The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-02

| Mother OF lights and justice" and
from which the civilization arose:
1t was in the small peninsula that
to the world appears to be very I'M
favorable conditions, that the mar
velous civilization CT the ancient
Hellas was developed, but these condi-
tons did have the tendency to bring
up strong intellectual powers and
brave men, because of their ability
to navigate the island seas, the Greeks
in very early times carried on con-
slant communication with the people
of the coast of Asia. The arts and
customs of their mother country they
| improved upon and in time became
the greatest power OF then known
world. They developed an art and a
| civilization, which with all of our ad-
vancements of today, no other nation
| is able to excel. What other race as
| the Grecian could show so many great
men? Where did so many sons of
wisdom rise from? By whom rays the
others of today it seems as stars. were
| perhaps been dark and cold? Did not
| Illuminate from Greece them many
| philosophers? and among them were
Aristocles and Plato, whose words ac-
cept the virtuous world and worship
them? The Homer, who even he were
blind in the sight, he was the pupil
| and the light of the muses.? Aristo-
planes, Euripides, Hirodotus and so
| many other poets, that all the laurels
! of Elikion Apple gather to crown
them? The Demosthenes who is the
leader of eioQuence and the attire of
the orators. The Archimides, who by
his mathematics knitted his won head
with so many wreaths, as many circles
he has made, and arouse the immor-
tality of his name in so many pyramids
as many triahgunals and quadrangles
he has found? The Hippocrates the
Galinos the gods of medical art, whose
without to still the fire of The solar
| sphere as Prometheus, animate the
mortals, and with SO many wonderful
beverages from the crater of Helen,
lrrlgate the life? The Alexander, who
by his strategical bravery, appeared in
the wars as other Mars, and fastened
at his hand not sword, but lightning,
worshiped by the world as a son of
the Great Jupiter, and at last the
Ihuckidides in the History Xenophon,
Plutarch, whom We can see treasured
the wealth of education and wisdom?
Ito leave the others of every profess
/
men, but heroes and Demigods) all
those are not the wise Greece Off
springs and children? Where did the
| academies of uncle Plato blooming
from? Where did the promanades of
Aristocles? Where the colonies of the
stole philosophers? Whence the Ly-
curgus, the Solons and other legisla-
lures of the worlds Whence the laws
that still today govern the world? AS
not other wisdom has been sufficient,
but that of Greeks?
But you'll tell me that when the
light Of the Bible drove away the dark
ness of faults, and glare into the world
with Chrlstlandom, the glory of Greece
were eXtinguished. You have commit
ted an error! Indeed did not glitter
more but at the rays of the faith.
Testifier are the Christianity. Let her
tell you, now many teachers Greece
grant her; whose with the sweetness
of their face, with eXhiles, dangers and
| thousand of other distresses, fought
for the church? How many shepherds
whose with the milk of piety nohrish
many people, kingdoms and regions,
and with their shepherds stats ban
ished (as other st. Paricks) the sa-
tanic VOLTS? How many experts sail
ors, whose between the storms or
heresy, in the hard blows of persecu-
ton, at the tightening of the sharp
knives, the laundering of the tyrants,
that threaten them thousands of
deaths, governed the vessel of Saviour.
! To not to get far from the harbor of
| truth? How many farmers, whose up
roofing the thorns of fault from the
peoples hearts, planted the tree of
life, that is the true catholic faith?
The purple that ornamented the
church did not tinge it in the blood of
victorious martyrs, whose Greece has
generate? The Skepter that has not
only in one and other land, but in the
whole universe, did not obtain by the
Athanaslans, the Gregorians, the Basils
and the Crysostons (golden-mouth)
and many other fathers and defenders
OF truth? Grabbing from the Tryants
the Satanic Cosmocrators, the king
doms and subject them to the sweet
yoke of the cross? They did Lot
preach by the tongue? Did not con.
form with reed? Did not illuminate
with the books? Did not testify with
the miracles (whom wonder and won
ders the centuries?) The faith the
doctrInes, that acknowledged and pro-
claimed? Who else but the Grecians
stand and washed the beautiful
Galaxy with the milk of virginity?
Who painted the wonderful rainbow
with the blood that they poured for
the sake of Christ? and with virture,
as with honest stones built up the
church of Christ?
The Greek empire did fail, but arose
again at the middle ages, more Greek
like and evidential than the former.
Having capital the Bysantium the
famous Constantinople, glittering
| among the nations as the Mars in
heaven, but the envy of Europe. the
everlasting enemy of Greece saw the
progress of that empire and fearing
another ancient Greece will arise,
starts another crusade (then against
the barbarians, but now against the
Christians) used as their organ the
Turk, who with their assistance routed
the Greeks, and frequently conquered
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