. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . heathen divinities and an-nounced his belief in onlyone divinity, saying: Godthat made the world andall things therein, seeinghe is Lord of heaven andearth, dwelleth not in tem-ples made with then, looking up atthe glittering idols on thehigher hill, he continues: We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silveror stone, graven by art and mans device; and the times of this ignoranceGod winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Nowonder that meeting broke up in a riot, and that Paul ha
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . heathen divinities and an-nounced his belief in onlyone divinity, saying: Godthat made the world andall things therein, seeinghe is Lord of heaven andearth, dwelleth not in tem-ples made with then, looking up atthe glittering idols on thehigher hill, he continues: We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silveror stone, graven by art and mans device; and the times of this ignoranceGod winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent. Nowonder that meeting broke up in a riot, and that Paul had to clear out andgo to Corinth, from which we came day before yesterday. It was not, yesterdayafternoon, so much that the wind fluttered the leaves of my Bible as I wasspeaking about that address of Paul on Mars Hill, as it was emotion thatshook the book when that apostolic scene rose before my imagination. Iobtained a block of stone from Mars Hill to be sent to Brooklyn for the pulpittable in our new church, now building. But has this Paul nothing to do with. RUINS 01? THE ACR0P0US, ATHENS A SACRED PILGRIMAGE 121 the blessed One whose life I am trying to write? Yes. Paul was Jesus Christsman. Mars Hill shall be to us only a stepping-stone to Golgotha. Yesterday I saw the Acropolis, and preached on Mars Hill, and afterdark went out and wandered among the fifteen immense pillars which are theIkitnos and Kallikrates, the architects who planned it, and Phidias, who chiseledit, and Pericles, under whose patronage it was lifted. One of the pleasantest incidents of the Eastern journey was his meetingwith the gracious Queen Olga of Greece. Dr. Talmage, in after years, fre-quently referred to this occurrence as one that had given him not only a senseof genuine pleasure, but had opened his eyes to the world-wide character ofhis ministry. Queen Olga having stated that she read his sermons every weekin her own capital and in her own language. He wrote: A MEETING WITH ROYALTY We were pres
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