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T THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. ( ., APRIL 1, 181)7. (\VR DEBT TO GREECE —- : DR. TALMAQE RECOUNTS THE j OBLIGATION IN AN ABLE SERMON. 1!i« Great Npeak. <.f G ret Inn Infla- enw In literature ainl Art Tlierxnopy- ln* tied IlnnEer 11111—>How t« K*-pay tin- OhilEHtfo’i Paui'tt rcrurutton. Washington, March 2M.—A* i>r. Tal- « t rir.oiia ar * published rn b»;th sides (ho ccean, this discourse* on a sub ject of worldwide* interest will attract universal attention. His te st was Hu mans i, 14, “J. um debtor both to the Greeks and to the* barbarians.” At this time, when that behemoth of abominations, Mohammedanism, after having gorg* <1 itself cu the* carcasses of 100,000 Armenians, is trying tu put its paws v.peju uio cf tfce fairest of all na tions, that cf the (imks. I preach this ! sermon e.f sympathy nnd protest, for <*v- ' cry intelligent person on this side, like.* Haul, who \vr. to the* text, is debtor to J ithe Un*cJiH. Tfco present crisis is cm. Iphusined Ly the: guns cf the allied pow- ' ftrs cf Europe*, re’udy to be unJii-tbcred ; against, the* lie lie nes, and I am askeei tee speak cut. i ;J, with a muster intellect of the ages, k.. in brilliant Corinth, ihe* great Acrc-Ccrinthus i'e vtie .-s Ire wning from the* height of J ,«iS<5 fe 11. . :;d in the houso cf Gains, when* he v, a guest, a big pilerf money a; ! v. !;ieh. .he* was taking to Jc-rusnh m i . the* jx or. In thin letter t< the Hemans, which Chrysostom admired so much that he- had it read to him tv.irr* a week, Paul practically rays: “I, the ape-tie, an' bankrupt, i owe w.h:.f 3 carne t pay, hut I will pay us h.r; e ; p.: ns ' I cun. It is an oMigr.'.ie.. fcrv.hat Gre< k literature and Greek sculpture and Greek arehiteotun* ard Gie *p rewe > have dene fer me. 1 wiii jall 1 can in installments of li.-rn. I era in- Ee.lvent to the Grtollie das, us; tl» inhabitants i all it (t'.'tucr^ as we eall it, is insignificant in >-i?e, ui e at u third as iarge as the* state : I New York, but whet it lack:; in Lreaf.tii it >a. kf --j, in height, with its incuntains ( ylci*» and Eta and Tayretus end l'\ rarh’i'stus, each over 7.000 trot hi ep vatic h, and its Parnassus, over 8,000 .Just the country for mighty men to be Lem in, for in all lands tin* me.st e i the int ilec- tual and moral giants: w« re* not born on : the* plain, but had for cradle <• • -.He y between two nountains. That ei uidry, no part of which is more tiiun 40 n:ile*s from the tea, has made* its impre.* s upon the world as no other nation, and it to day holds a first mortgage e,f obligation upon civilized people*. Wh':e- we* must leave to statesman-hip and <;::*lc- maey the settlement of the intricate- questiens which now involve- a!! Eu rope and indirectly all nations, it is ; time for ail churches, ah schools, all universities, all arts, all liteiatnies, to i sound out in the most emphatic way , the declaration, “I am debtor to the- i Greeks. ” M ‘The. ilest Bennos. r >M In the hrst place, wo cue- to their language cur New Test ame nt. All of it was first written in Greek, e xcept the ! book cf Matthew, and that, written in the Aramaean language, was seen put . into Greek by our Saviour’s brother James. To the Greek language we ow h the best 6e*rmon ever preached, the best letters ever written, the best visions ever kindled. All the parables in Gm-k. All tiio miracles in Greek. The s. nuon cn the mount in Greek. The story of Bethlehem, and Golgetha, and Olivet, and Jordan banks, and Galilean beaches, and Pauline embarkation, and Pente costal tongues, and sew n trumpet:- that sounded over Patinos, have eom< to the v.