Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-16

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do for her worshipers our Christ 40
complishes for us.
Rock of ages cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.
WHAT DESTROYED EPHEsUs?
Then, in that temple were deposited
treasures from all the earth for safe
keeping. Chrysostoin says it was the
treasure house Of nations; they brought
gold and silver and precious stones and
coronets from across the sea, and put
them under the care of Diana of the
Ephesians But again and again were
those treasures ransacked, captured or
DESTROYED. Nero robbed them, the
| Scythians scattered them, the Goths
! burned them. Diana failed those who
| trusted her with treasures, but our
| God, to him we may intrust all our
treasures for this world and the next,
and fail any one who puts confidence
in him he never will. After the last
Jasper column has fallen and the last
temple on earth has gone into ruins
and the world itself has suffered dem
clifton, the Lord will keep for us our
best treasures.
But, notice what killed Ephesus, and
what has killed most of the cities that
lie buried in the cemetery of nations.
Luxury The costly baths, which had
been the means of health to the city,
became its ruin. Instead of the cold
baths that had been the invigoration
of the people, the hot baths, which are
only intended for the intirm or the in
valid, were substituted. In these hot
baths many lay most of the time.
Authors wrote books while in these
baths. Business was neglected and a
hot bath taken four or five times a
day When the keeper of the baths
was reprimanded for not having them
warm enough, one of the rulers said,
"You blame him for not making the
bath warm enough; l blame you be-
cause you have it warm at all"
But that warm bath which enervated
Ephesus, and which is always enervat
ing, except when followed by cold baths
| (no reference, of course, to delicate con
stitutions), was only type of what
went on in all departments of Ephesan
life, and in luxurious indulgence Ephe-
sus fell, and the last triangle of music
was tinkled in Diana's temple, and the
last wrestler disappeared from her gym
nasiums, and the last racer took his gar
land in the Stadium, and the last plea
was heard in her Forum, and, even
the sea, as if to withdraw the last com
mercial opportunity from that metrop
oils, retreated down the beach, leaving
her without the harbor in which had
floated a thousand ships. Brooklyn
New York, London and all modern
cities, cisatlantic and transatlantic, take
warningl What luxury unguarded die
for Ephesus, luxury unguarded may dc
for ALL Opulence and splendor God
grant to all the people, to all the cities,
to all the lands, but at the same time,
may he grant the righteous use oi
| them.
USE THIS WORLD, BUT IN THE SERVICE
or GOD.
Gymnasiums2 Yes, but see that the
vigor gained in them be consecrated to
God. Magnificent temples of worship
Yes, but see that in them instead o.
conventionalities and cold pomp o.
service there be warmth of devotion
and the pure Gospel preached. I'm
posing court houses2 Yes, but in then
let justice and mercy rule. Palaces o
journalism2 Yes, but let all of the
printing presses be marshaled for hap
piness and truth. Great postoflc'
buildings2 Yes, but through them
day by day, may correspondence
helpful, elevating and moral pass
Ornate dwelling houses2 Yes, but il
them let there be altars of devotion
and conjugal, filial, paternal and Chris
tian fidelity rule. London for magni
tude, Berlin for universities, Paris fo
fashions, Rome for cathedrals, Athen
for classics Thebes for hieroglyphics
Memphis for tombs, Babylon for gar
dens, Ephesus for idolatry, but wha
shall be the characteristics of on
American cities when they shall hav
attained their full stature2 Woul
that Holiness to the Lord" might b
inscribed upon all our municipalities
One thing is certain, and that is tina
all idolatry must come down.
When the greatest goddess of til
earth, Diana, enshrined in the creates
temple that ever stood, was PROSTATE
: at Ephesus, it was prophecy of tn
overthrow of all the idolatries ths
have cursed the earth, and anythin
we love more than God is an idol, an
there is as much idolatry in the Min,
teenth century rs in the First, and i
T America as in Asia.
AS our train pulled out from the st,
ton at Ephesus, the ears surrounde
: by the worst looking group of villain
I | ever gazed ON, all of them seeming i
wrangle with each other and irwin
"a fraf into "A .trou.l,