The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01

u July o. A&tolClkc, Vi any OF lut Kr0UB
stafesme1f or emancipators or conquerou
Who ndofn your parks or Ill the inches Of
hour academies, you are debtors TO the
Greeks. They covered the Acropolis, they
glorihed the empies, they adorned the Gem
eteries 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
Clearchus, who worked in bronze; to Don
tas, who worked in gold, and to ALI ancient
chisels OF commemoration! Do you not
realize that for many-of the wonders Of
sculpture we are debtors to the Greeks?
Yea! Fol the science Of medicine, that
great art OF healing, We must thank the
Greeks. There Is the immortal Greek doctor,
Hippocrates, who first opened the door for
disease to get out and health 10 come In.
He first set forth the importance Of cleanli-
ness and sleep, making the patient before
treatment to DO washed and take slumber on
the hide OF a sacrificed beast. He fret dis
covered the importance o thorough prognosis
and diagnosis. He formulated the famous
oath Of Hippocrates which is taken by phy-
sicians OF our day. He emancipated medi-
cine from superstition, empirirism and priest
craft. He WAS the father Of all tho inilrma
ries, hospitals and medical colleges OF the last
% centuries. Ancient medicament and sur
gerry had before that been anatomical and
and physiological assault and battery.
For our glorious science of medicine and
surgery. more sublime than astronomy, for
we have more to do with disease than the
stars; more beautiful than botany, for bloom
OF health In the cheek Of wife and child is
worth more than all the roses Of the garden
for this grandest Of all sciences, the sci
ence OF healing, every pillow of recovered
invalid, every ward Of American and Euro
pean hospital may well cry out. 'Thnnk God
for old doctor Hippocrates! l, like Paul, am
indebted to the Greeks"
Furthermore, all the world is obligated to
Hellas more than 1t can ever pay for its
heroics In the cause OF liberty and right,
United Europe to-day had not better think
that the Greeks will not fight. There may
be fallings back and vaciliations and tenn
porary defeat, but il Greece Is right all
Europe cannot put her down.. The other
nations, before they open the PORTFOLIOS of
their men-of-wAr against that small Kingdom
had better read OF the battle OF Marathon,
where 5000 Athenians, led on by Miltiadcs,
triumphed over l00. 900 Of their enemies.
Also at T~hermopylae, 300 Greeks, along
a road only wide enough for n wheel
track between a mountain and II marsh,
died rather than surrender. Had there
been no Thermopylae, there might have
been no Bunker Hill. The echo OF Athen-
ian and Spartan heroics was heard at
the gates OF Lucknow, and Sebastopol,
and Bannockburn. and Lexington, and Get
tysburg. English Magma Charta. and Decla-
ration OF American Independence, and tho
song OF Robert Burns. entitled, "A Mans IA
Man Tor a That. were only the long-con-
tinued reverberation OF what was said and
done 20 centuries before in that little king
dom that the Powers OF Europe are now i'm
posing upon. Greece having again and again
shown that ten men In the right nre stronger
than a hundred men in the wrong, tho heroics
OF LeonidGs and Aristidcs and Themistocles
Will not cease their mission until the last
on earth is M free us God made him.
There is not on either side OF the Atlantic to-
day u republic that cannot truthfuliy employ
the words OF the text and say, ~ am Debtor
to the Greeks"
But now m the practical question, how
can we pay that debt, or a part of Il? For
we cannot pay more than 10 per cent Of that
debt In which Paul acknowledged himself n
bankrupt. by praying Almighty God that
he Will help Greece in its prescn: war with
Accommodation and the concerted empires
Europe. / know her queen. II noble,
woman, her face the throne OF all
and loneliness, her lifo an ex- ,
ample Of noble wifehood and motherhood.
help those palaces in these days Of awful
exigency!. Our American senate did well the
other day, when, In the Capitol building
which owes to Greece its columnar impress
s%iveness, they passed a hearty resolution OF
sympathy for that nation, Would that all
who have potent words that can DO heard In
Europe would utter them now, when they
ne 80 much needed! Let us repeat to them
iDEnglish what they centuries ago declared
to the world IN Greek: blessed are those
who are prosecuted for righteousness sake,
for fheirs Ia the Kingdom Of heaven"
Another way OF partly paying our debt to
the Greeks Is by higher appreciation OF the