<: rid in liquid, symru trie, picturesque. philosophic, unrivaled Greek, insttnd cf tlx* gibberish language in which many of the nations of the earth at that time jabls red. Who can ferget it, and who can exaggerate its thrilling impor tance, that Christ and heaven were in troduced to us in the language of the Greeks, tho language* in which Heme r had sung, and Hc.phocles dramatized, and Plato dialogued, and Socrates dis coursed, and Lycurgus legislated, and Demosthenes thundered his oration on “The Crown?” Everlasting thunks to Gcd that the waters of life were not handed to the world in the unwashed cup cf corrupt languages from which nations had he*en drinkings hut in the- clean, bright, golden lipped, emerald handled chalice ct the Hellenes. Learn ed Curtius wrote a whole volume* about the Greek verb. Philologists century after century have teen measuring the symmetry cf that language, laden with elegy and philippic, drama and ocmedy, “Odyssey” and “Iliad,” hut the grand est thing that Greek language ever ao- ccmplifihed was to give to the world the benediction, the comfort, the irradia tion, the salvation, of the gospel of the f*on of God. Hor that wo are debtors to the Greeks. And while speaking of cur philolog ical obligation let me call your atten tion to tho* fact that many cf the intel lectual und moral and theological lead ers of the ages get much cf their disci pline cud effectiveness frem Greek lit erature. It is popular to srolf at the dead languages, hut CO per cent of the world’s intellectuality would have bten taken off. if through learned institutions our young men had not, under compete ut pro furors, tieeu drilled in Greek mas terpieeta, Hteiod’s “Weeks and Days,” cr the eulogium by .Simonieies of the slain in war, or Pindar’s “Odes of Vic tory,” cr “The Recollections of Soe- ratce,” or “The Art of Words,” Ly Coras, or Xenophon's “Anabasis. ” la-ixiqra c>f the Ager.. From the Greeks the world lean * d how to make history. Had there been no Iler'idotuK and Thucydides there would hat^* bet i) mi Macaulay or Bancroft Had there been no Sopho cles m tragidy there would have Leon no blittkespeure. Hud there Let n i.o llomor, tin,re would have been no Mil ton. The mexit-m wits, who are now « r latvt- hecn out on the divine mission of staking the world lauah at the right U^u .t rn he tract a back io Aristcpham t, tli. Athenian, and many cf the* jcccsiiios that are now taken as new had their frag- i gestiens 2,300 years ago in tho 54 com , edit s of that master of merriment. Gre cian mythology has been tho richest nune frem which orators and essayists have drawn their illustrations and paint ers the themes for their canvas, and, al though now exhausted mine, Grecian mythology has done a work that noth ing else could have accomplisht (L Bo n x;, it presenting the north wind; Sisy- phu.-, rolling tho stone up the hill, only tu have the same thing to doovor again; Tantalus, with fruits above him that he could not reach; Achilles, with his ::r rows; Icarus, with his waxen wings, flying too near the sun; the Centaurs, half man and half boast; Orpheus, with hi:-, lyre; Atlas, with the wcrltl on his back—all these and more have helped literature, from the graduate’s speech onn r.imer.cemtnt day to Rufus Choate’s • nb gium on Daniel Webster at Dart, mouth. Tragedy and comedy were born in tlic'festivals of Dionysius at Atliens. Th<* lyric and elegiac and epic po»-tryof Grc ce 500 years before Christ has its eej. es in the Tenuysous, Long!* Hows and. Bryants of 1,800 and 1,900 years aft t r Christ. There is not an effective pulpit cr editorial chair or professor’s room or culture <1 parlor cr intelligent farmhouse today in America or Europe that could n't appropriately employ Paul’s ejacu late *i end say, “I am debtor to the Greeks.” The fact is this—Paul had got much of hi:; oratorical prwtv of expression from the ( oiks. That ho had studied their literature was evident, when, standing in the prestuee of an audit*nee of Li nek scholars <ai Mars’ hill, which ovc-rloeks Athens, lx dared t< quote from < r.e c i the ir own Greek poets, either Ch anthus cr Aratus, (K flaring, “A: ccitain also cl your own poets have said, • 3 < r \." tue also his offspring.’ ” And hi aicaiate quotation, Clean- thus, i:.e ; 1 the poets, having written: l or wt* tli.i.i- of.epring are. AH thnua-that v A.i- ! i>i the «. j '- i t the void- divine. And A*. cne cf their own poets, had writtei : ixth <ur»- j«i; xV Is lr,\v« rirr* d: r.p-r r.iphlr Wl- nn- h.i^ cfTspr'.as. aril t, Jov« v.-e lly. It \ -:s tat her a ri.