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Title: Echoes from Edinburgh, 1910; an account and interpretation of the World missionary conference
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gairdner, W. H. T. (William Henry Temple), 1873-1928 Mott, John Raleigh, 1865-1955
Subjects: World Missionary Conference (1910 : Edinburgh)
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Fleming H. Revell company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ld-wide work ! Is there not another smallRoyal City, with rocky acropolis set among the ravinesand grey limestone hills of far Judaea ? There thatMonarch had at Salem His tabernacle and His dwellingin Zion. And it was from Jerusalem that, led by twelveGalileans, this very enterprise started, for the businessof which a Council is now mustering in this city ofthe North. The aspect of the city has often recalled to the mindsof those that visit it another city, which also was thecentre of the national life of a small, free people. Asthe eye rests on Arthurs Seat the mind may well harkback to where Lycabettus overhangs and overshadowsanother rocky Acropolis. From the acropolis of theCastle-rock you may descend by the Propylaea of Castle-Hill. The ridge of the Lawnmarket and Canongateshall be your Mars Hill, and the great civil and ecclesi-astical Council-chambers, which there are wont to sitin judgment, shall together do duty for Areopagusvenerable Court. You descend into a ravine—let it
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EDINBURGH 29 be the Agora ! Again you ascend the Cartons oppositeslope—it is the Pnyx ! . . . From her heights Athens,too, looked, over her Piraeus port, to the deep-violetline of sea that crowned her Attica. That sea, once,to Athens vainly but gloriously dreaming, appearedbut a highway on which her triremes might carry herto world-empire and glory beyond all dreams. Sheknew not that the sway which her city was destined toestablish over the world for ever was not to come withobservation ; for it was not her triremes that were towin it for her, but the power of the spirit of her livingthought. . . . The physical parallel between Athensand Edinburgh is, in truth, a guide-book common-place ;but it might have suggested to the Delegates now ascend-ing to their Areopagus on the Mound this thought,—the same that was the life-principle of one who stoodin the midst of Mars Hill ; the same for which Athensstands and witnesses; the same which makes littleHolyrood a symbol,—that neither by

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