Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-16

I rise TO their feet m the fierce brutS@prngs
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 a howl of pair
! and reekiuS with gore, turns back. But
now the little missionary has his turn OF
making attack, and with few well di
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 feet"-yes, under his feet.
Paul told the literal truth when he said
81 have fought with beasts at Ephesus, y
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 ON.
But we pass out of the Stadium, for we
are in haste for other places of interest in
Ephesus To add to 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 the publisher of The Chris
tian Herald, had gone out on some ex-
ploratons 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 and 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, to receive from our entire party
volley of expostulation for the arousal of
so many anXieties,
In the midst of this city of Ephesus once
floated an artificial lake. brilliant with
painted boats, and through the river Gays
ter it was connected with the sea- and
ships from all parts of the known earth
floated in and out, carrying on IA commerce
which made Ephesus the envy of the
world Great was Ephesusl Its gym
nasia it's hippodrome, it's odeon, it's athe-
ngum, it's forum, it's aqueducts (whose
skeletons are still strewn along the city
it's towers, its Castle of Hadrian, it's monu
ment Of Androclus, 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 Caesar,
to Fortune, TO Jupiter Olympus. What
history and poetry and chisel and canvas
have not presented has come up at the call
of psychologists powder blast and crowbar.
DIANAs TEMPLE.
But have now to unveil the chief won.
der of this chielest of cities. In 1868, UNI
der the patronage Of the English govern
ment, Mr.. Wood, the explorer, began at
Ephesus to feel along under the ground at
great depths for roads, for walls, for
towers, and here it is--that for which
Ephesus was more celebrated than all
else besides-the temple of the goddess Di-
ana, called the sixth wonder of the world,
and in 1889 we stood amid the ruins of that
temple, measuring its pillars, transfxed
by its sculpture and COMPOUNDED at what
was the greatest temple of idolatry in all
time.
AS sat on q piece of one of its fallen
columns | said, "What earthquake rocked
it down, or what hurricane pushed it to the
earth, or under what strong wine of cen
turtles 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 construction. Twice
as long us the United States have stood
was that temple in building. twas nearly
twice as large as St. Paul's cathedral, Lon
don. Lest it should be disturbed by earth
quakes, which have always been fond of
making those regions their playground,
the temple was built on marsh, which
was made firm by layers Of charcoal, coy
cred by f1eeces of wool. The stone came
from the quarry near by.
After it was decreed to build the temple
it was thought it 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 as they missed the
interlocking of their horns and one fell
his horn knocked u splinter from the rock
and showed by that splinter the lustrous
whiteness of the rock. The shepherd ran
to the city with piece of that stone which
revealed II quarry from which place the
temple was built, and every month in all
ages since the mayor of Ephesus goes to
that quarry to offer sacrifices to the mem
DRY of that shepherd who discovered this
source Of splendor and wealth for the cities
of Asia Minor.
In removing the great stones from the
quarry to their destined places in the tenn
pie, it was necessary, in order to keep the
wheels, which were twelve feet in diane
ter, from sinking deep into the earth under
the unparalleled heft, that "a frame of tim
bcrs be arranged over which the wheels
rolled. To put the immense block of mar
BILE in its place over the doorway Of one of
these temples was SO vast and difficult an
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 its own
weight, settled to the right place
The temple of Diana was four hundred
and twenty-five feet long by two hundred
and twenty feet wide. All Asia was taxed
10 nay for it. 1t had one hundred and
twenty-seyen pillars, each sixty feet high,
and each the gift of king, and inscribed
with the name of the donor Now You see
the meaning of that passage in Revelation,
just as u king presenting one of these pill
lars to the Temple of Diana had his own
name chiseleu on it and the name of his
own country, 50 says Christ, Him that
over~1meth will | make a pillar in the
temple of my God, and Will write upon
him the name Of my God and the name of
the city of my God, which is New Jerusa
lem, and | will write upon him my new
name' How suggestive and beautiful
A WEALTH OF RICHES.
Ia addition to those pillars that climbed !
ovel while amid the ruins of Dianas tenn
pie, saw afterward eight of those pillars
at Constantinople, to which city they had