Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1891 — Page 7

DEATH OF GOV. HOVEY

Peaceful Passing Away of Indiana’s Executive. A MIGHTY MAN PALLES-THE SOLDIERS’ FRIEND. Extended Revie w of Ills Illness and Brief Sketch of Hie Interesting Life. The Third of Indiana’s Govemor’s to Die in Office. IRA P. CHASE BECOMES GOVERNOR. Gen. Alvin P. Ilovey, Governor of Indiana, died at the Denison House, Indianapolis, at 1:20 p. m., Monday, Nov. 23, of failure of the heart and respiration. He had been growing gradually weaker all day, but when the end came it was so sudden as to be a surprise. No one but Major Menzies, the Governor's son-in-law ( and Dr. Hays were ia tho room at the moment. Governor Hovey was conscious during the morning, and realized that his condition was exceedingly serious, but was not without hope. At noon T)r. Hays, the attending physician, authorized the announcement that the patient’s condition was very critical, the immediate cause beiQg the damp atmosphere, which greatly impeded his respiration. This aggra-

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vated the weakness which was already the most threatening indication of the disease, and all morning his condition grew more serious, his breathing becoming more and more difficult. Dr. Hays said clear weather would do for the dying man what medicine could not, and anxiousiy he telephoned to the signal service headquarters for information concerning the .weather indications. The answer came. “It will be dark and rainy all day, and to-night it will still bo cloudy and lowering, the rain possibly changing to snow Not before to-morrow morning can wo hope for clearing weather.*’ At receipt of this Information the Doc- , tor’s face fell,''and he turned away. The words were like a death knell to the suferer up stairs. - ---- --- ■ - = “If to-day had been clear, Governor Hovey would have been better, instead of worse, this morning,” the Doctor said. Gradually the patient weakened. Every breath was drawn with an effort, and nothing brought relief, Shortly after 1 o’clock Mrs. Menzies, the Governor's

daughter, and other friends and attendants, had gone out for a moment, no one ~ biitMajor Menzies and Dr. Hays remainth'e he Jaw his grand - -She was always a favorjte'with him, and at sight of iier, as tm*'tMo&gs&-:liis;%i<A> brightened and he calfod (jot —. At that 'stopped boating and the pallor of d6fit.li'overspread his features. He was laid gently back among the pillows huff iii.a family and friends were called in. As they, gathered about . he bed liej dp-pw pue breath and was deqdi j p Governor iHipyev was'tflklnciivoly an lij- ' diana mail. Dora aild reared in t his Slate, her interests were his, and his patriotism toward heivnefver'ialtered. ' He believed Indiana to be the best State in the Union; he had faithrinJierJoyaUy, Jier resources her future. Much oP lifts life was spent in the public service, -years of it abroad, and through it all lie Was proud to have it known home "was iu Indiana. In physical appcaranco Alvin I*. Hovey was a man of lino presence and handsome face. He was accustomed to shave smoothly, wearing no board except a short mustache, which during the later years of hi s llfewas white as was his hair. His eyes were of grayish blue, frank and friendly> bat on suitable occasions could flash in a manner that spoke indignation or scorn as plainly as words could express it. Governor Hovey was a man of geniat temperament and loved to Imj surrounded by his friends, among whom he appeared at his best. The circumstances leading to his final sickness was peculiarly sad, and are more or less familiar to the pulftlc. For several weeks he and W. B. Roberts his private secretary, had beeh planning the trip to Mexico. Only those known to be warm friends were invited to join the the party, and the tour was for pleasuco purely. On the way through the Western States and the republic of Mexico the Governor’s health was good and he enjoyed the travel very much. The night befol-e the City of Moxico was reached'the party gathered in the parlor of the car and the Governor made a little speech. It was full of the kindest and soundest advice to the young men of the party, as gentle as though coming from the lips of a Woman and of a oharacter that inspired all who heard It to resolve upon -right conduct. Attar the talk- the Governor recited a poem, which was a tale of love and sacrifice, whose Kane was laid in the moun-