-hy thing for Paul tn attempt to quote extemporaneously frem a porta in a language foreign to his and before Greekscl.clars, lot P« t u! diel it willicut starjmcrit.g ;.:.d then ac-knc.wledg* d Ixfcie the no st dixiin- bronrn; to Dontas, who worked in gold, uud to all ancient, i Ins; is of commemo ration! Bo you not r* nlizo that for many of tho wonders of sculpture wc t are debtors to the Gm S:s Yea, for the saicnceof great art < f !; aling, we : Grveks. Thercf i. th<* i: elretor, Hippixrate.), v.l: the elexT for dis. a U)j. ■ to i omy in. He first .*< i; tance < f i-h*atdi::< .-s ,: .1 the patiint 1 < fere ti« eel and take sluiuU r i n saeridee lx ;:st. Hi first importance of then ugh diagnosis. He formuiatt medicine, the* .r-t thunk the .i.i rtal < ir« ek . iirrt < lin'd :t and h< ultji ,-t!i the in.p-ejr- : li i p, m.aking ut tobt wa h- Lirk* of a oim overed the • ri-encsi.H and t; He formulated the famous oath of Hippocrates which is tain n by physicians of our day. He on:a: ipated medicine from superstitio:*, e uq,:r:< Gin and priestcraft. He was the, udk* r of all the infirmaries, 1 capitals and medic al colleges of the last 23 ci aturies. Ancient n.eiln-aia. i-.f and surgery had before that been aiiatoinleal and physi ological assault dtery, and long after the time cf Kipi c^-rati s, the Gre < k doctor, when ft. ciru 3 v. i i«- t ruislitel audience t hi;- in- u; cat in ur cv.n poet:; 3 Ja: ny .n the (k bteeh:;to the < irf i h.* his i rati< n. “As cne of has said.” InvrntorH cl' Arc! itrotnri*. Fr,rthcrn;cre, all t!a civilized world, like Baul, is indcLfui to ti e Greeks for arehitcctuiv. The wild b; lore the time cf tin (drciks had built monoliths, obe lisks, eroinh ehs, sphinxes and j yramids, but they win mestly menc'-.cntal, to tin dead whom they tailed to i ^raoiiul- izi*. We are not certain even cf the names < f ♦he.se in where cornua mcratiou the pytamida wen built. But (freek a: chi tee tun did most for the* living Ignoring Egyptian precedents und bar row in,i nothing from other nations, t in * k an hiteetcre curved its own col umn':, sit it.*- own pediments, adjusted its own entablatures, rounded its own nn ’dings and carried out as never lx*- fi re the three qualities cf right build- in;;, called by an cld author “iirmitas, util it as, v nustas”—namely, firmness, us; fulm *.-:. beauty. Altl cugh the Parthenon cu the Acrop olis cf Athens is only u wreck cf the storms uud earthquakes and hi mharcl- im nt:> cf many f mturies, and although Lord Elgin took frem < r*<- side oi that hniii ;i!g. at an expense of $250.0(10, two shiploads of sculpture, i m* shipload gtiugoiA.u in the M( dituram-un amt the f t!: t shiphad now to be found in the btifisl. museum, the Parthenon, thcu.-'ii in eenipurative ruins, has bi-oti an m. tuntil u to all architicts ter ecu tarns past and will ho an inspiraticn nil the thm* from now until th< world its< if is t* miff** ruin. Oh, that Parthe- ’ (n! One never gets over having once su nit. But what must it have been when it Ftcod as its uiehitectu, Ikitccs and Xullikrates, built it cut cf Pi nteli- tan marble, white as Mont Blanc at ntxindny and as overwhelming. Height al < vc height Overtopping the: august and nn.jesne pile and rising from its reel was « statue of Pallas Prcmachus in I ronze*, ao tall and flashing that sail ors far < ut at sea beheld the plume of her helmet. Without tho aid of the eternal Gcd it never could have been plamn d, uud without the aid of Goci tin- ehisok and trowels never could have cc! r trueti d it There is not a fine church building in all the world, cr a propirly constructed cejurthonte, or a tx autiful ait gallery, cr an appropriate auditi - rium, cr a tasteful homo, which, because e.f that Parthenon, whether its style* or *■' mo other style be adopt* d, is not ci- mtly or indirectly a debtor to tlic* Gr*ekfl. IiI«itiilt!Ks <»f .Sculpture. But there is another art in c.y mind —the moat fascinating, elevating and inspiring of all arts and the nearest to the divine/—for which all the* world 1 owes a debt to the Hellenes that will m ver he* paid. 1 mean sculpture. At 1< ast G5U years before Christ the Greeks perpetuated the human face and form in ti rra cotta und marble. What a bless ing to