Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-16

baths many lay most of the time. Au-
thors wrote books while In these baths.
Business was neglected and hot bath
taken four or five times day. when
the keeper of the baths was reprimand-
ed for not having them warm enough,
one of the rulers said: "You blame him
for not making the bath warm enough;
/ blame you because you have IL warm
at ALL" But that warm bath which en-
ervated Ephesus, and which is always
enervating except when followed by cold
baths mo reference, OF course, TO dell
cate constitutions. was only a type OF
what went on in all departments OF
Ephesus fell. and the last triangle OF
music was tinkled in Diana's Temple,
and the last wrestler disappeared from
her gymnasiums, and the last racer TOOK
his garland in the Stadium, and the
last plea was heard in her Forum, and,
even the sea, as II TO withdraw the last
commercial opportunity from that me-
tropolis, retreated down the beach,
leaving her without the harbor in which
had floated a thousand ships. Brook
lyn, New York, London and all modern
cities, cis-Atlantic and transatlantic!
take warning. What luxury unguarded
did for Ephesus, luxury unguarded
may do for all. Opulence and splendor
God grant to all the people, to all the
cities, to all the lands, but at the same
time, may He grant the righteous use
Of them.
ALL FOR GOD.
Gymnasiums? Yes, but see that the
vigor gained in them be consecrated to
God. Magnificent temples OF worship?
Yes, but see that in them instead OF
conventionalities and cold pomp of SER
vice, there be warmth OF devotion and
the pure Gospel preached. Imposing
court houses? Yes, but in them let
Justice and mercy rule. Palaces OF
journalism? Yes, but let all OF the
printing presses be marshalled for hap
piness and truth. Great post-otllce
buildings? Yes, but through them day
by day, may correspondence helpful,
elevatng and moral pass. Ornate dwell
ing houses? Yes, but in them let there
be affairs of devotion, and conJugal,
filial, paternal and Christian fidelity
rule. London for magnitude; Berlin
for Universities; Paris for Fashions;
Rome for CathedralS: Athens Tor
classics; Thebes for hieroglyphics;
Memphis for tombs; Babylon for gar
dens, Ephesus for idolatary, but what
shall be the characteristics OF our Amer
lean cities when they shall have at
tanned their full stature? Would that
"Holiness TO the Lord might be in
scribed upon all our municipalities. One
thing is certain, and that Is that all
idoatry must come down. When the
greatest goddess of the earth, Diana,
enshrned in the greatest Temple that
ever stood, was Frustrated at Ephesus,
it was prophecy OF the overthrow OF
all the idolotaries tharhave cursed the
earth, and anything we love more than
God is an idol, and there is as much
idolatary in the Nineteenth Cedtury as
in the First, and in America as in Asia.
A GROUP OF VILLAINS.
As our train pulled out from the sta
tion at Ephesus, the cars surrounded
by the worst looking group OF villains |
ever gazed on, all of them seeming in a
wrangle with each other and trying to
get into wrangle with us, and we
moved along the columns OF ancient
aqueducts, each column crowned with
storks, having built their nests there,
and we rolled on down towards Smyrna,
and that night in Sailors Bethel we
spoke of the Christ whom the world
must know or perish, we felt that be-