tains of Peru. The story was a pathetic one, and beatifully told, and whqp it was ended several persons asked who was its author. The Governor blushed like a girl* and finally admitted that he was the author himself. In the City of Mexico the rarefied air affected Governor Hovey’s breathing and the action of his heart to such an extent that he could not endure the slightest exertion. For that reason the stay in the City of Mexico was cut short and th® homeward trip began. When lower altitudes were reached he felt better again, and for several days and nights seemed about well, joining with the members of his party in conversation and discussion of points of interest aloifg the way. = Sunday before last was spent at Dallas* Tex., where the Governor attended divine worship at the Methodist church fn the .-morning. In the afternoon he was taken violently ill and suffered from partial heart failure together with congestion of the lungs and a severe cough, which racked him terribly. From that time until home was reached he did not leave his bed, though 11 o'clock last Wednesday night, when the train the Union station, he seemed considerably improved. He was worse the next day, however, and there was no time subsequently when his condition was not very serious. Several days ago the Governor expressed a wish that in case of his death he desired that the Grand Army of the Republic should have control of his funeral and burial services. He always felt and manifested the strongest friendship for the old soldiers, and he was the head and front of the service pension movement. This death removes an important political figure from the field, for not only has Governor Hovey held high office, but it ;was not improbable that had he lived, circumstances' might have led to his nomination for the vice-presidency or. the United States Senatorship by the Republican party. He was always exceedingly popular among the people and it has long been known that his nomination for office in Indiana was certain to be foliowCd by election. When the fact of the Governor's deaUL was made known the fire bells of the city were tolled and tho Hags on all the public schools were lowered to half-mast.

SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. Alvin P. Hovey was born in a log cabin on tho farm three miles from Mt. Vernon, l’osey county, Indiana, on the 6th of Sep-, tember, 1821. Among the early settlors of Posey comity was Abie! Hovey, He came from Vermont, where his father. Rev. Samuel Hovey, was a preacher. With him came his wife, whose maiden name had been Frances Peterson, she was of Irish extraction. They were married in 1702, and came to Indiana iu 1818. Abicl Hovey was of pure Vermont YankWstozk, a man of excellent judgment and character. He served many years as justice of tire peace. Ills wife had tho tine emotional qualities characteristic'of the I rish race. The father of Alvin P. Hovey was a hardware merchant, and was very poor. He died in 1823. leaving a wife and Revolt children, sept. 6,1536, ou Alvin’s fifteenth birthday, the mother died. Thus doubly orphaned, the children had to make their way. The town seemed to at lord a better opportunity than the. country'for a poor boy who had to make hi# own way. Alvin learned the brick-mason's trade with his uncle in Mt. Vernon, and followed it for n few years. He then determined to become a lawyer. There were no colleges iu the West, tint by attending the local school by day. and devoting bis five nings to hard sLudy.be laid tho foundation of a sound, practical education, lie began tho reading of law with John Pitcher in IS4O. teaching school bv day; was admitted to the bar in 1843, and married in 1844, Miss Mary Ann Jones. He 9oon thoroughly established himself in a law practice. lie enlisted as a lieutenant for the Mexican war iu 1846. The company, however, was not mustered into service. '“'ln 1850 he was elected a delegate to the Convention to form a now Btato Constitution —lie being at this time but 30 years old. Robert Dale Owen was his colleague from Posey county in this convention. Mr. Hovey took an active and inliuentlaJpart 4n~ the - proceedings. Ia l'.st Xfomnur \V right appointed him JudgAof the Third Judicial C.ircuit. in May 1851 he was made a Judge of the Supreme Court, re reiving ,the appointment likewise-frqin Governor TVright. lie was nominated by the Democrats at the ensuing election for the same positloif, niTt was dofoated. Ho was appointed in 1856. by President; Pierce, U. S. Attorney for Indiana, and held the office two years, This was’sthe last office he ever held as a Deriiocrai, and was appointed to it by one Democratic President and removed from it by another. Judgo Hovey ranked himsolf ou the side of what was then railed tfsqnatter sovereignty” in the Territories as against the constitutional extension and establishment of slavery. He was a -‘Douglas Democrat.” and for this reason President James Buchanan removed Idm from office of District Attorney. His successor was a young Democrat whose views accorded with those of Mr. Buchanan, and who was destined to figure somewhat in Indiana politics- -Daniel W. Voorbees.