the human family that men and w< men, mightily useful, who could live* only within a century may be perpetu at'd for five or six or ten centuries! Hew 1 wish that some sculptor coutcm- pomnecus with Christ could have put his matchless form in marble! But for i evt ry grand and exquisite statue of Martin Luther, of John Krox, cf Wil liam Penn, of Thomas ChaTmers, of Wellington, cl Lafayette, of any of the 1 great statesmen cr emancipators or con- qciciH who adorn your parks cr till the nicheh rf your academies, you are debt- i:rs to the Greeks. They covered the Acropolis, they glcrifiid the templet, tiny uelciued the cemeteries with stat ues. eome in cedar, seme i:i ivory, some in silver, seme in gold, sonic* in size diminutive und seme in siae cole ssaL Tlunko to Phidias, who worked in ■tone; to Cleurchur, whe* worked in known, the* Bible si < aks of fatal med ical freatnu r.t when it says, “In his disease* be - aght m t to the Lord, but to the physicians, .•♦nd Ass* slept with his fathe rs. ” Ai.d W“ u ad in the* N*w Te stam* :;t e:f (’:*■ p, < r woman who had be*en treated by incompeient dce*t< rs, who usheo lurgi* f» es, wh« 1 ii* it says,, “She hud s-.iftVn ci many things of many physicians .*.nd had spent all that she had and was nothing hotter, but rather grew v. * rw. ” For * rr glorious sc-ii'ii*'.* of me lioin** and surge ry—u.oro suhlinu- than n y, frr v.o hav*niciw* »o do with eiisiast-than witJi the stars; n.tie beautiful than Uitar.y, for bloom of health in the : liesk of wife und child is worth more to os than all the vosi s of tic gulden—hr this grandest ef all science.', th< i.ee ef healing, every pillow ef r. iovi n<t invalid, ev<*ry ward of Ann r an ai.d Eat«ipean hospital, may well cay « i: “ihatik t-h ii f(,r old Dr. Hipp<< - n.t* >! t. like Paul, am indebted to tile Gl< * Ks F'.i I.ifc.-rJy rri«l i:f;;ht. Furtlu irm n, all tl.ewuld is ohh gated to Hi lias navre than if eim i ver pay fi r it:- h* loirs in the* cause of libi-r- ty and right. HuiU a Europe today hud not better think that th« <5r*<•!•:« Will net fight. " hut may L- fallings ’ ael: ami vacillations and ti nq < iury d.r i- at, but it Gmce i' rigiit all Etm'jH* eannot put hi r down. Tin ether nations U-fou* , they o|)e-n the* ;:e,nholi >; of their meii-i 1- \var against that -i .'1 kingdom had better read i f the battle el Maratlton, where 10,oco At he nians, led on by Mil- tiadis, tri uni jibed cvi r 100,000 of their cm mies:. At that thm, in Greek council of w ar, five gencji.Iav.’erc for brginniug the battle and five -vere against if. Cal limachus presided at the council of war. had the deciding vote, and Mil- tiadis addressed him, saying: “It nowre.-rxwith you, Callimachus, eitln r t<> < nslave Atlxns, or, Ly insuring her 1:-. i uem to win yourself an immer- Mhty ei fame, for never since tla* Athenians wi :•«* ;• pixjple were they ;n such danger as they are in at ♦his mo ment. If they bow the km** to these 1 M< tits, tiny are to be given up to liip- pius, and you know wh it they will then have to suffer, hut if Athens canes vic torious out cf this contest she has it in her power to Iteccmo* the first city of Greece. Your vote hi to decide whether we arc* to join tattle cr not. If we do not bring on a battle presently, some factious intrigue will disunite the ] bhese* days cf awful exigency! Our ! i American senate did well the other day I when in that capitol building which awes t i Greece its eelumnar impressive- I ness they jiussed a In arty r< solution of sympathy for that nation. Would that ill who have potent words that can be heard in Europe wr aid utter them now, when tk* y ary so much needed! Let ns repeat to tl’.i m in English what they a ntuiii ago dieb.ind to the world in 6n !*., B!» .-M d me those who are per- j •iculed fir righlcousncbs’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom cf heaven.” Aa iotinltc Olillgutioc. A.nothir way of partly paying our debt to the Greeks is by higher appreci ation cf the learning and s-.