that was preferred against him, we are simply told, that "Paul departed from among them."

The topics chosen by the apostle were admirably adapted to the circumstances of his situation. The thoughts of the Grecian sages, as they sat in silence, must almost involuntarily have essayed toward "a feeling after God," when the apostle extended his hand towards the horizon, and point

pages of history the thoughts, and words, and deeds, of its immortal citizens. A more extensive acquaintance with the teachings of a diviner record, takes much away of the admiration we once felt toward the characters of antiquity. We learn to pierce the halo that was thrown around them by our immature conceptions, and whilst in youth we are too apt to look only at that which we suppose is of the heavens, heavenly, in later age weed at mountain, and island, and sea, and spake of are perhaps too much disposed to dwell upon that which is of "the earth, earthy," in the character of man. The ancient Athenians may be less wise and less good than we once supposed them; but the alteration in our sentiments never extends to that which belongs to the powerful in intellect or the beautiful in taste. The most lovely imaginations ever revealed by the pencil or struck from the stone were once collected within the walls of the Parthenon, and its visiters were the master spirits of the universe. Nor are we in these respects in danger of being deceived by those mists with which time, and distance, and ignorance, so often lead us astray. We can yet listen to their magic numbers, their philosophy is the exhaustless quarry from which men of meaner intellect continue to hew systems, we can walk among the columns of their matchless porticos, and the blood yet creeps, and the life yet radiates, in the forms that were thrown from their sculptors' hands. It was here too that the tree of liberty was first planted, which was afterwards carried to Rome, then disappeared from the sight of men during an age in which, from century to century, there was but one cold and comfortless winter; and after various fruitless attempts to spring up in other places, it at last struck root in an island probably unknown to the wisest of the sons of Athens, where it flourishes in luxuriance, and offsets have already been carried from the parent stem that it is hoped will one day be familiar to every soil, and overshadow every land.

Were this the only world, and this the only life, it might have been a duty incumbent upon every worshipper of the beautiful to make a pilgrimage, once during his existence, to the Acropolis; but revelation takes away from its glory, and invests with far sublimer interest a little hill at its foot, that would otherwise escape our notice, and is hidden by its shadow at the rising of the sun. It was apparently by accident that the apostle Paul visited this city. "The brethren at Berea sent away Paul, to go as it were to the sea.... ... and they that conducted Paul brought him to Athens." In all places he remembered the divine commission he had received as the apostle of the Gentiles, and as he waited for his companions that were expected, "his spirit was stirred within him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry." It would seem that for some time no official notice was taken of his proceedings, though he not only disputed in the synagogue of the Jews, and with devout persons, but also in the public market. It has been questioned whether Paul appeared before the Areopagus as an accused person, or merely as a stranger with whom the philosophers wished to have some further converse; and it must be confessed that he was at first treated with great courtesy, and even afterwards, though the charge might have been easily proved, if it was a charge

the "God that made the world and all things therein, that he is Lord of heaven and earth, and dwelleth not in temples made with hands:" and when he turned away from this magnificent scene of earth and ocean towards the Acropolis, studded as it was in every part with images and temples, the contrast must have exhibited one of the most splendid triumphs ever gained by truth, as he proceeded in his argument, and cried out, fearlessly, within the very precincts of the most sacred spot ever consecrated to idolatry during the long sweep of its empire over men, “Forasmuch then, as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." It is enough to say that the preacher was Paul, that the place was Athens, and that the auditors were philosophers and the stern judges of the Areopagus, and there is matter for deep thought; but the scene presents a still grander aspect, when we look a little forward, and mark some of its important consequences. The young students from Rome would join in the mockery with their old and brow-furrowed preceptors at the earnestness of Paul, and at the strange doctrines he taught; but little did they think, as they turned from the figure of the apostle towards the monuments of their own greatness, to indulge in the smile of derision without observance, that the time would come when THE UNKNOWN GOD should be acknowledged as the only God throughout their extended dominion, and when that Parthenon, and their own still prouder Capitol, and all the deities, heroes, and devils, they contained, should not have upon the whole earth one single votary to come even by stealth and do them homage or whisper their praise. It cannot be said, that in the early ages Christianity shrank from a contest even with the most enlightened men of whom the heathen world could then boast: in the infancy of its existence, when as yet it received no aid whatever from name or numbers, it thus grappled with the mightiest of its opponents in the centre of their own citadel, and was triumphant.

CORINTH.

