Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-04-02

cemeteries with statue. slras IN cedar. some
I IN ivory, some In silver. some In gold. some
IN sze diminuiiye AMI some in size colossal.
Thanks 10 Phidias, who worked IN stone; 70
I Clearchus, who worked in bronze; TO Doutas'
who worked In gold, AMI 20 all ancient
chisels Of concentration Do you not
realize that for many Of the wonders OF
sculpture We ar. debtors 90 the Greeks!
I Yea, for the science OF medicine, the great
art ot healing, We must thank the Greeks.
4 There Is the immortal Greek doctor, Hippo
I crates, who first opened the door for disease
Z 10 90 out and health TO come In. He first set
3 forth the importance nf CLEANLINESS and sleep,
making the patient before treatment TO be
washed and take s!umbsr on the hide Of
/ sacrifice beast. He first discovered the i'm
| Portance Of thorough prognosis and dag
/ nnsis. He formulated the famous oath OF
HippOcrates which Is taken by pt ysicians OF
our day. He emanciplied medicine from
superstition, empiricism anl priestcratt. He
! was the father OF all the In0rmaries, hOspit-
ais aud medical colleges OF the last twenty.
/ three centuries.
/ Furthermore all the world Is obligated to
Hellas more than Il can ever pay for its
! heroics in the cause Of liberty aud right
United Europe to-day hal not better think
| that the Greeks will not fight There may
I be fallinss back aud yacillatioGs and temper
/ ary defeat, but il Greece is right all Europe
D
before they open the portfolios Of their men
! Oi-war against that small kingdom had
better read Of the battle of Marathon, whore
I 10000 Athenans, lei on by Mitiales,
| triumphed over 100, 900 OF their enemies. At
/ that time. in Greek council Of war; five
/ generals were for beginning the battle and
/ five were against It.. Callimachus presided
ut the council OF war, had the deciding vote,
/ and Miltiades addressed him, saying;
at now rests with you, Calimachus, either
/ to enslaye Athens, or, by iusurng her free
dom. TO win yourselIan immortality Of fame,
| for never since the Athenians were Il people
were they in such danger as they are IN at
| this moment. Ii they bow the knee to these
! Modes, they are to be given mp to Hippias,
| and you know what they will then have to
| suffer but il Athens comes victorious out OF
/ this contest she has II in her power to become
/ the first city Of Greece. Your vote is to de-
! eide whether we are to join battle or not. II
/ we do not bring on n battle presently, some
! factious intrigue will disunito the Athenians,
/ and the city will be betrayed to the Modes,
| but II we fight before there Is ANYTHING rot
| ten in the state Of Athens believe that, pro-
/ vided the gous will give fair field and no
/ favor, We are able TO get the best of it in the
/ engagement
That won the vote of Callimachus, and
/ soon the battle opened, and In full run the
( men OF Miltiale' fell upon the Persian hosts,
shouting: "Oh, sons of Greece! Strike for
/ the freedom of your country. Strike for.the
| freedom OF your children and your wives.
| for the shrinas OF your fathers gods and for
/ the sepulchers Of your siresi All, all are
/ now staked on the strife!' While only l92
| Greeks fell, 900 Persians lay dead upon the
/ field and many OF the Asiatic hosts who
/ took to the war vessels in the harbor were
/ consumed in the shipping. Persian oppres.
sion was rebuked, Grecian liberty was
,.,k,i # A
vaucei, and the western world and all ma.
| tons have felt the heroics. Had there been
/ no Mtltiades there might have been no
J Washington.
Also at Thermopylm 800 Greeks. along n
/ road only wide enough for Il wheel track be-
tween mountain aud marsh, died rather
! than surrender. Had there been no Their
mopylH there might have been no Bunker
| Hill. English Magma Char,a and Declaration
/ Of American Independence and the song OF
Robert Burns. entitled "A Mans Man For
| a That" were only the long continued re-
/ verberation OF what was said and done twenty
/ centuries before IN that little kingdom that
The Powers OF Europe are now imposing upon.
Gre having again and again shown that
ten men in the right are stronger than 100
men In the wrong tho heroics OF Leonidas
and Aristides and Themistoces will not cease
their mission until the last man ON earth is
| Us free as God made him. There is not on
| either side Of the Atlantic to-day a republic
that cannot truthtully employ the words OF
the text and say, II am debtor to the
/ Greeks"
But now comes the practical question,
| How can we pay that debt or n part OF 1t?
For we cannot pay more than ten per cent
of that debt in which Paul acknowledged
himself a bankrupt. BY praying Almighty
/ God that He help Greece in its present war
with Mohammedanism and the concerted
I empires OF Europe. | know her queen, a
noble. Christian woman, her face the throne
Of all benetcence and loveliness, her life an
example Of noble wifehood and motherhood
God help those palaces in these days OF aw-
! full exigency! Our American Senate did we'll
the other day when in the capitol building
! which owes 10 Greece its columnar impress.
sveness they passed hearty resolution OF
! sympathy for tina. nation. Would that all
| who have potent words that can be heard in
| Europe would utter them now, when they
are so much needed! Let us repeat TO them
in English what they centuries ago declared
to the world In Greek. blessed are those
who are prosecuted for righteousness sake,
| for theirs is the kingdom of heaven"
Another way OF partly paying our debt to
| the Greeks is by higher appreciation of the
learning and self sacrifice OF the men who in
our own land stand for all that the ancient
Greeks stood. While here and there one
! NbHhoo ~ pubiS approval Huh reward, the
most Of them live in prlvation or on salary
disgracelully small. The scholars, the
/ archHolOgists, the artists, the terati-most
Of them live up three or four flights of stairs
| ana by small windows that do not let In the
| full sunlight. You pass them every day in
your streets without any recognition. The
world calls them 'boOkworms" or "Dr,
Dryasdust," but If there had been no book
worms or dry doctors OF law and science and
theology there would have been no Apoca-
| lyptic angel. They are the Greeks OF our
country and time, and your obligation to
them is infinite.
But there is a better way to pay them, and
that is by their personal salvation, which
| will never come TO them through books or
through learned presentation, because in
literature and intellectual realms they are
masters. Tney can outargue, outquote, out
dogmati2e you. Not through the gate OF the
head, but through the gate of the heart, you
may capture them. When men of learning
and might are brought to God, they are
| brought by simplest story of what religion
can do for a soul. They have lost children.
Oh, tell them how Christ conforted you
when you lost your bright boy or blue eyed
girl They have found life struggle.
Oh, tell them how Christ has helped you all
the way through. They are in bewilder-
ment. Oh, tell them with how many hands
of Joy heaven beckons you upward! "When
Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug OF
war" but when warm hearted Christian
meets a man who needs pardon and SYM
pathy and comfort and eternal life then
comes victory. If you can, by some incident
of self sacrifice, bring to such scholarly men
and women what Christ has done for their
eternal rescue, you may bring them in.
Where Demosthenic eloquence and Homeric
imagery would fail, kindly heart throb may
succeed. A gentleman of this city sends me
the statement of what occurred few days
ago among the mines of British Columbia.
1t seems that Frank Conson ana Jeln
Smith were down in the narrow smart