He was nominated for Congress in 1458 by tiia Republicans of the old First District, but was defeated by Hon. W. Niblack. After tho election he resumed the practice of his profession at Mt. Vernon, where the call to arms in 1861 found him. J udge Hovey was one of the first to fully realize the significance of the firing on Ft, Sumpter. He was loyal to the core. On tho 21st of May, 1861, the commissioners of Posey county ordered Robert Dale Owen and Alvin P. Hovey to come to Indianapolis'and negotiate arms for Posey county. This mission to Indianapolis brought Hovey Into personal contact with Governor O. P. Morton, who immediately recognized in him a valuable and powerfnl aid in the great work now about to be devolved upon him. " lloAey wasono those whom Morton selected as one of his trusted helpers. From the first visit of Hovey and Owen to Indianapolis to obtain arms for Posey county until the end of the war he and Morton were close friend 9 and co-workers in the Union cause. Hovey was a man after Governor Morton’s own heart—loyal, brave, fearless, zealous and entil ing, true to his country, his Government and his party. Hovey returned to Posey county and organize a regiment-'feqhig First Eegiment.Flrst Brigade. He was commissioned Colonel. In three months he resigned to accept similar rank in the 24th Regiment. His Regiment was sent to Missouri, participated in the battle of Ft. Donalson ana Ft. Henry; was engaged In the battle of Shiloh, losing many men and officers. On April 28th, Hovey was promoted to Major. Participated in tho seige at Corinth. While at! Helena Gen. Hovey had command of about 30,000 men,including twelve or fifteen Indiana regiments. Ho commanded brigades or divisions In the battles of Shiloh. Corinth, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Big Black, siege of Vicksburg, siege of Jackson, Dalton.Resaca and Altoona Church, besides being engaged in many skirmishes and small affairs, and

was with Sherman in his march to the sea down to Kenesaw. r At the siege of Vicksburg Gen. Hovey commanded the Twelfth division ofitte Thirteenth army corps, McClernan’s. The division consisted of two brigades of infantry, the first commanded by Gen. Geo. F McGinnis, embracing the Eleventh, Twenty-fourth, Thirty-fourth and Fortysixth Indiana and the Twentyininth Wisconsin regiments. The second brigade, commanded by Gen. James A. Slack, consisted of the Forty-seventh Indiana, the Twenty-fourth land JTwenty-eigth lowa, Fifty-sixth Ohio regiments. The division had also four batteries of, artillery and a small battalion of cavalry. Gen Hovey commanded this division during the preliminary operations Against and during the siege of Vicksburg, and it did its full share of the figting. Shortly after the capture of Vicksburg General Hovey came home on a leave of absence. His wife was in poor health. She had visited him once or twice, with her daughter, and had spent a short time in the South iu the hope of being benefited. General Hovey used to carrv her up and down stairs in his arms like a sick child. November 16,1863, she died. The daughter, a few years later, accompanied her father to South America, whep he went out as minister to Peru. There she met and was subsequently married to Hon. G. W. Menzies, then an officer in the United States navy, now' an honored citizen of Mt. Vernon, and for many years a lawpa.rt.ner of General Hovey. General Hovey was breveted “"major-'* general on July 4,1864. Shortly after the opening of the campaign in 1864, General Grant, desiring to secure his services in reinforcing the army, commissioned him to raise ten thousand new troops. Under this commission ho made an earnest appeal to the young,o unmarried men of Indiana to enlist. At this stage of the