I LANDED at Kalamanchi from Athens, July 30, near the site of the ancient Cenchrea, at which Paul embarked for Ephesus. I and my companion had some difficulty in procuring animals, and we were furnished at last with an ass, a mule, a pony, and a camel. We crossed the isthmus in about three hours, where the Isthmian games were formerly celebrated, to which frequent aliusion is made by the apostle Paul in his epistles to the Corinthian church. The situation is well adapted to the purpose for which it was appro

priated, presenting an extended plain, in a central position between the capitals of all the more celebrated states. In the evening we arrived at Corinth.

be wise, had become fools, and he had now to address himself to the victims of sensuality, and warn them that "the end of these things is death." Aquila and Priscilla, who had come from Rome, received him into their house, and he wrought at their occupation, for they were of the same craft, tified that "Jesus was Christ," having opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and saying unto them, "Your blood be upon your own Leads," he turned unto the Gentiles, and dwelt in the house of Justus, "one that worshipped God." The chief ruler of the synagogue having been converted, as well as many of the Corinthians, the Jews made insurrection and brought Paul before Gallio, the deputy, but he refused to listen to their dispute, and "drove them from the judgment-seat." The two epistles that were afterwards written to the Corinthians, bear strong internal evidence of authenticity, as the corruptions for which they are reproved, are precisely such as we might suppose would arise from the peculiar temptations of the people. The city has been many times destroyed since the Acts of the Apostles were penned; but amidst all its changes, it has ever retained a profession of the faith of Christ; and although "the church of God, which is at Corinth," is at present of smaller extent than it has been in any previous period of its history, the thought is at least gratifying, that the only place of worship now attended by its inhabitants is dedicated to the service of the same Lord who appeared by night unto the apostle, and said, “I have much people in this place."

The city of Corinth lays claim to an origin nearly as ancient as that of Athens. It appears as if intended by nature to be the seat of an ex-being tent-makers. The Jews, to whom he testensive commerce, as it could communicate with the Egean sea by the port of Cenchrea, and with the Ionian sea by the port of Lechæum. It was at one time the most extensive city of Greece, and in palaces, temples, and statues, could challenge the world. Its licentiousness has passed into a proverb. In the time of the apostles it was the residence of Gallio, brother of the celebrated Seneca, and deputy of Achaia, which included nearly the whole of the Peloponnesus. The Acro-corinthus is a steep rock, at a little distance from the city, that rises upwards of 2,000 feet. There may be seen from it the provinces of Thebes, Attica, Achaia, Argolis, and Arcadia, the acropolis of Athens, the mounts Helicon and Parnassus, and the view includes the birth-places of many of the principal warriors, sages, painters, architects, and sculptors, whose names are renowned in Grecian history. Independent of all these associations, had the country around it never been inhabited by man, it would still be thought to stand almost without a rival, in the clearness of its atmosphere, the soft azure of its sky, the majesty of its hills, and the many sinuosities of the many waters that encompass its islands and roll upon its shores.

The present city is more ruinous than Athens, without the ancient edifices to relieve the character of its desolation. There are a few Bavarian soldiers, who have nothing to protect but ruins; there is a market, but scarcely any thing in it ex- The evening on which I first approached the posed for sale; and the miserable inhabitants have shores of Greece was one of the loveliest I reno visible means of present support or future sub-member to have ever seen. The sun was setting sistence. Eight columns standing together, not of the Corinthian order, are all the remains of antiquity I observed, with the exception of a few capitals and pillars, scen in detached fragments among the ruins of modern houses and mosques. It is said to be the intention of the king, when his minority shall expire, to make Corinth the capital of his dominions, in opposition to the regency, who have fixed upon Athens. There needs not a moment's thought to discover which is the most eligible position for the capital of the Greeks, whose shipping must for some time continue to be their principal interest.

behind the mountains of Arcadia, as I sailed up the gulf of Argolis, and before its final departure, the sea, and the sky, and the hills upon which so many great men have walked, appeared as if all converted into gold. I have witnessed scenes more splendid, but none more beautiful, as I could look on the whole without pain, though every object was glowing with tints of the deepest richness. It afforded a striking contrast to the gorgeous sunsets that are exhibited in the tropics.

The scenery of Greece presents almost every variety of character. The valleys sometimes flow in gentle undulations, and are capable of the Upon the opposite side of the gulf of Corinth, I highest cultivation, whilst the hills above them could distinctly see the mountains of Helicon and rise in majesty towards the clouds, and are broken Parnassus, but was not tempted from my course at intervals into precipitate ridges, covered with to drink of the classic spring, or consult the Del- firs and other similar trees. Some of the ravines phian oracle. I was more interested by objects through which I passed were thickly set with nearer the city, which must have been looked oleanders, which contributed much to the animaupon by the apostle Paul, as he resided here "ation of the scene, as they were then in full bloom. year and six months," being encouraged by a vision from the Lord; and even after this time, "he tarried here a good while." It was upwards of 200 years after the destruction of the city by the consul Mummius, and during the existence of the Corinth of Julius Cæsar, that the apostle "departed from Athens, and came to Corinth." In Athens he had contended with the worshippers of intellect, with men who, professing themselves to

The harvest was just concluded, and in many places the horses were treading out the corn.On one floor I counted seventeen horses in one line engaged in this service. On the northern coast of the Morea vineyards are numerous, and the low vine is cultivated from which our dry currants are produced. The peasants often presented me, without solicitation, with bunches of grapes when I passed through their villages.

this feeling is fostered by the habit that obtains among them of calling each other by the name of the place from whence they derive their origin.They show a pardonable complacency in conversing of the former days of their country. I heard a female speak of “our ships at Salamis."

