Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-12-04

put all enemies under His feet'-yeS, Under
His feet.
Paul told the literal truth when he said:
81 have fought with beasts at E phesus, and
| as the plural is use1 think he had mora
than one such fight, or several beasts wers
let loose upon him at one time. As we stooc
| that day in the middle Of the Stadium ans
| looked around at the great structure, tat
whole scene came back upon u.
But we pass out of the Stadium. for we ar,
in haste for other places of interest in + phe
sus. To add to the excitement of the day
one Of our party was missing. No man
safe in that region alone unless he be armt
and know 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
unaccompanied should adventure now. But
after some time had passed and every min
ute 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 volley OF expostulation for the
arousal Of so MANY anxieties.
In the midst of this city of Ephesus once
foated an artificial lake, brilliant with
painted boats, and through the river Cayster
it was connected with the sea, and ships from
all parts of the known earth hoated in and
ont, carrying on commerce which made
Ephesus the envy Of the world. Great was
EpheSus! It's gymnasia, its hippodrome, its
odeon, its athenRum, its forum, its aQue-
ducts Whose skeletons are still drawn along
the city, its towers its Castle of Hadrian,
its quarries, which were the granite cradle
Of cities; its temples, built to Apollo. to Min
erva, to Neptune, to Mercury, to Bacchus,
to Hercules, to Caesar. to Fortune to Jupit-
er Olympus. What history and poetry and
chlsel and canvas have not presented has
come up at the call Of archteologists' powder
blast and crOwbar.
But have now to unveil the chief wonder
of this chiefest Of cities In 1869, 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 it is-that for which Eohesus was mora
celebrated than all else besides--She temple
Or the goddess DIANA called the sixth wonder
or the world, and in 1889 we stood amid the
ruins Of that temple, measuring its pillars
CraRsnxed by its sculpture and COMPOUNDED
at what was the greatest temple of idolatry
in all time
AS sat on piece of one of its fallen col
umns L said, ''What earthquake rocked ir
down, or what hurricane pushed it to the
earth, or under what strong wine of centur-
les did the giant stagger and fall9' There
nave been seven temples Of Diana, the ruins
OF each contributing something for the
spienaor or Its architectural successors
1 wo hundred and twenty years was this last
temple In construction. Twice as long as
the United States have stood was shat tenn
pie In building. It was nearly twice as large
as 81; fauts Cathedral, London: Lest it
should be disturbed by earthquakes, which |
have always been fond of making those re-
g1ons their playground the temple was built |
on marsh, which was made firm by LAYERS |
Of charcoal, covered by feeces of wool. The |
stone came from the quarry near by.
After it was decreed to build the temDIe it
was thought it 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
hgntlng, and as they missed the interlocking
Of their horns and one fell his horn knocked
4 splinter from the rock and showed by that
splinter the lustrcus whiteness of the rock
l he shepherd ran to the city with 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
1phesus goes to that quarry to offer sacri.
ices to the memory OF that shepherd who
discovered this source OF splendor and
wealth of the cities of Asia Minor
In removing the great stones from the
quarry to their destined places in the temple
was necessary, in order to keep the wheels.
which were twelve feet in diameter, from
mixing deep into the earth under the I'M
araileled heft, that a frame of timbers be
over which the wheels rolled. 10
ut the Immense block of marble in its place
yer the doorway of one of these temples
vas so vast and difficult an undertaking that
he architect at one time gave it up and in |
Is chagrln attempted suicide, but one night
! his sleep he dreamed that the stone had
ettled to The right place, and the next day
g found that the great block of marble had.
y It's own weight, settled to the right |
lace.
Inc temple Of Diana was four hundre AMI
twenty-five feet long by two hundred and E
twenty-five feet wide. All Asia was taxed
pay for it. 1t had one hundred and i
mile oh
nd each the gift Of king, and inscribed )
18th the name of the donor. Now you seq {
he meaning OF that passage in Revelation. t
lst as king presenting one of these pillars 9
} the Temple of Diana had his own name 4
1iseied on it and the name OF his own
'untry, SO says Christ, Him that over
,meth will [ make a pillar in the tempIe of
y God, and L will write upon him the name
Ny God and the name of the city of NV 4
Cd, which IS New Jerusalem, and l will l
rite upon Him Ny new name" How suc- o
,stive and beautiful p
In addition to those pillars that climbed 8
Ter while amid the ruins Of Dianas temple. G
saw afterward eight Of those pillars at g
to which city they had been 81
moved, ana are now part OF tue Mosoue 81
st. Sophia. Those eight columns are all L
cen Jasper. but some Of those which stood q
Diana's temple at EphesuS were fairly q
enched with brilliant colors. Costly met n
5 stood up In various parts of the temple. Il
1eIe Cuey cOuIu CaCcl Cn9 fullest flush of | ~
e sun. fight OF stairs was carved out e;
one grapevine. Doors of cypress wood. ~
aich had been kept in glue for years and H
rdered with bronze in bas relief, swung
ainst pillars of brass and resounded with ~
40 upon echo, caught up and sent on and u
rled back through the corridors. g
In that building stood an image of Diana, d.
3 goddess. The impression was abroad as o.
, Bible records, that that image had " "
opped plumb out of heaven into that VI
nDIe. and the SrnlntOrS who roalIu r,noan w