The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-02

of fatal medical treatment. when il
says: I'm his disease he sought not
to the Lord. but to the physicians. and
Asa slept with his fathers" And we
read in the New Testament of the poor
woman who had been treated by in
! competent doctors who asked large
/ fees. where it says: ''She had suffered
many things of many physicians, and
/ had spent all that she had, and was
nothing better, but rather grew
worse" For our glorious science of
medicine and surgery, more sublime
than astronomy. for we have more to
do with disease than with 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
in the garden-for this grandest of all
sciences, the science of healing. every
pillow of recovered invalid. every ward
of American and European hospital
may well cry out. Thank God for old
DIR. HippOcratesl 1. like Paul, am in
debted to the Greeks
Furthermore. all the world is obi
gated to Hellas more than it 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 vacillatiOns and tenn
porary defeat. but if 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 10000
Athenians, led on by Miltiades, tri-
umphed over 100000 of their enemies.
At that time in Greek council of war
FIVE generals were for beginning the
battle and five against it. Callimaehus
presided at the council of war, had the
deciding vote, and Miltiades addressed
him, saving:
1T now rests with you, Callimachus,
either to enSlave Athens, or by insur-
ing her freedom, to win yourself an
Immortality of fame, for never since
the Athenians were people were thew
in such danger as they are in at this
moment. If they bow the knee to
these Modes. they are to be given up to
Hippias. and you know what they will
then have to suffer; but if Athens come
victorious out of this contest, she has
it in her power to become the first city
of Greece. Your vote is to decide
whether we are to join in battle or not.
If we do not bring on battle present.
", some factiOus intrigue will disunite
the Athenians and the city viii be be-
trayed to the Modes. but if we fight
before there is anything rotten in the
state of Athens. | believe that, provid
ed the gods 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 Miltiades fell upon the
Persian hosts. shouting: ''On! Sons of
Greece. Strike for the freedom of
your country. Strike for the freedom
of your children and your wives. for
the shrines of your fathers gods, and
for the sepulchers of your sires! All,
all are now staked on the strife"
While only 1872 Greeks fell, 6, 400 Per-
slams 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
oppression was rebuked, Grecian lib
erty was achieved. the cause of civiliza-
ton was advanced. and the western
world and all nations have felt the
heroics. Had there been no Miltiades,
there might have been no Washington.
But now comes the practical ques-
ton. How can we pay that debt, or a
part of it? For we cannot pay more
than ten per cent. of that debt in which
Paul acknowledged himself a bank
rupt. BY praying Almighty God that
he will help Greece in its present war
with Mohammedanism and the con-
certed empires of Europe. know her
queen. a noble, Christian woman, her
face the throne of all benefcence and
lOveliness, her life an example
Of noble wifehoOd and mother
hood. God help those palaces in
these days of awful exigency! Our
American senate did well the other day,
when, in that capitol building which
owes to Greece its eolumnar impressive
ness, they passed hearty resolution
Of sympathy for that nation. Would
hat all who have potent words that
an OC hCdAu III GuIOpc WOuIu utter
hem now, when they are so much
needed! Let us repeat to them in Eng
ish what they centuries ago declared
20 the world in Greek: Blessed are
hose who are prosecuted for righteous
less sake, for theirs is the kingdom Of
Heaven"
But there is better way to pay them,
md that is by their personal salvation,
which will never come to them through
books or through learned presentation,
because in literature and intellectual
ealms they are masters. They can
'utargue, outquOte, Outdogmatize you.
SOt through the gate of the head, but
through the gate of the heart, you may
:apture them When men of learning
nd might are brought to God they are
'rOught by simplest story of what re-
igiOn can do for a soul. They have
Ost children. Oh, tell them how Christ
omforted you when you lost your
right boy or blue-eyed girl They have
Ound life struggle Oh, tell them
ow Christ has helped you all the
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