The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-29

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ploy Paul's ejaculation and say,"I am deb
/ tor to the Greeks"
The fact is this, Paul had got much of
| his oratorcaL 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 overlooks
| Athens, he dared to quote from one of
| their own Greek poets, either Cleanthus
or Aratus, declaring LAS certain also of
your own poets have said, for we are
| also his offspring And he made accu-
rate quotation, Cleanthus, one 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, had
written:
Doth care perplex? Is lowering danger
nigh?
We are his offspring, and to Jove we fly.
1t was rather a risky thing for Paul to
| attempt to quote an eXtemporaneously
from poem in a language foreign to his,
and before Greek scholars, but Paul did
| it without stammering, and then acknowl-
| edged before the most distinguished au-
dience on the planet his Indebtedness to
| the Greeks, crying out in his Grafton, LAS
1 one OF your own poets mas Sdlu.
Furthermore, all the civilized world,
like Paul. is indebted to the Greeks for
architecture. The world before the time
| of the Greeks had built monolbhs, ODE
lisks, cromlechs, sphinxs, and pyramids,
but they were mostly monumental to the
dead whom they failed to memorialize.
We are not certain even Of the names of
| those in whose commemoration the pyra-
mids were built But Greek architecture
did most for the living. Ignoring Egyp-
tan presidents, and borrowing nothing
from other nations, Greek architecture
carved its own columns set its own pedi-
ments adjusted its own entablatures,
rounded its own mouldings. and carried
out as never before the three qualities OF
| bodybuilding called by an old author
"frmitas, utilitas, venustas," namely,
frmness, usefulness, beauty Although
| the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens
| is only a wreck of the storms ana eartn-
| quaxes and bombardments of many CEN
turtles and although Lord Elgin TOOK
from one side of that building, at an eX-
pense of two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars two shiploads of sculpture, one
shipload going down in the Mediterran-
| can and the other shplOad now to
be found in the British museum, the Par
thenon though in comparative ruins has
been an inspiration to all architects for
| centuries past, and will be an inspiration
all the time from now until the world it.
| self is a temple ruin Oh that Parthenon!
| One never gets over having once seen it,
| But what must il have been when it stood
! as its architects, Ikitnos and Kallikrates
built it out of Pentelican marble, white
| as Mont Blanc at MONDAY, and as over
.whelming. Hight above hight. Over-top-
ping the august AMI majestic pile, and ris-
| ing from its roof, was statue OF Pallas
| Promachus in bronze, so tall and flashing
that sailors far out at sea beheld the
| plume Of her helmet. Without the aid of
| the Eternal God it never could have been
| planned, and without the aid of God the
chisels and trowels never could have con-
| structed it. There is not fine church
| building in all the world, or a properly
| constructed court house. or a beautiful art
gallery. or an appropriate auditorium or
| a tasteful home, which, because of that
Parthenon, whether its style or some 9TH
er style be adopted, is not directly or IN
directly a debtor to the Greeks.
But there is another art in my mind
| the most fascinating, elevating and in
| spring of all arts and the nearest TO the
| divine-for which all the world owes a
| debt to the Hellenes that will never be
i paid l mean sculptures At least six hun
bred AMI fifty years before Christ the
| Greeks perpetuated the human face and
form in terra Gotta and marble. What a
| blessing to the human family that men
| and women, nightly useful, who could
/ live only within century may be perpet-
uated for five or six or ten centuries. How
/ wish that some sculptor, contemporary
eous with Christ, could have put his
| matchless form in marblei But for every
| grand and exquisite statue of Martin Luz
| Their of John Knox, of William Penn, OF
/ Thomas Chalmers, of Wellington, of La
| fayette, of any of the great statesmen or
emancipators or conquerors who adorn
| your parks or fill the inches of your acad-
| emies, you are debtors TO the Greeks. They
covered the Acropohs, they glorifed the
| temples, they adorned the GENE teries with
| statues, some in cedar some In ivory,
| some in silver. some in gold, some in size
| diminutive and some in size colossal
| Thanks TO Phidias, who worked in stone
| to Ciearchus, who worked in bronze; ia
| Dontas, who worked in gold, and 10 all an
| cient chisels of commemoraton! Do you
| not realize that for many of the wonders
| of sculpture we are debtors TO the
| Greeks?
Yea! For the science of medicine, the
great art of healing, we must thank the
| Greeks. There is the immortal Greek
doctor. Hippocrates. who first opened the
| door for disease to go out and health ia
| come in. He first set forth the Importance
of cleanliness and sleep. making the pa
| tient before treatment to be washed and
take slumber on the hide of a sacrificed
! beast. He first discovered the importance
of thorough prognosis and diagnosis. He
! formulated the famous oath OF Hippoc-
| rates which IS taken by physicians of our
day. He emancipated medicine from SUI
persttion empericism, and priestcraft
| He was the father of all the intirmaries
! hospitals and medical colleges of the last
| twenty-three centuries. Ancient medica-
| ment and surgery had before that been
| anatomical and physiological assault and
battery. and long after the time of Hippoc-
| rates the Greek doctor where his theories
were not known, the Bible speaks of fatal
medical treatment. when 1t says: I'm
his disease he sought not to the Lord, but
20 the physicians and Asa slept with his
| fathers" And we read in the New Tesla.
ment of the poor woman who had been
treated by incompetent doctors who asked
| large fees, where it says: "She had sur.
fered many things OF many physicians, and
! had spent all that she had, and was moth.
| ing better, but rather grew worse" Fol-
our glorious sciNnce OF medicine and sur
gerry. more sublime than astronomy, for
we have more to do with disease than with
the stars; more beautiful than botany, for
! bloom Of health in the cheek OF wife and
child Is worth more TO US than all the roses
OF the garden-for this grandest of ali