142 APPENDIX. [sect. 



Paul, "Lord what wilt thou have me to do?" and to act 



like him in carrying his Gospel into those regions wherein 



it is so much needed. 



Their i<mor- Perhaps the great Apostle met with as 



ance or denial much opposition to this one tenet of the 

 of the resur- „. . . „ . , , ,. , , , 



rection of the Christian faith as he did to any other single 



body. point of his teaching. This was more espe- 



cially the case with the Gentiles than with the Jews. 



When he preached his celebrated sermon on Mars' Hill, 

 at Athens, — surrounded as he was by gorgeous idols, mag- 

 nificent temples, inimitable statues and other works of art, 

 together with a sharp-witted curious populace, and the 

 acute and learned representatives of the most renowned 

 schools of ancient philosophy, — we find that he was pa- 

 tiently listened to until he propounded this truth; — "And 

 when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, 

 some mocked, and others said, We will hear thee again of 

 this matter^!" 



The experience of Christian missionaries in South Africa 

 has been remarkably like this of St Paul's, but with the dif- 

 ference that the groundwork of the opposition given to 

 them is not like that which was offered to him. The 

 abstruse question of physical identity, while he lost sight 

 of that of moral identity, was the obstacle in the way of 

 the reasoning Greek : — The more practical and experi- 

 mental one of the inconvenient workings of conscience, and 

 the terrible consequences of the reality and realization of 

 such a verity foreshadowing with so much startling proba- 

 bility dire punishment to the unrepentant sinner when 

 called to judgment and sentenced thereupon, makes a de- 

 termined opponent to its truth of the benighted African. 

 The Epicurean, or Stoic, with his multifarious knowledge 

 and solid understanding, in his day derided and hindered 



1 Acts xvii. 32. 



