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

OF all nations. that
Of tie Greeks, I preach tAiz sermon
o. sympathy and protest, FOR every IN
teliisent person on this side Of the sea
a. well as the other side. like Paul. who
wrote the text. h GeStor to the Greeks
The present crisis il emphasized By
Tue guns OF the allied powers OF EE-
2 ready to be unifmbered against
TIE Hellenes. and I am asked to SPEAK
oat- Pani. with a master intellect OF the
asss, sat IN brilliant Corinth, the great
Acro-Corinthus fortress frowning from
the height Of sixteen hundred and eigh-
y-slx Feet. and in the house OF Gatus.
where ne was q guest. a big pile OF
money near him. which he was taxing
70 jerusalem for the poor. In this let
Ter 20 the Romans. which Chrysostom
admired so much that he had ID read
70 Nm twice a week. Paul practically
says 4, the Apostle. am bankrupt. I
owe what cannot pay. but 7 will pay
az large a percentages as I can II IL
an obligation FOR what Greek literature
a Greek sculpture and Greek archi-
lecture and Greek prowess have done
for ne. 1 vii! pay all I can In INSTALL
men1 OF evangelism I am insoIveat
20 the GTeeks-~ HeIlas. "a the inhabi-
tanss call il. or Greece. "a we call il.
y insignificant In size, about a third
a. large an the state of New York, but
Nnzt 1t lacks Ia breadth Ia makes up
~ delight, with its mountains CyIene.
2 Eta. and Taygetus. and Tymphres-
fas, each W. seven thousand feet In
elevation, and It's Parnassus, over eight
thousand just the country for mighty
nen TO be born in, for in all lands the
moss OF the intellectual and moraI
giants were not born on the plain. but
had Tor cradle the valley between two
mountains That country. no part of
which 10 more than forty miles from
the sea, has made It's impress upon the
woraa az no other nation. and 1t today
noids q first mortgage of obligation
upen ali civilized people. While we
mus leave TO craftsmanship and d.
pssrracy the settlement OF the intri-
cate questions which now Involve all
Europe. and indirectly all nations. IL
- tine for all churches. all schools. all
universities. all arts. all literature TO
sound ont tn the r3ost emphatic way
1he declaration. Il am debtor TO the
Grreks-"
IN the nrst place. we owe TO their
language our New Testament An of
u WAS irst written In Greek. except the
look OF Matthew. and that. written in
the Aramean language. was sooc nut
into Greek By our Savior,s brother.
James To the Greek language re owe
the best sermon eve preached. the
best letters ever writes. the best Wis
tons ever kindled- All the parallels Ia
Greek All the miracles In Greek. The
sermon on the mount In Greek The
story OF Bethlehem and GoIgotha and
Olivet and Jordan banks and GalIIeau
beaches and Pauline embarkation and
Pentecostal tongues and seven trumpefz
rhzt sounded over Patmos. have come
to the world In liquid, symmefric. MIC
s1rescue. ~phiiosophic. unrivaled Greek.
instsad Of the gibberish language Ia
which many Of the NATIONS of the earth
az that time Jabbered. Who can forge.
II and who can exaggerate its THRILLING
importance, that Christ and heaven
were introduced TO Us In the language
Of the Greeksg the language in which
Homer had sung and SophocIes drama
tiled and Pluto diaIogued and Socrates
disccursed and Lycurgus legisIated ana
Demosthenes Numbered his grafton ON
The Crown Everlasting thanks 10
God that the waters Of life were not
handed TO the world in the unwasbed
c1R OF corrupt languages from which
nations had been drinking, but In the
clean, bright, golden Tipped. emerald
handled chalice OF the HeIlenas
Learned Curtius wrote a whole volume
about the Greek verb. PhiIoyog,sts
century after century have been msas-
uring the symmetry OF that language.
laden with elegy and philippe. drama
and comedy, Odyssey and Iliad: but
the grandest thing that Greek language
ever accomplished was TO give to the
world the benediction. the comfort the
irraditation, the salvation OF the Cos
pei Of the Son OF God. For that we are
debtors to the Greeks.
And while speaking OF our phIIologi-
cal obligation, let me call your atten-
ton to the fact that many OF the in
teliectual and moral and theological
leaders OF the ages got much OF their
discipline Ind effectiveness from Greek
literature. 1t Is popular 70 soon at the
dead languages, but 80 per cent OF the
worlds intellectually would have been
taken on II. through learned institu-
tons our young men had not. under
competent professors. been drilled In
Greek masterpieces. Hesiod's Weeks
and Days" or the ~eulogiun by Simon
ides OF the slain in war. or Pindar's
"Odes Of Victory" or ~The Recollec-
ions Of Socrates, or The Art oil
Words By corax. or xenophon's Ana
basis.
From the Greeks the world learned
how to make history. Had there beeu
no Herototus and T~hucydides, there
would have been no Maczulay z Ban
croft. Had there been no Sophocies IN
trnxody there Uuould hawn 49, -