Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1916-03-16

Burchs Of Valley Lee, gave d most ia
teresting and eloquent lecture in tn.
Aeademy Hall. On Vaccination
is relation to modern medicine.
! Tire Doctor touched on tho history 81
some famous epidemics, the mortality
IN some reaching as high as 81 pcl
cent Of the population. He showed
how modern immunity from the dread.
led smallpox was due to the discovery
Of the vaccine anti-toxin BY DR.. Ed
ward Jenner, whom Napoleon, there
fore, called the greatest benefactor 81
mankind.
The discovery Of Jenner, an humble
country physician, led the way to u
further application Of the innocula-
tion theory BY Pasteur and the dis.
covery Of the cure, or prevention
rather, Of hydrophobia. And so for
other famous antl-toxIns that have re-
lievsd untold human suffering and
prolonged human life and happiness
Doctor Burch, in feryid burst Of
oratory, compared the humble healer
Jenner, with those heroes who are
gloriiied because Of triumphs won at
cost Of human blood and the unspeak-
able horrors OF war and carnage
Alexander, Hannibal. Caesar and
Napoleon, The greatest hero is he
who, after the example Of Jesus, The
Divine physician and SAVIOR Of man.
kind, deyotes his talents and his liic
10 The saving Of human life and the
promoting OF hnmau happiness.
The peroruiiun 81 DE-. Bnreh's lee.
tnre follows.
Who 81 yoa who have listened 10
me today overheard before the name
Of Jenners Who Of you ever thought
that that name was responsible for
your we'll keepingY Who Of you ever
thought that Edward Jenner was man
kinds greatest benefactorg His work
was not Of the conqneror, but as the
healer permeates down through the
years and viii continue 10 spread and
spread as long as time lasts or mem.
DRY endures
History paints 10 blazing letters,
letters Of fame and gold, the names
Of The conquerors of the world. His.
tory iiaunls the deeds Of Alexander At
Arbela, how, wiua tif,g thousand
daeedonians, be whipped an army Of
I've hundred thousand and left three
hundred thousand Persians slain upon
The aeld And al Persia lay pros.
traie at the conqneror's feet. But
Alexander rose 20 his heights through
humau wreekage and pillage.
History paints the deeds Of Hapnl-
b0l with his Africans 81 Came. and
how, Tor thirty years, he devastated
tho plains 81 italy even 70 the very
gates Of Rome But Hannlbai's glory
is achieved by devastation and ruin.
HISTORY tells 81 Caesars legious ~
rharsalia, and where Caesar became
conqueror d Rome and dictator
Of the world But caesar's triumph
vas manklnds desolaiiou.
History places high "a The niche o.
fame the name 81 Napoleon and
twines around Il iikc garlands on
copgueror's head ghe victories 81 Ulm.
Of Auserillz and Mawngo. History
relates how Napoleon, n msd-summef,
crossed the Niemsu With over six hun.
3ed thousand men on he road 10
/ Moscow HnM-his laahpna wore scat
tered like wiihered leaves before 'he
infantry Of the snow and ihc cavalry
Of be Wild blast How. when be
reached Moscow, only 70 find the city
in iames How, 90 the retreat. his
path was stgewn with the dead and tho
dying q tho flower Of Europe How
when be recrossed the Nicmcn with
only twenty eight thousand men be
startled the world With bis famous
proclamation, 'rhe army y anuihi-
lated, bus the Emperor sill lives
Across The water today she great
lcivilized nations OF ibe Rorid are
grapplipg 10 death struggle which
is huta part ot Frances inheritance
for Napoleou's triumph These con
queror waded through blood aud
death 20 ambitious heights
Centuries ago, from of Mount
slnae. came these ihunderons words
that echo aud rc-echo down through
the crags Of iimei Thou shall no,
kin" The glories OF their achieve
menls Is the disobedienee Of that com
mand They have long since gone
70 the tongueless silence Of the dream
less dust, amidst the tears oi the or
/ phans and the widows they have made,
Their impress for bad follow 10 their
wake like a pestilential trail down
Through The ages. Generation after
generation feel the inuoyating inan.
ence OF their march to fame. Through
the smoke Of battle midst, the roar o.
cannon and the shrek 81 mankind
they strobe like mighty monsters, their
whitening armies there, whore all was
ruin. Groans echoiug through The
vallies. through which ran rivers d
biood-lise smoking phlegetons, flames
flashed from the burning villages, fam
| ineshriekcd in tile empty corntiields,
women and children robbed Of theii
sires and husbands LEI, to starve,
These are the glories 81 theii
achievements, Thou shalt not KILL
4 Who would not rather 90 down lid
4 Jenner with bis impress upon CHI
hearts Of mankind, Than follow in tn