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war it was not easy to raise ten thousand new troops, but Geuerel Hovey’s military reputation and his earnest efforts in the cause gave a new impetus to enlistments. The young men responded promptly to bis call. Many of the new recruits were not. over sixteen years old, and on account of their youth they became known as •• Hovey’s Babies.” He took them South, where they were attached to Sherman's army and marched with him to the sea. During the raising of this force, and while still awaiting orders from the Avar Department in indiaua, General Hovey led an expedition into Kentucky to disperse a gathering rebel force and prevent a threatened raid into this State. On the 25th of August, 1864, General Hovey was, by order of the Secretary of War, assigned to ihoeommand of the military district of Indiana. General Hovey continued in command in Indiana until the close of the war, and for some time afterward. On August 12,1865, Gen. Hovey was appointed 1.. 8. Miuister to Peru, which position be resigned in 1870 and returnee to iiis law practice at Mt. Vernon. In 1886 he was nominated for Congress by the Republicans, and elected by 1,309 majority, in 1888. while at Washington in the discharge of his Congressional duties, lie was nommatrd for Governor. The nomination was made on the first ballot, amid great enthusiasm aud unbounded applause. Like every other civil office of honor that Gen - eral Ilovey has enjoyed, it caine to him entirely unsolicited. He was not seeking the nomination, nor was he a candidate in the ordinary sense. He accepted it as the call of his fellow-citizens and his party to the performance of public duty, and was elected.

One evening he had occasional delirious spells, which came aud went like a fitful cloud. He was talking with Mr. Roberts relative to official matters, when suddenly he stopped, and with brightening eye and firmer voice, ho suddonly remarked: "My forces were in line, and I turned to Grant, saying, ‘Shall I bring on the battle?” "No,” said Grants "wait, Hovev, until McPherson’s rightswings into sight.' We talked. Grant and J, and then 1 saw' McPherson’s right. So did Grant, and lie said to me: ‘Hovev, you may bring on the fight.’ I turned to Gen. McGinnis to give the command, and that instant the rebel force opened lire throughout the entire front, ajid th* battle was on.” He was speaking of Champion Hill. It was this battle in which Hovoy s command bore tho brunt, ami which won for him the compliments on the field of Grant iu person. TOE SOLDIERS’ FRIEND. "The soldieisof Indiana will revere the meiuoxy of the departed Governor. He was always their friend—not now alone that the war is over, but while the bloody tight was on he was the private soldier’s friend 4le has constantly advocated their claims since the war, and it was their votes,of course, that elected him Governor. OTHER GOVERNORS WHO DIED IN OFFICE. Governor Hovey Is the third of Indiana’s Governors to die In office. Governor Willard died Oct. 3,1800, and was succeeded by Abram Hammond. Governor Williams died Nov. 20,1880, and was succeeded by Isaac P. Gray. THE NEW GOVERNOR. . Lieutenant Governor Chaso was at onco apprised by telegraph of the death of Governor Hovey. He at once repaired to Indianapolis, and on tho f 4th took the oath of the office of Governor, administered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Burmese, Karens, Hangese and andGhans have no coined money, lead and silver in Bullion being the ordinary tender iu trade, weight and purity being the standard of value. Among the “curios” recently displayed at an exhibition in London was a pair of “dog tongs,” presumably used by old-time sextons for the capture of dogs which had strayed into church. There are extraordiuaiy cases of longevity among the colored people of Chili, nearly five hundred persons, according to the last census, beihg returned as over one hundred yeazs of age.

MARS HILL.

"The Acropolis, andlts‘Wonderful Architecture. ' r ■ The Monarch or All Ruing, Where Thunder holt* of lroth are Proclaimed Through All Ageg. ... . ' Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooks’ll last Sunday. Text: Acts xvii, 16. After a few opening TiF' marks he said: We come now to the Acropolis. It is a rock about two miles in circumference at the base and 1,000 feet at the top and 300 feet high. On it has been crowded more elaborate architecture and sculture than in any other place under the whole heavens. Originally a fortress afterward a congregation of temples and statues and pillars, their ruins an enchantment from which no observer ever breaks away. Lord Elgin, the English Ambassaof the Sultan to remove from the Acropolis fallen pieces of the building, but he took from the building to England the finest.statues, removing them at the expense of SBOO,OOO. A storm overthrew many of the statues of the Acropolis. Morosini, the General, attempted to remove from a pediment the sculptured car and horses of Victory, but the clumsy, machinery dropped it, and all was lost. The Turks turned the building into a powder magazine, where the Venitian guns dropped a fire that by explosion sent the columns flying in the air and falling cracked and splintered.

