The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-04-07


medicluo-rhe Best Way to Pay the
Debt
WASHINGTON, March 2S.-As Dr..
Talnsse's Sermons are published on
both sides the ocean, this discourse on
s subject OF worldwide interest VII
attract universal attention: It's 1SS.
was Romans !, Il, Il an oeotor oo+h
20 the Greeks and 10 the oaroarlanS.,
At this time, when that oehemoth
of sbominations. Mohammadan!sn,
after having sorged Itself on the car-
cssses of 1D0. 900 ArnenianS. IS trying
to put its paws upon one OF the falreSt
OF su nations, that OF the Greeks, |
preach this sermon Of sympathy and
protest, for every intelligent person
On this side or the sea, as well as the
other side, like Paul, who Wrote the
text, is debtor to the Greeks. Inc
present crisis is emphasized ov the
guns of the allied powers OF Eorope,
ready to be unlimberea agsinSt the
Hellenes, and am asked TO speak out.
Paul. with master intellect O. the
ages, sat in brilliant Corlnth, the
great Aero CorinthUs fortress froTn.
Ing from the height OF I, ,6S6 feet, aud
in the house of Gaius, where he was
q guest. big pile OF money near nm,
which he waS taking 10 Jerusalem Icr
the poor. -,
In this letter to tae Romans, which
Chrysostom admired So much that ne
had it rea6 to him twice 3 weak, Paul
practically says: Il, the apostle, an
bankrupt, owe what I cannot pay,
but will pay as large percentage as
I can. II is an obligation for what
Greek literature and Greek sea: otuTe
and Greek architecture AMI Greek
proves have done for me-. Will pay
sll I can in instslimeacs Of evangel-
ism. am insolTent 10 the Greeks.
Hellas. SIS the inhabitants catl 1t. Or
Greece, as we csll It, is Insignificant
in size, about a third IS large as the
state of New York, but what It lacks
in breadthi It makes up in height, with
its mountains Cylene aud Eta anG
Taysetus and Tymphrestus, eaca over
1000 feet in elevation, and It's ParnaS-
sus, over 5000. Just the country for
mighty men to be born IN, tor n 81!
lands the most of the intellectual and
moral giants were not born on the
plain, but had for cradle the valley
between two mountains. That coun-
cy, no part Of which IS more than 10
miles from the sea, hsS made It's in.
press upon the world as no other na-
tion, and it today holds first mort
gage Of obligation upon aIt clvlilzeo
people. While we must leave TO
ststesmanship and diplomacy the set
Element of the intricate questions
which now involve all Europe and IN
directly all nations, it IS time for al
churches, all schools, aIlunlvers,aeS,
all arts, all literature, to sound out IN
the most emphatic way the 6eclara-
ton, 81 am debtor to the Greeks.
In the first place, we owe totheir
language our New Testament. All OF
it was first written IN Greek, except
the book OF Matthew, and that, writ
ten in the Arnasn language, was
soon put into Greek by our Saviours 5
brother James. To the Greek Ian
guage we owe the best sermon ever
preached, the best letters ever written,
the best yisionsever kindled. All the
parallels in Greek. AL the miracles
In Greek. The sermon on the mount
lin Greek. The story OF Bethlehem
and Golgotha and Olivet and Jordan
banks and Galilesn beaches and Pau.
line embsrkation and Pentecostal
tongues and seven trUmpsts that
sounded over Patuos have come to
the world in liquid, symmetrical, pic.
turesaue, philosophic, UnriyaUed
Greek, instead OF the g;bberish Ian
guase in which many OF the nations
of the earth st that time iabbered.
Who csn forget it, and who can ex-
aggerate its thrilling Importance, that
Christ and heaven were introduced to
US in the language Of the Greeks, the
language IN which Homer had sung
and Sophocles dramatized and Plato
dalogued and Socrates 6iscoursed and
Lycurgus legislated and Dsuosthenes
thundered his oration on the
Crown2" Everlasting thanks TO God
that the waters Of life were not hand
ed to the world IN the unwashed cup
of corrupt languages from which rs
tons haG been drinking, but in the
clean, bright, golden Tipped, emerald
handled chalice of the Rellenes.
Learned Curtius wrote whole vol
ume about the Greek verb. Pnilolo'
gists century after century have bsen
measuring the symmetry Of that lam
gusge, laden with elegy and philippe.
drama and comedy, Odyssey" and
.Iiad" but the grandest thing that
Greek language ever accomp mptisheo
was to give to the world the benedlc'
ton, the comfort, the irra6iatioE, the
salvation, of the gospel of the Son OF
God. For that We are indebted to the
Greeks.
And while speaking Of our philolo
gical obligation let me call your 81,
tention to the fact that many Of the
Intellectual and moral and theologic
al leaders of the ages got much OF
their discipline and effectiveness from
Greek literature. Il is popular to
scott at the dead languages, but 50 pei
cent. of the worlds intellectually
would have been taken off if through
learned Institutions our young men
had not, under competent professors
been drilled in Greek masterpieces
HeGod's "Weeks and Days." or ths
eulogium by Simonides OF the slair
inwar, orPindar's "Odes OF Victory,
or 1.-The Recollections OF Socrates,
or "The Art of Words, by Corax, Of
Aenophon's ''AnabaSis.
From the Greeks the world learned
how to make history. Had there bee-
no Herodotus and Thucydides there
would have been no Macaulay Or Ban
croft Had there been no Sophocle:
in tragedy there would have oeen N
Shakespeare. Had there been II
Homer there would have been nt
Milton. The modern wits, who are