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BEBEA AND ATHENS 241 versity, and the victory lie gained for Christianity in the very heart of paganism. Panl's words contain a treasure of knowledge for the church. He was in a position where he might easily have said that which would have irritated his proud listeners, and brought himself into difficulty. Had his oration been a direct attack upon their gods and the great men of the city, he would have been in danger of meeting the fate of Socrates. But with a tact born of divine love, he carefully drew their minds away from heathen deities, by revealing to them the true God, who was to them unknown. To-day the truths of Scripture are to be brought before the great men of the world, in order that they may choose between obedience to God^s law and allegiance to the prince of evil. God sets everlasting truth before them, — truth that will make them wise unto salvation, but He does not force them to accept it. If they turn from it. He leaves them to themselves, to be filled with the fruit of their own doings. ^'The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." ''God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath, God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are. ' ' ' Many of the greatest scholars and statesmen, the world's most eminent men, will in these last days turn from the n Cor. 1:18,19,27,28.