The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-04-09

! and health to come In. lie first set
forth the Importance of cleanliness and
sleep, making the patient before treat
ment to be washed and take slumber
on the hide of a sacrificed beast. He
! first discovered the importance of
thorough prognosis and diagnosis. He
formulated the famous oath of Hip
pocrates which is taken by physicians
of our day. He emancipated medi-
cine from superstition, empiricism
and priestcraft. He was the father of
all the infirmaries, hospitals and med
ical colleges of the last % centuries.
Ancient medicament and surgery had
before that been anatomical and physi-
| illogical assault and battery, and long
after the time of Hippocrates the Greek
doctor, where his theories were not
known, the Bible speaks of fatal med
ical treatment, when it says: I'm his
disease he sought not to the L%rd, 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 incom-
petent doctors who asked large
large fees, where it says: 'She had suf-
fered many things of many physicians,
was nothing better, but rather grew
worse" For our glorious science of
medicine and surgery, more sublime
than astronomy, for we have more to
do with disease than with the starsl
more beautiful than botany, for bloom
of health in the cheek of wife and
| child is worth more to us than all tho
roses of the garden-for this grandest
| of all sciences, the science of healing,
every pillow of recovered invalid, ev-
cry ward of American and European
hospital may well cry out: Thank God
for old DIR. Hippocrates! l, like Paul,
am indebted to the Greeks"
Furthermore, all the world is obli
gated to Hellas more than it can ever
pay for its heroics in the cause of liberty
and right. United Europe to-day had
not better think that the Greeks will
not fight. There may be fallings back
and vacillations and temporary defeat,
but if Greece is right all Europe cam
not put her down. The other nations,
before they open the portfolios of their
men-of-war against that small king
dom, had better read of the battle of
Merathon, where 10, 600 Athenians, led
on by Miltiads, triumphed over 100, 900
of their enemies. At that time in
Greek council of war five generals were
for beginning the battle and five
against it. Callimachus, presided at
the council of war, had the deciding
vote, and Miltiades addressed him, say
ing:
1T now rests with you, Callimachus,
either to enslave Athens, or by insur-
ing her freedom, to win yourself an i'm
mortality of fame, for never since the
Athenians were people were they in
such danger as they are in at this mo-
ment. If they bow the knee to these
Medes, they are to be given up to Hip
pias, and you know what they will
then have to suffer; but if Athens
comes victorious out of this contest,
she has it in her power to become the
first city of Greece. Your vote is to de-
eide whether we are to join in battle or
not. If we do not bring on battle
presently, some factious intrigue will
disunite the Athenians, and the city
will be betrayed to the Medes, but if
we fight before there is anything rot
ten in the state of Athens, believe
that, provided the gods will give fair
field and no favor, we are able to get
the best of it in the engagement"
But now comes the practical ques-
ton. How can we pay that debt, or
a part of it? For we can not pay more
that ten per cent. of that debt in which
Paul acknowledged himself a bank
rupt. BY praying Almighty God that
He will help Greece in its present with
Mohammedanism and the concerted
Nf lo,-
a noble, Christian woman, her face
the throne of all beneficence and
loveliness, her life an example of
noble wifehOod and motherhood. |
God help those palaces in these days
of awful exigency! Our Ameri- |
can senate did well the other day,
when, in that capital building which |
owes to Greece its columnar impress |
siveness, they passed a hearty resolu-
tion of sympathy for that nation. |
Would that all who have potent words |
that can be heard in Europe would |
utter them now, when they are so |
much needed! Let us repeat to them |
in English what they centuries ago de- |
clared to the world in Greek: BLESSED |
are those who are prosecuted for |
righteousness sake, for theirs Is the |
kingdom of Heaven"
Then if your illustration of Christs |
self-sacrifice, drawn from some scene
of to-day, and your story of what Christ |
has done for you does not quite fetch |
him into the right way, just say to |
him: Professor -DoctOr-Judge! Why |
was it that Paul declared he was a |
debtor to the Greeks?" And ask your |
learned friend to take his Greek Testa- |
ment and translate for you, in his own |
way, from Greek into English, the |
splendid peroration of Paul's sermon on |
Mars hill, under the power of which |
the scholarly Dionysius surrendered, |
namely: 1.-The times of this ignorance |
God winlzed at; but now commandeth |
all men everywhere to repent; |
because He hath appointed a |
day in which He will Judge the |
world in righteousness, by that man |
whom He hath ordained; whereof He |
hath given assurance unto all men, in |
that He hath raised from the dead" |
By the time he has got through the |
translation from the Greek l think |
you will see his lip tremble and |
there will be a pallor on His face |
like the pallor on the sky at day |
break. By the eternal salvation of |
that scholar, that great thinker, that |
splendid man you will have done some
thing to help pay your indebtedness to |
the Greeks. And now to God the Fa-
ther, God the Son and God the HOLY |
Ghost, be honor and glory, and do
minion and victory and song world |
without end. Amen.