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. The ECONOMIST has a laboeb j . . .' ' tL yv j7 1 T ' ! Hdvertisa In The ECDI'UiUitoW or Kihteux Caeuusa thax axt n (iv (U II I (fl III I! I ' I i5S"-' i ! I I It wlU Fay Ycu, ; , oTiira runt rcsusiiEP. . I j j JlLV&LJ JH Ji LJ 1 J t J t J 1 1 Td dio islanding an snma silent shore, wherB 'billows nBver break, nor tBinpests roar. Garth.,3- i ELIZABETH .CITY, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1897. YOL. XXT NO 32. i . r ,vu-f aa Bting world. I ned t Le annoyed constipation tsatil I Leg W them. Now I hare po trouble of C that kind aor more and I attribute "Your pllla are the be .ray recover;- t the ue of your vala- OCCUpie3 its proper plaCO. a Te netliclne. In the springtime I v of t'.e year I always take yur J in th museum Of the pp. n4 Vpr.vpk,v1llpir p,,, Ja c t xr of rdio3 en barism. Tho pi3tol ought to havo beside it the pestle that turned out pills like bullets,' to be shot like bullet3 at tho target of tho liver. 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Why will you buy bitter nauseating tonics when Grove' Tasleleas Chill Tonic is as pleasant as Lemon Syrutv Your druggist is authorized to refund the money in every case where it falls to cure. Price 50 cents. There is no excuse for any man to appear In society with a grizzly beard since the introduction of Bucking ham's Dye, which colors natural brown or black. ; OUJl DEBT TO GHEECE REV. DR. TALMAGE RECOUNTS- THE OBLIGATION IN AN ABLE SERMON. The Great Dirtse? 8pea.lta of Grecian Influ ence In LJteratar and A rt Tnermopy las and Banker Hill How to Repay the Obligation Panl'a Peroration. Wasiii-oto2s, March 28. As Dr. Tal inage'a -nnona are published on both sides the ocean, this discourse on a sub ject cf worldwide interest will attract universal attention. His text was Ro mans i, 14, am debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians." ' At this rime, when that behemoth of abominations, Mohammedanism, after having gorged itself on the carcasses of 100,000 Armenians, is trying to put its paws tipcD cno of the fairest of all na ticn.4, that of the Greeks. I preach this sermon of sympathy and protest, for ev ery intelligent person on this tide, like Paul, who wrote the text, is debtor to the Greeks. The present crisis is em phasized by the guns of the allied pow ers of Europe, reafly to be tmlimbered against the Hellenes, and I am asked to speak out. Paul, with a master intellect of tho ages, sat in brilliant Corinth, the great Acro-Corinthns fortress frowning from tho height of 1,686 feet, and in the house of Gains, where ho was a guest, a big pile of money near him, which he was taking to Jerusalem for the poor. . In this letter to the Romans, which Chrysostom admired so much that he had it read to him twice a week, Paul practically says: "I, the apostle, am bankrupt. I owo what I cannot pay, but I will pay as large a percentage as I qan. It is an obligation for what Greek literaturo and Greek sculpture and Greek architecture and Greek prowess have dono for me. I will pay all I can in'installmcnts of evangelism. I am in solvent to tho Greeks. " Hellas, as the inhabitants call it, or Greece, as we call it, is insignificant in size, about a third as large as tho state of New York, but what it lacks -in breadth it makes up in height, with its mountains Cylene and Eta und Taygerus and Tympbrestus, each over 7,000 feet in elevation, and its Parnassus, over 8,000. Jtist the country for mighty men to be born in, for in all Jands the most of the intellec tual and moral giants were not born on the plain, but had for cradle tho valley between two, mountains. That country, no part of 'which is more than 40 miles from tho sea, has mado its impress upon tho world as no other nation, and it to day holds a first mortgage of obligation upon all civilized people. While we must leave to statesmanship and diplo macy tho settlement of the intricate questions which now involve all Eu rope and indirectly all nations, it is timo for all churches, all schools, all universities, all arts, all literatures, to sound but in tho most emphatic way tho declaration, "I am debtor to the Greeks." The Ilest Sermon. In the first place, we owe to their language our New Testament. All of it was first written in Greek, except the book of Matthew, and that,, written in tho Aramaean language, was soon put into Greek by our Saviour's brother James. To tho Greek langnage wo owe the best sermon ever preached, the best letters ever written, the best visions ever kindled. All the parables in Greek. All the miracles in Greek. The sermon on tho mount in Greek. ; The story of Bethlehem, and Goigotha, and Olivet, aud Jordan banks, and Galilean beaches, and Paulino embaikation, and Pente costal tongues, aud seven trumpets that sounded over Patmcs, have come to the world in liquid, symmetric, picturesque, philosophic, unrivaled