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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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s to the hills.The last fragment of these temples willbe gone by and by—the last memoryof their glory—but the hills will be stillyoung and wearing their violet crown,still turning green in the breath of aGrecian spring. Down through that splendid entrance,the Propylaea, at last, for it was grow-ing late. We had intended climbingthe Hill of Mars, where St. Paulpreached, but we could see it plainly inthe sunset light and there was no needto labor up the stairs. I think it wasabout this time of day when St. Paulpreached there. He had been wanderingabout Athens, among the temples, on asort of tour of observation, making aremark occasionally—of criticism, per-haps—disputing with the Jews in thesynagogue, and now and again in themarket place. The story, told in theseventeenth chapter of Acts, begins: Then certain philosophers of the Ep-icureans and of the Stoicks encounteredhim. And some said, What will thisbabbler say? Other some, He seemethto be a setter forth of strange gods, be-
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THE PLACE IS STILL A THEATER, AND ONE HAS BUT TO CLOSE HIS EYES TO FILL ITWITH FORMS VAGUE AND SHADOWY. cause he preached unto them Jesus andthe resurrection. They brought St. Paul here to theAreopagus, that is, to Mars Hill, wherein ancient days an open air court washeld, a court of supreme jurisdiction incases of life and death. But it wouldseem that the court had degenerated inSt. Pauls time to a place of gossip andwrangle. For all the Athenians andstrangers which were there spent theirtime in nothing else, but either to tell orhear some new thing. Paul rose up before the assembly andmade his famous utterance beginning,Ye men of Athens, I perceive that inall things ye are too superstitious. Itwas a fearless, wonderful sermon he de-livered, and I like to think that it wasjust at the hour when we saw the hill;just at the evening time, with the sunsetglory on his face. Paul closed his re-marks with a reference to the resurrec-tion, a doctrine new to them: And when they heard of the re

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