The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-28

night, and the theatre remains very
much the same as it did then. A
little more than year ago, l walked
in alone by that doorway, and sat in
the theatre and read the chapter to
myself that has been read here to-
night. Out on the plains about half
as far as from here to Punchbowl
was great temple, one of the most
magnificent ever built, the temple of
Diana. In the temple, when Paul
was there, stood a stone image.
That stone image, now in city near
Rome, was Diana, which the chapter
says, "Fphesus and all the world
worshipped," and was believed by
the people of that day to be the
mother of the earth. TO represent her
as such, her statue is covered with
100 breasts. That sacred image,
the people said Paul and his CON-
panions were insulting. And near
the temple lived the coppcrsmith
who made the various articles pre-
sented to the goddess. When we
walk into the places where these
things happened, they become real.
When l sat in the temple and read
these chapters, they became new
books. When / afterwards went to
another town, about as far away as
Maui from Honolulu, and read the
first book of Timothy, sitting among
the ruins of Laodicea, the site of one
of the churches named in the Apo
calypso, and remembered that that
book was written there by Paul to
the youthful Timothy, pastor of the
church at Ephesus, it seemed very
new to me. When, again, l went
back to Ephesus, 1 went up another
hill about mile and half from the
theatre, saw the ruins of an old
church, and realized that that was
the church in which Peter, Paul and
John preached, and rs l thought of
the time when John was pastor
there, going up the steps cut in the
limestone hill, and the two women
with him, Mary Magdalenc and
Mary the mother of Jesus, who
lived with him, and now, that l
walked over the same stone steps,
and OH the ruins of the same church,
l cannot express my feelings. This
was one of Paul's great mission
stations. There are many monu-
ments of those times still remaining.
On one side of the hill opposite the
theatre, are number of tombs, one
of which is said to be the tomb of
the two Marys, one of Luke, and
one of Mark. In fact, one bears the
name of Luke. On the other side is
a tomb, said to be that of John. On
the bushes and on the rocks about
these tombs, may be seen bits of
clothing, tin, silver and brass, in
pieces representing, some, hands,
some, feet, and other parts of the
body. These are left here for the
same reason as articles of clothing
were brought from the Apostle Paul
to the sick, and from which they
derived healing virtue. The people
suppose that by hanging these things
by the tomb of John, they will be
cured of their diseases. This shows
that there is a great deal of super
stition in Ephesus at the present
day. All of the seven churches of
Asia have gone to ruin. Over them
now lies 10, 20, and 80 feet of earth.
The threatenings in the book of
Revelation are fulfilled. After my
visit to Ephesus, l went north, ard
came to Troas, where Paul stopped
for time, and vision came to him,
a man of Macedonia appearing be-
fore him, and saying, "Come over
and help u.s." / followed Paul's
steps over to Macedonia, by crossing
the sea to Philadelphia, and then
going on to Thessalonlca. When |
arrived there, two Greek families
were in prison, and were applying
to the American Consul for assist
ance. They had been charged by
the Bishop of the Greek church with
being traitors and preaching rebel
lion against the Greek Government.
Their treason consisted in having
been guilty of buying Bibles and
Testamcsnts, and reading them for
themselves. The Greek church being
the religion established by law, any
one who leaves it is regarded MS a
traitor. The Bishop, in the mean
time, had collected all the Bibles
and Testaments he could find, piled
them on square in the city and
burned them. From this place L
came down through Berea to the
coast of Athens, in the footsteps of
st. Paul, / know that in some of the
way at least, i walked where Paul
walked. For several miles, the road
is cut in the face of n mountain
rising 1000 feet above it, with q
precipice of 80 or GO feet reaching
down, on the other side, to the
river, and the road is only ten feet
wide. There Paul had to walk, and
there / walked, and reached the