Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-11-20

But now the. little missionary has his
turn of making attack, and with a
few well-directed thrusts the monster
lies dead in the dust of the arena, and
the Apostle puts mis- right foot on
the lion and shakes him, and
then puts his left foot on him and
shakes hin-a scene which Paul after
wards uses for an illustration when he
wants TO show how Christ will tri-
umph over death-"Ee must reign un-
til He hath put all enemies under His
feet" yes, under His feet. Paul told
the literal truth when he said: II have
fought with beasts at Ephesus," and
as the plural Is used, think he had
more than one such fight, or several
beasts were let loose upon him at one
time. AS we stood that day in the
middle of the Stadium and looked
around at the great structure, the
whole scene came back upon us.
But, we pass out of the Stadium for
we are in haste for other places of in
terest in Ephesus. To ada TO the eX-
element of the day one of our party
was missing. No man Is safe in that
region alone unless he be armed and
know how to take sure aim and not
miss fire Our companion, DIR. Louis
Klopsch, now the publisher of The
Christian Herald, had gone ont on
some explorations or his own, and
through the gate where Paul had
walked again and again, yet, where
no man unaccOmpanied should adj
venture now. But. after some time
had passed. and every minute seemed
as long as an hour, and we had time
to imagine everything horrible in the
way of robbery and assassination, the
lost traveller appeared, to receive from
our entire party a yolley of eXpostula-
ton for the arousal of so many ankle
ties
But have now to unveil the chief
wonder of the chiefest of cities In
1863, under the patronage of the En-
glish government, Mr.. Wood, the ex-
plorer. began at Ephesus to feel along
the ground at great depths for roads,
for walls, for towers, and here IL is
that for which Ephesus was more eel
ebrated than all else beside-the tenn
pie of the goddess Diana, called the
sixth wonder of the world, and in 1880
we Gtood amid the ruins of that tenn
pie, measuring it's pillars, transfixed
by its sculpture, and COMPOUNDED at
what was the greatest temple of idoln-
try in all time. As / sat on piece of
one of it's fallen columns, / said, what
earthquake rocked itdown or what hur-
ricane pushed it to the earth, on under
what strong wine of centuries did the
giant stagger and fall?" There have
been seven temples of Diana, the ruins
of each contributing something to the
splendor of all its architectural sue
cessors- Two hundred and twenty
years was this last temple in constrnc-
ton. Twice as long as the United
States have stood was that temple in
building. 1t was nearly twice as large
as st. Pauls cathedral, London. Lest
it should be disturbed by earthquakes.
which have always been fond of max
ing those regions their playground,
the temple was built on a marsh
which was made firm by layers of
charcoal covered bv fleeces of wool
In removing the great stones from
the quarry TO their destined places in
the temple, it was necessary, in order
10 keep the wheels, which weretwelve
feet in diameter, from sinking deep
into the earth under the unparalleled
heft, that frame of timbers be ar
ranged over which the wheels rolled.
To put the immense block of marble
In its place over the doorway Of one of
these temples was SO vast and difficult
an undertaking that the architect at
one time gave it up, and in his chagrin
int nded suicide, but one night in his
sleep he dreamt that the stone had set
tied TO the right place, and the
next day he found that the
great block of marble had
by it's own weight settled to
the right place. The temple of Diana
was 425 feet long by geo feet wide All
Asia was taxed to pay for it. 1t had
l27 pillars, each GO feet high, and each
the gift of King, and inscribed with
the name of the donor. Now you see
the meaning of that passage IN Revela-
ton, just as King presenting one of
these pillars to the temple of Diana
had his own name chiselled on IL and
the name of his own country, SO says
Christ: Him that overcorneth will l
make pillar in the temple of my God,
and i will write upon him the name of
my God and the name of the city of my
God, which Is New Jerusalem, and
will write upon him my new name"
How suggestive and beautiful
But all the glory of Ephesus l have
described has gone now. At some sea-
sons of the year awful malarias sweep
over the place nj put upon mattrass
or in graves large portion of the pop
ulation. In the approximate marshes
scorpions, centipedes and all forms of
reptilian life crawl and hiss and sting,
while hyenas and jackals at night stink
in and out of the ruins OF buildings
which once startled the nation with
their almost supernatural grandeur.
But here is a lesson which has never
yet been drawn out. Do you not see
in that Temple of Diana an expression
of what the world needs? 1t wants
God who can provide food. Diana was
huntress In pictures on many Of
the stays she held a staff by the horn
with one hand and bundle of arrows
in the other. Oh, this is hungry
worldl Diana could not give
one pounc of meat or one mouth
full of food to the millions of her
worshippers She was dead divinity,
an imaginary God, and so in idolatrous
lands the vast majority of people never
have enough to eat 1t is only in the
countries where the God of heaven and
earth is worshippea that the vast ma
jority have enough to eat. Let Diana
have her arrows and her hounds; eur
God has the sunshine, and the showers
and the harvests, and in proportion as