But after all that time and storm and war and iconoclasm have effected the Acropolis is the monarch of all ruins, and before it bow the learning, the genius, the poetry, the art the history of the ages. I saw ilt it .■ was thousauds of yefy:_s ago. I had read so much about it and dreamed so much about it that I needed no magician’s wand to restore it. At one wave of my hand on that clear morning in 1889 it rose before me in the glory it had when Pericles ordered it,, and Ictinus planned it, and Protogines painted it, and Pansanias described it. Its gates, which were earefully guarded by the ancients, open to let you in, and you ascerid by sixty marble steps the propylsea, which Epaminendas wanted to transfer to Thebes, but permission, I am glad to saj% could not be granted for the removal of this architectural miracle. In the clays when ten cents would do more than a dollar now, the building cost $2,300. Sea its five ornamental gates, the keys entrusted to an officer for only one day lest the temptation to go in and misappropriate the treasures be too great for him; its ceiling a mingling of blue and scarlet and green, and the walls abloom with pictures utmost in thought and coloring'. Yonder is a temple to a goddess •‘Victory without Wings.” So many of t e triumphs of the world hai been followed by defeat that the Greeks wished in marble to indicate that victory for Athens had come Mover again to fly away, and hence this temple to “Victory without Wings"—a temple of marble, snow■white and glimmering. Yonder behold the pedestal hf Agrippa, twentyseven feet high arid twelve feet square. But the overshadowing won-> dor Qf all the hill is the Parthenon. .In days when’ money was ten times tnoro valuable than now, it cost 54.600.000. It is a Doric grandeur, having 66 columns, each column 34 feet high end fijjeef 2 inches in diameter. Wondrousintercolumniatidns! Painted porticos, architraves tinged with ocher, shields of gold hung up, lines of most delicate curve, figures of : horses and men and women and gods, j oxen on the wav to sacrifice, statues j of the deities Dionysius, Prometheus, Hermes. Demeter, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon* in one freize twelve divinities; centaurs in battle; weaponry from Marathon; chariot of night; eharion of the morning; horses of the sun; the fates, the furies; statue of Jupiter holding in bis right hand the thunderbolt; silver-footed chair in which Xerxes watched the battle of Salamis, only a few miles away. Here is the colossal statue of Minerva in full armor, eyes of gray-col-ored stone, figure of a sphinx on her head, griffins by her side (which are lions with eagles’ beaks), spear in one hand, statue of Liberty in the other, a shield carved with battlescenes, and even the slippers sculptured and tied on with thongs of gold; ~Par out at sea the sailors saw this statue of Minerva rising, high above all tho temples, glittering in the sun. Here are statues of equestrians, statue of a lioners, and there are the G races, and yonder a horse in bronze. There is a statue, said ip the time of Augustus to have turned around of its own accord and spit blood; statues made out of shields .conquered in battle; statue of Apollo,the oxpeller of locusts; statue of Anacreon, drunk and singing; statue of Olvmpodorus, a Greek, memorable for the fact that he was cheerful when others were cast down, a trait worthy of sculpture. But. walk on and around the Acropolis,-mnd yonder you- seo a statue of Hygeia, and the statue of Thesis fighting the Minotaur. and the. statue of Hercules ' .slaying serpents. No wonder PetroiSuilsaid it was easier to find a god than a man in Athens. On, the Acropolis! The most of its tqmplvs and statues made from the marble quarries of Mount Penteticum, a little way from the city. I have here on my table a block of 'Parthenon, and qu it is the sculp-