Greek, instead of tho giLLerish language in which many of tho nations of the earth at that timo jabberccL Who can forget it, and who can exaggerate its thrilling impor tance, that Christ and heaven wero in troduced to us iu the language of the Greeks, tho language in which Homer had sung, and Sophocles, dramatized, and Plato dialogued, and Socrates dis coursed, and Lycurgus legislated, and Demosthenes thundered his oration on "The Crown?" Everlasting thanks to God that tho waters of life were not handed to the world in the nnwashed cup of corrupt languages from which nations had been drinking, but in the clean, bright, golden lipped, emerald handled chalice of the Hellenes. Learn cel Curtius wrote a whole volume about tho Greek verb. Philologists century after century have been measuring the symmetry of that" language, laden with elegy and philippic, drama and comedy, "Odyssey" and "Iliad," but the grand est thing that Greek language ever ac complished was to give to the world the benediction, tho comfort, the irradia tion, the salvation, of tho gospel of the Son of God. For that we are debtors to tho Greeks.. And while speaking of our philolog ical obligation let me call your atten tion to tho fact that many of the intel lectual and moral and theological lead ers of the ages got much of their disci pline and effectiveness from Greek lit erature. It is popular to scoff at the dead languages, but 50 per cent of the world s intellectuality would, have been taken off if through learned institutions our young men had not, under 'competent professors, liecn drilled m Greet mas terpieces, Hesiod's "Weeks and Days," or tho eulogium by Simonides ' of the slain in war. or Pindar's "Odes of v ic- tory," or "The Recollections of Soc rates," or "The Art of Words," by Corax, pr Xenopbon's "Anabasis." Leader of the Age. From the Greeks the world learned bow to make historyl " Had there been no Herodotus and Thucydides there would have been no Macaulay or Bancroft. Had there been no Sopho cles in tragedy there would have been no Shakespeare. Had there been no Homer, there would have been no Mil ton. Tlie modern wits, who are now cr have tccn out on tho divine mission of making tho world laugh at the right time, can be traced back to Aristophanes, he Athenian, and many, of the jocosities that are now taken as new had their sug gestions 2,300 years ago in the 54 com edies of that master of merriment Gre cian mythology has been the richest mine from which orators and essayists have drawn their illustrations and paint ers the themes for their canvas, and, al though now an exhausted mine, Grecian mythology has done a work that noth ing else could have accomplished, Bo reas, representing the north wind ; Sisy phus, rolling the stone up the hill, only to have the same thing to do over again; Tantalus, with fruits above him that he could not reach; Achilles, with his ar rows; Icarus, with his waxen wings, flying too near the sun; the Centaurs, hall man and half beast ; Orpheus, with his lyre; Atlas, with the world on his back all these and more have helped literature, from the graduate's speech on commencement day to Rufus Choate's eulogium on. Daniel Webster at Dart mouth. Tragedy and comedy were' born in the festivals of Dionysius at Athens, The- lyric and elegiac and epic poetry of Greece 600 years before Christ has its echoes in the Tennysons, Longfellows and Bryants of 1,800 and 1, 900 years aft er Christ There is not an effective pxdpit or editorial chair or professor's room or cultured parlor or intelligent farmhouse today in America or Europe that could not appropriately employ Paul's ejacu lation and say, "I am debtor to the Greeks." - The fact is this Paul ,had got much of his oratorical power of expression from the Greeks. That he had studied their literature was evident when," standing in the presence of an audience of Greek scholars on Mars' hill, which overlooks Athens, he dared to quote from , one of their own Greek poets, either Cleanthus or Aratus, declaring, "As certain also of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring. ' " And he made accurate quotation, Clean thus, one of the poets, having written:' For. vre thine offspring are; ; All things that creep Are but the echo of the voice divine. And Aratus, one of their own poets, had written: Doth care perplex? la lowering danger nigh? We are his offspring, and to Jove we fly. r It was rather a risky thing for Paul to attempt to quote extemporaneously from a poem in a language foreign to his and before Greek scholars, but Paul did it without stammering and then acknowledged before the most distin guished audience on the planet his in debtedness to the Greeks, crying out in his oration, "As one of your own poets has said." Inventors of Architecture. Furthermore, all the civilized world, like Paul, is indebted to the Greeks for architecture. The