Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-29

\ AtE Z At1t * y VI AANE
besz Get o: che divine mission Of max
Ing the world laugh at the right time
al Dc traced back 10 Aristophanes- the
AtheniaE. and many Of the iocostties
that are GOV taken as new Raj their
Suggestions twenry-three hundred years
LII ia the aftT-four comedies % thaf
master OF nsgrinenf- Grecizn mytho-
sogy has been the richest mine fEon
which orators a11 esszyists have drawn
tneir Illustrations ard painters the
themes for their canvas. IA although
low al exhausted mine. Grectzn myth
ology has done a work that nothing
else could have accomplished. Boreas-
representing the north wind: SisyDhus,
rolling the stone up the hill, only 9
have the same thing 70 do owe again;
Tanralus. with fruits above him . a
he eeuld no reach; Achilles. with his
arrows: Tcarus. VITA bis waxen wings.
dying too near the SUI; the Centanrs.
half man and half beast: Orpheus, with
ais Tyre Atlas. with the world 81 his
back. all these and more have helped
literature. from the graduates speech
on commencement day TO Rufus
Choates eulogium on Daniel Webster
az Dartmouth Tragedy and comedy
were born in the festivals OF Dionysius
az Athens The lyric and elegfzc and
epic poetry OF Greece five hundred
FEARS before Christ has its echoes in
the Tennysons, Longfe.Iows and Bry-
ants OF eighteen and nineteen hun
dree years after Christ. There Is not an
effective pulpit or editorial chair or
professors room or cultured parEor or
intelligent farmhouse today IN America
o. Europe that could not appropriately
employ PauIs ejaculation and say. i
am debtor TO the Greeks"
The fact Is this, Paul had got much Of
his oratoricaI power OF expression from
the Greeks That he had studied their
literature was evident, when standing
In the presence Of an audience OF Greek
scholars On Mars' Hill, which oyersooks
Athens. be dared TO quote from OF
their own Greek poets either Cleanthus
or Aratus, declaring, AS certain also
Of your own Poets have said. for we
are also his offspring" And he made
accurate quotation, Cleanthus. cne OF
the poets. having written:
For we thine offspring are All
things that creep
Are but the echo OF the voice divine
And Aratus. one Of their own poets,
nad written:
Doth care perplexs Is lowering dan
ger nigh2
We are his offspring. and to love we
fly"
It was rather a risky thing for Paul
TO attempt 10 quote extemporaneously
from a poem in a language foreign to
his. and before Greek scholars. but
Paul did It without stammering. and
then acknowledged before the most dix
unguished audience on the planet his
indebtedness to the Greeks. crying out
n his GRAFTON, AS one of your own
poets has said"
Furthermore. all the world In obii-
gated to Hellas more than it can ever
pay for its heToics In the cause Of lib
erty and right United Europe today
had not better think that the Greeks
will not ight. There may be faIIIngs
back and v~acilIations and temporary
defeat, but il Greece Is right all Eu-
rope cannot put her down. The other
Eations. before they open the portfolios
OF their men-of-war against that small
kingdom had better read Of the battle
Of Marathon, where ten thousand Ath-
enians. led on by Miitiades, triumphed
over one hundred thousand of their
enemies. At that time in Greek council
OF war five generals were for beginning
the battle and FIVE were against IL.
CaIlimachus presided at the council OF
wal and had the deciding vote. and
Miitiades addressed him. saying:
1T now rests with you, CaIIfmachus
either to enslave Athens. or by ~insuring
her freedom. TO win yourself an immor-
OF Marathon. where ten Thousand Athe-
mans. led on by Miitiades. triumuhed
danger al they are at this moment. III
they bow the knee to these Nedes. they
are to be given up TO Hippias, and you
know what they will then have to s,f-
fer: but III Athens comes victorious ON.
Of this contest, she has 1t In her power
to become the first city OF Greece. Your
vote IL TO decide whether we are To
join battle or not. II we do not bring
OF a battle presently. some factious in
trigue will disunite the Athenians and
the city win be betrayed to the Medes.
but IL we fight before there Is anything
rotten in the state OF Athens, I believe
that. provided the gods viii give fair
field and no favor. we are able to get
the best OF IL In the engagement"
That won the vote OF Callimachus,
and soon the battle opened, and in full
run the men OF Miltiades fell upon the
Persian hosts, shouting. On, Sons Of
Greece. Strike for the freedom OF your
country! Strike for the freedom of
your children and your wives. for the
shrines OF your fathers gods. and for
the sepulchres of your sires. All, all
Are usrw orrEaA IN the strife urh IT,