The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-04-10


done a work that nothing else could
nave accomplished; Boreas- represent
ing the north wind: Sisyphus. rolling
the stone up the hill only 20 have the
same thing 20 do over again; IantaluS
with fruits above him that he could not
reach: Achilles. with his arrows; lear
rs. with his waxen wings. dying too
near the sun: the Centaurs- half man
and half beast; OrpheuS with his
lyr.: Atlas with the world on his
back. all these and more have helped
literature, from the graduates speech
on commencement day 20 Rufus Coates
eulogium on Daniel Webster az Dart
mouth. Tragedy and comedy were born
in the festivals Of Dionysius al Athens
The lyric and elegiac and epic poetry
of Greece so years before Christ has
its echoes in the Tennysons- Longfel-
lows and Bryants Of 800 and 1900 years
after Christ There Is not an effective
pulpit or editorial chair or professor
room or cultured parlor or intelligent
farm house to-day in America or Eu-
rope that could not appropriately en-
ploy Paul's ejaculation and say: Il am
debtor 10 the Greeks
The fact IS this Paul b ad got much
Of his oratorical power OF expression
from the Greeks That he had studied
their literature was evident when
standing in the presence Of an audience
of Greek scholars on Mars hill. which
overlooks Athens, be dared 20 quote
from one Of their own Greek poets
either Cleaathus or Aratus- de-
claring: las certain also OF your own
poets have said. for we are also His
offspring And rs made accurate
quotation. Cleanthus, one of the poets
having written:
For re TA..s o-sV-i-s are Al things Thai
Are 81, the echo o: u. voice D!v.ae
And AratuS- one of their own poets
| had written:
| po,h care ps-p.er, Is lowering tAnzsr n-sh
! We 1-e rs 0-syT.ag. AID 70 Joye -e 81.
Il was rather risky thing for Paul
10 attempt 20 quote extemporaneously
from a poem in a language foreign 70
| his. and before Greek scholars, but
Paul did il without stammering. and
then acknowledged before the most
distinguished audience on the planet
his Indebtedness 20 the Greeks crying
out in his Grafton: .'As one Of your own
! poets has said.
Furthermore. all the civilized world,
| like Paul. is indebted % the Greeks for
! architecture The world before the
time Of the Greeks had built mono
/ liths. obeIisks. c-omlechs, sphinxes and
pyramids but they were mostly monu-
! mental 20 the dead whom they failed
/ 20 memorabilia. We are not certain
even Of the names Of those in whose
! commemorative the pyramids were
/ built Blu, Greek architure did most
| for the living. Ignoring Egyptian
precedeatS and borrowing nothing
! from other nations, Greek architec-
ture CARED is own columns, sets its
! own pe6iments. adjusted It's own en-
I tablatures. rounded is own holdings
and carried out as never before the
three qualities Of right building. called
by an old author ''ir-nitas, utilitas
yenustas.7 namely, trrnness- useful
ness- beauty. Although the Parthenor
on the Acropolis Of Athens IS only &
wreck Of the storms and earthquake:
and commandments Of many centuries
and although Lord Elgin took from one
st4e Of that building, a. an expens'
o. $3.50 90. two ship loads Of sculp
ture. one ship load going dowr
in the Mediterranean and tn
other ship load now 10 be found in tn
British museum. the Parthenon, though
in comparative ruins, has been an in
spiration 70 all architects 70
centuries past. and will be an in
SEPARATION all the time from now unit
the world itself IS temple ruin. on
. that ParthenOn! One never gets owe
, having once seen it. But what must j
have been when il stood as its architects
Ikitnos and Killikrates, built it out Q
? Pentellcan marble, white as Noun
2 Blanc at MONDAY, and as overwhelm
D ing? Height above height. OvertoI
i ping the august and majestic pile, an
: rising from its roof was statue {
c Pallas Promachus in bronze. 50 tall an
d flashing that sailors far out at sea b
It held the plume of her helmet Wit
l. out the aid of the Eternal God
n never would have been planned, ar
It without the aid of God the chisels ar
|, trowels never could have construct,
l. it. There is not fine church buildir
e in all the world, or a properly-co
l. structed courthouse, or beautiful a
n gallery, or an appropriate auditorium
It or tasteful home, which, because
D that Parthenon, whether its style
ID some other style be adopted, is not {
At rectly or indirectly a debtor TO I
As Greeks.
q, But there is another art in my mil
l. the most fascinating, elevating al
d. inspiring of all arts, and the nearest
IS. the divine-for which all the wor
O. owes a debt to the Hellenes that w
n never be paid. mean sculpture.
l. least $50 years before Christ the Gree
d. perpetuated the human face and fol
IL in terra Gotta and marble. Wha
It. blessing to the human family that IN
ne and women, nightly useful, w
he could live only within century m
We be perpetuated for five or six or
n centuries. How / wish that sol
n sculptor, tontemporaneous wi
ed Christ, could have put His matchl,
rs form in marble! But for every gra
by and eauisite statue of Martin Luth
- ~ Lin Knox ~ William panp