Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

sehous and bloodthirsty. What cb,noo
Is 10 Vnefe Tor Paul? But you cannot toll
oy a mans size or looks how stont =
plow he can strike or how keen a. b,ado
ae can thrust Witness, Heaven and
eaI Is and hell, this struggle of PanI
WIN wild beast. The coolest man in
she stadium is Paul. What has he to r.,
lear? He has dcfied all the movers
earthiy and Internal, and if his BODY
Cuihoie under the foot and tooth of tho
wa oeast, his soul will only the sooner
hhd observation-disclosures. But it is his dntv
DIS TAR as possible, to preserve his life.
NOW L hear the bolt of the wild
beasts door shove back, and the whole
audience rise to their feet as the fierce
orute springs for the arena and toward
lCs small occupant. l think the first
plunge that was made by the wild beast
at the apostle was made on the noint of .
sharp blade, and the snarling monster
with howl of pain and rocking with
gore turns back. But now tho little
missionary has his turn of making at
tack, and with few we'll directed
thrusts the monster lies dead in the dnst
OF the arena and the apostle puts his
right foot on the lion and shakes him
and then puts his left foot on him and
snakes hlm-a scene which Paul after
ward uses for an illustration when he
wants to show how Christ will triumph
over death-''he must reign till he hath
put all enemies under his feet;n YES. nm
oef MS feet Paul told the literal truth
when he said, 81 have fought with
beasts at Ephesus," and as the plural is
used think be had more than one such
hsht, or several beasts were let loose
upon him at one time. AS we stood that
Gay In the middle of the stadium and
looked around at the great structure,
inc whole scene came back upon us.
But we pass out of the Stadium, for
we are in haste for other places of inter.
est IT, Ephesus. 10 add to the excite.
ment OF the day one of our party was
missing. No man is safe In that region
alone unless he be armed and knows how
10 taSe sure aim and not miss fire. Ou1
companion, DIR. 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 mHn unaccompanied should venture
now. But after some time had passed,
and every minute seemed as long as an
hour. and we had time to imagine every
thing horrible in the way of robbery and
assassination, the lost traveller appeared,
to receive from our entire party volley
of expostulation for the arousaI of SO
many anNetics.
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 tloated in and out carrying
on commerce that made Ephesus the
envy of the world. Great was Ephesus !
Its gymnasia, its hippodrome, its odeon,
its athenaum, its forum, its aqueducts
(whose skeletons are still strewn along
the city,, its towers, its Castle of Hadrian,
its monument of Androcius, its quarries,
which were the granite cradle of cities;
its temples, built to Apollo, to Minerva,
to Neptune, to Mercury, to Bacchus, to
Hercules, to Caesar, to Fortune, to
Jupiter Olympus. What history and
poetry and chisel and canvas have not
presented has come up at the call OF
arch;eologists powder blast and crowbar
| But l have now to unveil the CHIEF
wonder of this chicfcst of cities Ii
| 1868, 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, fol
walls, for towers, and here it is-tha
for which Ephesus was more celebrated
than all else besideS-the Temple OF TIN
Goddess Diana, called the sixth wonde
of the weird, and in 1889 we stood annie
the ruins of that temple, measuring it,
pillars, transiiXed by it's sculpture ant
| I.,,l 1>,,,,
temple of idolatry in all time. AS 1 sa
on ., piece of one of its fallen columns
said, "What earthquake rocked it down
or what hurricane pushed it to tho
earth, or under what strong wine of cen
turtles did the giant stagger and fall
There have been seven temples of Diana,
each one contributing something for the
spiendor of all It's architectural success
| sors.
Two hundred and twenty years was
! this last temple in construction. Twice
as long as the United States has stood
was that temple in building. 1t was
nearly twice as long as st. Paul's Ca
thedral, London. Lest it should be dis
turbed by earthquakes, which have al
ways been fond OF making those regions
their playground, the temple was built
on marsh, which was made firm by
layers of charcoal covered by tleeces OF
wool. The stone came from the quarry
near BY After it was decreed to build
the temple, it was 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 tlocks, saw two rams fight
ing, and as they missed the intcrlocking
of their horns and one fell, his horn
knocked splinter from the rock and
showed by that splinter the lustrous
w iteness of the rock.
The shepherd ran to the city with
piece of that stone, which revealed a
quarry from which the temple was built,
and every month in all ages since the
mayor OF Ephesus goes to that quarry to
offer sacrifices to the memory OF that
shepherd who discovered 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 unparal-
leled heft, that a frame OF tlmocrs DC
arranged over which the wheels rolled.
TO put the immense block OF marble
in its place over the doorway or one OF
those TEMPLES was so vast and difficult