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Title: Six and one abroad
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Sidney J., 1868-
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Publisher: (Austin, Tex.) Printed by E.L. Steck
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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and the whole digni-fied and solemn outline make an impressive picture. Within a stones throw from the Theseum is the old Hill ofthe Pnyx, a great artificial area 395 by 212 feet, which formedthe place of assembly of the Athenians. From a rock which isstill preserved there Demosthenes thundered his Philippics andPericles persuaded with his eloquence. A cave is shown near this point where it is said Socrates wasimprisoned and drank the fatal hemlock, and on an eminencestands a fine monument, well preserved, of a Roman consulwho died about 100 A. D. We saw among other interesting places, the exact spotwhere Diogenes worked in his tub, and if the locality is notapocryphal it was there that he uttered the fine piece of philoso-phy in answer to Alexander: If you please, sir, get out ofmy light. And lo, the Stadion! Who has not heard of the great anthro-podrome? Of the Olympic games? Paul was perhaps not anenthusiastic Stadion fan, but that he attended the races there 56 Six and One Abroad
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Athens—Its Buins 57 is indicated plainly in Hebrews 12:1, where he says: Where-fore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloudof witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin whichdoth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the racethat is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and fin-isher of our faith. Quod erat demonstrandum. Notice theApostles intimate acquaintance with the races of the stadium.The cloud of witnesses was the great throng in the bleach-ers; every weight was the tunic and sandals and weights usedfor practice; the besetting sin was the habit of drinking whichathletes had to forego in order to strengthen muscle and createendurance, or smoking, or late hours, or sexual indulgencies, orany or all those habits of life that so easily beset one and hurtthe physique; the patience exhorted was the steady gait ofa runner as contrasted ^vith another who started off in a spurtin the lead and was likely to become winded—the steady, pa-

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