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THE SHRINES OF ATTICA 227
winds blustered over the ancient hill or gathered up
the dust in spirals and swept round the theatre of
Dionysus. There were days when the ground was
damp and the stones were cold, but not a single week
for five months was a lecture omitted on account of
weather. It helps us to understand how Plato, Sopho-
cles, and Aristotle used to teach out of doors !
On Sunday one could go to the Greek Church in
the morning, and then have time to hear Dr. Kalo-
pothakes preach a sermon in his little chapel near
the Arch of Hadrian and hear the Greeks sing " Old
Hundred," "Missionary Chant," and "Greenville,"
among two hundred other tunes from American and
English hymnals, the words themselves mostly trans-
lated from the same sources. Among them you would
recognize " Nearer, my God, to thee."
'Tiyyvrepov, Bee,
'Hyyvrepov npos Se
N' dfvyjreoOcci.
' Ecttco k im oravpnv
Bavurov (TTvyepov
'ApKel va evpeOco
Eyyus' irpos 2e.
Beyond the Arch of Hadrian, in imposing contrast
to this humble evangelical chapel, stand the fifteen
colossal Corinthian columns of the great temple of
the Olympian Zeus, like an echo from the past to
Miss Adams's hymn voicing the soul's aspiration for
God.
As for your Attic nights, if you did not spend
them with Aulus Gellius, you could go to the Ameri-
can Archaeological School and hear Professor J. R.
winds blustered over the ancient hill or gathered up
the dust in spirals and swept round the theatre of
Dionysus. There were days when the ground was
damp and the stones were cold, but not a single week
for five months was a lecture omitted on account of
weather. It helps us to understand how Plato, Sopho-
cles, and Aristotle used to teach out of doors !
On Sunday one could go to the Greek Church in
the morning, and then have time to hear Dr. Kalo-
pothakes preach a sermon in his little chapel near
the Arch of Hadrian and hear the Greeks sing " Old
Hundred," "Missionary Chant," and "Greenville,"
among two hundred other tunes from American and
English hymnals, the words themselves mostly trans-
lated from the same sources. Among them you would
recognize " Nearer, my God, to thee."
'Tiyyvrepov, Bee,
'Hyyvrepov npos Se
N' dfvyjreoOcci.
' Ecttco k im oravpnv
Bavurov (TTvyepov
'ApKel va evpeOco
Eyyus' irpos 2e.
Beyond the Arch of Hadrian, in imposing contrast
to this humble evangelical chapel, stand the fifteen
colossal Corinthian columns of the great temple of
the Olympian Zeus, like an echo from the past to
Miss Adams's hymn voicing the soul's aspiration for
God.
As for your Attic nights, if you did not spend
them with Aulus Gellius, you could go to the Ameri-
can Archaeological School and hear Professor J. R.