The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-11-20

called the sixth WOudsE- q rs-e world
and in 1889 ~s etQod .atlid the ruins of
that temple, measuring It's pillars
transhzed by its sculpture and con-
founded at what was the greatest
temple of idOlatry in all time There
have been seven temples OF Diana, tAe
ruins of each contributing somethfns-
for the splendOr Of all its architectural
successors Two hundred and twenty
years was this last temple in cOnstruc-
ton Twice as long as the United
States has stood was that temple in
building. It was nearly twice as large
as St PauTs cathedral, London
2 Lest 1t should be disturbed by earth
qaalres, which have always been fond.
OF making those EegiOEs their play
ground, the temple was bRiit on
marsh, which Was made frn by layers
of charcoal covered by heeces Of wool
The stone came from the quarry near
by. After it was decreed to build the
temple, it WIS thought it would be
necessary to bring the building stone
from other lands, but one day a shep-
herd by the name of PixOdorus, while
watching his dOcizs, saw two rams
hghtiBg and as they missed the inter
locking Of their horns and one fell, his
horn knocked a splinter from the rock
and showed by that splinter the lus-
trous Wilderness of the rock The shsp-
herd 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 ali ages since, the
mayor of EPhesus goes to that quarry
to offer sacrifices to the memory of that
shepherd who disc vered this source of
splendor and wealth for the cities of
Asia Minor. In removing the great
stones from the quarry to their destined
places in the temple it was necessary,
in order to keep the wheels, which
were twelve feet in diameter, from
sinking deep into the earth under the
unparalleled heft that frame Of tim
bers be r-ranged over which the wheels
b rolled. The temple of Diana was 425
feet long by 22O feet wide. All Asia
was taxed to pay for it It had 1877
pillars, each go 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 a king
presenting one of these pillars to the
temple of Diana had his own
| name chiseled on it and the
| name of his own country. SO says
/ Christ: Him that overcometh will
make a 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
/ I will write upon him my new name"
How suggestive and beautiful
In addition to those pillars that
| climbed over while amid the ruins of
| Diaua's temple, I saw afterward eight
of those pillars at COnstantinople, to
/ which city they had been removed and
| are now a part of the mosque of St
/ Sophia Those eight columns are all
| green Jasper, but some OF those which
/ stood In Diana's temple at Ephesus
were fairly drenched with brilliant
| colors- Costly metal stood up in va
| rious parts of the temple, where they
| could catch the fullest flush of the sun.
| a fight of stairs were carved out of
| one grapevine Doors OF cypress wood,
which had been kept in glue for years
and bOrdered with bronze in bas relief,
swung against pillars OF brass, aud re-
/ sounded with echo upon echo, caught
/ up and sent on and hurled back
/ through the corridors. In that building
/ stood an image of Diana, 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 statue or image were put to
/ death, so that they could not testify to
/ its human manufacture and SO deny its
! celestial origin. 1t was thought by In
| telligent people that the material from
| which this idol was formed might have
| dropped out of the heavens as an aero
| lite.
The material out of which the image
/ of Diana was fashioned contradicts
| that notion. This image was carved
| out of ebony and punctured here and
| there with openings kept full of spike
| nard so as 10 hinder the statue from
| decaying and make it aromatic, but
/ this ebony was covered with bronze
| and alabaster. 4 necklace of acorns
| cOiled grace fully around her There
| were four lions on each arm, typical Of
! sire ngth. Her head was coroneted.
! Around this figure stood statues which
/ by wonderful invention shed tears.
/ The air by strange machinery was
/ damp by descending perfumes The
| walls multiplied the scene by conceived
/ mirrors. Fountains tossed in zheaves
of light and fell in showers Of dia-
monds. PraXiteles, the sculptor, and
4 Appelies, the painter, filed the place
/ with their triumphs. Cr0esus, the
wealthiest of the ancients, put here
and there in the temple golden heifers.
! The paintings were SO vivid and life
| like that Alexander, who was moved
| at nothing of terror, shuddered at one
/ battle scene on these walls, and so true
/ to life was a painting of a horse that
/ when Alexauder's horse was led up to
/ it. he began to neigh, as one horse Is
/ accustomed to greet another. One
I painting in that temple cost SI93, $50.
/ spoils of kingdoms were kept here for
/ safe deposit Criminals from ali lands
4 fed to the shelter of this temple and
! the law could not touch them
No wonder that even Anthony and
4 Alexander and Darius cried ont in
/ the words of my text: Great is Diana
/ of the Ephcsians. One whole month
/ Of each year, the month OF May, was
/ devoted to her worship Here young
men and maidsus were befhrothed With
/ imposing ceremony. Nations voted
1 large amounts to meet the expense Of
/ the worship Fisheries Of vast resource
were devoted to the support Of this re-
/ sPlendence. Horace and Virgil and
/ Homer went in rhapsodies while de-
I scribing this worship. All artists, all
/ archseoiogists. all centuries, agreed in
saying; Great is Diana Of the Ephe-
slams" Paul in the presence of this
| temple of Diana incorporates it in his
/ figures OF speech while speaking of
the spiritual temple. Now, il any
/ man huflf vTrgnva this found nEfn7 gyOTI