-lf sacrifice of the men who in our owti land stand for ail that tho ancient Greeks stood. While here and tla re one comes to pub lic approval and reward, the most of them live in privation or cn salary dis- graiefully small. The scholars, tho archaeologists, the artists, the literati— rnc st of them live up thm? or four flights stairs and by small windows that do not let in tho full sunlight. You pass them every day in your streets without any recognition. Grub street, where many of the mighty men of the past ‘■offered, is long enough to reach around the world. No need of wasting our -ympathy upon thounaf preeiuted think ers and workers of the past, though Linr.ams sold his works fer a single ducat, though Noah Webster’s spelling book yield' d him more than his diction ary, ihough Com ggio, tho great paint er, reec ivim; fox- p ng continued work payin.-nt of $39, 'lied from overjoy; though win n Goldsmith’s friends visited him they were obi’aid to sit in the window, us he had but one chair; though Bnr.mi l Hry.se, the gr< » poet, starved to death; th^ragh ti e author of “Hudi- bras »iied inagniret; though “Para dis** Lrsf” fionght its author only $25 cash down, with promise of $50 more it the sah warranted it, so that $75 was all that was paid for what is considered the imatest poem ever written. Bi tter turn i ux atti nti« n to the fact that (hi re are at this mcmei.t hundreds of authors, painters, sculptors, archit/ects, brain v.urkf rs without br -ad and without fuel and without competent apparel. As far a;, you ‘ an afford it, buy tin ir sculpture, read their books, purchase tlieir pie- turis. mecurage tin ir jx n, (Jn ir pencil, then- chisel, their engraver’s knife, their architect's compass. The world calls them “bookwonns” or “Dr. Dryas dust, ’ but if tla re had been no book worm.' or dry doctors cf law and s< i m-e and thwilogy* there would have Din no Apocalyptic angel. They.noth tareeks i f our country and time, uml your obii- g.ition to them is infinite. Victory 'Through Sacrlflcc, But there is u better way to pay them, and that is by their pemmal salvation, whicii v/ili never come to them through Looks or through learn, d presentution, ! E eause in literature aim intellectual n-alms they are masters. They can out argue, outquote, out dogmatize you. Not through the gutoo: the; I;* ad, but threngli fion of Paul’s germou on Mars hill, un der the power of which the scholarly Dionysius surrendered—namely, * ‘Tho times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commanded! all men every where to repent, br cause he hath ap pointed a day in which ho will judge the world in rlghn oumu>s, by that man whom ho ruith ordained, whir* of ho hath l iven assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the f.* ad.” By the time he has got through tho translation from the Gr * k X think you will see his lip tremble, and there will ciue a pallor on his face like the j ailer cu the sky at daybreak. By the i ternal =alvatiou of that scholar, that great thinker, that splendid man, yon will have done something to help pay your ind<: u dness to the Greeka And now to Gcd the Father, God the Hon and God the Holy Ghost be honor :uad glory and dominion and victory and song, world without end. Ameu. EUROPE’S COLONIES. es, with a population of 2,5(10,000. ^*» * -i » * colonial possessions of Spain, tho , I maid of tlie heritage from Spain’s - <J ’ * the gate of the hem! . u may e.ijjturu Atbaiians, und the city will be betrayed to the Medes, but it we light before i th< in is anything rotten in the state cf Athens I believe that, provid'd the geos wi;l give fair field and no favor, ] we are able to get the best cf il in the 1 engagement,” That won the vote of Callimachus, a; ti .