The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-11-19
TlG Temple Of Diana.
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this last temple In construction. Twic
as long as the United States has stoo,
was that temple in building. IL wa
nearly twice asloDg as st. Paul's cathe
Tdral, London. Lest it should be dis
turbed by earthquakes, which have al
WAYS been fond Of making those region
their playground, the temple was bull
! on a marsh, which was made firm by
layers Of charcoal covered by heeces o.
WOOL The stone came from the QUAR-,
near by. After it was decreed to builc
the temple, it was thought II would bt
necessary TO bring the building stone
from other lands, but one day q shep
herd by the name Of Pixodorus, while
watching his focks, saw two rams fight
ing, and as they missed the interlockinc
OF their horns and one fell, his horn
Knocked a splinter from the rock and
showed by that splinter the lustrous
whiteness of the rock.
The shepherd ran TO the city with q
piece Of that stone, which revealed q
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 discov.
cred this source of splendor and wealth
for the cities Of Asia Minor. In re-
moving 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 q frame of timbers be ar
ranged over which the wheels rolled.
TO put the immense block of marble
In its place over the doorway of one of
these temples was SO vast and difIic.lt
an undertaking that the architect at
one time gave it up, and in his chagrin
intended suicide, but one night in his
sleep he dreamed that the stone had set
tied 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 hundred and twenty
i've feet long by two hundred and
twenty feet wide. All Asia was taxed
to pay for it. 1t had one hundred and
twenty-seven pillars, each sixty feet
nigh, and each the gift of q 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 mama
on it and the name of his own
country, SO says Christ, ''Him that
overcometh will I make a pillar in the
temple of my God, and will write upon
Inn the name of my God and the name
u the city of my God, which is New
jerusalem, and I will write upon him
ny new name" How suggestive and
GREAT WAS DIANA OF EPHEsUs.
In addition to those pillars that !
llmbed over while amid the ruins OF
)lana's temple 1 saw afterward eight
Il those pillars at ConstantinopIe. T.,
Which city they had been removed. and
re now part of the MOSQUE of St.
sophia. Those eight columns are all
reen Jasper, but some of those which
TODD In Diana's temple at Ephesus
we're fairly drenched with brilliant col
rs. Costly metals stood up in various
arts of the temple, where thew could
atch the fullest flush of the sun. A
light OF stairs was carved out of one
rapevine. Doors of cypress wood,
'hich had been kept in glue for wears
nd bordered with bronze in has relief
Wung against pillars of brass, and re-
FUNDED with echo upon echo, canght
p and sent on, and hurled back
trough the corridors.
In that building stood an image of
llama, the goddess. The impression
as abroad, as the Bible records. that
lat image had dropped plumb out of
eaven into that temple, and the
'ulptors who really made the statue
image were put to death, so that :
ley could not testify of it's human
anufacture and SO deny it's celestial ;
IGN. 1t was thought by intelligent ,
sople that the material from which )
rs IDOL was formed might have dropped @
1t of heaven as an aerolite.
we have seen in the British museum
I'd In universities of our own west
ocks OF stone hurled off from other
orids. These aerolites were seen to
Ii, and witnesses have gone to the
ndlng places, and scientists have pro-
'unced them to be the product of
ner worlds. But the material out of !,
nch the image of Diana was fash =
led contradicts that notion. This
age was carved out of ebony end 5
nctured here and there with open =,
Is Kept full of spikenard so as to him E
tne statue from decaying and make :,
but this ebony was covered y
IN bronze and alabaster y,
4 necklace of acorns coiled pracof,1-
around her. There were four lions .
each arm, typical of strength. Her "
Id was coroneted. Around this flo. u
stood statues which by wonderfn, u
shed tears. The air bv al
lnge machinery was damp with do IN 10
nolng perfumes. The walls ,pn1t;- ia
"a the scene by conceived mirrors 'e
1ntalns tossed in sheaves of light al al
1ell In showers of diamonds. Pray Oh
es' the sculptor, and Apelles, the Ut
nter, filled the place with their tr;-
pms. Cresus, the wealthiest of the W
tents, put here and there in the lie
pie golden heifers. Ii
he paintings were SO vivid and life oe
That Alexander, who was moved az pe
llng OF terror, shuddered at ono va
'ie scene on these walls, and so trua ~ ~
Ie was painting of a horse that ~
n Alexander's horse was led up to Va va
began to neigh, as one horse is ar. "a
omed to greet another. One naint- az az
"a that temple cost s193, $50. The "a "a
'ures OF all nations and the snoils 10 10
lngdoms were kept here for safe , 20
,Si'' Criminals from all lands fled W., ms'
ne shelter OF this temple, and the ..v ,
'ouio not touch them. 1t seemed -.
'st strange that this mountain of oa'
ltectural snow outside did not melt eau
Inc tires of color within.
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