Galilee, where Jesus Christ ourLord turned water into wine. The stone was broughtto Athens long ago by pilgrims from the Holy A I!\/, CHURCH This mingling of the souvenirs of far separated epochs isin many places strikingly apparent. Statel
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. CinRCII ol-- IIIi: IAXACIA CORCOIMKO THE OLYMPIAN GAMES 31 Just outside the doorway of this chapel there lies a largeblock of gray marble. On it is carved in Greek lettersan inscription which, if authentic, and many scholars admitits authority, gives to that stone a priceless value : Thisis the stone from Cana of Galilee, where Jesus Christ ourLord turned water into wine. The stone was broughtto Athens long ago by pilgrims from the Holy A I!\/, CHURCH This mingling of the souvenirs of far separated epochs isin many places strikingly apparent. Stately columns rearedby Hadrian when Rome was mistress of the world stand likea group of minarets beside an old dilapidated mosque built bythe Turk when he was striving after universal sway. Then,looking through the portico of the Moslem builder, we see amodern house erected in the reign of George the First, kingof the Greeks of to-day. And, did we care further toprosecute our search, we could find structures built by the 32 THE OLYMPIAN GAMES Franks and the Venetians who in turn were masters of theland, and on the slope of the Acropolis, almost within theshadow of the Parthenon, we may find a little group of dwell-ings so like the whitewashed houses in the native quarter ofAlgiers that we expect to see at every corner the flowingburnoose of an Arab Kaid. This is, however, the abode ofpoverty, the headquarters of the laundresses of Athens. The
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