Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-01-22

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converted unto the new faith and the
Christians rejoiced because they were nc
! longer prosecuted One day, as the sun
went down, they came to the cave in the
Mount Of Pion, and they said each to his
fellow: Let US sleep here, and go ane
feast and make merry with Our friends
when the morning cometh!' And each
OF the seven lifted Up his voice and said
1T IS a whiz,' So they went in, and 10
where they had put them, there lay the
! bottles of curious liquors, and they judg-
ed that age had not impaired their ex-
right, and the heads Of the same were
level. So each of the young men drank
six bottles, and behold they felt very tir.
Ted tnen, aud lay down and slept very
soundly.d does .s-a. . se1l.at
When they awoke, ,..one Of them, Johan-
mes Smithianus, said, :We are naked.
And it was so. Their raiment was all
gone, and the money which they had
gotten fir; m stranger whom they had
!. proceeded through as they approached the
city, was lying upon the ground corrod-
ed and rusted and Edefaced. Likewise
the dog Ketmel.r was gone, and nothing
save thesbrass that was upon his collar
rem lined. They wondered much at these
things. But they took the money, and
they wrapped 'abou5 their bodies some
leaves, and came up to the top of the Hill.
Then they were perplexed.a The wond-
errui temple Of Diana was gone; many
grand edlfces they had never seen be-
fore stood in the city; men in strange
garbs moved about the streets, and every
thing was changed. T..@rasI = ya1m
johannes SAID: IT hardly seems ike
Ephesus. Yet here IS the great gymnasi-
um; here is the mighty threatre, where
IN have seen 10000 men assembled;
here is the Agora; there& 8 the fontwhere
the sainted John. the Baptist immersed
I:he converts; yonder is, the prison of
good St. Paul, where we all did use to 90
| and touch the ancient chains that bound
him, and be GU ed Of our distempers [
see the tomb of the disciple Luke, and
atar off is the Church wherein repose the
ashes of the holy John, where the Chris
tians of Ephesus go twice year TO gajh-
t er the dust from the tomb, which is able
to make bodies whole again that are cor
rupted by disease, and cleanse the soul
from sin; but see how the wharves en-
croach upon thesea, and what multitude
ofsaips are anchored inlthe bay see, also,
how the city hath stretched; abroad, far
over the valley beyond Pion and even
unto the walls of Ayassa, look, aud 10, all
the hills are white with palaces and rib
bed with colonnades of marble. How
mighty is Ephesus become :ata.st 2
And wondering atwhat their eyes had
seen, they went down into the city and
purchased garments and clothed them
selves. And when they would have pass
ed on, the merchant bit the coins which
they had given him with his teeth, and
turned them about and looked curiousy
upon them, and cast them upon the coun-
ter, and listened if they rang, and then
besaid these be bogus And thay said,
depart then to Hades,' and went their
way. When they were come to their
houses, their recognized them, Albeit
they seemed old and mean; and they re-
joiced and were glad. They ran to the
doors and knocked, and strangers opened
and looked inquiringly upon them And
they said, with great excitement, while
their hearts beat high, and the color in
their faces came and went. Where is
my father? Where is my mother?
Where are Dyonisus aud Serapion, and
Pericles and Decius p And the strangers
that opened said 'We know not these
Thea Seven said, How. you know
them not? How long have ye dweit
here, and whittier are they gone that
dwelt here before ye? And the strang-
ers said, 'ye play upon us with ajest,
young men; we and our fathers have So
journed under the roofs these six genera
tions che names ye utter rot upon the
tombs, and they that bore them have run
their brief race, have laughed and sung,
have borne the sorrows and the WEAKNESS
that were allotted them, and are at rest;
for nine score years the summers have
come and gone, and the autumn leaves
have fallen, since the roses faded out of
their checks aud they laid them to sleep
with the dead, - l'''A :"
The seven young men turned them
away from homes, and strangers shut the
doors upon them. The wanderers mar
yelled greatly, and looked intothe faces of
all they met, as if they hoped meet
some one whom they knew; but all were
strangers and passed them by and spake
no friendly word. They were sore distress
sed and sad. Presently they spake uuto
citizen and said, Who IS king of Ephe-
sus? And the citizen answered and said,
Whence come ye that ye know not that
great Lartious regions in Ephesus 2
They looked one to the other greatly per-
picked, and presently asked again,
Where, then, is the good king Maximii-
Janus The citizen moved him apart as
one who is afraid, and said, Verify these
mrn be mad and dream in dreams. else