The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-11-25

at the apostle was made on the l,oint Of
sharp blade, and the snarling monster,
with howl 0: 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
the monster lies dead in the dust OF the
arena, and the apostle puts his right foot
on the Ion and shakes him, and then
puts his left loot on him and shakes him
"a scene which Paul aftecward uses for
an illustration when he wants to show
how Christ will triumph over death
s'ue must reign till he hath put all ene-
mics under his feet''-yes, under his
feet.
Paul told the literal truth when he
said. II have fought with beasts al
Ephe U.S." and as the plural is used
think hs 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 tha- groat ets'iet;ares o:1c whole
scene came back upon US.
In the midst of this city OF Ephesus
once foateS 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 foated in and cut, carrying
on a commerce which made Ephesus the
envy Of the world. Great was Ephesus!
Its gymnasia, its hirpo6rome, It's odeon,
its athenaun, its forum, its aqueducts
(whose skeletons are still strewn along
the city,, its towers, its Castle Of ua.
drian, its monument OF Andrcclus, It's
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, 10 Jupiter Olympus. What his
tory and poetry and chisel and canvas
have not presented has come up at the
call OF psychologists powder blast and
crowbar.
But have sot to unveil the chief
wonder Of this chieftst Of cities. IL
1868, under the patronage OF the Eng
|lish government, Mr.. Wood. the ex-
plorer, began at Ephssus to feel along
under the ground at great depths tor
roads, for wells. tor towers, and here it
Fls-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, transh1ed by its
sculpture and confounded at what was
the greatest temple of ldolatry in ali
time.
AS sat on piece OF one Of its fallen
columns I said, "What earthquake
rocked it down, or what hurricane
pushed II to the earth, or under what
strong VINE OF centuries did the giant
stagser 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. It
was nearly twice as large as St. PauPs
disturbed by earthquakes, which have
always been fond Of making those re-
gions their playground, the temple was
built on a marsh, which was made firm
by layers ofcharcoal, covered By feeces
of wool. The stone came from the
quarry near BIZ
In removing the great stones frem
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 tilnbers be arranged
over which the wheels rolled. To pu.
the immense block Of marble IN its place
over the doorway Of one Of these tenn
pies was so vast and difficult an under
taking 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 settled to
the right place, and the next day he
found that the great block Of marble had,
by it's own weight, settled to the right
place.
The temple Of Diana was four huR-
dred and twenty-five feet long by two
hundred and twenty feet wide. All
Asia was taxed to pay for i. 1t had
one hundred and twentY-seven pillars,
each sixty teet high, and each the git OF
a king, and inscribed with the name OF
the donor. Now you see tbs meaning
of that passage in Revelation, just as a
king presenting one Of these pillars to
the Temple OF Diana had his own naOe
ch.seled on it and the name Of his own
country, so says Christ, Him that
oyercometh Will I make pillar in the
temple of my God, and will write upon
him the name Of my Ged and the name
of the CITY Of nv GOD, which is New
Jerusalem, and I will write upon him
nv new name" How suggestive and
beautiful!
IN addition to those pillars that I
climbed over while amid the runs OF
Diana's temple, I saw afterwsrd eight
of those pillals at Constantinople, 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
we're fairly drenched with brilliant col
ors. Costly metals stood up in various
parts OF ths temple, where they could
catch the fullest flush of the sun. A
flight Of stairs was carved out Of one
grapevine. Doors ofcypcess wood which
lad been kept in glue for years aRd bor-
dered with bronze in bas relief, swung
against pillars OF brass and resounded
with echo upon echo, caught up and
sent on aud hurled back through the cor
ridors.
In that building stood sn 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 decaving and make it aromatic, but