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Alone in the great heathen city
of Athens, the scones on which Paul
'gazed made him all the more lonely.
It was a great center of art, phil
osophy, and science. It was called
"the brain of the world." Milton de
scribes it in his "Paradise Regained"
as the ''mother of arts and eloquence."
In .these very streets Socrates had
been a daily teacher during his life,
and on Athens' Areopagus he was
condemned to die. In the olive grove
by the banks of the Cephissus, Plato
founded his academy. Within this
city was a garden where Epicurus
met his followers.
TAB SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
September -9, 1928,
|v ' Paul in Athens and Corinth
Text: Acts 17:16-18:17. .
For the first time in Raul's travels
he found himself without human com
panionship. He had been persuaded
by the believers at Berea to take
ship to Athens in view of the ap
pearance of persecutors from Thes
salonica. Silas remained behind and
ye gather that Timothy had been
sent back to Thessalonica to establish
the Christians there* (1 Thess. 3:2).
Thus the evangelistic band was brok
en up into units.
j Where all this education flourished:
| where the very periection of human
art was found; the center of huninn
culture their idolatry and sensuality
most abounded. Does that carry a
j message for the present day? What
is there in material splendors and
.mental training: to affect the moral
[and spiritual condition of a people?
;(1 Cor. 1:21; Rom. 1:21).
I Tte3l had more images than
could be found in all the rest of
reece. Their streets were crowded I
(with i dol sellers. It well-nigh broke
Iauls heart to see all this misuse of
(the products of genius? culture end
ing in nothing but selfish, vile grat
ification for the flesh. "His spirit
was stirred (paroxysm) in him" (17
lo).
Daily he carrlcd on a discussion in
the synagogue and In the market
place. There he encountered the Epi
cureans and the Stoics (v. 18), the
two leading schools 0f philosophy.
Epicureans taught ttiat the gerat end
of existence was enjoyment. Crea
tion was ascribed to chance. If there
was any Supreme Being, He wasjn
a erent *? human interests. TJic
Stoics claimed to b61ieve in God but
were pantheists. Providence was
governed by fatal necessity.
In the language of today, we have
- V? 80110018 th? materialists
and the moralists. In Epicureanism it
was: man s sensual nature resisting
the claims 0f the Gospel of Christ.
In Stoicism, it was self-righteousness
rS ?ridl?f intellect that ^?^ted
Chnst. The same general lines may
of Christ t0day am?ng th? rejecters
Here was Christianity's first con
tact with human philosophy. Paul
was an educated man- in a- university
city. He was fearless of all humv.i
sophistries, knowing that the Gosoel
could stand any test (Rom.
ihese men called him "a babbler"
(seed'-picker). ? The' word referred
to birds that picked up seed u. .i:nd
the market places and was sonKt >res
appRed to persons who hung around
the streets picking up gossip. It was
the old game of brow-beating. Paul
to them wa8 just a picker-up- of
learning s crumbs. Do not the high
brows still look upon the messengers
of the cross with the 8ame contempt?
The late William Jennings Bryan
was ntver regarded by stamen as
i an uneducated man, but when he used
his oratory to proclaim thn Gosnol
of Jesus Christ and defend funda
mental truth, even some preachers
called him an Ignoramus. He was a
bachelor of arts a master of arts, m
>ache!or 0f law, a doctor of law (hon
ored by degrees in eight or ten col
not competent to
v"* m B5blG and Wei*h {ts values?
babbler 6 PaUl' h? Wns cnlled a mero
How did Paul meet theso high
brows? "He poached >ur to them
Jesus and the resurrection" (\f. ih).
There you have two strings that the
preacher can always play upon. There
s no danger of two much emphasis.
The mu w||| (ind itB way ,nto n||
kinds of. hearts. I
They took this babbler to the Areo
pagus to hear him through. This
was a college of justice Where judg
ment was pronounced upon the worst
cases. Luke tells up that these Ath
enians spent their time in picking up
everything new in the way 0f religion
<V. 21). We still have the religious
newsmonger with us. He runneth
from lecture to. lecture t0 see what
new vagary he can pick up.
up in the mJd*t of
Mars' Hill and said j nor.
oelve that In all things ye are too
.uperstitlou." (over 'religions? <v
2Z). They admitted anything and ev
,n th* dre"" of
religion, though In it .11, there was
, ot w? >">vo In
S5* \ comblnatfon of
prudence, courtesy, wisdom and bold
o 1 ,eoun>61 t0 (2 Tim.
