Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-12-03

That tIta may be Is specially raNenous ana
tlood.birsty. What chance j. there for
Paulf But you cannot tell by mans
size or rocks how stout blow he can strike
or how keen blade he can thrust Wit
hess, heaven and earth and hell, this
struggle of Paul with wild beast The
coolest man in the Stadium is Paul What
aas he TO fearf He has deflei all the pow
srs, earthly and Internal. aud IL his body
tumble under the foot and tooth Of the
Wild beast. his soul viii only the sooner
ind disenthrallment But it is bis duty, AS
ar as possible. TO preserve his life.
Now, hear the bolt Of the wild beasts
door showed back, and the whole audience
rise to their feet ils the fierce brute springs
for the arena and toward its small occu-
pant. think the first 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
now the little missionary has his turn Of
making attack, and with a few well d.
rected thrusts the monster lies dead in the
dust 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 shakes
him--a 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 enemies un.
der his feetN-yes, under his feet
Paul told the literal truth when he said,
81 have fought with beasts at Ephesus"
and as the plural is used | think he had
more than one such fight. or several beasts
were 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.
LET Us HASTEN OK.
But we pass out of the Stadium, for we
are in haste for other places of interest ia
Ephesus To add 70 the excitement Of the
day one of our party was missing. No man
is safe in that region alone unless he be
armed and know how TO take sure aim and
not miss fire. Our companion, DR.. Louis
Klopsch, now tine publisher of The Chris
tian Herald. had gone out on some ex-
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
time had passed aud every minute 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, 10 receive from our entire party
a yolley Of expostulation for the arousal Of
so many anxieties.
In the midst Of this city Of Ephcsns once
hoated an artificial lake, brilliant with
painted boats, aud through the river Gays
ter IL WAS connected with the sea, aud
ships from all parts OF the known earth
hoated in and out, carrying on a commerce
which nude Ephesus the envy of the
world Great was Ephesus! Its gym
nasia. it's hippodrome, its odeon, It's athe-
rnum, its forum. its aqueducts Whose
skeletons are still strewn along the city,
It's towers, It's Castle of Hadrian, its monu
ment of Aadroclus, its quarrics, which were
the granite cradle Of cities: its temples,
built to Apollo, to Minerva. to Neptune, to
Mercury, to Bacc-ius. TO Hercules, to Caesar.
10 Fortune, TO Jupiter Olympus. What
history aud poetry and chsel and canvas
have not presented has come up ut the call
Of archeologists' powder blast and crowbar
DIASA's TEMPLE.
But | have now TO unveil the chief won.
Ter of this cbiefest of cities. In 1868, un-
Ter the patronage of the English govern
nent, Mr. Wood, the explorer. began at
Ephesus to feel along under the ground at
great depths for roads, for walls, for
overs, and here it is--that for which
Ephesus was more celebrated than all
Else besides-the temple OF the goddess Di-
ina. called the sixth wonder Of the world,
md in 1889 we stood amid the ruins Of that
empe, measuring its pillars, transfixed
ly its sculpture and COMPOUNDED at what
vas the greatest temple of idoiatry in all
ime
As sat on piece of one Of its fallen
columns said. ''What earthquake rocked
{ down, or what hurricane pushed it to the
arth or under what strong wine Of cen
uries did the giant stagger aud fallYp
There have been seven temples of Diana,
he ruins Of each contributing something
or the splendor of all its architectural sue
essors. Two hundred and twenty years
vas this last temple in construction Twice
IS long as the United States have stood |
vas that temple in building. twas nearly |
vice as large as St. Panl's cathedral, Lon |
lon. Less il should be disturbed by earth
uakes. which have always been fond of |
making those regions their playground, |
he temple was built on a marsh, which |
vas made firm by layers of charcoal, coy
red by neeces OF wool. The stone came /
rom the quarry near by.
After it was decreed to build the temple |
! was thought it would be necessary to
ring the building stone from other lands,
nut one day shepherd by the name OF
'ixodorus, while watching his focks, saw
wo rams fighting, and as they missed the
nterlocking OF their horns and one fell
is horn knocked splinter from the rock
nd showed by that splinter the lustrous
bitterness of the rock. The shepherd ran
D the city with piece of that stone, which
svealed quarry from which place the
smple was built. and every month in all
yes since the mayor of Ephesus goes to
nat quarry to offer sacrifices to the mem
~ of that shepherd who discovered this
PURGE Of splendor and wealth for the cities
f Asia Minor
In removing the great stones from the
uarry to their destined places in the tenn
lie, it was necessary, in order to keep the
heels, which were twelve feet in diane
II, from sinking deepiuto the earth under
le unparalleled heft, that frame of TIM
ars he arrapved over which the wheels |