The book and the land . tood on Mars Hill, where Paul gave that4 50 THE BOOK AND THE LAND wonderful address to the Athenians re-corded in Acts xvii, beginning with thetwenty-second verse. Imagine, if you can,the speaker and his audience. He a manof widest scholarship, and they, to the lastof them, familiar with questions old andnew, accustomed to keenest disputation andmatchless arguments, listening to the great-est sermon in history save the Sermon ofour Lord on the Mount. It was most fittingthat our committee provided, in their pro-gram for next Sundays service on MarsHill,that all the pasto
The book and the land . tood on Mars Hill, where Paul gave that4 50 THE BOOK AND THE LAND wonderful address to the Athenians re-corded in Acts xvii, beginning with thetwenty-second verse. Imagine, if you can,the speaker and his audience. He a manof widest scholarship, and they, to the lastof them, familiar with questions old andnew, accustomed to keenest disputation andmatchless arguments, listening to the great-est sermon in history save the Sermon ofour Lord on the Mount. It was most fittingthat our committee provided, in their pro-gram for next Sundays service on MarsHill,that all the pastors on the Grosser Kurffirstshould recite Pauls sermon in concert. We went from Mars Hill to the Par-thenon, where we spent hours contem-plating the miracles in marble which havebeen the wonder and admiration of archi-tects and sculptors for centuries; for is notthe world in all the nations of earth em-ploying the unsurpassable Doric and Ionicbeauty of the Parthenon? Here Solon,Plato, Socrates, Demosthenes, Pericles, and. MALTA, ATHENS, CORINTH 53 many others who live in history achievedtheir fame. Here we saw the forum ofDemosthenes; the prison where Socratesdrank the hemlock and died; here, too, thelantern with which Diogenes went throughthe streets in broad daylight searching for aman; and here, to show his contempt formany things men are greedy to possess, hesaid, when asked what favor should beshown him, I want no favor but that youwill stand aside and let the sun shine on for us all could we learn the greatlesson of Paul: I have learned in what-soever state I am therewith to be content. Man wants but little here below,Nor wants that little long. It was in a bazaar of Athens that oneof her great philosophers said: How manythings there are here that I do not want. In the museum we saw specimens of thebest sculpture of Greece; but not one pieceof statuary did I see in perfect were more or less discolored, bruised, 54 THE BOOK AND THE LAND broken. All
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