*< en the battles < jx lied, and in full mu thi nun t Miltiuui* fell upon the , Pcisiun lusts, shouting: “On, sons < f 1 Gn ice! Btnl-e for tlie* freedom of your country! Strike for the liecdom 11 your ihilere n and your wives, fer the shriu' s ! cf your ftth* rs’ gods uud tor the sepul chers cf your sms! All, ali ur* now staked on the strife!” While only 1U*2 Gretkf fell, (i,4Wi Persians lay dead upon lh< field, and many cf the Asiatic* i In sts who took tu tin* w ar vessels in the , barber wen consumed in the shipping. Pi isiau eppussion was rebuked, Grecian lilierty was achieved, the cauw* of civi lizf.tion was advanced, and the western world and all nations have felt the he roics. Had yiere teen no Miltiaco- therc might have Lc n no Wushingtcn. Htrong In the Ittght. Also ut 'ihermypyla* 11 CO Greeks, ■ along u road only widr- uiough for a wheel track between « mountain und u marsh, died itttlicr than surunder. Had tb*le been no Thermcpylu* there might have bet u no bunkci Hill. The echo of Athmicn and hpart an heroics was heard at the gates cf LucknAw, uid Fehasto- pcl, and Bannockburn, uml Lexington, and Gettysburg. English Magna Churta and D*<laialien ci Aiiierican Indcpend Mice and the song cf Robert Burns, en titled “A Man’s a Man Fer u’That, ” i were only the long continued reverbera tion of w hat w as said and done 20 cen turies before in that little kingdom that the jkjwi rs of Europe arc now imposing ujicii. Greece having again und again shown that 10 men in the right ore stronger than ICO men in tin* wrong, tin heroics of LtciJMas and Aristic* and Thvmistocles vAll net cease their mission until the last man on earth is as iree ns' God made him. There is not on either side of the Atlantic today u lei.uhli:* thjit cannot truthfully employ the wnrdscf .the text and suy, "1 am debtor to the Gfee-ks. “ Bi t conus the practical question, How can we jiuy that debt (j u part of it? For we cannot pay more than 10 per cent * f that»debt in which Paul oc- know lodged himself u bankrupt. By 1 praying Almighty God that he will help Greece in its present war witj; Moliam- medunism und the <'oncerted impircs of Km ope. 1 know her queen, u noble, i Christian woman, her face the llirone of all beneficence und lovelinooi, her life nn exnmj/le of noble wifehood and motherhood. G<xl hefip tkeso palaces is them. When men of learning and might an* brought to G* d, they* an brought Ly shank st s-fory ot what religion can no for a soul. They have lost (hiidreu. Oh, ti 11 tin m how Christ comforted you when you lost your bright hoy or blue eyed girl! They have found life it strug gle. Oh, tell them how ('hrist 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 u warm hearted Christian meets a man who um iLs pardon and sympathy and comfort and eternal life then comes victory. If you can, by some incident i f «*lf sacrifice, bring to such scholarly I cien and women what Christ lias done tor (hi :r eternal rescue, you may bring tb«-n. in. Where Di i .< sthenic eloquence - uud Homeric imagery would fail, a kindly heart throb n ay suceeed. A gen- tl> man of this city sends me the state ment of whnt occurred u few’days ago among the ni nes ei British Columbia. , It seems that Frank (Jenson uud Jem Fmith were down in the narrow shaft of a mini. They had k’udt'd an iron bucket with coal, uml Jim Hemswcrth, standing uhow* ground, was hauling the bucket up by windlass, when the . windlass broke, and the loaded bucket was descending upon the two miners. ' Then Jim Hemsworth, seeing what must b»- certain death to the miners be- in ath, threw himself against the cogs of the whirling windlass, and, though i his flesh was torn ami his bones were broken, he stopped tlie whirling wind lass and arrested the descending Lucia t * and saved tlie lives of the two miners beneath. The superintendent of the mine flew to the rescue and blocked the i machinery. When Jim Hemsworth’s blrediug and broken btxiy was put on h litti r and carried homeward and some one exclaimed, “Jim, this is awful!” hi replied, “Oh, what’s tho difference so long as 1 saved tlie boys?” ' What an illustration it was of suffer ing for others, and what a text from which to illustrate the behavior of our Christ, limping and lacerated and bro ken and torn and crushed in the work off i stopping the descending ruin that would I have destroyed our souls! Try such a scene of viocricns suffering as this on ' that man capable of overthrowing all your arguments for the truth, and he will sit down und weep. Driiw’ your il lustrations from the classics, and it is * i him an old story, hut Leyden jars anil electric batteries and telescopes uigl Greek drama will all surrender to tho* story of Jim Hi ms worth's “Oh, what’s ! the difference so long as 1 saved the boys?” Thr llftot I'aid. Then, if your illustration of Christ's self sacrifice, drawn from some scene of today, and your story of what Christ has ( done for yCu do not quite fetch him into the riyht way, just say to him, : “Prcfessor—doctor—judge, why was it that Paul dcelund he wan u debtor to tic- Greeks?” And ask your learned j friend to take his Greek Testament and ' translate for you, in his own way, from Urwk into English, the splendid perora- Of All tho rowers gpcfn AIcd*? Is I'cll- ! Icy; St« adily tUhlnd. The only one of the European coun tries having colonial po.