ture of Phidias, I brought it from the Acropolis. This specimen has on it the dust of ages and the marks of explosion and battle; but you can g<*t from it some idea of the delicate luster of the Acropolis when it was covered with a mountain of this marble cut into all the exquisite shapes that genius could contrive and striped, with silver and aflame with gold. The Acropolis in the morning light cf those ancients must have shone as though it was an aerolite cast off from the noonday sun. The temples must have looked like petrified foam; the whole Acropolis must have seemed like the white breakers of the great ocean of time. Mars Hill is a rough pile of rocks fifty feet high. It was famous long before New Testament times. The Persians easily and terribly assaulted the Acropolis from this hill top, Here assembled the court td try criminals. It was held in the night time, so that the faces of the Judges could not be seen/nor the faces of the lawyers who made the plea, and so, instead of a trial being one of emotion, itmust have been, one ...of cool justice. But there was one occasion on this hill memorable ahove all others. A little man, physically weak, and his rhetoric described by himself as contemptible, had by his sermons rbeked Athens with commotion, and he was summoned either by writ of law or hearty invitation to come upon that pulpit of rock and give a specimen of his theology. All the wiseacres of Athens turned out and turned up to hear him. The more venerable of them sat in an amphitheater, the granite seats of which are still visible, but the other people swarmed on all sides of the hill and at the base of it to-hear this man, whom some called a fanatic, and others called a mad-cap, and others a blasphemer, and others styled contemptuously “this fellow.” Paul arrived in answer to a writ or invitation and confronted them and gave 'them the biggest dose that mortals ever took. He was so built that nothing could scare him, and as for Jupiter apd Athenia, the god and goddess whose images were in full sight on the adjoining hill, ho had not so much regard for them as‘he had for the ant that was crawling in the sand under his feet. In that audience were the first orators of the world, and they had voices like flutes when they were passive and like trumpets when they were aroused, and I think they laughed in thesleeve of their gown as this insignificant looking man rose to speak. In that audience were scholars who knew everything, or thought they did, and from the end of the longest hair on the top of their craniurns to the end of the nail on the longest toe they -were, stuffed with hypercriticisms, and they leaned back, with a supercilious look to listen. What I have so far said in this discourse was necessary in order that you may understand the boldness, the defiance, the holy recklessness, the magnificence of Paul’s Speech. The first thunderbolt he launched at the hill—the Acropolis—the moment all aglitter with idols and temples. He cried out. “God, who made the

world.” Why, they thought that Prometheus made it, that Mercury made it, that Apollo made it, that Poseidon made it, that Eros made it, that Paudrocus made it, that Boreas made it, that it took all the gods of the Parthenon; yea, all the gods and goddesses of the Acropolis to make it, and here stands a man without any ecclesiastical! title, neither a D. D. uor even a reverend, declaring that the world was made by the Lord oT heaven and earth, and hence the inference that all the splendid covering of the Acropolis, so near that the people standing on the steps of the Parthenon could hear it, was a deceit, a falsehood, a sham, a blasphemy. Look at the faces of his au- | ditors; they are turning pale, and j then red. and then wrathful. There j had been several earthquakes in that region, but that was the severest shock these men had ever felt. The Persians had bombarded the Acropolis from the heights of Mars Hill, but this Pauline bombardment was more terrific. “What,” said his hearers, “have we been hauling with many yokes of oxen for centuries these blocks from the quarries of Mount Pentlieum. and have we had our architects putting up these structures of unparalleled splendor, and have we had the greatest of all sculptors, Phidias, with his men chiseling away at those wondrous pediments, anil cutting away at these freizes, and have we taxed the nation’s resources to the utmost, now to be told that those statues see nothig, hear nothing, know nothing.

Oh. Paul stop for a moment and give these started and overwhelmed auditors time to catch their breath! Make a rhetorical pause! Take a look around you at the interesting landscape, and give your hearers time to recover! No, heroes not make even a period, or so much as a colon or semicolon, but launches the second thunderbolt right after the first, and in the same breath goes on to say: ‘ God dwelleth not in temples made with hands:” Oh, Paul! Is not deity more in the Parthenon, or more In the Theseum, or more in the Erechthoiurn, or . more in the temple of Zeus Olympius than in the open air, more than on the hill where we are sitting more than on Mi. Hymettus out yonder, from which the bees get their honey. “No mQre!" responds Paul, “lie dwelleth not in temples made with hands." But surely the preacher on the pulpit of rock on Mars Hill will stop now. His audience .can endure no more. Then when he began, and his ryes, which were quiet, became two flames of tiro, aud his face which, was calm in theyintroduction, now depicts a

