The Penn's Grove record., 1897-04-02

making the pati emit before treatment to be
washed and takd s!umper on the hide Of a
sacrifice beast, Nie nrst discovered the Inn
p~ortance oil thoNFouSn prognosis aud ding.
nosis. Ho form ilated The famous oath Of
Hippocfhtes WINCH is taken by physicians oil
Our day. He on bancipated medicine from
superstition, empt ricism and prlestcraft. he
was the father OF fali the lndrmaries, hospit.
ais and medical colleges OF the last twenty.
three centuries,
Furthermore, All the world Is Obligated to
Hellhs more, thanA 1t can ever pay for its
her0ies 10 the cafuse OF liberty and right.
United Europe to-day hal not better think
that the Greeks WIZ NOT light. There may
be falllngs back an9h vacillatloEs and temper
AIRY defeat, but IL Greece Is right all Europe
cannot put her down. The other nations
before they open yhe portfolios Of their mem
oi-war against Ehdt Small Kingdom had
better read ofthb battle OF Marathon, wherd
iO,0oe Athenia4s, lei on hy MlltIadss,
tflumnhed over pO,0J0 OF their enemies. All
that time, IA Gfeek council of war, ave
generals were forl beginning the battle and
nVs were. against II. Calllmachus presided
at the council Of War, hcl the deciding vote,
and MiltIades addfcssed him, saying;
"It now rests wl4h you, Callimachns, either
10 enslaye AthensAor, by insuring her free.
dom, to win yourselfan Immortality OF fame,
for never since thf Athenians were 0 people
we're they In such danger as they are IN al
this moment, IBthey bow the knee 10 these
Modes, they arctic be given up to Hippias,
and YOU know what they will then have to
su fer bnt II Athens comes victorious out OF
THIS Contest she has 1t In her power 10 become
the first city of{Greece. Your vote 10 TO de.
eide whether we nre to Join battle or not. II
we do not bring on a battle presently. some
factIous intrigue will disunite the hthentans,
and the city will pc betrayed to the Medes,,
but II we fight bsfore there Is anything rot.
ten inthe state Of Athens / believe that, pro.
ylded the gous will give fair field and no
favor, we are able to got tho best Of II lii the
engagement.m
Thst won the vote OF c~allimaohas, and
soon the battle opened; and in full run the
men III Mlltlada, fell upohthe Pefsian hosts:
shoptihg: n0h; sons Of 4reecei Strike for
the freedom OF your country Strike for the
freedom Of your children and your wives:
ior the shrines Of your tathera' gods and for
inc sepdlchers OF your slresl All; all are
now staked on the %strife!" While only 19l
Greeks fell, $500 Persians lay dead upon the
fisld. and many OF the Asiatic hosts Who
took to the war vessels Id tho harbof were
consumed ia the shippinG. Persian oppres.
sion was rebhked, Greclan liberty was
achieved, the cause Of civilization was ad.
yanceL and the western world and dill nd.
lions have felt the heroics. Had there been
no Miltiades there might have been no
Washington.
road only wide enough for u wheel track be-
tween a mountain aud a marsh. died rather
than surrender. Had there been no Their.
mopyln there might have been no Bunker
Hill. English Msgna. Char,a and Declaration
of American Independence and the SONG OF
Robert Burns, entitled "a Mans a Man Fol
a That" were only the long continued re.
verberation OF what was said and lone twenty
centuries before In that little kingdom that
the Powers Of Europe are now imp osing upon.
Gre sce having again and again shown that
ten men in the right are stronger than 100
men in the wrong, the heroIcs of Leonidas
and Aristides and Themistocles will not cease
their mission until the last man on earth Is
as free as God made him. There Is not on
either side of the Atlantic to-day a republic
that cannot truthfully employ the words OF
the text and say, II am debtor to the
Greeks" =
But now comes the practical question,
How car we pay that debt OF d part Of III
For. we cann0t pay more than ten per cent.
Of that debt in which Paul acknowledged
himself a bankrupt. By praying Almighty
God that He help Greece In its present wal
with Northumberland and the concerted
empires Of Europe. l know her queen, q
noble, Christian woman, her face the throne
OF oil bene1cenee and loneliness, her life an
example Of noble wifehooi and motherhood.
God help those palaces Id these DAYS Of ava
full eSlgencyl Our American Senate did we'll
the other day when In tile capitol building
which owes to Greece its eolumnaf impress.
siveness they passed d hearty resolution 81
sympathy for that nation. Would that I'LL
who have potent words that can bs heard ia
Europe would uttef them now; when they
are so much needed Let US repeat to them
In English what they centuries ago declared
to the world Id Greek, fBlessed dre those
who are prosecuted for righteousness sake,
for theirs Is the kingdom Of heaven
Another way Of partly paying our debt to
the Greeks is by higher appreciation OF the
learning and self sacrifice OF the men who Id
our W land stand for all that the ancient
comes to public approval and reward, the
most OF them live In privation or on salary
dnzracefully small. The scholars, the
Archaeological, he artists, the llterati-most
OF them live upthree or four flights Of stairs
and by small windows that do not let In the
full sunlight. You pass them every day In
your streets Without any recognition. The
world calls item .'bookworms" or cdr.
Dryasdust," BIZ II there had been no book
worms or dry dlctors OF law and science and
theology there you'd have been no Apoca-
lyptic angel. hey are the Crooks OF our
country and tile, and your obligation to
them is infinite.
But there is q bitter way to pay them, and
that is BY theft personal salvation, which
will never come y them through books or
through learned presentation, because In
literature and incllectual realms they ore
masters. They Gu otitargue, outquote, out.
dogmatize you, lot through the gate OF the
head, but throughthe gate OF the heart, you
may capture them Whan men OF learning
and might are bought to God, they are
brought by sinaplst story OF what religion
eau do for a soul. lThey have lost children.
oh, tell them I6w Christ conforted you
when you lost ysir bright boy or blue eyed
girl! They havf found lifo a struggle.
Oh, tell Thorn hoy Christ has helped you oil
the way throuG! They are In bewilder.
ment. oh, tell kem with how many hands
OF joy heaven bekons you upwardl "When
Greek meets Grek, then comes the tug OF
war, but whenR warm hearted Christian
meets a man wo needs pardon and SYM
paihy aud combrt and eternal life then
N victory. you can, by some incident
OF sell sacrifice, ring to such scholarly men
and women viii Christ has done for their
eternal rescue.,you may bring them in.
Where Demosthnic eloquencs and Homeric
imagery would al, q kindly heart throb may
succeed. A getleman OF this city sends me
the statemen6f what occurred q few days
ago among be mines OF British Columbia.
i seems tat Frank Conson and Jem
smith we're down In the narrow shaft
OF q mine. They had loaded m iron
bucket with pal, and Jim HemswortD,
standing. atlk ground, was hauling
tbs bucket by windlass, when the
wlndlass brokl Ind the loaded bucket was
descending uPh tho two miners. Then Jim
Hemsworth, s&ny what must be certain
death to the MYERS beneath, threw himself
against the COZ OF the whirling wlndlass,
and, though hAfesh was torn and bis bones
were broken, hetopped the whirling wind.
lass and nrresta the descending bucket and
saved the livesf the miners beneath. The
SUPPLEMENTARY the mine flew to b res
cue and blockdthe machinery. When jim
Hensworth's HeiIng and broken body was
put on u litterlnd carried homeward aud
some onG.s Atmej, "Jim, this is awiulP
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sot 'ry SUE scene OF vlcarious SUFFERING
as n on thap man capable OF oyerthrowinp
all VI argunents for the truth, and he will
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