The Penn's Grove record., 1891-11-27
PENIS ROVE n. J. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 81. 1891.

painted boats, and through the river CavsteI
II was connected with the sea, and ships from
all parts OF the known earth foated in and
onf, carrying on a commerce which made
Ephesus the my of the world. Great was
Ephesusl It's gymnasia, its hippodrone. Ia
Iodeon, its athen@um, its forum, its aoue
ducts (whose skeletons are still drawn along
the city,, its towers Its Castle of Hadrian.
fts quarries, which were the granite cradle
OF cities; its temples. built to Apollo, to Min
erva to Neptune, to Mercury, to Bacchus.
to Hercules, to Cesar, to Fortune, to Jupit-
err Olympus. What history and poetry and
chisel n canvas have not presented has
come up at the call of archeologists' powder
blast and crowbar.
But 1 have now to unveil the chief wonder
Of this chiefest OF cities. In 1868, under the
patronage OF the English Government.
Mr.. Wood, the explorer, began at Ephesus
to feel along under the ground at great
depths for roads, for walls, for towers, and
here 1t is-that for which E 1hesus was more
,elebrated than all else besides-.he temple
u the d Diana. called the sixth wonder
II the world, and m 1855 we suoon amid the
ruins of that temple, measuring its pillars,
ransfixed by its sculpture and COMPOUNDED
IN all time.
As l sat on a piece OF one of its fallen col.
amns ! said, what earthquake rocked it
DOWN, or what hurricane pushed 1t to tho
i - W. ~ aAtti VhdS otfDuk VIII OIL ctDLuT-
les did the giant stagger and fallr' There
nave been seven temples Of Diana, the ruins
II each contributing something for the
splenior OF its architectural successors.
Two hundred and twenty years was this last
temple in construction. Twice as long as
pie in building. 1t was nearly twice as large
= st. Paups Cathedral, London. Lest it
should be disturbed by earthquakes, which
aavs a,wavs he.r scs1 G. S;sr.aaE- those re-
yions their playground, the temple was built
On q marsh, which was made firm by layers
3f Charcoal, covered by feeces of wool. The
stone came from the quarry near by.
After it was decreed to build the temple it
was thought it would be necessary to bring
The building stone from other lands, but one
day a shepherd by the name of Pixodorus,
while watching his fiocks, saw two rams
fighting, and as they missed the interlocking
Of their horns and one fell his horn knocked
. splinter from the rock and showed by that
splinter tho lustrcus whiteness OF the rock.
The shepherd ran to the city with a piece of
that stone, which revealed a quarry from
which place the temple was built, and every
month in all ages since the Mayor OF
Epnesus goes to that quarry to offer sacri.
fees to the memory OF that shepherd who
discovered this source OF splendor and
wealth Of the cities OF Asia Minor.
In removing the great stones from the
quarry to their destined places In the temple,
IL was necessary, in order to keep the wheels,
which were twelve feet In diameter, from
sinking deep into the earth under the I'M
paralleled heft that a frame Of timbers be
arranged over which the wheels rolled. To
put the immense block of marble in its place
tover the doorway of ons of these temples
vas so vast and difficult an undertaking shat
the architect at one time gave 1t up, and in
his cbagrin attempted suicide, but one night
In his sleep he dreamed that the stone had
I .afflal 20 tho rs.rhk rlo0z .-I A. .--@ A.
he found that the great block of marble had,
by its own weight, settled to the right
place.