whirlwind of emotion as he ties th* two thunderbolts, together with at cord of inconsumable courage and hurls them at the crowd now ing or sitting aghast—the two thunderbolts of resurrection and last judgment. His closing words were:? “Because He hath appointed a in which He will judge the world io< righteousness by that whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men in that He hath raised Him from the dead. ” ! Remember those thoughts were to them novel and provocative; that Christ, the despised would come to be their Judge, and they should have to get up out of their cemeteries to stand before Him and take their eternal doom. >, The brotherhood of man, and the Christ of God, and the peroration of resurrection and last judgment witb which the Tarsian orator closed his sermon on that day amid the mocking crowd, shall yet revolutionize tho planet. Oh, Acropolis! I have stood here long enough to witnesi that your gods are no gods at all. Your Boreas could not control the winds. Your Neptune could not manage the sea. Your Apollo never evoked a musical note. Your god Ceres never grew a harvest. Your goddess of wisdom, Minerva, never knew tho Greek alphabet. Your Jupiter could not handle the lightnings. But the God whom I proclaimed on the day when Paul preached before the astounded assemblage on my rough heights, is the God of music, the God of wisdom, the God of power, the God of mercy, the God of love, the God of storms, the God of sunshine, the God of land, and the God of the sea,- the God over all, blessed forever.”

Then the Acropolis spake apu said, as though in self-defense; “My Plato argued for the immortality of the soul, and my Socrates praised virtue and my Miltiades at Marathon drove back the Persian oppressors.” “Yes,” Mars Hill, "your Plata laboriously guessed at the immortality of the soul, but my Paul, divinely inspired, declared it as a fact straight from God. Your Socrates praised virtue. but expired as a suicide. Your Miltiades was brave against earthly foes, yet died from a wound iguominiously received in after defeat. But my Paul challenged all earth and all hell with! this battle shout: “We wrestle not against llesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, and then on the 29th of June, in the year 66, on the road to Ostia, after the sword of the headsman had given one keen stroke, took the crown of martyrdom. ’ ” After a moment's silence by both hills, the Acropolis moaned out in the darkness: “Alas! alas!” and Mars responded: “Hosannah! Hosannah!” Then the voices of both hills became indistinct, and as I passed on and away in the twilight I seemed to hear only two sounds—a fragment of Pentelicon marble from the architrave of the Acropolis dropping down on the ruins of a shattered idol, and the other sound seemed to come from the rock on. Mars Hill, from which we had just descended. But we were by this time so far off that tlie fragments of sentences were smaller when dropping from Mars Hill than were the fragments of fallen marble on the Acropolis, and I could only hear parts of disconnected sentences wafted on the night air->-“God who made the world,” "of onq blood al|, nations,” “appointed a day in which He will judge the world,” “raised him from the dead. ” As that night in Athens I put my tired head on my pillow and the exciting scenes of day passed through my mind, I thought on the same subject on which as a boy I made my comfnencenaent speech ob Niblo's theater oiF graduation day from tho,New York University, viz.; “The Moral Effects of Sculpture and Architecture:” but further than I could have thought in boyhood I thought that night in Athens that the moral effects of architecture and sculptui*e depend unon what you do in great buildings after they are put up, and upon the character of the men whose forms you cut in the marble; yea! 1 thought that night what struggles the martyrs went through in order that in our time the Gospel might have full swing; and I thought that night, what a brainy religion it must be that could absorb a hero like Him who we have considered to day,a man the superior of the whole human race, the infidels but pigmies or homunculi compared with Him; and I thought what a rapturous consideration it is that through the same grace that saved Paul, we shall confront this great Apostle, and shall have the opportunity, amid the familiarity of the skies, of asking Him what was the greatest occasion of all bis life. He may say, "The riot at Ephesus.” He may say,.-5?My last walk out on the road to Ostia.” But, I think he will say: “The day I stood on Mars’ Hill addressing the indignant Areopagites, and looking off upon the towering form of the goddess Minerva, and the majesty of the Parthenon, and i\U the brilliant divinities of the Acropolis. That account in the Bible was true. My spirit was stirred within me when I saw the city wholly giveu up to idolatry.

The battlefield between God and Satan is the huruau heart, and the prize at stake is the soul of man. The devil has. never been able to hit a Christian -hard enough to drive him a quarter of au inch toward the pit. No man is a sinner because he lies,' and steals, and breaks the Sabbath; but beeauso he is rejecting Jesus Christ. .-;*f