Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-04-01

poets, cllner lcantnuN or AratuS, ue-
claring, AS certain also of your own
/ poets have said. FOR we are also his
offspring" And he made accurate
quotation. Clcanthus, one of the poets,
3 having written:
For We thine offspring are AL things that
creep
Are hut the echo OF the voice divine.
And Aratus, one Of their own poets,
had written:
Doeth care pcrpl,I l. lowering danger nigh'
We are his Offspring, aud To dove We H.
| 1t was rather RISKY thing for Paul
to attempt tn quote eNtcmporancously
from n poem in language foreign to
| his, and before Greek scholars, but
| Paul did it without stammcring, and
then acknowledged before the most
distinguished audience on the planet
his Indebtedness to the Greeks, crying
out in his Grafton, As one of your
own poets has said"
Furthermore, all the civilized world,
| like Paul. is indebted to the Greeks
for architecture. The world before
the time of the Greeks had built mono
| liths, obrlislls, cromlechs, snhinxs, and
pyramids, but they were mostly monu-
mental To the dead whom they failed
| To memorabilia. We are not certain
even of the names of those in whose
CONTAMINATION the pyramids were
built. But Greek architecture did
most for the living. Ignoring Egyptian
prccedents. aud borrowing nothing
from other nations, Greek architecture
carved its own columns, set its own
pediments, adjusted its own entabla-
lures, rounded its own holdings and
carried out rs never before three quail
tiles of right building, called by an old
author "iirmitas, utilitas, venustas,
namely, tirmness, usefulness, beauty.
| Although the parthenon ON the Aero
polls of Athens is only "A wreck of the
storms and earthquakes and lombard
ments of many centuries, and although
Lord Elgin took from the side of that
building, at an expense of $3.50, 900,
two shiploads of sculpture, one ship
load going down in the Medit'
crancan and the other shipload
now to lie found in the Brit.
ish museum, the Parthenon, though
| in comparative ruins, has been an in
! spiration to all architects for centuries
past, and will he an inspiration all the
time from now until the world itself is
n temple ruin. Oh, that Pdrthenon!
One never gets over having once seen
it. but what must it have been when
it stood as its architects, lkitnos and
Kallikrates built it out of Pentilicau
marble, white rs Mont Blanc at noon.
day, and as overwhelming. Height
above height. Overlapping the august
and majestic pile, and rising from
its roof, was statue of Pallas
| Promachus in bronze so tall and
| flashing that sailors far out at sea be
held the plume of her helmet. With
out the aid of the Eternal God it never
could have been planned, and withou,
the aid of God the chisels and trogvels
never could have constructed it. There
is not fine church building in all the
world, or II properly constructed court
house, or n beautiful art gallery, or an
appropriate auditorium, or a tasteful
home, which, because of that Parthe-
non, whether its style or some other
style be adopted, is not directly or in
directly debtor to the Greeks.
But there is another art in my
naiad=the most fascinating, elevating
and inspiring of all arts, and tine near
est to the divine-for which all the
world owes II debt to the 1lelleues that
will never be paid. l mean sculpture.
| At least $50 years before Christ the
Greeks perpetuatcd the human face
and form in terra Gotta and mart BILE.
What a blessing to the human family
that men and women, nightly useful
who could live only within century,
may be perpetuated for five or six OF
ten centuries. How | wish that some
sculptor, contemporaneous with Christ
could have put his matchless form
in marble Bat for every grand
and exquisite statue OF Martin Luther
of John Knox, of William Penn,
of Thomas Chalmers. of Wellington
of Lafayette, of any of the great states
men or emancipators or conquerors
who adorn your parks or fill the inches
of your acade mics, you are debtors &c
the Greeks They covered the acrop
oils, they gloT-ified the temples, they
adorned the cemeteries with statues
some in cedar. some in ivory, some in
silver, some in gold, some in size di
minutive and some in size colossal.
Thanks to Phidias, who worked in
stone; to CIearchus, who worked in
bronze; to DDntas. who worked in gold
and to all ancient chisels of common,
Grafton. Do you not realize that for
many of the wonders of sculpture we
are ebtors to the Greeks?
| Yea. For the science of medicine
the great art of healing, we must thank
the Greeks. There is the immortal
Greek doctor, Hippocrates, who first
opened the door for disease to go out
and health to come in. lie first sci
forth the Importance of cleanliness
and sleep. making the patient before
treatment TO be washed and take
slumber on the hide of sacrificed
beast. lie first discovered the import
ance of thorough prognosis and dag
nosis. lie formulated the famous oath
of IIippocrates which is taken by ply
sicians of our day. lie emancipated
medicine from superstition, empiricism
priestcraft. lie was the father ofall the
infirmaries, hospitals and medical
colleges of the last % centuries Ancient
medicament and surgery had before
| tudt Uech dutlOinlcdl anu pny SlOlO8lcd
assault and battery, and long after
the time of Iiippocrates the Greek
doctor, where his theories were no,
known, the Bible speaks of fatal med.
zeal treatment when it says: 'lu his
disease he sought not tn the Lord, but
to the physicians, and Asa slept with
his fathers" And we read in the New
Testament of the poor woman who
had been treated by incompetent doc
tors who asked large fees, where it
says: "She had suffered many things
of many physicians, and had spent all
that she had, and was nothing better
but rather grew worse" For our
| glorious science of medicine and sur
gerry, more sublime than astronomy,
| for we have more to do with disease
than with the stars; more beautiful
than botany, for bloom of health, in
the cheek of wife and child, than all
the oses of the garden-for this grand
est of all sciences, the science of heal
ing, every pillow of recovered invalid,
! every ward of American and European
hospital may well cry out, Thank