Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-19
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wants to show how Christ will triumph
over death-"He must reign till he hath put
all enemies under his feet;'' yes under his
feeJ Paul told the literal truth when he
said ! have fought with BEASTS al
Ephesus.' aud as The plural is used, think
he had more han one such hght, or rll
beasts We're let loose upon him dt one time
As 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 interest in
Ephesus. To add TO the excitement of the
day one OF our party was missing. No man
is safe in that region alone unless ne be
armed and knows how to take sure aim and
not miss fire. Our companion, DR. Louis
klopsch, now the publisher of the Christian
Herald, had gone out on some explorations
of his own, and through the gate where
Paul had walked again and again, yet,
where no man unaccomoanied 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 ap-
peared. TO receive from our entire party
yolley of eXposrulatiou for the anDusa. of so
many anXletieS.
In the midst of this city of Ephesus oace
toatet al artificial lake. brilliant with
painted boats, ane through The River
Cdyster ii was connected with the sea, and
ships from. all parts of the known earth
tioated IN and out, carrying on commerce
which made EphesuS the envy OF the
world. Great was Ephesus. Its gym
nasia, its hippodrome, its odeou. its
athen9un, its forum, its aqueducts (whose
skeletons are still Strewn along the city,.
its towers, its castle of Hadri.u. its monu-
ment Of Androclus, its quarries, which
were the granite cradles of cities; its tenn
pies, built TO Apollo. TO Minerva, to Nep-
tame, TO Mercury, 10 Bacchus, to Hercules,
to Caesar, to Fortune, TO Jupiter Olympus
What history and poetry and cEisel and
canvas have not presented has come up ut
the cal! of archaolOgiStS powder blast and
crowbar.
But l have now to unveil the chief Won
der Of this chicfeSt of cities. In lS63. 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 ii is-that for which EpEeSus was
more celebrated than all else beside-the
temple Of the goddess Diana, called the
sixth wonder of the world, and in 1889 we
stood amid the ruins of that temple, meas
uring its pillars, transtiXed by its sculpture
and COMPOUNDED at what was the greatest
temple of idoiauy in ali time. As l sat on
4 piece of one of its fallen columns, l said:
What earthquake rocked it down, or what
hurricane pushed it to the earth, or under
what strong wine of centuries did the giant
stagger and fall! There have been
SEVEN TEMPLES CT DIANA,
the ruins of each contributing something
fer the splendor of all its architectural sue
cesSOrS. Two hundred ana twenty years
was this last temple in construction. Twice
as long as the United States have stood
was that temple in building. 1t was nearly
twice as large as st. PauHs cathedral.
London. Lest il should be disturbed by
earthquakes. which have always been fond
ef making those regions their Fairgrounds,
the temple was built on a marsh, which
was made firm by layers of charcoal covered
by fieeceS of wool. The stone came from
the quarry nearby. After it was decreed
to build the temple, it was thought il would
be necessary to bring the building stone
from other lands, but one day shepherd
by the name of PiXodorus, while watching
his focks. 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
the luStrouS whiteneSS of the rock.
The shepherd raj to the city with piece
of that stone, which revealed quarry from
which place the temple was built, and every
month in all ages since the mayor of
EphcSuS goes to that quarry to offer Sacrl-
fees TO the memory Of that shepherd, WAC
discovered this source of splendor and
wealth for the cities of Asia Minor In re-
moving the great stones from the quarry to
their destined places in the temple it was
necessary, i'll order to keep the wheels,
which were twelve feet in diameter, from
sinking into the earth under the unparal-
leled heft, that a 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
a
that the architect at one time gave 1t up,
and i'll his chagrn int ded suicide. but one
night in his sleep he dreamed that the stone
had led to the right place, and the next
day he found that the great block of marble
had by its own weiget settled TO the right
place. The temple of Diana was 425 feet
long by 30 feet wide.
ALL ASIA WAS TANED
to pay for it. 1t had l21 pillars, each sixty
feet high, and each the gift of a king, and
inscribed with the name of the donor.
Now you see the meaning of that passage
IN Revelation, Just as king presenting
one Of these pillars to the temple of Diana
had his own name ChlSeled on 1t and the
name of his own country, SO says Christ:
Him that overcometh will make a pillar
in the temple of my God, and | will write
upon him the name Of my God and the name
of the city of my God, which is New Jeru-
SALEM and | will write upon him my new
name" How suggestive and beautiful.
In addition to those pillars that | climbed
over while amid the ruins of Dianas tenn
pie | saw afterwards eight of those pillars
at Cons,antinople, to which city they had
been removed, ami are now part of the
Mosque of ST. Sophia. Those eight col
umns are all green jasper, but some of those
which stood IN Diana ; temple at EpheSuS
were fairly drenched with brilliant colors
Costly metals stood up IN various parts of
the temple. where they could catch the full |
est flush of the sun. 4 flight of stairs was |
carved out of one grape vine. Doors of cy- |
press wood, which had been kept in glue |
for years and bOrdered with bronze il baS- |
relief, swung against pillars OF brass, and |
reSOunded with echo upon echo. caught up, |
and sent on, and hurled back through the |
corridors. In that building stood IN image |
of Diana, the goddess. The impression was |
abroad dS the Bible records. that the image |
had dropped plum out of heaven into that |
temple, and the sculptors who really made |
the statue or image We're put to death, so |
that they could not testify of its human |
and so deny its celestial ORR |
gin. 1t was thought by intelligent people |
that the material from which this idol was |
formed might have
DROPPED OUT OF HEAVEN
as an aerolite, We have seen in the British |
and in universities of our own |
West. blocks of stone hurled off from other |
worlds. These aerolites We're 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 of which the image of Diana |
was fashioned contradictS that notion. This |
image was carved out of ebony and punct- |
ured here and there with openings kept full |
of spikenard so as to hinder the statue from |