The temple of Diana was four hundred and
twenty-five feet long by two hundred and
twenty five feet wide. All Asia was taxed
10 pay for it. Il bad one hundred and
;wenty-seven pillars, each sixty feet high,
ind each the gift of a king, and inscribed
With tina name OF the donor. Now you ses
The mean ng OF that passage in Revelation,
Just as a king presenting one OF these pillars
70 the Temple of Diana had his own name
I,hiseled on it and the name OF his own
country, SO says Christ, Him that over
someth will l make a pillar in the temple of
MY God, and ] will write upon him the name
l,t Ny God and the name Of the city of My
God, which ia New Jerusalem, and / will
| rite upon Him My new name" How sug-
~yestivs and beautiful
In addition to those pillars that I climbed
over while amid the ruins of Diants temple,
| saw afterward eight of tnoss pillars at
Sonstsntinople. to which city they had been
| -emoved, and are now a part of the Mosque
If st. Sophia. Those eight columns are all
| green Jasper. but some of those which stood
a D,ana's temple at Ephesus were fairly
trsnched with brilliant colors. Costly met
| lis stood up in various parts OF the tenpla,
where they could catch the fullest flush OF
he sln. A flight of stairs was carved out
II one grapevine. Doors OF cypress wood,
| xhich had been kept in glue for years and
,ordered with bronze in has relief, swung
against pillars of brass and resounded with
echo upon echo, caught up and sent on and
nurled back through the corridors.
In that building stood an image OF Disna,
the goddess. The impression was abroad as
the Bible records, that that image had
dropped plumb out of heaven into that
temple, and the sculptors who really made
the image were put to death, 80 that they
could not testify Of Its human manufacture
and 30 deny its celestial origin. 1t was
Thought by intelligent people that the ma
Iteriai from which this Aol was formed might
have dropped ont of heaven as an aerolit1
We have seen In the British museum, AMI in
universities Of our W west, blocks of stone
hurled off from other worlds. These aero.
|lites were seen to fall, and witnesses have
gone to the landing places, and scientists have
pronounced them to be the product Of other
worlds.
But the material out or which the image
If Diana was fashioned contradicts that
motion. This image was carved out OF ebony
and pupctured here AMI there with openings
kept full of ~spikenard so as to hinder the
statue from decaying and Make it aromatic,
but thise ebony was covered with bronze and
slabaster. A necklace Of acorns coilel grace
fully around her. There were four lions on
each arm, typical Of strength. Her head
was coroneted. Around this figure stood
statues which by wonderful invention shed
tears. The air by strange machinery wa
damp with descending perfumes Th: walls
multiplied the scene by conceived mirrors;
Fountains tossed in sheaves Of light and fell
in showers Of diamonds.
Praxiteles, the sculptor, and Apelles, the
painter, filed the place with their trinmphs.
Creesus the wealthiest of the ancients, put
hsre and there in the temple golden heifers.
The paintings were 50 vivid and hfelike that
Alexander. who was moved at nothing OF
terror, shuddered at one battle scene on these
walls. and 50 true to life was a painting of a
horse that when A~lexander's horse was led
up to it he began to neigh, as ons horse is &C
c1stomed to greet another. One painting IN
that temple cost sl93, $50. The treasures OF
| ali nations N the spoils Of kingdoms were
kept here for safe deposit. Criminals from
ali lands ied to the shelter OF this temple,
and the law could not touch them. 1t seemed
almost strange that this mountain or archi-
tectural snow outside did not melt with the
fires Of color within.
The temple was surrounded WITH groves,
ia which roamed for the temptation o.
hunters, stays AMI hares aud wild bears, and
all styles OF game whether winged or four
footed. There was a cave with statue so
intensely brilliant that it extinguishei the
eye OF those who looked upon It, unless, at
the command of the priest. the hand OF the
spectator somewhat shaded the eye.
No wonder that even Anthony and Alex
ander and Darius cried out in the words OF
my text, .Great u Diana OF the Ephe'
siangn
One whole month Of each year, the month
pf Nay. was devoted to her worship. Pro
sessions In CARDS of purple and violet and
carlet moved through it and there were
torches AMI anthems. AMI caoirs in white,
and timbrels and triangies in music, sacri.
ices and dances. Nations voted large
amounts to meet the expense of the worship.
Fisheries OF vast resources were devoted 70
the support Of this r~esplendence. Horace
and Virgil and Homer went into rhapsodies
while describing this Worship.
All artists all ~arch@olog Sta all centuries.
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