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q sharp blade, and the snarlins monster,
with howl OF pain and reeking with
gore. turns back. But now the little
missionary has his turn of making at
tack, and with few well directed thrusts
1 the monster lies dead I'm the dust of the
arena, and the apostle puts his right foot
on the lion and shakes him, and then
puts his left loot on him aud shakes him
Ia scene which Paul afterward uses for
an illustration when he wants to show
how Christ will triumph over DEATH
He must reign till he hath put all enc
mics under his feep'-yes. under his
feet.
Paul told the literal TRUTH y,hqs he
said, II have fought with 6ceests at
Ephe ,us," and as the plural is llssSd L
:hink he had more than one such fight,
or several beasts We're let loose Upon
him at one time. AS we stood that day
in the middle of the Stadium and looked
around at the great structure, the whole
scene came back upon us.
In the midst of this city OF Ephesus
once hoate an artificial lake, brilliant
with painted boats, and through the
river Cayster it was come ,ted with the
sea, and ships from all parts of the
known earth floated in and out, CARRYING
on commerce which made Ephesus the
envy OF the world. Great was Ephesus!
Its gymnasia, its hirpodrome, its odeon,
Its athen@um, its forum, it's aqueducts
(whose skeletons are still strewn along
the c:ty), its towers, its Castle of Ha-
drian, its monument of Androclus, 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 Cesar, to For
tune, TO Jupiter Olympus. What his
tory and poetry and chisel and canvas
have not presented has come up at the
call of archaeological powder blast and
crOwbar.
r. But have not TO unyeil the chief
wonder of this chieftst of cities. Ii
1868, under tho patronage of the Eng-
lish government, Mr.. Wood, the ex-
plorer, began at EDhssus to feel along
under the ground at great depths for
roads, for walls, Tor towers, and here it
ls-that for which Ephesus was more
celebrated than all else besldes-the
temple OF the goddess Diana, called the
sixth wonder of the world, and in 1889
we stood amid the ruins of that temple,
measuring its pillars, transtlxed by its
sculpture and confounded at what was
the greatest temple Of ldolatry in all
time.
AS sat on n piece OF one Of its fallen
columns said, "What earthquake
rocked it down, or what hurricane
pushed l! to the earth, or under what
strong VINE OF centuries did the giant
stagger and fall?" There have been
seven temples of Diana, the ruins of
each contributing something for the
splendor OF all its architectural success
sors. Two hundred and 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. Paul's
cathedral, London. Lest it should be
disturbed by earthquakes, which have
always been fond of making those re-
gions their playground, the temple was
built on marsh, which was made firm
by layers ofcharcoal, covered by fleeces
of wool. The stone came from the
quarry near by.
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 a frame of tinbers be arranged
over which the wheels rolled. To put
the immense block of marble in its place
over the doorway of one of these tenn
Piles was so vast and difficult an under
taking that the architect at one time
gave it up, and Ill his chagrin intended
suicide, but one night in his sleep he
dreamed that the stone had settled to
the right place, and the next day he
| found that the great block of marble had,
by its own weight, settled to the right
place.
The temple Of Diana WAS four hum
dred and twenty-five feet long by TWO
hundred and twenty feet wide. All
Asia was taxed to pay for is. 1t had
ore hundred and twenty-seven pillars,
each sixty ieet high, and each the gi,t 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
rh.seled on it and the name of his own
country, so says Christ, Him that
ovcrcometh will L make pillar in the
temple of my God, aud I will write upon
him the lame of my God and the name
of the city of my God, which is New
Jerusalem, and L will write upon hun
my new name" How suggestive aud
beautiful!
In addition to those pillars that 1
climbed over while amid the ruins of
Diana's temple, saw atterward eight
of those pillars at Constant!nople, to
which city they had been removed, and
are now 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 coll
ors. Costly metals stood up in various
parts OF the temple, where they could
catch the fullest flush Of the sun. A
fight of stairs was carved out of one
grapevine. Doors ofcypress wood which
had been kept in glue for years and bor-
dered with bronze in has relief, swung
against pillars Of brass and resounded
with echo upon echo, caught up and
sent on and hurled back through the cor
ridors.
| In that building stood an image OF
Diana, the goddess. This image was
carved out OF ebony and punctured here
and there with openings kept full OF
spikenard so as to hinder the statue
from decaying and make it aromatic, but
this ebony was covered with bronze and