The Progress., 1897-04-03
PRAISE FOR GREECE.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE ON A SUBJECT OF
WORLDWIDE INTEREST.


Debt L, Language. Art. HeroiSm ana
Medicins-Thc Best Way TO Fay tho
Debt.
WARRINGTON, March 2s.-As Dr. Tai |
rnanc's sermon ~ arc published on both sides |
the ocean, this discourse on Il subject OF
worldwide interest will attract universal
attention lis text was Romans !. IA, IL
am debtor 10th to the Greeks and to tho
barbarinns."
At this time, when that behemoth OF
abominationa, Mohnanmedanism, after
having gorgod itself on the carcasses OF
100 600 Armcninns, il trying to put It's
pows upon one OF the fairest OF all ma
tions, that Of tho Greeks, preach this
sermon of sympathy and protest. for ev-
cry Intelligent person on this sioe OF INC
seo. az we'll as tho other side. like Paul,
who wrote tho text. 10 debtor to the 0reeks-
The present crisis II emphasized by the
gums Of the allied powers Of Europe, ready
20 bo unlimbered against the Hellenes ana
I am asked to speak out. Paul. With
master intellect Of the agca, sat In bril-
liant Corinth, the great Aero Corinthus
Sortress frownina from tho height Of /, oso
fest, and In the house OF 0aius, where he
vas guest, q big pile Of money near him,
which he was taking to Jerusalem Tor ene
poor.
In this letter to the Romans. which
Chrysostom admired 80 much that he MAD
It read to HIM twice . week, Paul Preo;A-
cally says: ~, tho apostle, am bank
Supt. owe what cannot pay. but VIII
nay a. largo q percentage a. can. II 10
N obligation for what Greek lite1a ture
and Greek sculpture and Greek archaceo-
ture and Greek prowess have done FOR ma
lwill pay all can in installlnents OF evan
gelism l am insolvent to the Crooks ;"
NJ &vDA, AntA II
Greece as wc call 1t, is insigniflcant IN
size, about q third rs large AZ the state OF
New York but what 1t lacks IN breadth 1t
makes up in height, with It's mountains
Cylene and Eta and Tnygetus and lynn
phrestus, each over 900 feet In elevation,
sud It's Parnassus. over 5000. just the
country for mighty men to DO born IN. Tor
IN all lands the most OF the Intellectual
and. moral giants were not born on the
paain. but had for cradle the valley b.
tween two mountains. That country, no
port Of which Is moro than 40 miles from
the sea, has made its impress upon the
world as no other nation. and 1t today
4 holds first mortgage of obligation upon
all civilized people. While we must leave
to craftsmanship and diplomacy the settle
,nent Of tho Intricate questions which now
Involve nil Europe and Indirectly nll ma.
lions, 1T IL time for all churches, all schools.
all universities, all arts, all literature, to
DOunU OUT Ill Cno 1ho6t eahpIothO why SAA<
: declaration, II arm debtor to tho Greeks y
The Greek Language.
In the FIRST place, We owe to their Ian
guage our New Testament. All Of IL wa
liYst written in Cree, except the book O
Matthew, AMI IL q, written In the Ara
lnman Language, as soon put Into GreeA
by our Saviour's brother James. To th<
Greek laDguaa.' $50 owe the best sermon
ever presschC>, &c Lost letters ever writ
ten, the best .slons ever kindled. All thu
pnrables In Greek. All the miracles II
s Greek The sermon on the mount II
Greek. The story OF Bethlehem and Col
gothn and Olivet and Jordan banks and
Gnlilcan beaches and Pauline embarka
tion and Pentecostal tongues and sever
trumpets That sounded over Patmos hav'
come 60 the world In liquid, symmetrical
picturesque, philosophio, unrivaled Greek
instead Of the gibbcrish language in which
many of the nations of the earth ut tina
time jabbered- Who can forget 1t, and VIII,
can exaggerate Its thrilling Importance
that Christ aud heaven were introduced t
as In the language of the Greeks, the Inn