. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . er does the Mediterranean subside at the beach, than theknolls become hills, and the hills mountains, and the mountains a volcanic bom-bardment of the heavens. Surely the stage on which martyrdoms were enactedwas grand enough for the mighty tragedies! We come to Corinth. What a solemn place it is to me! All the ancientcity gone, but the Acro-Corinthus, the fortress two thousand feet high, stillstanding. It not only looks down upon a vast realm of scenery but looks downupon the ages. Pauls eyes were lifted toward that proud eminen
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . er does the Mediterranean subside at the beach, than theknolls become hills, and the hills mountains, and the mountains a volcanic bom-bardment of the heavens. Surely the stage on which martyrdoms were enactedwas grand enough for the mighty tragedies! We come to Corinth. What a solemn place it is to me! All the ancientcity gone, but the Acro-Corinthus, the fortress two thousand feet high, stillstanding. It not only looks down upon a vast realm of scenery but looks downupon the ages. Pauls eyes were lifted toward that proud eminence as he camefrom the mobocracy of Athens. The fortress is a great heap of black basalt. Othou doomed and dead and buried Corinth ! Thy splendor was overpoweredby thy dissoluteness. Yet all is quiet now, and, but for the clouds built likeanother Acro-Corinthus above the fortress, it is a rather peaceful scene, birdsflying, sheep pasturing, peasant women sewing. It was the same landscape onwhich Paul looked in his gradual progress to martyrdom for Christs THEATRE OF DIONYSIUS 120 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK One Sunday morning he had the unspeakable privilege of preaching to alarge company of people on Mars Hill. What a pulpit for such a preacher!There stood that day, in that august place, the preacher who had preached the(rospel of Christ to more people than any other minister since the days ofSaint Paul, who gave to Mars Hill a new immortality. Speaking of the Acrop-olis, Dr. Talmage gives us a glimpse of how much the sermon he preachedthere must have moved him: But this secular classic of the Acropolis did not move me like the Gospelclassic of Mars Hill. What a bold man was Paul to stand there on thosetumbled rocks and say what he did! I suppose he could be heard across to theAcropolis, which was covered with temples to heathen gods and goddesses. An Englishman standingthere said he heard dis-tinctly what I said whileI was preaching on MarsHill. As Pauls voic
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