world before the time of the Greeks had built monoliths, obe lisks, cromlechs, sphinxes and pyramids, but they were mostly monumental, to the dead whom they failed to memorial ize. We are not certain even of the names of those in whcao commemoration the pyramids were built But Greek architecture did most for the living. Ignoring Egyptian precedents and bor rowing nothing from other nations, Greek architecture carved its own col umns, set its own pediments, adjusted its own entablatures, rounded its own moldings and carried out . as never be fore the three qualities of right build ing, called by an old author 4 'firmitas, utilitas, venustas"- namely, firmness, usefulness, beauty. ' - Although the Parthenon on the Acrop olis of Athens is only a wreck of the storms and earthquakes and bombard ments of many centuries, and although Lord Elgin took from one side- of that building, at an expense of $250,000, two shiploads of sculpture, one shipload going down in" the Mediterranean and the other shipload now to be found in the British museum, the Parthenon, though in comparative ruins, has been an inspiration to all architects for cen turies past and will be an inspiration all the time from now until the world itself is a temple ruin. Oh, that Parthe non I One never gets over having once seen it But what must it have been when it stood as its architects, Ikitnos and Kallikrates, built it out of Penteli can marble, white as Mont Blanc at noonday and as overwhelming. Height above height Overtopping the august and majestic pile, and , rising from its roof was a statue of Pallas Prom a ch us in bronze, so tall and flashing that sail ors far out at sea beheld the plume of her helmet Without tho aid of the eternal God it never could have been planned, and without the aid of God the chisels and trowels never could have constructed it There is not a fine church building in all the world, or a properly constructed courthouse, or a beautiful art gallery, or an appropriate audito rium, or a tasteful home, which, because of that Parthenon, whether its style or some other style be adopted, is not dij rectly or indirectly a debtor to the Greeks. Blessings of Sculpture. But there is another art in my mind the most fascinating, elevating and inspiring of all 'arts and the nearest to the divine for which all the world owes a debt to the Hellenes that will never be paid. I mean sculpture. At least 650 years before Christ the Greeks perpetuated the human face and form in terra cotta and marble. What a bless ing to the human family that men and women, mightily useful, who could live only within a century may be perpetu ated for five- cr six or ten centuries! How I wish that some sculptor contem poraneous with Christ could have put his matchless form in marble I But for every - grand and exquisite statue , of Martin Luther, of John Knox, of Wil liam Penn, of Thomas Chalmers, of Wellington, of Lafayette, of any of the great statesmen or emancipators or con querors who adorn your parks cr fill the niches cf your academies, you are debt ors to the- Greeks. They covered the Acropolis, they glorified the temples, they adorned the cemeteries with stat ues, some in cedar, some in ivory, some in silver, some in gold, some in size diminutive and some in size colossal. Thanks to Phidias, who worked in stone; to Clearchus, who worked in bronze ; to Dontas, who worked, in gold, and to all ancient chisels of commemo ration ! j ! Do you not realize ithat for many of the wonders of -sculpture we are debtors to the Greeks? : i Yea, for the science, of medicine, the great art of healing,; we must thank the Greeks.; There is the iinmortal Greek doctor, i Hippocrates, who first opened the door for disease to go out arid health to come! in. He first set forth the impor tance of cleanliness; and . sleep,! making the patjent before treatment to be wash ed and take slumber on the hide ox a sacrifice beast He first discovered the importance of thorough Trognosis and diagnosis. He formulated the j famous oath of. Hippocrates! which is taken 1 by physicians of our day. He emancipated medicine from superstition, empiricism and priestcraft He was the father of all the infirmaries, hospitals and medic al colleges of the last 23 centuries. Ancient medicament and surgery had before that been; anatomical and physi ological assault and 'battery, and long after the time of Hippocrates, the Greek doctor, where his theories were not known; the Bible sneaks of fatal med ical treatment when lit says, j"In his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the j physicians, and Asa slept with his fathers. " And we read in "the New Testament of the poor woman who had been treated by incompetent doctors, who asked large fees, where it says, "She bad 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 the 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 of 