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

{ Burch, Of Valley Lee, gave most 10
: teressisa.:ss ard eloquent lecture IN tn
Academy HALL on vaccination
i FITS relation 10 modern medicine.
The Doctor touched on the history 0
some famous epidemics, the mortallt,
10 some reaching as high as 81 pei
cent Of the population. He showed
how modern immunity from the dread
ed smallpox was due 10 the discovery
Of the vaccine anti-toxin by Dir. Ed
ward Jenner, whom Napoleon, there
fore, called the greatest heneiactor Of
mankind.
The discovery Vt Jenner, an humble
country physician, lea the way to q
further application Of the innocnla-
| ton theory By Pasteur and the dis
coyery OF the cure, or prevention
rather, OF hydrophobia. And so for
other famous anti-toxins that have re-
lieved untold human suffering and
| prolonged human life and happiness.
Doctor Burch, in fervid burst OF
oratory, compared the humble healer
Jenner, with those heroes who arc
glorified because OF trimmphs won al
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, dcvotes his talents and his life
TO The saving Of human life and the
promoting Of human happiness
The peroration 81 DR. Bnreh's lee
ture follows
Who 81 sou who have listened 10
me today overheard before the name
81 JennerS Who Of you ever thought
that that name vas responsible Tor
your well keeping? Who OF you ever
thought that Edward Jenner was man.
kinds greatest bencfactorS His work
was not Of the eonqueror, but as the
healer permeates down through the
years and viii continue 10 spread aud
spread as long as tirne lasts or men-
DRY endures
History paints IN blazing letters,
letters Of flame and gold, the names
OF the conqnerors 81 the world. Ills.
tory ilaants the deeds Of Alexander o.
Arbela, how wiih City thousand
Aaeedonians, be whipped an army Of
Eve hundred thousand and left three
hundred thousand Persians slain upon
lhe Held And al Persia lay pros.
trnie 10 the conqaeror's feet But
Alexander rose % his heIghts Through
human wreekuee and plilagc.
History paints ihe deeds Of HannI-
bal with hts Africans at Came. and
how, Tor thirty years, he devastated
the plains d italy even to the vcry
gates Of Rome But Haunibals glory
4 achieved IS devastation and ruin
History tells Of Caesars leglnns al
Pbalsalia, ana where Caesar became
eonQueror Of Home aud dictator
Of the world. Hut Cacsar's triumph
sas mankind's desolanon.
History places high IN de niche Of
fame the name Of Napoleon and
twincs around Ii llke garlsuds on d
conqueror'a head si,e victories oi Vim,
Of Auserilia and Marengo. History
relates how Napoleon, in mid
crossed the Nienen with over six hun.
drvd Thousand men on The road to
! Moscow, How his IeRions wnro scat
tared like withered leaves before ihe
infantry al the SNOW and tbe cavalry
OF The wild blast How, when be-
reached Moscow. oniy % find The city
III ianca Hos, on lhe rctreat, his
path was strcwu with The dead aud he
dying Of the lower Of Europe. Hos,
when he recrosshd the Niemcn sith
only twenty eight thousand men he
startled the world with bis fsmons
proclamation "rhe army Is aunihi-
lated, but the Emperor still lives
Across the water today the great
leiyilized nations OF the World are
grappllng IN 8 death struggle which
IS butA part Of Frances ioherisaneo
Tor Napoleon's triumph These con
quepors waded through blood and
death to ambitious heights.
Centuries ago, from on Mount
slnae. came these thunderons worda
that echo aud re.echo down through
the crags Of time. Thou shah not
lkll.u The qlorics OF their achieve
ments Is the disobedicuee Of that com
mand. They have long since gone
TO the tongueless silence Of the drean.
less dust, amidst the tears Of the or.
phans and the sidows they have made.
Their impress for bad follow in their
wake like a pestilentlal trail down
through The ages Generation after
| generation feel the innovating inau.
encc OF their march TO fame. Through
the smoke Of ba.tie midst, the roar o.
cannon and tic shriei Of mankind
they strobe like mighty monsters, their
whitening armies there, whore all vas
ruin Groans echoing through ihe
yallies, through which ran rivers o.
blood-like smoking phlegetons. flames
| flashed from The burning villages, fam
ineshrieked 10 the empty corn-iields
women and children robbed OF their
sires and husbands left 20 starve.
These are the glories o. their
achievements, Thou shalt not KILL
| Who would moi rather 20 down like
Jenner with his impress upon The
lheams u manklnd. than follow IN D.