The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-04-11

OF oil nations, Ahat
Of the Greeks. preach this sermon
Of sympathy and protest, for every IN
telllRent person on this side OF the sea-
a. well as the other side, like Paul VINO
wrote the text. Is debtor 10 the Greeks
The present crisis is emphasized oy
the guns OF the allied powers OF Eu-
rope. ready 10 be unlimbered against
the Hellenes. and am asked to SPEAK
out Paul. with a master intellect oil the
ages. sat In brilliant Corlnth, the great
Acro-Corlnthus fortress frowning from .
the height OF sixteen hundred and elsh- /
ty-six feet. and In the house OF Galus
where be was a guest. a big pile OF
money near him, which he was taking
10 Jerusalem for the poor In this let
ter 10 the Romans. which ChryBostom
admired so much that he had II read
10 him twice week. Paul practically
says: Il. the Apostle. am bankrupt.
owe what cannot pay. but will pay
as large a percentage as ! can. II Is
an obligation for what Greek literature
and Greek sculpture and Greek archi-
lecture and Greek proves have done
for me. I will pay all can In Install
mcnts Of evangelism. am insolveni
TO the Greeks" Hellas. as the inhabi-
tants call Il. or Greece. as We call H.,
IL Insignificant In size. about a third
as large as the state OF New York. but
what Il lacks In breadth Is makes up
In height. with It's mountains Cylene.
and Eta. and Taygetus. and Tymphres-
tuH. each over seven thousand feet Ia
elevation. and he Parnassus. over eight
thousand. Just the country for mighty
men to be born In. for In all lands th'
most Of the intellectual and mora
giants were not born on the plain. bu
had for cradle the valley between tw
mountains. That country, no part q
which IL more than forty miles froI
the sea. has made lie impress upon th
world aa no other nation, and Il toda
holds a hrst mortgage Of obligatio
upon all civilized people While v
must leave 20 statesmanship and d
plomacy the settlement OF the intr
cate questions which now involve q
Europe. and Indirectly all nations,
IL time for all churches. all schools. ;
universities. all arts. all literature
sound out in the most emphatic VI
the declaration. Il am debtor 10
Greeks"
In the FIRST place. we owe TO IN,
language our New Testament All
Il was frst written In Greek. except ,
Book OF Matthew. and that. written
the Aramean language. was soon
into Greek by our Savior's broth
James To the Greek language We O
the best sermon ever preached.
best letters ever written. the best v
ions ever kndled. All the parallels
Greek. All the miracles IN Greek I
sermon on the mount In Greek. I
story OF Bethlehem and Golgotha 1
olivei and Jordan banks and GALL
beaches and Pauline embarkation
Pentecostal tongues and seven trumI
that sounded over Paimos. have C
20 the world IN liquid symme,rlc.
turesque. philosophic. unrlyaled Gru
instead OF the gibberlsh language
which many OF the NATIONS OF the e,
Al that time jabbered. Who can FOL
a and who can eXaggcraie Us thrill
importance, that Christ and hoa
were introduced 90 us 10 the langu
OF the Greeks2 the language In wi
Homer had sung aud sophocles ORA
tiled and Pluto dlalogued and Socr
dlscoursed and Lycurgus leglslated
Domosthenea thundcred his Grafton
sThe Crowng" Everlasting thanks
God that the waters OF life were
handed to the world In the unwai
cup OF corrupt languages from "
nations had been drinking. but IN
clean. bright. golden Tipped. emei
handled chalice OF the Hell,
Learned Curlius wrote a whole vol
about the Greek verb. Phllolo
century after century have been n
urine the symmetry OF that lang,
laden with elegy and philippe. d
nnd comedy. odyssey and lllad.
the grandest thing that Greek lang
ever accomplished was 10 give "a
world the bonedlction. the comfort
irradltatlon. the salvation Of the
mel Of the Son Of God. For tina, "
debtors TO the Greeks
And while speaking Of our phllC
cal obligation. let me call your a
zion 10 the fact that many Of N
tellectual and moral and theol1
leaders Of the axes got much OF
discipline and effectiveness from {
literature. Il la popular 90 SCOT q
dead languages. but 80 per cent
worlds intellectually would have
taken on n. through learned in
lions our young men had not
competent professors. been trlll'
Greek masterpiece HCsiods N
and Days" or the ouloglum hy 5
ides OF the slain in war. or Fh
codes of Victory" or "The re,
lions oi Socrates" or The A
Words" by CoraX. or Nonophon S
basis.
From the Grecla the world u
how 10 make history, Had there
no Hcrodoius and Thueydldes,
would have been no Macaulay OF
croft. Had there been no sopho'
tragedy. there would have bee
Shakespeare Had there been ~
mer. there would have been no n
The modern wits. who are now OF
been out on the divine mission OF
ing the world laugh at the right
can be traced back TO Arlsiophane
Athenian. and many Of the loe'
that are now taken as new han
suggestions twenty-three hundred
ago In the ffty-four comedies OF
master OF merriment Greoian m
iogy has been the richest mine
which orators and essayisis have .
their Illustrations and painters