*-:-es.*;io!is which ; is failing in respect i f number, wealth j and population is Spain, oaco tin* chief j colonial power of tho European cor-ti- I neut While other governments have j been extending their influence and pcs- | sessions, Spain has been falling in the | n ar, and the reason for this is seen | dearly in Cuba and the Philippines, j Wasteful, oppn ssivo, mercenary and i;:- efficicnt govirnineut is (!.**> direct cansi*. In ai ei>us of the colonial possessions of governments made 20 years ago it np- peared that the total colonial possessions of Gnat Britain covered 7,000,000 square miles, or more than 00 times the > .:t at of the United Kingdom, and had a population of about 200,000,000. France had foreign colonies, exclusive cf Algeria,covuring 400,000 English square miles, wirh a population of 2.500,000. The remnant of the heritage ircm fipuii navigators, covered an area of 115,000 English square miles, with a population of 8,500,000. Germany, newly estab lish'd ns a united government, had no foreign colonies. Neither had any of the German states. The colonies ef the Netherlands covered 000,000 square miles and hud a jiopnlation ef 24,GOO,- 000. Belgium had no colonics. Den mark s colonies vere chiefly islands, the total i>opulutioxi being about 50,000. Norway and Sweden had one small is land, and Portugal had colonic* cover ing 713,000 English miles, with a popu lation of 4,000,000. Since that tin: most European governments have ex tended tin ir territory. The British empire now covers 11,- 030,000 square miles, of which only 120,000 ar*- m the United Kingdom. Tin* population of the English colonies is 340,000.000. The colonies of France cover 2,900,000gquar- miles und have* a population of 21,000,000. The area of the colonics cf the Netherlands is 760,- 000 mil* s, and I he population is 20,000, - 000. Then; are nearly 6,000,000 sub ject.-: of the German empire in Africa and 8.000,000 of Belgium. The Russians have spread their colo nies until these have in Asia u popula tion in excess i A 30,000,000, and, though the population of Portugal is less than 5,000,000, the colonic* of Portugal have collectively a jxjjnilution in exce** of 0,000,000, the area of Portugal’s colonies being 30 times greater than that of the home country. Denmark’*colonies have * spread, though nut much, and Italy has | appeared amoug European nation* hav* I iiig colonial possessions. Spam alone I has made no headway. There has been n< increase of her possessions or of the j population of them. Many districts of Cuba and a few cf those of the Philip pines have Is on devastated by war, and the commerce of these colonies with the home country has declined appreciably. The Spaniards are in no position to hope for an extension of their colonial pos sessions. Indeed all present indications point to the ultimate withdrawal of fcq.um from much territory that she now* rules.—New York Bun. Cancer Of tbe Breast. Mr. A. H. Crausby, of 158 Kerr St., Memphis, Tenn., says that his wife paid no attention to a small lump whicll appeared in her breast, but it soon de veloped into a cancer of the worst type, and notwithstanding the treatment of the best physicians, it continued to spread and grow rapidly, eating two boles in her breast. The doctors soon pronounced her incurable. A celebrated New York, specialist then treat ed her, but she con tinued to grow worse and when informed that both her aunt and grandmother had died from cancer he ave the case up as opeless. Someone then re commended S.S.S. and though little hope remained, shf; begun it, and an improvement was mi lked. 