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 Dr. Hippocrates ! I, like Paul, am indebted to the Greeks," . ; , ' ' For Liberty and Bight. Furthermore, all ( the world is obli gated to Hellas more than it can ever pay for its heroics in the cause of liber ty and right United Europe today had not better think that the Greeks wgll not fight. There may be fallings back and vacillations and temporary defeat; but if Greece is right all Europe cannot put her down. The other nations before they open the portholes of their paen-of-war against tfiafc. small kingdom had better read of the battle of Marathon,' where 10,000 Athenians, led on by Mil tiades, triumphed over 100, 000. of their enemies. At that time, in Greek council of war, five generals were for beginning the battle and five were against, it Cal limachus presided at the council of war, had the deciding vote, and Mil tiades addressed him, saying: ,1 "It now rests with you, Callimachus, either lb enslave Athena, or, by insuring her freedom, to win yourself an immor tality of fame, for never siuce the Athenians were . a people were Jthey -in such danger as they are in at this irio ment. If they bow j the knee td ' these Medes, they are to be given up to Hip pias, and you know what they will then have to suffer, hut if Athens comes vic torious out of this contest she has itiin her power to become the first city of Greece, kYour vote is to decide whether we are to join battle! or not If 'we do not bring on 1 a battle presently some factious intrigue will disunite the Athenians, and jthe city will be betrayed to the Medes,- but if we fight before there is anything rotten in the siaba of Athens ! l believe' that, provided 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 I j Strike for the freedom of your country I Strike for tte freedom of your children and your wives, for the shrines of your fathers' godsjand for the sepul chers of your sires 1 j All, all are now staked em the strife I" While only 192 Greeks fell, 6,400 Persians layj dead upon the field, and many of the Asiatic hosts who took to the war vessels inl the harbor were consumed in the shipping. Persian oppression was rebuked, Grebian liberty was achieved,; the cause of civi lization, was advanced, and the western world and all nation have felt the he roics. Had there t?een no Miltiades there might have been no Washington. Strong In the Bight. !j Also at Thermopylae 800 Greeks, along a ! road only wide enough for a wheel track between a mountain and a; marsh; died father than surrender.: ftad there been no Thermopylae there might have been no Bunker Hill. ' The echo of Athenian and Spartan heroics was heard at the gates of Lucknow, and Sevasto pol, and Bannockburn, and Lexington, and Gettysburg. English Magna Charta and Declaration of American Independ ence and the song of Robert Bums, en titled "A Man's a Man For a' That," were only the long continued reverbera tion of what was said and done 20 cen turies before in that little kingdonj that the powers of. Europe are now imposing, upon. Greece having again andjagain shown that 10 men in the right are stronger than 100 jmen in the wrong, the heroics of Leohidas I and Aristides and Thehustocles will not cease their mission until the last man on earth is as free as God made him. I There is not on either side of the Atlantic today a republic that cannot truthfully employ the words of the text and say, "I am debtor to the Greeks." i But now comes the practical question, How can we pay that debt or a part of it? For we cannot pay more than 10 per cent of j that debt in which Paul ac knowledged himself ja bankrupt! By praying Almighty God that he will help Greece in its present war with Moham medanism and the concerted empires of Europe, t I know' her! queen, a noble, Christian woman, her! face the throne of all beneficence and loveliness, her life an example of noble wifehood and motherhood. . God help. those palaces in these davs of awful exigency! Our American senate did well the other day ! owes to Greece its columnar impressive nees they passed a hearty resolution' of sympathy for that nation. Would that all who have potent words that can be heard in Europe would utter them now, when they are so much needed 1 Let us repeat' to them in English what they centuries ago declared to the world in Greek, "Blecse4 are those who are per secuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. " An Infinite Obligation. Another way of partly paying our debt to the Greeks is by higher appreci ation c the learning' and self sacrifico of the men who in our own land stand for all that the ancient Greeks stood. While here arid there one comes to pub ; lie approval and reward, the most of them live in privation or on salary dis gracefully smalL The scholars, tho archfeologists, the artists, the literati . most' of them live up three or four flights pf stairs