Word: paul
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...PAUL'S SOCIETY.- The eighth meeting of the Bible Class will be held on Wednesday evening, April 22, at seven o'clock. All members of the University are cordially invited...
...College Conference yesterday evening Professor Goodwin, in a most interesting lecture, gave an account of the apostle Paul's visit to Athens. Athens at the time of Paul's visit retained all her ancient splendor and glory. The city was filled with the most beautiful works of art, and Paul, a native of obscure Tarsus, must have felt, as he looked about its streets, much as an obscure Yankee from a New England village would feel if he were set down before the art treasures of Florence, Rome and Venice...
...such a city that Paul waited for his friends to come from Berea, and felt "his spirit stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given over to idolatry." Now what were the idols that so moved him? First in size and importance was the collossal statue of Athena which towered sixty feet high in the centre of the Acropolis, visible for miles around, and the first object sighted by Athenian sailors on their return home. Then, inside the Parthe non was Phidias' famous statue of Athena made of ivory inlaid with gold. Close by, in the Erectheum...
Professor Goodwin concluded his lecture with a comparison of the visits to Athens of Aristotle and Xerxes with that of Paul...
...PAUL'S SOCIETY.- Rev. Reuben Kidner of St. Andrew's Church, Boston, will address the society on Wednesday evening, April 15, at seven o'clock. Seventh meeting of Bible Class at 7.45. Subject: "The Temple," All members of the University invited...