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J2 (/) m H SO P 1 JO 2 W •3 35 p A Kiml Landlord. “I had a queer experience soiui* years ago, ” mnurki-d a h ading physician in the city. "I was traveling through Il linois with a companion on bu»ine;-.s, and we bad to pass through a town call ed (Jlncy, where we afterward learned that an »pidemic of smallpox prevailed. We went to some of the tanm-rs living in that vicinity to get something to eat, and as Boon us they found that we hud passed through Olney they ordered uj out cf their houses. We were compelled to take ir train and leave that section cf the state, und in about two weeks we were both taken with severe pains in the head tud spinal column. We went to tied, and the nest morning we botli hud high fevers and did not know what to do. Finally we decitkd that tho projx r thing to do would be to send for the hotel keeper und tell him that we had the smallpox, or at least hud been exposed to it, and did not know what to do under the circumstances. “Of course we expected to have him swear und finally throw ns cut cf tho house, hut we wanted him to find some other place for us to go. When he ap peared, we told the story from begin ning to end, and judge of our surprise when he said: ‘Well, boys, I will stand by you to the end. 1 have a little prop erty, and it is paid for, so you need not be alarmed. If the hotel has to go, let it go, but you shall be cared for to the end. ’ The next day we were better, and we found that we hod been alarmed without cause. Only one man in JO, 000 Would have treated us as this man did, uud 1 have never forgotten hi* kiiittac rb. Before we left we made him a handsome present. ’’—Columbus (O.) Dispatch. Too Mbch fhym-ss. Cumso—Why don’t Mr. Gilgal and Miss Perkusie get married? Cawker—Shyness ch both sides. “How do you .’hake that out?” “She is a shy little riling by nature, and he is shy of cash."—Detroit B’ree Press. Atlanta, E. T. " Norerosa “ hut'*ml. ... “ Gainesville.. “ Lula Ar. Omieiia. Lv. Mt. Airy .. “ Toccoa. .... •• Westminster “ Senei*a “ Central “ GriH-avilie... I 5 ::tj " Spartanburg, ti is “ Gatffnevs.. ■ Blacksburg. ; 7 us *• King's Mt. .. ... “ <T3st<mia. | Lv. Char 1 .*): to * . •) Ar. Danville 12 ej 1 uo p;12S0 1 20 4 18 4 45 7 5J a 4 ;(5p a 8 50 n 5 35 a 0 31 n 0 28 p !... . 10(Kt a; 7 Wp ' 2 23 a 1035 ai 7 4:sp 2 47 a U0J ai 8 08p 11122 a 8 05 p *1128 a 3 43 a,1154 a*.. .... .. 112 30 rn< pi 4 27 a 12 48 pi - p 4 55 a 1 :!u pi - ' " “ “il P j 3 47 j) pi 5 45 , O 42 | 7 22 d 7 40 -i 05 ., 827 p 9:« nj 1 *i0 r * 4 28 p n-.v. * HIP II, a r, •::> p *- 1 a li lO p 11 1)1*1 p 11.25 pi 2 . *1 :i Ar. Bichmond 0 ■) a 0 40 p Cut Ar.Washington.. 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MniJ i runs solid la-tween Washington ar.'i New Oc- ; leana, via Southern Uauway. A. A- V. I* K. li... j and L. it N. K li., bemg eonit» i«i*d of baggagw j car and concha*, through wiihout • isii.iii* r.»' paasengers of all (-.iissea. Pidlntn.; ij.'HU'iny i room sleeping ears between Jei-'**}* ('.iy ami E ew Orleans, via Atlanta and Mon'gomei y •tavtns Washingtn'i each Haturda.i. a tourist i aleeping car will run through l;et\ui*n Wu»l» j ingtoti ntui han Fran<:isco ivithom <'i.>*r;ge. Noe. bl and 82—New York mid Flori'la Lin>- 1 Itod. Veetikuled trein tietweeD New York iui«l Bt. AuguAtiae, via Washington. Chariotte, • '*► I lumbla, Savannah and Jacksonville, consistin'* of Pullman drawingroom sleeping **n i-s, Puii- 1 man conixa»rtment cars. Pulltnon ob-ervatioi* cars and dining cars, leaving New York an 1 Bt. Augustin* 1 terminal pomtu dsliy e.xceitt Sunday.. This train also carries twelve -•«-ti*»n drawing room buffet sleeping ears betweesa Augusta and New York. Noe. 11 and 12—Pullman sleeping cars t»et .veer* Bichmond and Danville. The Air Line Bello train. Nos. 17 and M, !*► tween Atlanta and Onrhelia. Ga . daily except Sunday. W.H.GKEKN. . J. M.CI’LP. Gen’l Bupt.. 1 Traffic M g*r., Washington, D. O. Washington, IX ti W. A. TUBE. p. H. HARDWICK. Gen’l I'aaa. Ag’t , Ass’t Gcn’l Puss. Ag t.. Washington, D. O. Atlanta. Ota. I.. ... , I ..