Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-11-25

you ca n not tell by mans size or looks
how stout blow he can strike. or how
keen n blade he can thrust
Witness, Heaven and earth and hell.
this struggle of Paul with u wild beast
The coolest man in the Stadium is
Paul What has he to fear? He has
defied all the powers. earthly and in
fernal. and IL his body tumble under
the foot and tooth of the wild beast
his soul will only the sooner find disen-
thralment But il is his duty. rs fAs
an possible, to preserve his life. Now.
/ hear the bolt of the wild beasts
door shove back and the whole au-
dience rise to their feet as tho fierce
brute springs for the arena and to-
ward its small occupant / think
that the first plunge that was made
by the wild beast ut the apostle was
made on the point of sharp blade,
and the snarling monster with n howl
of pain and rocking with gore turns
back.
But now the little missionary has his
turn of making attack, and with few
well directed thrusts the monster lies
dead in the dust of the arena. and the
apostle puts his right foot on the lion
foot on him and shakes him-a scene
which Paul afterward uses for an illus
tration when he wants TO show how
Christ will triumph over death: "He
must reign until He hath put all
enemies under His feet;" yes under His
feet Paul told the little truth when
he said: ~ have fought with beasts Mt
Ephesus," and as the plural is used
think he had more that one such fight,
or several beasts were let loose upon
him ut 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 upor us
But we pass ont of the Stadium. for
we are in haste for other places of in
tercst in Ephcsus. To add TO the ex-
element of the day one of our party
was missing. No man is safe in that
region alone unless he be armed and
knows how to take sure aim and not
miss fire. Our companion, DIR. Louis
hlopsch, 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 man unaccom-
panied should venture now. But, after
some time had passed, and every min
ute seemed as long rs an hour, and we
had time TO imagine every thing hor-
rible in the way of robbery and nssas-
sination, the lost traveller appeared. To
receive from our entire party n volley
of cxpostulation for the arousal of SO
many anxietics.
In the midst of this city of Ephesus
once floatcd an artificial lake, brilliant
with painted boats, and through the
River Caystcr il was connected with the
sea, and ships from all parts of the
known earth floated in and out carry
ing on n commerce which made Ephe-
sus the envy of the world. Great was
Ephesusl Its gymnasia, its hippo
drome, its odeon, its athcnmum, its
forum, its nqueducts (whosc skeletons
are still strewn along the city,, its tow
ers, its castle of Hadrian. its monument
OF Adroclus, its quarries, which were
the granite cradles of cities, its tenn
Piles, built to Apollo, to Minerva, to
Neptune, to Mercury. TO Bacchus, to
Hercules to Caesar, TO Fortune, to Jup-
tier Olympus What history and poe
try and chisel and canvas have not pre-
sentcd has come up at the call of
arch@ologists' powder, blast and crow
bar.
But / have now to unveil the chief
wonder of this chiefest of cities. In
1858, under the patronage of the Eng
iish government, Mr.. Wood, the ex-
plorer, began mt Ephesus TO feel along
under the ground at great depths for
roads for walls, for towers, and here il
is--that for which Ephesus was more
celebrated than all else beside-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, transfixed by its
sculpture and COMPOUNDED at what was
the greatest temple of idolatry in all
time. As | sat on piece of one of its
fallen columns / said: what earth
quake rocked it down, or what hurri-
cane pushed it TO the earth, or under
what strong wind 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 sue
cessors. Two hundred and twenty
years was this last temple in construc-
ton. Twice as long as the United
States have stood was that temple in
building. IL was nearly twice as large
as St Paul Cathedral, London. Lest IL
should be disturbed by earthquakes.
which have always been fond of max
ing those regions their playing ground
the temple was built on marsh, which
was made firm by layers of charcoal
covered by fieeches of wool. The stone
came from the quarry near by. After
1t was decreed to build the temple, IL
was thought IL would be necessary to
bring the building stone from other
lands, but one day shepherd by the
name of Pixodorus, while watching his
fiocks, saw two rams fighting, and rs
they missed the interlocking OF their
horns and one fell. his horn knocked a
splinter from the rock and showed by
that splinter the lustrous Wilderness OF
the rock. The shepherd ran 20 the city
with piece of that stone, which re.
veSled quarry from which place the
temple was built, and every month in
all ages since the mayor OF Ephesus
goes ~ that quarry 20 offer sacrifice 20
the memory of that shepherd who dis.
covered the source of splendor and
wealth FIR the cities OF Asia Minor In