<2:24) ^ signally Illustrated. I^t tho
preacher and teacher observe that ho
did not denounce their heathen priest
craft and insult them, but laid a
foundation upon common ground and
then preached the Gospel.
He speakes of seeing an "altar to
the unknown God" (v.23). This was
the only Greek altar which in apy
sense was an altar to the true God.
For fear there might have been some
deity omitted, \hey erected this one
for the unknown. "The God you do
not know is the only God," said Paul.
"Him I declare unto you." What a
fino contact he had madel He then
proceeds to open the three great
books of God: (1) God in nature (vs.
24-25); (2) God in human history (vs.
26-28)7 (3) God in Christ (vs. 29-31). |
"God made the world" (v. 24). In
one crack he knocked the props out
from under both philosophies. IT
Sthere was a personal God, their doitieu
were nothing. God is separate from
and superior to all exi,stfcnces. Down
goes pantheism. God is the controll
er of everything. Chance is ruled
out. He "dwells not in temples made
with hands." Where could more
beautiful temples be found than ii:
Athens ?
He is not worshipped by hand (v
25), but "in spirit and in truth" (.In
4:24). ? He wants, fii'st of all, our re
cognition ond yieldedness,. not ou.'
gifts and deeds.
It was the common belief that the
different races had different origins
"God hath made of one blood all na
tions" (v. 20). lie pulls up by the
roots the Athenian conceit that th? y
were a very superior stock. In theii
conception mankind was divided int<
two classes ? Greeks and barbarians.
Scripture teaches that there is no <iif
ference in the blood of human races.
Science his proved it.
''In Him we live" (v. 28). There
fore, live to Him. In Him "we move.'
Therefore, look to Him. In Him we
"have 'our being." Therefore, eonse- I
crate your life to Him (Rom. 12:1). i
All men are "the offspring of God"
(v. 29). It is God's relation' to men
as creatures that is here spoken of
not His relation to them as spiritual
children (see Gal. 3:26; Jn. 1:12), The
argument is, that since man's very
existence points to an intelligent
Creator, He must be conceived of as
more than a stone image. Why-- is
it that some men are so eager to es
tablish paternity for man among the
baboons?
''THe times of ignorance God wink
ed at" (v. 30). The word means lit
erally "forbore." Winking is a figure
the word will not bear. God allowed
the ignorant worship of man to pass
withoOt special interference for cen
turies, but now, in the light of the
incarnation, the cross and the resur
rection, "commandeth all men every
where^ to repent." Here is a word
that should be pondered by thos/j -vlio
teach that repentance is not tht m ;s
sage for the present dispensation.
The closing verses record the three
fold result of Paul's discourse. 1.
Derision. 2. Delay. 3. Decision.
Paul 8aw more clearly than ever that
the only salvation for cultured people
was that of the cross, however they
might regard it (1 Cor. l:i8-20, 25
30).
?ul next proceeded to Corinth
(irf:i). The Corinthians were ex
perts in sin and no city could beat
its devotion to the altars of dark
ness Paul no doubt preuehod better
at Corinth because of his experience
at Athens. Ho decided to make his
messages thoroughly evangelistic. As
he walked the forty mifeg to Corinth,
he may have said to himself : "After
all, there's only one arrow that can
pierce the""heart of man." Anyway
he wrote the Corinthians: ** I came
not to you With excellency of spetch
or wisdom . . . for I determined not
f'to know anything among you pave
Jesus Christ and Him crucified." That
is a message we can all declar > and
that always works when it finds en*
trance in an honest hedrt. .
At Corinth ho "found a certain Jew
naVned Aquila . . . with his wife,
I'riscilla. Because he was of the
same craft ho abodo with them and
worked .(for by occupation they were
tentmakers)" (vs. 2-3). How did ho
over find them ? How did wo find
each other? There is no chance, but
that of the eternal purpose. After
all, there was a kind providence in
that edict of Clau<Hus' (v. 2) that
drovo these tentmakers from Home
to Corinth. It was God's way of
caring for Paul's comfort during a
trying time. ? How much ' it mcajn i?
the Lord's servants can have a place
to feel at homo, with Congenial fel
lowship! For Aquila and his wif?S it
meant a rtfre opportunity to enter
tain an apostle, and through it, to en
ter Christian work (Rom. 16:8-4).
Paul was glad to work on tents to
pfty expenses, th^t he might preach
without charge on tho Sabbath <fay.
He would not give' occasion to"* the
sharp-eyed Greeks to charge him with
being a grafter. It is well for a
preacher to know something besides
preaching. "The laborer is worthy
of his hire," Ifut there are times' when
.a wise foresight for the Gospel might
lead ministers to follow Paul's ox
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St. JohnsLN. F., August 21, 1928. ?
