St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-05-01

The fact IS this Paul had got much
Of his oratorical power Of expression
from the Greek& That he had studied
their literature WIS evident, when
standing in the presence Of m audience
Of Greek scholars on Mars hill, which
overloolxs Athens, he dared to quote
from one of their own Greek poets.
either Cleanthus or Aratus, de-
claring: "As certain also Of your own
poets have said, for we arc also His
offspring" And he made accurate
quotation, Cleanthus, one Of the poeta,
having written: F
For We Thine offspring are. All things that
Are but the echo OF tho voice Divine.
And Aratus, one OF their own poets,
had written:
Doth care perplexs Is lowering danger nigh Z
We are His offspring. and to Jove We ny.
1t was rather . risky thing for Paul
to attempt to quote extemporaneously
from poem in q language foreign to
his, and before Greek scholars, but
Paul did it without stammering, and
then acknowledged before the most
distinguished audience on the planet
his Indebtedness to the Greeks, crying
ont 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, obelisks, cromlechs, sphinxes 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
commemoration the pyramids were
built. But Greek architure did most
for the living. Ignoring Egyptian
precedents, and borrowing nothing
from other nations, Greek architec-
ture carved its own columns, sets its
own pediments, adjusted its own en-
tablatures, rounded its own holdings,
and carried out as never before the
three qualities of right building, called
by an old author '.firmitas, utilitas,
venustas," namely, firmness, useful
ness, beauty. Although the Parthenon
on the Acropolis of Athens is only =
wreck of the storms and earthquakes
and bombardments Of many centuries,
and although Lord Elgin took from one
side of that building, ut an expense
Of $3.50, 900, two ship loads of sculp-
ture. one ship load going down
in the Mediterranean and the
other ship load now to be found in the
British museum, the Parthenon, though
in comparative ruins, has been m in
spiratiOn to all architects for
centuries past, and will be an in
spiration all the time from now until
the world itself il = temple ruin. oh,
that Parthenon! One never gets over
having once seen it. But what must it
have been when it stood rs its architects,
Ikitnos and Killikrates, built it out Of
Pentellcan marble, white rs Mount
Blanc ut MONDAY, and as overwhelm-
ing? Height above height Overtop-
ping the august and majestic pile, and
rising from its roof was = statue Of
Pallas Promachus in bronze, 50 tall and
that sailors far out 1t sea be-
held the plume of her helmet. With
out the aid of the Eternal God it
never would have been planned, and
without the aid OF God the chisels and
trowels never could have constructed
it. There is not . fine church building
in all the world, or q properly-con-
courthouse, or beautiful art
gallery, or an appropriate auditorium,
or tasteful home, which, because of
that Parthenon, whether its style or
some other style be adopted, is not di-
rectly or indirectly = debtor to the
Greeks
But there is another art in my mind
the most fascinating, elevating and
Of all arts, and the nearest to
the divine-for which all the world
owes q debt to the Hellenes that will
never be paid. mean sculpture. At
least $50 years before Christ the Greeks
th{human face and form
IN terra cott4 and marble. What .
to thehuman family that men
and women, ssmightily useful who
could live only ..uithin = century may
be perpetuated for five or six or ten
sculptor, coatsmporaneous with
Christ could hsve put His matchless
form in marbleASRut for every grand
and equisite statue of Martin Luther,
II John Kno0s6f William Penn, Of
Thomas Chal1aers, Of Wellington, OF
kAfAEette. of any of the great states
men or cmancipators or conquerors
vSlf0 aslsd6hr parks or fill the inches
II your academies, You are debtors to
he Greeks. They covered the Aero
oOlis, they glorified the temples, they
the cemeteries with statues,
lOme In cedar, some in ivory, some in |
silver, some in gold, some in size dimin- |
ltive and some in size colossal. Thanks
% Phidias, who worked in stone; to !
who worked in bronze; to- |
00ntas, who worked in gold, and to al |
lncient chisels of commemoration! Do |
ron not realize that for many of the |
wonders of sculpture we areindebted to |
he Greeks?
Yea! For. the science of medicine,
he great art Of healing, we must thank |!
he Greeks. There is the immortal /
ireck doctor;- Hippocratos, who first
,pened the door for disease to 60 out |
md health to come in. He first set |
orth the Importance Of cleanliness and
leep, making the patient before treat
nent to be washed and take slumber
n the hide of . sacrificed beast. He
irst discovered the importance Of
borough prognosis and diagnosis. He
ormulated the famous oath of Hip
'ocrates which is taken by physicians
# our day. lie emancipated medi-
inc from superstition, empiricism
md priestcraft- He was the father Of
il the infirmaries, hospitals and med
cal colleges of the last % centuries.
ANCIENT medicament ana surgery had
'efore that been anatomical and physi-
logical assault and battery, and long
Ifter the time of Hippocrates the Greek
lOctor, where his theories were not
,nown. the Bible speaks of fatal med