Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-04-07

/ could have put His matchless form in mar
/ bic! But for every grand and exquisite
/ statue Of Martin Luther, Of John Knox of
I William Penn. of Thomas Chalmers, Of
Wellington, of Lafayette, Of any OF the
| great statesmen or emancipators or con-
querors who adorn your parks or fill the
inches OF your academies, you are debtors to
the Greeks. They covered the Acropolis,
they Gloriiied the temples, they adorned the
cemeteries with statues, some in cedar some
in ivory, some in silver some In gold, some
In size diminutiye AMI some In size colossal.
Thanks to Phidias, who worked In stone; to
Clearchus, who worke In bronze; to Doutas,
who worked in gold. and to all ancient
chiseis of commemoration! 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. Hippo
crates, who first opened the door for disease
| to go out AMI health to come In. He first set
| forth the importance Of cleanliness and sleep,
making the patient before treatment to be
washed and take s!umber on the hide Of
| sacrIftce beast. He first discovered the i'm
portance of thorough prognosis and dag
hoss. He formulated the famous oath OF
Hippocrates which is taken by pt ysicians OF
our day. He emancipated medicine from
superstition, empiricism and priestcraft. He
was the father OF all the Inf1rmaries, hospit-
ais and medical colleges of the last twenty
! .hree centuries.
Furthermore, all the world Is obligated to
| aelas more than IL can ever pay for its
heroics in the cause of liberty and right.
! United Europe 10 day hal not better think
| hat the Greeks will not fight. There may
% fallings back aud vacillations and tenpor-
! ary defeat. but il Greece is right all Europe
,aunot put her down. The other nations
| before they open the portfolios OF their men
'f-war against that small kingdom had
better read Of the battle OF Marathon, where
! TO- 900 Athenians. led on by Miltiades.
| riumphed over 100 900 OF their enemies. At
| hat time, in Greek council of war. five
generals were for beginning the battle and
I've were against it. Calllmachus presided
/ It the council of war, had the deciding vote.
! md Miltiades addressed him, saying:
"lt now rests with you, Csllimachus, either
| % enslave Athens, or, by insuring her free
| iom, to win yourself an tmm mortality OF fame,
or never since the Atheniaus were people
| Iare they In such danger as they are In at
| his moment If they bow the knee to these
Medes, they are TO be given up to Hippias,
aud you know what they will then have to
suffer, but II Athens comes victorious out of
| his contest she has ii in her power TO become
| he first city of Greece. Your vote is to de-
,ide whether We are to join battle or not. II
We do not bring on battla presently, some
/ factious intrigue will disuutto the Athenians,
and the city will be betrayed to the Medes,
out II we fight before there is anything rot
! ZEN in the state of Athens I believe that, pro-
'av3r, ~ ara able to gat the best OF it in the
engagement.
That Won the vote of Caliimacnus, and
ioon the battle opened, and in full run the
/ nen OF Miltiaies fell upon the Persian hosts,
! lhouting: "Oh, sons OF Graece, Strike for
he freedom of your country. Strike for the
reedom OF your children and your wives,
or the shrines OF your fathers gods and for
he sepulchers OF your sires! All, all are
low sta6ed on the strifef' While only 192
=. II H. \ ~
ieli anil many of the Asiatic hosts who
:ook to the war vessels in the harbor We're
consumed In the shipping. Persian oppres-
sion was rebuked, Grecian liberty was
achieved. the cause Of civilization was ad-
.aucei, and the western world and all ma
ions have felt the heroics. Had there been
10 Miltiades there might have been no
Washington.
Also at Thermopyla 300 Gree,is, along a
.oad only wide enough for wheel track be-
:ween "A mountain aud 4 marsh. died rather
han surrender Had there been no Their
nopylR there might have been no Bunker
Hill. English Masna Char,a and Declaration
Of American Independence and the song OF
Robert Burns. entitled "a Mans a Man For
L That" were only the long Continued re-
!erbeTatiou of what WAS said and lone twenty
centuries before in that little kiagdom that
he Powers OF Europe are now imp 1sing upon.
| IRE zee having again and again shown that
en- men in the right are stronger than 100
men in the wrong, the heroics of Leoniias
/ md Aristides aud Phemistocles will not cease
1 heir mission until the last man on earth is
IA free as G od made him. There is not on
,ither side OF the Atlantic to-day republic
hat cannot tru' 'hfuliy employ the words ot
he text and say, II am debtor to the
Greeks"
Bat now comes the practical question,
How can We pay that debt or II part of 1t?
For We cannot pay more than ten per cent.
1 If that debt in witch Paul acknowledged
himself bankrupt. By praying Almighty
God that He help Greece in its present war
With Mohammedanism and the concerted
empires of Europe. l know her queen, n
noble, Christian woman, her face the throne
of all beneflcence ami loveliness, her life an
example Of noble wifehood aud motherho ood.
BOD help those palaces In these days OF aw-
,ul exigency. Our American Senate dill well
The other day when in the capitol building
which owes to Greece its columnar impres.
iveness they passed a hearty resolution oi
sympathy for that nation. Would that al
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
.be Greeks is by higher appreciation OF tht
learning an self sacrifice OF the men who ir
our own lani stand for all that the ancen
Greeks stood While here and there on,
comes to public approval AMI reward, tn,
most of them live in priyatton or on salar,
disgracefulIy small. The scholars, TIT
archeo!oGists, the artists, the literati-mos
OF them live up three or four flights of stair
and by small windows that do not let in tn
full sunlight. You pass them every day ii
r your streets without any recognition. Th
world calls them "Dookworms" or "Dr
} Dryasdust," but If there had been no book
DIV u nf 10 nd saia "a
3 theology there would have been no Apoca
& lyptic angel. They are the Greeks of OF
: country aud time, and your obligation t
e them IS infinite.
) But there is n better way to pay them, an
o that Is by their personal salvation, wnic
}. will never come 10 them throu, ,h books o
8 through learned presentation, because 4
/, literature and intellectual realms they ar
e masters. Tney can outargue, outquote, out
Il dogma,izs you. Not through the gate OF tn
head, but through the gate of the heart, yo
f may capture them. When men OF learnin
and might are brought to Got. they ar
brought by simplest story of what relig.o
can do for a soul. They have lost chiidrer
4 Oh, tell them how Christ comforted yo
when you lost your bright boy or blue eye
!, girl They have found life Il struRg
- Oh, tell them how Christ has helped you a
the way through. They are in bewiIde
ment. Oh, tell them with how many hant
L of Joy heaven beckons YOU upward! "Whe
Greek meets GreeN, Ineu comes tne tug
, war;" but when u warm hearted Chris;fa
II meets a man who needs pardon and syn
Re pathy and comfort an, etern,l life IN,
ie comes victory. II you can, by some inciiel
= OF self sacrifice, bring to such scholarly M
n aud women what Christ has donb for the
eternal rescue. you may bring them i
ie Wl,rre Demoslhenic elo1uenca and Homer
70 imagery would fail, a kindly heart throb m
-. sdcceei. gentleman Of this city sends I
n 70 the statement 81 what occurred few da
- ago among the mines OF British Column
y Il seems that Frank Conson and ia
= Smith were down in the narrow sh
NJ n, OF mine. They had loaded an ir
~ :, bucket with coal. and Jim Hemswor
s. 8 standing above ground. was haul
~; the bucket up by wiBdlass, when
- - windlass broke, and the loaded bucket v
y, descending upon the two miners Then j
=, Hemsworth, seeing what must be cert
-. death to the miners beneath. threw hims
~ against the cngs OF the whirling windls