and attributes all the speculations of their vaunted philosophy had failed to bring to light; a God unlike the passive deity of the Epicurean, indifferent to the fate of his own children, or the Pantheistic principle of the Stoics, in which the Creator is confounded with the creature in one crushing system of fatalitybut one who is represented as a tender Father, " in whom we live, and move, and have our being," who sustains us during the present life, and will receive us in that which is to come. A doctrine so stupendous, yet so simple, might well startle the pride and prejudice of the philosophers. At the mention of the resurrection, "some mocked;" others, equally incredulous, but more courteous, promised the Apostle "to hear him again of this matter." This discourse, however, was not without its fruits, and in the conversion of Dionysius, one of the Areopagites, and others, was laid the foundation of the future Church in Athens.

Such was the momentous incident narrated by the evangelist, with all those graphic touches and local allusions which convey the most vivid impression of reality, here confirmed and heightened by the exact conformity of his narrative to every surrounding object.

A basket of Attic figs was placed among the more substantial ingredients of breakfast next morning, and fully maintained their ancient reputation. A more thorough exploration of the city than we had attempted the day before, was now proposed, and under the guidance of a Greek valet de place, we set out on what promised to be a delightful morning's work.

The view from Mount Lycabettus, already described, will give the reader as well, if not better than a map, an idea of the course we followed. Our guide first led us to the Temple of Theseus, the most perfect in preservation of all the Athenian monuments. This building, as we learn from Dr. Wordsworth, was commenced under the auspices of Cimon son of Miltiades, four years after the battle of Salamis, just before the occurrence of

which, it will be remembered, Xerxes destroyed the city. "It is a singular circumstance, and well worthy of observation, that one of the first acts of the Athenians, on their return to Athens, after their temporary banishment to Salamis and Troezen, was to restore their national hero, Theseus, who had been exiled by their

ancestors, to his own city. His remains were brought by Cimon from the island of Scyros, the scene of his banishment and death, to this place; and as the Athenians were now beginning to erect for themselves a new and magnificent city, and to adorn it with public buildings of great splendour, they at the same time raised for him this noble structure, in which he is buried as a man, and worshipped as a god." It might be heresy; but this building did not appear to possess any striking grandeur; perhaps the Doric order requires a larger scale to bring out effectively the majestic character of its architecture. It is now converted by the Greek government into a museum of antiquities.

Our path was up the hollow valley, between Mars' Hill and an