The language spoken is Romaic, a corruption which is requisite in their present situation; and of the ancient Greek, and the uneducated classes are not able to understand even the New Testament in the original. The prayers of the church are equally unintelligible to the great body of the people. The interests of literature have been almost forgotten during the war; the colleges were destroyed, and the students scattered; but the return of peace has brought with it a thirst for instruction, and the means of acquirement will soon be placed within reach.

king informed them that he had no funds he could devote to such a purpose; they then promised to be of no expense whatever to the government, but they were told their services were not required, and were ordered to return without delay. It was politic not to rouse the jealousy of the Greek priests, by the introduction of so powerful a body of opponents.

It is perhaps to be regretted, for the interests of Greece, that prince Leopold did not accept the offer of the crown. There would then have been an influx of Englishmen into the country, who The whole of Greece, with few exceptions, was would have expended money and promoted trade. laid waste during the struggle for independence, The Protestant faith would also have been the and few efforts have yet been made to repair the religion of the court, and much good might have devastation: the houses are in ruin, and the fields resulted to the Greek church from the juxta-posicomparatively without cultivation. Napoli di Ro- tion of so much purer a system. The present mania, the present capital, is the only town I saw king, Otho, was born June 1st, 1815, and is the that is free from masses of ruin, and Patrass also second son of the king of Bavaria. I saw him is fast rising from its fall, as it is a place of much land at Syra, from a British frigate, amidst the commercial importance. The calamities of the loud acclamations of his people. He visited the people have known no bounds. The Turks have school in that island under the superintendency been utterly exterminated. In the victories of of the Church Mission, and after the children had the Greeks there was a general massacre: in the sung a hymn, and repeated many of their lessons, victories of the Turks there was a massacre of the he expressed himself as being much pleased with men, and the women were carried away to endure what he saw and heard. He appears to be of an in many instances cruelties more severe than amiable disposition, and report spoke favorably of death. I sailed from Rhodes with an interesting his attention to study. I had an interview with his Greek female, who had been for several years a confessor at Athens, who is friendly to the inteslave in Egypt; she was then returning to her rests of the Bible Society, and was on good terms own village, as her freedom had been purchased with all the missionaries. A number of Capufrom her Mahomedan master by a relative. chins arrived at Napoli by sea, and offered themThe Greeks have been the subject of great mis-selves to the king as the instructors of youth; the representation, both from those who have depreciated them and those who have praised. They have been galled by the iron chain of oppression, and though their fetters have been snapped by the sword, the cicatrice of the wound they left is yet apparent. The crimes that they copied from the example of their masters may be expected to pass away, whilst their own inherent virtues will shine forth with greater lustre and purity. We must wait some time before we can pronounce with certainty upon their national character, as they are at present under circumstances that are calculated to make them suspicious and discontented; and it is to be expected that many of the existing generation will regard the present government in the light of a foreign usurpation, and as affording but a poor return for the blood they have shed to rescue their country from the tyrants under whom they were born. Men who have for some time been accustomed to live on plunder seldom become contented citizens. These disadvantages will every day diminish; the people will become more accustomed to the presence of the Bavarians, and the Bavarians will be able to assimilate themselves more fully to the manners of the Greeks; the houses now in ruins will arise from their ashes and it is to be hoped that judicious enactments will promote commerce, and enable the people by honest means to gain a comfortable maintenance. There was a charm about some of the Greeks that interested me greatly in their favor, whilst there were others, in comparison few, who exhibited tokens of the grossest brutality. There is a spirit of jealousy subsisting between the inhabitants of different states and islands that partakes of the character of feud, and prevents them from working together with that heartiness

The king was accompanied to Greece by 7,500 Bavarian soldiers, and it was in contemplation to establish a native force, but the Greeks manifested great reluctance to enter into the regular service. The principal chiefs are disaffected, as they have necessarily been deprived of much of their power, and the prospects before the king are not without dark shades, that must at times make him regret that he has accepted the dangerous distinction.The merchants are a numerous and respectable class, but the rest of the people are poor in the extreme. The Bavarian soldiers complained bitterly of the hardships to which they were exposed at the out-stations, as in some places they were unable to procure even the common necessaries of life. I heard much of banditti, but there was probably more fear on this subject than real danger, as I was never molested, though I often travelled without a single companion.

The Greek church is awfully fallen from the high position it once maintained, when it could enrol among the names of its professors some of the most eminent of the fathers. There is little public preaching in the churches, and both priests and people are ignorant of the essentials of Christianity. The churches are filled with pictures, to which the people appear to pay the most profound adoration, though they abhor images with a perfect hatred, and flowers are thrown before these