and by small windows that do hot let in the full sunlight' You pass them every day in your streets without any recognition. Grub street, whero many of the mighty men of the past suffered, is long enough to reach around the world No need of wasting our sympathy upon the unappreciated think ers and workers of the past, though Linnaeus - sold his - works for a single ducat, though ' Noa'h Webster's spelling book yieldecj him more than his diction ary, though Correggio, tho great paint er, receiving for long continued work payment of $39, died' from overjoy; though when Goldsmith's friends visited him they were obliged to sit -in the window, as, he had but one chair; though Samuel Boyse, the great poet, starved to death; though the author of " Hudi bras" died1 in a garret; though "Para dise Lost" brought its author only. $25 cash down, with promise of $50 more if the sale warranted it, so that $75 was all that was paid for what is considered the greatest poem ever written. Better turn our attention to the fact that there are at this moment hundreds of authors, i painters, sculptors, architects, : brain workers without bread and without fuel and without competent apparel. As far as you can afford it, buy their sculpture, read their books, purchase their pic tures, encourage" their pen, their pencil, their chisel, their engraver's knife, their architect's compass. The world calls them "bookworms" . or "Dr. Dryas dust," but if there had been no book worms or dry doctors of law and Science and theology there would have been no Apocalyptic angeL They are the Greeks of our country and time, and your obli gation to them is infinite. Victory Through Sacrifice.. But there is a better way to pay them, and that is by their personal salvation, which will never come to them through books or through learned presentation, because in literature and intellectual h realms they are masters. They can out - argue, outquote, outdogmattze you. isot through' the gate of the head, but through the gate of the heart, you may capture them.; When men of learning and might are brought to God, they are brought by sirnplest story of what religion jean do for a soul. They have lost children. Oh, tell them how Christ comforted you when you'lost your bright boy or blue eyed girl! They have found life a struggle,- Oh', tell them how Christ has helped you all the way through! They are in bewilderment Oh, tell them with how many, hands of joy heaven beckons you upward! "When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of .-war, " but when a warm hearted Christian meets a man who needs pardon and sympathy and comfort and eternal life then comes victory. If you can, by some incident of self sacrifice, bring to such scholarly men and women what Christ has done for their eternal rescue, you may bring them in. Where Demosthenic eloquence and Homeric imagery would fail a kindly hear throb may succeed. A gen tleman of this city sends mo the state ment of what occurred a few days ago iamong the mines of British Columbia, It seems that Frank Conson and Jem Smith were down, in the narrow shaft of a mine. They had loaded an iron bucket with coal, and Jim Hemsworth, standing above . ground, was hauling the bucket up by windlass, when tho windlass broke," and the loaded bucket was descending upon the two-miners. Then Jim Hemsworth, seeing what must1 be certain death to the miners be neath, threw himself against the cogs of the whirling windlass," and, though Ms flesh was torn and his bones were broken, he stopped the whirling wind lass and arrested the descending bucket and aved the lives of the two miners beneath. The. superintendent of the mine flew to the r tone and blocked Itho machinery. When Jim Ih ms-wcrth's bleeding and tr.' t ?; bctly was put cn a litter and carric d. i. mtward a id cine one exclaimed, ".Ui, this is xiwfnl!" he replied, "01.. M.Lat's the differe nce. so long as I sav ! What an illus;; ing for others, i ' which to illustu iv.c toys; j "c-j.i-.it was cf tulle r r, V. 3 .at. a text frcrri' r i L ( be havior oi our Christ, limping ii.d lacerated and bro ken and torn and crushed m the work, of stopping the descending ruin that would have destroyed our souls! Try such a scene of vicarious suffering as this on that man capable of overthrowing all Ji .fl X A, - 1 t your arguments icr ,me truin, ana ne will sit down and weep. Draw, your il lustrations from the classics, and it is to him' -an' -old story, but Leyden jars and electric batteries and telesecpes and Greek drama Will all surrender to tne story of Jim Hemsworth's "Oh, .what's the difference so long as I saved the boys?" -v '.; ' The Debt Paid. 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The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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April 2, 1897, edition 1
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