4 Among the masters of the Greeks was one, Apollo, who was called, Defender of the Oracle, and recognized in many lands as Grecian sage.
5 Apollo opened up for Jesus all the doors of Grecian lore, and in the Areopagus he heard the wisest masters speak.
6 But Jesus brought to them a wisdom greater far than theirs; and so he taught.
7 Once in the Amphitheater he stood, and when Apollo bade him speak he said,
8 Athenian masters, hear! In ages long ago, men, wise in nature’s laws, sought out and found the place on which your city stands.
9 Full well you know that there are parts of earth where its great beating heart throws heavenward etheric waves that meet the ethers from above;
10 Where spirit-light and understanding, like the stars of night, shine forth.
11 Of all the parts of earth there is no place more sensitized, more truly spirit-blest, than that where Athens stands.
12 Yea, all of Greece is blest. No other land has been the homeland of such mighty men of thought as grace your scrolls of fame.
13 A host of sturdy giants of philosophy, of poetry, of science, and of art, were born upon the soil of Greece, and rocked to manhood in your cradle of pure thought.