The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-04-10
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
What the Civilized World Owes
70 Greece.
Chrtsti.aity Largely Indebted to Hsahe
P..rs Aekno~ledgment-Ph
tesL Architectural. Ar and
Other lIkAtLons-

wide interest before his Washington
congregation, taking for his text:
am debtor both 10 the Greeks and 70 The
observation-disclosures 1, IL
At this time, when that behemoth OF
denominations. Mohanmedanisn' after
having gorged itself on the carcasses OF
100. 900 Armenians, is trying 10 put us
paws upon one Of the fairest OF al ma
tons. that of the Greeks. preach this
sermon Of sympathy and protest, Tor
every intelligent person on this SIDE OF
the sea. as well as the other side. Ike
Paul, who wrote the text Is debtor 10
the Greeks The present crisis - EN-
phasized BIZ the guns Of the allied pow
ers Of Europe. ready 70 be unlimbered
Against the Hellenes, and / am asked
70 speak out Paul, with master IN
tellect Of the ages, sat in brilliant Cor
inth, the great AcrOCorinthus fortress
frowning from the height OF 1855 feet
and in the house of Gaius- where he
was guest, big pile Of money near
him. which he was taking 70 Jeru-
salem for the poor. In this let
ter 70 the Romans which Chrysostom
admired so much that he had it read TO
him twice . week, Paul practically
says: II, the Apostle, am bankrupt.
l owe what l can not pay, but wl!L
pay as large a percentage as can. IL
Is an obligation for what Greek !itera-
ture and Greek sculpture and Greek
architecture and Greek proves have
done for me. will pay all can in
lnstallments of evangelism. an in
solvent 70 the Greeks" Hellas, as the
inhabitants call IT, or Greece, as we
call it. is insignificant in size. about
third as large as the state Of New YORK;
but what it lacks in breadth II MAKES
up in height, with its mountains Cy-
lene, and Eta, and Taygetus. and TyIn-
phrestus. each over 200 feet in e-e-
walton, and its Parnassus- over 500.
Just the country for mighty men 70
BE- born in. for in a. lands the most Of
the inte,lectua. and mora. giants we're
not born on the plan. but had FOR era
die the valley between two Mountains.
That country. no part Of which IS more
than ~ miles from the s@a- has made
IL. impress upon the world. - no other
nation. and !: tr1-d4y holds frs: mort
gage 0. obligation upon al civilized
pe0o.e- While We must leave 20 states
E-ansh!p and diplomacy the settlement
O! ;he nitrate questions which now
ilvo.Te a.. Europe. and Indirectly a.!
nations I. Is time tor a.! churches. all
sss-1so-A a. universities all arts all
l.;sratG-es 70 sound out IN the most
e-5Aat.e wzy ,Ee declaration: Il an
csp;o- u lie Greeks
In the S-s. p.2H=. ~e owe % their
la-y1ay- oar New Testament Al Q!
i: wzs frat written II Greek, except
tie Bo.yx u! Matthew. and that, wit
ten II the Aranesn language. was
s1ya %. into Greek b. our saviour :
brother. James To the Greek Ian
9uzy- we o7ge the best Sermon ever
preached. .h= b-ssI .@:t@rs ever written,
the bes. vision. ever klnG.-t All the
para 0.es in Gre.G. A.. the miracles in
Greek. The sermon on the mount in
Greek. The a.O-v 81 Bethlehem and
Go.yViha and O.!veI and Jordan banks
and G4.!.ean Breaches AMI Pauline EN-
ba-kat.Dn and PeatecO,ta. tongues anC
seven trImpets that sDunded over Pat
mos. have come u the world II
liquid. synmetr!c, picturesque. philO
sophie Uuriya.cd Greek. instead Ot th'
gibber.sh language in which many 0
the nations Of the earth al that tim
iabbered. Who can forget 1t and VIII
can exaggerate il, thrilling Importance
that Christ and Heaven were Introduce
70 Us in the language Of the Greeks
the language in which Homer had sun
and Sophocles drarnatized and Plat
dalOyued and Socrates discOursed an
Lycurgus legislated and Demosthe
6A hundred his Grafton on "Th
CrDwn?" Everlasting thanks TO Go
that the waters Of life were nc
handed 70 the world in the III
washed cup of corrupt languages frol
which nations had been drinking, bI
In the clean. bright. golden-lippe'
.cncrald-handled chalice of the He
encs Learned Curtius wrote a who
volume about the Greek verb. Philo
ogists century after century have bee
measuring the symmetry of tn;
language, laden with elegy and philil
pic. drama and comedy, Odyssey ar
IIiad; but the grandest thing tn
Greek language ever accomplished w
70 give 70 the world the benedictio
the comfort, the irraditation, the 81
vation of the Gospel of the Son Of Go
For that we are debtors TO the Greek
And while speaking OF our philolo
ical obligation. let me call your atte
ton TO the fact that many of the int
lectual and moral and theological lea
ers of the ages got much Of their dis
pline and effectiveness from Greek |
erature. 1t is popular TO scott at Z
dead languages, but 80 per cent. Of t
worlds intellectually would ha
been taken off IL, through learned
situations, our young men had not, I
der competent professors, been drill
In Greek masterpieces. Hesio
weeks and Days" or the eulogium
Simonides Of the slain in war, or r
dar's "Odes of Victory" or the Rec
lections of Socrates" or THE Art
Words" by Corax, or xenopho
"Anabasls."
From the Greeks the world learn
how 10 make history. Had there be
no Herodotus and Thucydides, the
would have been no Macauley or Bs
croft Had there been no SoDhOcleS