Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-04-08

ing out in his ORATOR, As one Q: your own
poets has said.
Furthermore. al the CIVILIZED world. like
Paul, l. Indebted - the Greeks FOR archi.ec-
ture- The world before the time o. the
Greeks had built Ionoliths. ooclisks, croun-
iecAs. sphlnxes And pyramids, bu; they were
mostly monumental. 10 the dead whom they
failed to meInor.ali.-. We ara no, certain.
even, ofthe names Of those in whose com.
menoratton the pyramids were built Blu,
Greek architecture did mos: for tee living
Ignoring Egyptian preceaents and borrow.
Ing nothing from other nations. Greek Arc hi.
lecture carved Its own columns. Sc, its owT
pediments adjusted its own en;aolaturcS
rounded its own holdings and carried ou
as never before the three qualities OF right
building, called by an old author "arnitas
utilitas, venustas"-nanely, nrmness, use
1uindsS, beauty.
But there is another art IN my mind-she
most fascinating, eIevattng and inspiring OF
all arts and the nearest to the divine-for
which all the world owes debt to the Hell
ienes that will never be paid. l mean sculp-
tura At least $50 years before Christ the
Greeks perpetuated the human face and
form in terra Gotta and marble. What
blessing to the human family that men and
women. nightly useful. who could live only
within century may be perpe,uated for Ave
or six or ten centuries? How | wish that
some sculptor contemporaneous with Christ
could have put His matchless form In mar
bic. But for every grand and exquisite
statue OF Martin Luther, of&J ohm Knox, OF
William Penn. of Thomas ChalmerS. %
Wellington. OF Lafayette OF any OF tho
great statesmen or enancipators or con-
querors who adorn your parks or Ill the
inches Of your academies, you are debtors to
the Greeks. They covered the Acropolis.
they gIorfied the temples, they adorned the
cemeteries with statues. some in cedar, some
| in ivory, some In silver, some In gold some
n a "a mi fya In al
Thanks to Phtdias, who worked IN stone; TO
| Clearchus, who workei / in bronze; TO Doutas.
| who worked in gold. and 10 all ancient
! chisels OF commemoration, Do you not
realize that for many of the wonders OF
| sculpture we are debtors 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. Hippo
crates. who first opened the door for disease
to go out and health 10 come In. He first set
| forth the importance OF cleanliness and sleep.
| making the patient before treatment to be
washed and take s.umber on the hide OF a
| sacrifice beast. He first discovered the i'm
portance OF thorough rrognosis and dag
| nosis. He formulated the famous oath OF
! Hippocrates which Is taken by pLysicians OF
| our day. He emancpated medicine from
superstition, empricism ani prie.tcraft. he
was the father OF all the lnflrmarfes. hospit-
ais and medical colleges OF the last twenty
| three centuries.
Furthermore. all the world Is obligated to
Hellas more than 1t can ever pay for its
heroics in the cause Of liberty and right.
United Europe to-day hal not better think
that the Greeks will not fight. There may
be faliings back and va acillations and tempor-
ary defeat, but if Greece is right all Europe
cannot put her down. The other nations
before they open the portfolios OF their mem
of-war against that small kingdom na1
better read OF the battle OF Marntnon, wherc
10000 Athenlans. ied on hy Mtltindes.
triumphed over 100, 900 OF their enemies AT
that time. in Greek council OF war. hve
generals were for beginning the battle and
nve were against it. Callimachus preside !
at the council OF war, had the deciding vote
and Miltiades addressed him, saying:
"1t now rests with you, Calimaehus. eithc!
to enslave Athens, or. by insuring her free
dom. 10 win yourself an immortality OF fame
for never since the Athenians were peopl'
We're they in such danger as they are In a
| this moment. Ii they bow the knee to thes
Medes, they are to BE- given up to Hippias
and you know what they will then have (
suffer, but if Athens comes victorious out o
this contest she has it in her power TO becom
the first city Of Greece. Your vote is to de
eide whether we are 10 join battle or not. /
we do not bring on q battle presently. soms
factious intrigue will disunite the Athenians
but II we fight before there is anything rot
ten in the state OF Athens believe that, pro
vded the gous will give fair field dnd nf
favor. We arc able TO get the best OF 1t In th'
engagement.
That won the vote OF Callimachus. m
soon the battle opened and in futi run th'
men Of Milti' lc, fell upon the Persian hosts
shouting: Lob, sons OF Greece. Strike foI
the freedom Of your country Strike for tn
freedom OF your children and your wives
for the shrines Of your fathers gods and 10
the sepulchers Of your sresl AL al ar
-aI ~ hull r.,lv
Greeks fell, 64o0 Persians lay dead upon th'
field and many Of the Asia,ic hosts VIII
took to the war vessels in the harbor wer
consumed In the shipping Persian oppre.
sion was rebuked, Grecian liberty Wa
achieved. the cause Of civilization was al
vanceJ. and the western world and ali m
tons have Eel, the heroics~ Had there beel
no Miltiaies there might have been q
Washington.
Also at Thermopyia 800 Greeks. along
road only wide enough for wheel track be
tween q mountain and a marsh. died rathe
than surrender. Had there been no Iher
mopyIa, there nigh. have been no Bunke
Hill. Enciish Mama Charsa AMI Declaraito
81 American Independence and the song c
! Rober. Burns entitled "A Mans Man 70
, ! a. That" were only the long continued r.
| verberation Of VIVA, was said and done twent
| centuries before IN THAI little Kingdom tha
the Powers ot Europe are no y imp oslng upon
Greace having again and again shown iha
ten yaen In the right are stronger than 10
: men In the wroDg. the heroics Q! Leoni1a
: and ArStiies and Themistocles will Dot ceas
. thei, mission until the last man ca earth
as free a. God made him There Is not Q
either side Of the Atlantic to-day repubii
I iha: canno, tru,hful!y employ The words {
the text and say, Il an debtor 70 th
+, Greeks"
6 But now cones the pracsiea! question
: How can We ray tha. deb. Or part o. !!
: For we cannot pay more than ;eo per cen
? o. thai debt In which Pau! ackoo T!e14e
= himself a bankrupt. By praying Ainizo:
. Go. .ha, he help Grrece IN 81 p,~ssns vi
with Mohan mechanism and sae coneer1s
: empires 0. Europe. / krI~ her queen,
9 noble, Christian wonan, he, :sce the th.on
"a CT ali beoeEcence AMI loyains.s. bes ITO q
. example - noble vitesoof Act nosaern 90
: GoI help those Tala-es !n these esys o! a.
. IA sxtyency. Our American SeIa'e ci1 We
;. 'he oshsr 6s- wnea u isr cafio1 esiioin
: which owes - Grace its toIu-noa1aops~
!. slv-rsss they razSs. : hearty rcsoar'ton 4
= sympathy for thai na.tGc- Wo1l1 snAs
J. who hzv. p5:eas ~o-.s ira: cas "a beard
Earcr@ would Etts- them -oE, Wien .Es
:. ar - r1cA aeet-1. L.: Is -sss,as. 20 ses
- i. E..i.sa wha: ts-T centuries A~o ceraAsy
% tie word IN Greek. '.E.-es>- are sncs
VITO are p@-xecu'ed tor -tgh,eossceas SAX
! ! .o- theirs Is the xlaxtoaa Q: hsaveo-
Aao;asr xav 3. sar+lg sarin2 O.! cAos
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