Some moved they adjourn to some
other day to hear more on the same
theme, but others would have torn the
sacred orator to pieces.
The record says, ' 'Some mocked
suppose it means that they mimicked
the solemnity of his voice, that they
took off his impassioned gesticulation
and they cried out: "Jew! Jew I Where
did you Btudy rhetoric? You ought to
hear our orators speak 1 You had bet
ter go back to your business of tent
making. Our Lycurgus knew more in
a minute than - you will know in
month. Say, where did you get that
erooked back, and those weak eyes
from ? Ha I Ha 1 You try to teach us Gre
cians 1 What nonsense you talk about
when you speak of Resurrection and
Judgment. Now, little old man, climb
down the side of Mars Hill and get out
of sight as soon as possible." "Some
mocked." But, that scene adjourned
to the day of which the sacred orator
had spoken the day of Resurrection
and Judgment.
THK PAST AXD THE FUTURE. ,
As in Athens, that evening in 1889,
we climbed down the pile of slippery
rocks where all this had occurred, on
our way back to our hotel, I stood half
way between the Acropolis and Mars
Hill in the gathering shadows of even
tide I seemed to hear those two hills in
sublime and awful converse. "I am
chiefly of the past;" said the Acropolis.
"I am chiefly of the future," replied
Mars Hill. The Acropolis said: "My
orators are dead. My lawgivers are
dead. My poets are dead. My archi
tects are ? sad. My sculptors are dead.
I am a mo ument of the dead past. I
shall neve again hear a song sung.
