The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-05-06
NO. 10.

least $50 years before Christ the Greeks
perpetuated the human face and form
In terra Gotta and marble. What q
blessing to the human family that men
and women, nightly useful, who
could live only within century may
be perpetuated for five or six or ten
centuries. How l wish that some
sculptor, contemporaneous with
Christ, could have put His matchless
form in marble. But for every grand
and equisite statue of Martin Luther.
of John Knox. of William Penn, of
Thomas Chalmers, of Wellington, of
Lafayette, of any of the great states
men or emancipators or conquerors
who adorn your parks or fill the inches
of your academies, you are debtors to
the Greeks. They covered the Aero
polls, they glorified the temples, they
adorned the cemetaries with statues,
some in cedar, some in ivory, some in
| silver, some in gold, some in size dimin-
utive and some in size colossal. Thanks
| to Phidias, who worked in stone; to
| Clearchus, who worked in bronze; to
Dontas, who worked in gold, and to all
ancient chisels of commemoration. Do
you not realize that for many of the
wonders of sculpture we are indebted 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, IIippocrates, who first
opened the door for disease to 60 out
and health to come in. He 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 apd 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 23 centuries.
/ Ancient medicament and surgery had
l 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
1 known, the Bible speaks of fatal med
E ical treatment, when it says: In his
disease he sought not to the Lord, but
: to the physicians, and Asa slept with
1 his fathers" And we read in the
S New Testament of the poor woman
e who had been treated by incom-
), petent doctors who asked large
large fees, where it says: ''She had suf-
t fered many things of many physicians,
and had spent all that she had, and
J, | 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 stars;
y more beautiful than botany, for bloom
y of health in the cheek of wife and
- child is worth more to US than all the
u roses of the garden-for this grandest
,. of all sciences the science of healing,
~ every pillow of recovered invalid, ev-
8 ery ward of American and European
Ii hospital may well cry out: THANK God
for old DR.. Hippocrates! L, like Paul
l. am indie bted to the Greeks"
But now comes the practical ques
~ ton. How can we pay that debt, or z
\ a part of it? For we can not pay more
!" that ten per cent of that debt in which
-, Paul acknowledged himself a bank
IN rupt. By praying Almighty God tina
80 He will help Greece in its present will
Mohammedanism and the concerted
y. empires of Europe. l know her queen
a noble, Christian woman, her fac
W the throne of all beneficence ant
g loveliness her life an example o
-. noble wifehood and motherhood
~ God help those palaces in these day
- of awful exigency! Our Amer
,s can senate did well the other day
M when, in that capital building whic
owes to Greece it's columnar impres
10 siveness, they passed hearty resolr
- ton of sympathy for that natior
on Would that all who have potent WORD
~ that can be heard in Europe wOul
as utter them now, when they are 5
much needed! Let us repeat to thel
a in English what they centuries ago d.
1 clared to the world in Greek: ''Blesse
~ ~ are those who are prosecuted ft
~ Righteousness sake. for theirs is Il
10 kingdom of Heaven"
gb Then if your illustration of Christ
IN self-sacrifice, drawn from some Scel
for of to-day, and your story of what Chri
in has done for you does not quite fet'
It'll him into the right way, just say
lb him: -Doctor-Judge! WI
,er was it that Paul declared he was
+ Il debtor to the Greeks?" And ask yo
,ts learned friend to take his Greek Test
of ment and translate for you, in his ov
mt wav. from Greek into English, t
I'M splendid peroration Of 2aul's sermon
on Mars hill, under the power of whl
and the scholarly Dionysius surrender'
of namely: THE times Of this lgnorar
and God winked at; but now commando
he all men everywhere to repe
;tb- because He hath appointed
! it day in which He will judge
and world in righteousness, by that n
and whom He hath ordained; whereof
cted hath given assurance unto all men,
l;no that He hath raised from the dea
con- BY the time he has got through
art translation from the Greek l tn
- Won will see his lip tremble