REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent: Washington Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: “Our Debt to the Greeks.” Text: “I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians.” Homans §,, 14, At this time, when that behemoth of abominations, Mohammedanism, after hay- ing porged itself on the carcasses of 100,000 Armenians, is trying to put ita paws upon one of the fairest of all nations, that of the tireeks, I preach this sermon cf sympathy and protest, for every intelligent person on this side, like Panl, who wrote the text, is debtor to the Greeks, The present erisis is emphasized by the guns of the Allied Powers of Europe, ready to be unlimbered against the Hellenes, and I am asked to speak out, Paul, with a master intellect of the ages, sat in britliant Corinth, the great Acro- Corinthus fortress frowning from the height of 1888 feet, and in the house of Gafus, where he was a guest, a big pile of money near him, which he was taking to Jerusalem for the poor. In this letter to the Romane, which Ohry- sostom admired so much that he had it read 0 him twice a week, Paul practioally says: “I, the apostle, am bankrupt. I owe what I cannot pay, but I will pay as large a perceat- age as I can, Itis an obligation for what Greek literature and Greek sculpture and Greek architecture and Greek prowess have done for me, 1 will pay all I can in !Gstall- Greeks." Hellas, as the inhabitants call it,or trreece, as we oall ir, is insignifleant in size, about a third as large as the State of New York, but what it lacks in breadtn it makes up in height, with its mountains Cylene and Eta and Taygetus and Tymphrestus, each over 7000 feet in elevation, and ite Parnassus, over 8000. Just the country for mighty men to be born in, for ia all lands the most of the intellectual and moral giants were not born on the plain, but had for eradle the vallay batween two mountains. That country, nc part of which is more than forty miles fron the sea, has made its impress upon the world as no other pation, and it to-day holds a fiest mortgage of obligation upon all civilized people. While we must leave to statesmanship aad diplomney the settlement of the intricate questions which now involve all Europe and indirectly all nations, itis time for all the churches, a!l schools, all uviversities, all arts, all literatures, to sound out in the most emphatic way the declaration, *‘I am debtor to the Greeks," In the first place, we owe to iaaguage our New Testament. All of it wns first writ- ten in Greek, exceptthe book of Matthew, and that, wrilten in the Aramman language, was soon put into Greek by our Baviour's brother James, To the Greek language we owe the best sermon ever preached, the bes: letters ever written, the Pro visions ever kindled. All the parables in Greek, Allthe miracles In Greek. The sermon on the mount in Greek, The story of Bethishem, and Golgotha, and Olivet, and Jordan banks, and Galilean beaches, and Pauline embarka- tion, and Pentecostal tongues, and seven trampets that sounded over Patmos, have come to the world in liquid, symmetric, picturesque, philosophie, unrivaled Greek, instead of the gibberish language in which many of the natioss of the sarth a: that time jatbered, Who ean forget it, and who can exaggerate its thei - Hug importance, that Christ and heaven were introduced to us in the language th - Ler bad sung, and Sophocles dramatized, and Plato dialogue, and Socrates disconrsed, and Lycurgus legislated, and Demosthenes thundered his oration on “The Crown?” Everlasting thanks to God that the waters of life were not handed to the world In the un- washed cup of corrupt lnnguages from which nations had been drinking, but in the clean, bright, golden lippet, emerald handled chalice of the Heallenea, Learnel Curtins wrote a whole volume about the Greek verb, Philologzists century after century bave been measuring the symmetry of that langaage, laden with elegy and philipple drama and comedy, “Odyssey” and “Iliad,” but the grandest thing that Greek languages ever ne- complished was to give to the world benediction, the the the salvation, of the gospel of the Son of God. For that we are dsbtors to the Greeks, From the Grecks the world learned how to make history. Had there been no Herodotus and Thueydides thers would have been no Macasclay or Baoeroft, Had there been no Bophoeies in tragedy there would have been no Shakespeare, Had there been no Homer, thers would have been no Milton. The mod- ern wits, who are now or have besa out on the divine mission of making the worid laugh at the right time, can be traced back to Aristophanes, the Atheniac, and many of the jocosities that are now taken as new had their suggestions 2300 years ago in ths fifty- four comedies of that master of merriment. Grecisn mythology has been the richest mine from which orators and essayists have drawn their illustrations asd paint- ers the themes for their canvas, aad, al- though now an exhausted mine, Grecian mythology has done a work that noth- ing else could have ascomplished, Bo reas, representing the nor wind; phus, rolling the stone up the hill, only to have the same thing to do over again: comfort, irradiation, ecotild not reach; Achilles, with his arrows: near the sun; the Centaurs, haif-man and half-beast: Orpheus, with his lyre; Atlas, with the world on his back-—all these and fus Choate's eulogium on Daniel Webster at Dartmouth. Tragedy asd comedy were born in the festivals of Dionysins at Athens, Grocee 300 years before Christ i860 and 1900 years after Christ, There is not an