Birth-Marks



was an unknown god; then of a universal God, unknown
to them, but known to him, of Christ, of the resurrection.
He quoted from their poet Epimenides; and considering
the subject, we have a right to assume that he quoted
from his own prophet, Isaiah. How a man taketh an ash
log, and with part thereof he roasteth flesh 'and is satis-
fied; yea he warmeth himself and saith, Aha I am warm,
I have seen the fire; and the residue thereof he maketh a
god, even a graven image; he falleth down unto it, and
worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me,
for thou art my god.'
   "But man is wrong. God dwelleth not in temples
made with hands. God is not an image of gold or silver
or stone; but himself made the earth and all things
therein; and in him we live and move and have our being.
  "When Paul talked to them, not of 'gods of appetite and
ambition, which sometimes rule in our hearts, or of hand
made gods, such as decorated the streets of Athens and
were enshrined in their temples, which even while we
worship have a habit of disintegrating to dust and ashes,
but of the Divine Creator, the Universal God, the Bounti-
ful Giver, the Almighty 'Ruler, the Unseen Spirit, the
Tender Father, the Righteous Judge, they called him a
babbler; and when he spoke of the Eternal Son of God and
the resurrection, many of them mocked, some said we
will hear you again-and a few believed.
   "Until he came to Athens, the opposition he had met
was Jewish prejudice and mob violence; it was a tangi-
ble thing; but at Athens he encountered something harder
to overcome, philosophy, conceit, contempt. Having de-
livered his message, discouraged, he departed in sorrow.
   "We have heard many times the expression, 'When
Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.' That
day in the Areopagus Paul started a tug of war that shall



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