Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-04-03

alter the time Of Hiprccrntcs, the Greek
doctor, where his theories were not
known, the Biblc speaks of fatal med
ical treatment when 1t says, "In his
disease he sought rot 10 the Lord, but
to the physicians, and Asa slept with
his fathers. Ard we read in the New
Testament of tie Poor woman who had
been treated by incompetent doctors,
who asked large fees, where it says,
"She had suffered many things of many
physicians and had spent all that she
Ind and WAS nothing better, but rather
grew worse. " For our glorious science
of medicine and surgcry-morc sublime
than astronomy, fer we have more to do
with disease than with the stars; more
beautiful tl.an botany, for bloom Of
health in the check of wife and child is
worth more to us than all the roses Of
the gardcn-for this grandest of all
sciences, the science of healing, every
pillow of recovered invalid, every ward
of American ard European hospital, may
well cry out: THANK God for old DIR.
Hippocratcs! l, like Paul, am indebted
to the Greeks. -
For Liberty and Right.
Furthermore all the world is obi.
gated to Hellas more than it can ever
pay for it's heroics in the cause of liber-
ty and right United Europe today had
not better think that the Greeks will
not fight. There may be fallings back
and vncillations and temporary defeat,
but if Greece is right all Europe cannot
put her down. The other nations before
they open the portfolios of their men-of-
war against that small kingdom had
better read of the battle of Marathon,
where 10, coo Atheninns, led on by Mil
tiades, triumphed over 100, 600 of their
enemies. AT that time, in Greek council
of war, five generals were for beginning
the battle uud five We're against it. Cal
limachus presided at the council OF
war, had the deciding vote, and Mil
tiades addressed him, saying:
1T now rests with you, Callimachus,
either to cnslave Athens, or, by insuring
her freedom, to win yourself an immor-
tality of fame, for never since the
Athenians were Il people were they in
such danger us they are i'll at this mo-
ment. If they bow the knee to these
Modes, they are to be given up to Hip
pias, and you know what they will then
have to suffer, but if Athens comes vic
torious out of this contest she has it i'll
her power to become the first city Of
Greece. Your vote is to decide whether
we are to join battle or not. If we do
not bring ON battle presently, some
factious intrigue will disunite the
Athcnians, and the city will be betrayed
to the Mcdcs, but if we fight before
there is anything rotten i'll 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. "
That won the vote of Callimachus,
and soon the battle opened, and in full
run the men of Miltiudes fell upon the
Persian hosts, shouting: ION, sons of
Greecel Strike for the freedom of your
country! Strike for the freedom of your
children and your wives, for the shrines
of your fathers gods and for the sepul-
cheers of your sires! All, all are now
staked OH the strifc!'f While only 1872
Greeks fell, 6. 400 Persians lay dead
upon the field and many of the Asiatic
hosts who took to the war vessels i'll the
harbor were consumed in the shipping.
Persian oppression was rebuked, Greclan
liberty was achieved, the cause OF civil
lization was advanced, and the western
world and all nations have felt the he
roles. Had there been no Miltiades
there might have been no Washington.
Strong In the Right.
Also at Therlnopyln 800 Greeks,
along road only wide enough for a
wheel track between a mountain and d
marsh, died rather than surrender Had
there been no ThermopylG there might
have been no Bunker Hill. The echo of
Athenian and Spartan heroics was heard
ut the gates of Lucknow, and Sebasto-
pol, and Bannockburn, and Lexington,
and Gettysburg English Magma Charta
and Declaration of American Independ-
ence and the song of Robert Burns, en-
titled IA Mans Man For a That, -
were only the long continued reverbera-
ton of what was said and done 20 CELL
turtles before i'll that little kingdom that
the powers of Europe are now imposing
upon. Greece having again and again
shown that 10 men in the right are
stronger than 100 men i'll the wrong,
the herpics of Leonidas and Aristides
and Themistocles will not cease their
mission until the last man OH earth is
as free as God made him. There is not
on either side Of the Atlantic today
republic that cannot truthfully employ
The words CT the text and say, 1 am
debtor to the Greeks.
But now comes the practical question,
How can we pay that debt or part OF
it? For we cannot pay more than 10 per
cent of that debt in which Paul ac-
knowledged himself a bankrupt. By
praying Almighty God that he Will help
Greece in its present war with Moham-
mechanism and the concerted empires of
Europe I know her queen, noble,
Christian woman, her face the throne Of
all benefcence and loveliness, her life
an example of noble wifehood and
motherhood God help those palaces in
these days of awful exigencyl Our
American senate did we'll the other day
when in that capitol building which
owes % Greece its columnar impressive
ness they passed hearty resolution 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 declared to the world IN