effective pulpit or editorial chair or professor's room or enitured purlor or ictei- Hgent farmbouse to-day in America or Europes that could not appropriately employ Paul's ejaculation and say, “f am debtor to the Greeks” The fact is this—Paul had got mach of his orstorical power of expression from the Greeks. That he had studied their literature was avident when, standing in the presence of an andience of Greek scholars on Mars’ hill, which overlooks Athens, he dared to quote from one of their own Greek posts, either Cleanthus or Aratus, declaring, “As esrtain also of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’ And he made accurate quotation, Cleanthus, one of the poets, haviog written: For we thine offspring are. All things that eres) Are but the echo of the voles divine And Aratus, sue of their own poets, had written: Doth care perplex? migh? We are his offspring, and to Jove we fly, It was rather a risky thing for Paul to at- tempt to quote extemporaneously from a joum inna language foreign to his aad be- ore Greek scholars, but Paul did it without stammering and toen acknowledged before the most distinguished audience on the his indebtedniss to the Greeks, ery- ing out In bis oration, *‘As one of your own poets has said,” Furthermore, all the civilized world, like Paul, is indebted to the Greeks for architee- is lowering danger i3ehs, sphinxes and pyramids, but they were mostly monumental, to the dead hey they faled to memor We are not certain, even, of the names of those in whose com. memoration the pyramids were bulit, But 4 borrow ing nothing from other mations, Greek arehi- tecture earved its own columns, set its own : adjusted Founded fis owa moldings asd carried o as never before the three qualities of right bullding, called by an old author.’ 'firmitas, utilitas, venustas'--namely, firmness, use fulness, beauty, But there is another art in my mind-the most fascinating, elevating and inspiring of nll arts and the nearest to the divine—for which all the world owes a debt to the Hel lenes that will never be pald. I mean sounlp- ture, At least 650 years before Christ the Greeks perpetuated the human face and form in terra cotta and marble, What a blessing to the human family that men and women, mightily useful, who could live only within a century may be perpetuated for five or six or ten centuries? ow I wish that some soulptor contemporansous with Christ could have put His matohless form in mar. ble! But p every grand and exquisite statue of Martian Luther, of John Knox, of Willlam Penn, of Thomas Chalmers, of Wallington, of Lafayette, of any of the great statesmen or emancipators or con- querors who adorn your parks or fill the niches of your academies, you are debtors to the Greeks. They covered the Acropolis, they glorified the temples, they adorned the cemeteries with statues, some in cedar, some in ivory, some in silver, some in gold, some ln size diminutive and some in size colossal, Thanks to Phidias, who worked in stone; to Clearchus, who worked in bronze; to Doutas, who worked in gold, and to all ancient chisels of commemoration! Do you not realize that for many of the wonders of sculpture we are debtors to the Greeks? Yea, for the science of medicine, the great orntes, who first opened the door for disease to go out and health to come in. He first set forth the importance of cleanlin-ss and sleep, making the patient before treatmant te be washed and take slumber on the hide of a He first discoverad the im- nosis. He formulated the famous oath of Hippocrates which is taken by ptysicians of He emancipated medicine from He all the infirmaries, hoapit- Furthermore, all the world is obligated to heroles in the cause ef liberty and right. There may ve fallings back and vaciliations aad tempor- The other nations before they open the portholes of thelr men- of-war against that small kingdom had hatter read of the battle of Maratnon, where 15,000 Athenians, led on by Miitiades, triumphed over 100.000 of th~ir enemies. At that time, in Greek council of war, five generals were for beginning the battles and five wore against it. Callimachas presided at the counail of war, had the deciding vote, “It now rests with you, Callimachus, either to enslave Athens, or, by insuring her fres. dom, to win yourseifan immortality of fame, for never sines the Athenians were a people were they in such danger as they are in at this moment. 1f they bow the knee to these Medes, they are to be given up to Hippias, and you know what they will then have to suffer, but if Athens comes vietorious out of this contest she has it in her power to become the first eity of Greece. Your vote ia to de- elds whether we are to join battle or not. If we lo not bring on a battle presently, som factious intrigue wilidisunite the Athenians, and the city will be betrayed to the Medes, but if we fight before there 1s anything rot. ten inthe state of Athens I beliave that, pro- vided the goas will give fair flald and no g~t the beat of it in the engagement,” That won the vote sooa the battle opened, yf Callimachus, and and in fall run the nthe Persian hosts, song of Greeon' ir conptry! Btrike for the children aod your wives, f your fathers’ gods and for { your sires! All ali While only 192 Gireeks fell, 6400 Paraians lay dead upon the flald, and maoy of tha Asiatic hosts who took to the war vessals ig the harbor were Persian oppres- sion was reb Grecian liberty was achieved, the cause of civilization was ad- vancad, and the western world and all na- Had there been bave befu no shouting: “Ob, strike for the freadom of yo {f your for the shrines aed ke, Miltindes there no might Also at Thermopyls 300 Greeks, along a road only wide enough for a wheel track be. tween a mountain aad a marsh, died rather than surrender. Had thers been no Ther mopyl® there might have been no Bunker Hill, English Mae¢na Chara and Declarution Robert Burns, entitled “A Man's a Man For a’ That" were only the long continued re. verberation of what wassaid and done twenty centuries before in that little kingdom that Gre~co having again and again shown that ten men in the right are stronger than 100 men in the wrong, the heroics of Leonidas their mission until the last man on earth is as free as God made him. There is not on and say, “lI am debtor to the Jt now comes the prastical question, How ean we pay that debt or a part of it? For we canoot pay mors than ten per cent, acknowledged himself a bankrupt. By praying Almighty 30d that He help Greece in ta present war with Mohammedanism and the concerted empires of Europe. I know her queen, a noble, Christian woman, her face the throne of all benefloence and loveliness, her life an example of noble wifehood aad motherhood, God belp thoss palnces in these days of aw- ful exigency! Our American Senate did well which owes to Greece its columnar impres- siveness they passed a hearty resolution of sympathy for that nation. Would that all who have potent words that ean be heard in Europe would uiter them now, when they are 80 much needed! Let us repeat to them in English what they centuries ago declared to the world in Greek, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Another way of partly paying our debt to the Greeks is by higher appreciation of the learning and self sacrifice of the mea who ia our own land stand for ali that the ancient Greeks stood. While here and there one comes to publie approval and reward, the most of them live in privation or on salary disgracefully small. The scholars, the archmologiste, the artists, the Hterati—most of them live up three or fouf flights of stairs and by small windows that do not let in the full sunlight. You pass them every day in Your streets without any recognition. The world calis them “‘bookworms” or “Dr. Dryasduat,” but if there had bean ao book- worms or dry doctors of law and science and theology there wouid have been no Apoes. 7ptie sajel a ain ihe Grasks o out country an me, an ur obligation to them is infinite. yo - But there is un better way to pay them, and that is by their personal salvation, will never come to them through books or trough learned presentation, because in Hterature and intellectual realms they are masters. They can outargue, outquote, outs dogmatize you, Not through the of the head, but through the gate of the , you may cdpturs them. n men of pry. might are brought to God, they are brought by simplest st of what ona do for a soul, They have lost children, on, jt thom how, 0 aint son forted yon when you lost your or eyed girl! They have found 4 a Oh, teil them how Christ has helped you al the way through! Tuy are in bewi ment. Oh, tell them with how man beaven beckons you ox imi would fall, a kindly heart throb may su , A gentleman of this city sends me the statement of what occurred a few days ago among the mines of British Columbia It seems that Frank Conson ‘sud 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 the windlass broka, aR the Jonded bucket was uescending upon the two miners, Then Jim Homaworth, seeing what must be éertain death to the miners beneath, threw himself against the engs of the whirling windlass, and, though his flesh was torn and his bones ware brokeu, he stopped the whirling wind. lass and arrested the descending bucket and saved the lives of the miners benoath, Ths superintendent of the mine flew to the res- sue and blocked the machinery, When Jim Hemsworth's bleading and broken body was put on a litter and earriod homeward and some one exclaimed, “Jim, this is awful!” he replisd, “Oh, what's the difference so long as I saved the boys?" What an {llustration it was of suffering for others, and what a text from which to {lius- trate the behavior of our Christ, limplog sod laceratel and broken and torn and orushed in the work of stopping the descend- ing ruin that would have destroyed our souls! Trysuoh ascens of viearlous suffering as this on that man capable of overthrowing all your arguments for the truth, and he will $it down and weep, Draw your illustrations from the classes, and it is to him an old story, but Layden jars and electric batteries and telescopes aud Greek drama will all sur- render to tha story of Jim Hemsworth's “Oh, what's the difference 8) long as 1 saved the bows?" Then, if your illustrat’ on of Christ's seif- sacrifice, drawn from somes scenes of to-day, and your story of what Christ has dona for you do not quite fetch him fgto the right way, just say to him, “Professor —docter— jude, why was it that Pao! declared he wae a debtor to the Ureeks?’ And ask your learned friend to take the Greek Testament A 50 sarmon » Mars’ hil}, un. powse of wilch the seholarly surrendered — namely, “The at, but now commandsth sil men everywhere of Paul's the Dionysius eousness, by that man whom he hath or- dained, whereo! He hath given assurances that He hath mised him from the dead.” By the time he has got will come a pallor on his face like the pallor on the sky at davbreak. By the ssternmal yar, that great thinker, that splscdid man, you will have done some- hing to help pay your indebtedness fo the ong, world without end. Amen. 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