Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-04-01

Immortality OF fame, for never since
the Athenians were people
were they in such danger as
they are at this moment. Ii they bow
the knee to these Medes, they are to be
given mp to lIippias, and you know
what they will then have to suffer; but
IL Athens comes victorious out of this
contest, she has it in her power to be-
come the first city of Greece. Your
vote is TO decide whether we are to Join
battle or not Ii we do not bring on
battle presently, some fdctious in-
triguc will disunite the Athenians and
the city will be betrayed to the Modes,
but IL we fight before there is any
thing rotten in the state of Athens |
believe that, provided the gods will
give fair field and favor, we are able to
get the best Of it in the engage ment. ."
That won the vote of Callimachus,
and soon the battle opened, and in full
run the men IF Miltiades fell upon the
Persians hosts, shouting, ''Onl Sons of
Greccci Strike for the freedom
OF your couatry! Strike for the
freedom of your children and
your wives. for the shrines of
your fathers Gods, and for the sepul
chers of your sires! All, all are now
staked on the strife While only 1872
Greeks fell, 6,iOO Persians lay dead
upon the field, and many of the Ash
attic hosts who took to the war vessels
in the harbor were consumed in the
shipping. Persian oppression was re-
buked, Grecian liberty was achieved,
the cause of civilization was advanced,
and the western world and all nations
have felt the heroics. Hal there been
no Miltiades, there might have been
no Washington.
Also, at TnermuPylae, 800 Greeks,
along road only wide enough for a
wheel track between "A mountain and
marsh. died rather than surrender
Had there been no Thermoyp lae, there
might have been no Bunker Hill. The
echo of Athcnian and Spartan heroics
was heard at the gates OF Lucknow
and Sebastopol and Bannockburn and
Lexington and Gettysburg. English
Magma Charter and Declaration of
American Independence, and the song
of Robert Burns, entitled "A Mans
Man for a That were only
the long-continued reverberation of
what was said and done 30 centuries
before in that little kingdom that the
powers of Europe are now imposing
upon. Greece having again and again
shown that 10 men in the right are
stronger than 100 men in the wrong,
the heroics of leonidaS and AristideS
and Themistocles will not cease their
mission until the last man on earth is
as free as God made him. There is not
on either side of the Atlantic to-day a
republic that can not truthfully en-
ploy the words of the text and say, Il
am debtor to he Greexs.'
The practical question, how can We
pay that debt, or part of it? For we
can not pay more than ten per cent OF
that debt in which Paul acknowledged
himself n bankrupt. by praying Al
mighty God that he will help Greece
in its present war with Mohammeian.
ism and the concerted empires oil
Europe ] kno8 her queen, a noble,
! Christian woman, her face the throne
of all benefcence and loneliness,
her life an example of noble wife
hood and motherhood. God heir
those palaces in these days Of
awful exigency! Our American sen
ate did well the other day when, in
that capitol building which on ia
Greece its columnar impressiv5ess.
they passed a hearty resolution of sym
patty for that nation. Would that all
who have potent words that can be
heard in Europe wDut-t- --.ssr them
now, when they are 50 much needed!
Let Us repeat to them in English what
they centuries ago declared to the
word in Greek: blessed are those
who are prosecuted for righteousness
sake, for theirs is the kingdom OF
Heaven