The c&ble ship Dominia, largest ship
of her type in the world, arrived here
today after completing what is be
lieved to be the fastest survey of a
new cable route. The survey, which
included occurate soundings of the
sea bottom, was made by the Dominia j
over the route of the new deep sea j
cable to be laid by the Western Union
Telegraph Comf<nny, between Bay ,
Roberts, Newfoundland, and Azores.
This cable, the core of which is wrap- j
,ped with a special alloy wire, origin- '
ater! in the laboratories of the West
ern Electric Company, will be the
fastest duplex cable in the wolrd.
Beginning the survey at the Azores
on August 14th, the Dominia Steamed
steadily towards Bay Itobcrts for sev
en days( over a premeditated route.
PracticivHv all the way the vessell was
proceeding at eight knots per t >ur,
while soundings were made' constantly
by an ccho depth finder which oper
ates electrically. The distance is
1,264 miles.
This depth finder radiates into the
water a g(\und which is produced by
elcctro-mechanicnlly driven diaphram.
This sound travels to the bottom of
the sea and returns in the form of
an echo which is caught by hydro
phone. The echo is conducted elec
trically to the indicator on the ships
bridge, where by suitable device.-; it
iu translated into fathoms of d.j 'h.
It thus is possible fgr the ship to
make soundings while traveling at
full speed, instead of hav.ng to -top
to use the tediou.s lead-line method.
The Dominia, owned by the 1VK ?
Ki aph Construction an I Mainteimiu .
Company, a British organization, ha ?.
the* contract for laying t ho r.i-w \\\ t.
cm Union cablc from Hay IN here
to llorta, in the Azores. To. lay \ lie
vessel is transferring the slio.v end
of tlie cable to th Western I'ni.ri
?able ship Cyrus Field. The Cyrus
1< ielil will lay this shore en!. fr< m
Bay Roberts to deep water, where it
will be picked up August 2:5 by the
Dominia Cor the start toward llorta.
The Dominia expects to complete her
job by about September 2.
(iuod Money in Hogs.
Lest year for the Tirat time Lan
caster county shipped' out a cooper
ative carload of h'jgs. This spring
the same thing was done wi th very
good success although the market this
spring was not as satisfoctory as i?
generally the. case. The hog market
seems to run in cycles and the past
eighteen months has been the period
in which the prices of hogs has been
the lowest. We are now on the up
ward ?trend in prices with the possi
bility that during the next eighteen
months to two years hogs will sell
for a good price. In March and Ap
ril of this year the prices of hogs on
foot was around 8 cents. Since May
there has been a steady climb and
good hogs are now selling at 12 to
13 cents per pounu on foot.
In making up the carload shipment
this spring, efforts were made to
have the hogs finished on a feeding
ration consisting of fish meal or tank
age and corn. Even when prices of
hogs were around 8 1-2 to 9 cents
profitable gains were made with this
ration. With a decided improvement
in the market there is no reason why
farmers should not make considerable
profits now from fattening hogs. The
County Agent wjshes to secure thv
cooperation of 12 or 15 farmers in
the county who desire to fatten for
market one or more hogs, these hogs
to be marketed in the fall. It gen
erally requires 7.r> or more good hogs
to make a carload shipment, and if
those farmers who are interested will
see him, the necessary arrangements
can be made whereby our farmers
can dispose of their surplus animals.
If every farmer in Lancaster county
marketed one hog from his farm ev
ery year, it should bring to the county
more than $100,000. Wo should sell
from this county 2r> or .'JO carloads of
fat hogs every year. We can do this
without any big increase in labor or
any great outlay of expense. ? The
Kershaw Era.
During his stny, until after re ?
Reiving an encouraging vision and the
words of Christ (vs. 9-10), Paul seems
to have passed through a time * f de
pression (v. 5). Later, writing of it,
he says he "was with them in weak
ness, and in fear and in much tremb
ling," Ilia, epifetle confirms tho ifn
pression that the whole of this first
Corinthian visit waft a time of ordeaJ
and crisis. The hardened perversity
of the Jews and their virulent hatred
against himself, together with bin
own lowliness, pressed him down in
spirit. In this excited and depressed
condition Silas and Timothy found
him (v. 6). Their fellowship and the
encouraging news they bore, stimulat
ed him greatly.
A year and a half he continued
''teaching the Word of God among
them" (v. 11). During this period
were written tho two epistles to the
Thosftalonianft, 1 he first of his nino
letters to churches, though tho last in
tho ordor of our New Teutamont.
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