Milford chronicle., 1891-11-20

pAuJ. lulnA Tue nrsL plunge that was
made by the wild beast at the apostle was
made on the point Of sharp blade, and
the snarling monster, with howl Of pain
and reeking with gore, turns back But
In now the little missionary has his turn Of
le- making attack and with a few well di-
rected thrusts the monster lies dead in the
dust Of the arena, and the apostle puts his
m right foot on the lion and shakes him, and
MS then puts his left foot on him and shakes
he him-a scene which Paul afterwarl uses
he for an illustration when he wants to show
he how Christ will triumph over death-"He
", must reign till he hath put all enemies un-
d der his feet"-yes, under his feet
-h Paul told the literal truth when he said,
b. II have fought with beasts at Ephesus,"
rs and as the plural is used think he had
e. more than one such fight, or several beasts
were let loose upon him at one time As
a, we stood that day in the middle Of the
N Stadium and looked around at the great
u structure, the whole scene came back upon
n US.
l. But we pass ont of the Stadium, for we
l. are in haste for other places of interest in
d Ephesus. To add to the excitement OF tie
n day one Of our party was missing No man
# is safe in that region alone unl'ss he be /
If armed and know how to take sure aim and
:, not miss fire. Cur companion. DR.. Louis |
. Klopseh, now the publisher Of The Chris |
tian Herald had gone out on some ex- |
Z plorations of his own, and through the /
: gate where Paul had walked again and |
| again, yet where no man unaccOmpanied !
, should adventure now But after some I
e time had passed aud every minute seemed
e as long as an hour, and we had time to
imagine everything horrible in the way Of
! robbery and assassination, the lost traveller
r appeared, 70 receive from our entire marty !
a yolley of eXpOstulstion for the arouBal Of !
so many anXieties.
In the midst Of this city of Ephesus once
foated au artificial lake, brilliant with
painted boats, and through the river GAYS.
ter it WAS connected with the sea and
ships from all parts of the known earth
loated in and out carrying on u commerce
which made Ephesus the envy OF the
world. Great was Ephesus! Its gym !
nasia, its hippodrome, its odeon its athe- |
E@um, its FORUM its aqueducts (whose 1
skeletons are still strewn along the city,
its towers, its Castle of lIadrian. its monu |
ment of Androclus, its quarries, which were
the granite cradle Of cities; its temples.
| built to Apollo, to Minerva, to Neptune, to i
Mercury, to Bacchus, to Hercules, TO Cesar, I
20 Fortune, to Jupiter Olympus What q
! history and poetry and chisel and canvas Q
I have not presented has come up Rt the call
/ of archDologists' powder blast and crowbar I .
DIANA's TEMPLE
/ But / have now to unveil the chief won =
der of this chiefest of cities. IN 1853 I'M -
der the patronage of the English govern :.
nent, Mr.. Wood, the explorer began at :
Ephesus to feel along under the ground at T. +,
great depths for soads, for walls, for -
towers, and here It is--thar for which .,
Ephesus was more celebrated than all -
else besides the temple of the goddess Di- n
/. -f..5 o ]
and il 1883 we stood amid the ruins Of that
temple, measuring its pillars, -tfansfxed / IN
by its sculpture and c0nfOunded mt what n,
was the grcatest.tempie OF idolatry in aiil n,
time.
AS sat on piece of one Of its fallen a
columns said, "What earthquake rocked q
it down, or what hurricane pushed it to the a.
earth, or under what strong wine of cen %
turies did the giant stagger and falI?" nj
There have been seven temples of Diana, ~
the ruins of each contributing something n;
for the splendor of all its architectural sue I,
cessoFs. Two hundred and twenty years n,
was this last temple in construction. Twice sic
as long rs the United States have stood
was that temple in building. twas nearly
twice as large as St. Paul's cathedral, Lon Ne.
don. Lest it should be disturbed by earth se'
quakes which have always been fond of "n m
making those regions their playground @ "a,
the temple was built on Il marsh, which "" ""
was made firm by layers of charcoal, COW @ ses
cred by deeces of wool. The stone came ne'
from the quarry near by ~ ~"
After it W IS decreed to build the temple ~
It was thought it would be necessary to sss'
BRING the building stone from other lands, S ~
Jut one day shepherd by the name of 1 ~
2iXodorus while watching his hocks, saw ~ ~
wo rams lighting and as they missed the l oii,
nterlocking of their horns and one fell hsn
lis horn knocked a splinter from the rock d
nd showed by that splinter the lustrOus SCR
ghiteness Of the rock. The shepherd ran Ine
o the city with piece of that stone which pla'
evealed Il quarry from which place the lart
emple was built and every month in all pro
ges since the mayor Of Ephesus goes to anu
hat quarry to offer sacrifices to the mem A!sS
ry of that shepherd who discovered this hlgi
)urce Of splendor and wealth for the cities ing
f Asia Minor. 5hel
In removing the great stones from the -
uarry to their destined places in the tenn oeei
le, it was necessary, in order to keep the tenn
heels, which were twelve feet in diane Jus
II, from sinking deep into the earth under prov
le unparalleled heft, that frame of tim picc
srs be arranged over which the wheels sOaA
lied, To put the immense block Of mar Duh'
e in its place over the doorway of one Of d 1T
ese temples was so vast and difficult an onI
ldertalling that the architect at one time 70 Iu
I'VE it up, and in his chagrin intended = "e'
icide, but one night in his sleep he IN Il
canned that the stone had settled to the poop
sht place, and the next day he found that III "a
e great block OF marble had, by its own anu NJ
eight, settled to the right place Iorlt
Tie temple Of Diana was four hundred hsf
d twenty-five feet long by two hundred the
d twenty feet wide All Asia ,v,y tp,ra5 vests
pay for it. It had one hundred and does
enty-seven pillars, each sixty feet high
4 each the gift of king, and inscribed So
til the name Of the donor. Now you sea expire
meaning OF that passage in Revelation, all p
81 as king presenting one Of these pill could
y to the Temple Of Diana had bis own ers Of
me chiseled on 1t and the name Of his aaFcs
n country, so says Christ, "Him that u ltt
srcometh will / make pillar in the from
nple Of my God al / VIII write upon heart
n the name of my God and the name Of But
city Of my God, which is New Jerusa- into
!, and ! will write upon him my new and a
ne" How suggestive and beautiful for ii
4 WEALTH or RICHEs guilt
n addition TO those pillars that climbed forme
,r while amid the ruins of Dana's reln- wOrst
, l saw afrerward eight Of those pillars
Jonsiantiuoplc. 10 which city they had
n @ removed. 70, q ana ARE now s, part Of TIE The
us are ali green jasper but some of IND
se "Hic" stoou ~ DlAila Tempe az house
lesiis were fairly drenched with bril- silver
1t c0lors. Costly metals stood up in from
ions parts Of the temple, where they tbe "a
lu G'.'c9 lne iullest nuss Of lhe sun, again
lisnV u se''iFs WIS casFea ahE ol one sacked
peslie' llooEa pt cypress Waod' Mnlel robbed
0eeh kspS lh glne lpF years ana nor- the G
"a win "ronzs "a o's feilei' sw4na those
inst pillars Of brass and resouHded our Z,
b echo upon echo, caught up and gent traasn
laaI 81,
lna hufiei .i.eA lhrough the corfldors. fail an
that building stood an image Of never
na, the goddess. The impression was Los hi
Dad rs the Bible records, that that image ,,one
dropped plumb out OF heaven into sn ffsrs
temple, and the sculptors who really ~. -,