The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-12-02

best seats, and q more alert and enthu-
siastic crowd never assembled. They
took their dinners with them. And
was there ever more unequal combat
Paul, according to tradition, small,
cr0oked-backed and weak.eyed, but the
grandest man in sixty centuries, is led
to the center as the people shout:
'"There he comes, the preacher who has
nearly ruined our religion The lion
will make but brief mouthful of him."
1t is plain that all the sympathies Of
that crowd are with the lion. In one
of the underground rooms / hear the
growl Of the wild beasts. They have
been kept for several days without food
or water, in order that they may be
especially ravenous and bloodthirsty.
What chance is there for Paul? But
you can not tell by mans size or looks
how stout blow he can strike, or how
keen blade he can thrust.
Witness, Heaven and earth and hell,
this struggle of Paul with wild beast.
The coolest man in the Stadium is
Paul. What has he to fear? He has
deied all the powers, earthly and in
fernal and If his body tumble under
the foot and tooth of the wild beast,
his soul will only the sooner find Olsen.
thralment But it is his duty, as far
as possible, to preserve his life Now,
l hear the bolt of the wild beasts
door shove back and the whole au-
dience rise to their feet as the fierce
brute springs for the arena and to-
ward its small occupant think
that 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 missionaryshas his
turn of making attack, and with q few
we'll directed 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 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: II have fought with beasts at
Ephesus," and as the plural is used
think he had more that 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 u.s.
But we pass out of the Stadium, fol
we are in haste for other places of in
terest in Ephesus. To add to the ex'
element of the day one of our party
was missing. No man is safe in thai
region alone unless he be armed ant
knows how to take sure aim and not
miss fire. Our companion, DR.. Loui:
Klopsch, now the publisher of the
Christian Herald, had gone out on some
explorations of his own and through
the gate where Paul had walked agar
and again, yet where no man uraccom
panied should venture now. But, aftel
some time had passed, and every min
ute seemed as long as an hour, and W.
had time to imag'ue every thing nor
rible in the way OF robbery and assas
slnation, the lost traveller appeared, t.
receive from our entire party volley
of expostulation for the arousal of 81
many anxieties.
In the midst of this city of Ephcsu
once foated an artificial lake, briilian
with painted boats, and through thu
River Cayster it was connected with tn,
sea, and ships from all parts of tn,
known earth hoated in and out carry
ing on a commerce which made Ephe
sus the envy of the world. Great wa
Ephesus! Its gymnasia, its hippo
drome, it's odeon. its athen@um, it
forum, its aqueducts (whose skeleton
are still strewn along the city,, its tow
ers, its castle of Hadrian, its monumen
of Adroclus, its quarries, which wer
| UuC SIdulLS CTduleS VI CltlSS, lIo Icul
Piles, built to Apollo, to Minerva, t
Neptune, to Mercury, to Bacchus, +
Hercules, to Caesar, to Fortune, to Jur
tier Olympus. What history and poe
| try and chisel and canvas have not pre-
senred has come up at the call O
psychologists powder, blast and crow
bar.
| But l have now to unveil the chic
wonder of this chiefest of cities. L
1868, under the patronage of the Eng
lish government, Mr. Wood, the ex
plorer, began at Ephesus to feel alon
under the ground at great depths 70
roads, for walls, for towers, and here
is-that for which Ephesus was NOR
celebrated than all else beside--th
temple of the goddess Diana, called tn
sixth wonder of the world, and in 1Ss
we stood amid the ruins of that temple
measuring its pillars, transfiXed by il
sculpture and COMPOUNDED at what wa
the greatest temple of idolatry in a
time. AS sat on piece of one of it
fallen columns I said: "What eartl
quake rocked it down, or what hurr
cane pushed it to the earth, or unde
what strong wind of centuries did til
giant stagger and fall? There have bee
seven temples of Diana, the ruins {
each contributing something for tn
splendor of all its architectural SUI
cessors. Two hundred and twent
years was this last temple in construt
ton. Twice as long as the Unite
States have stood was that temple
building. 1t was nearly twice as larg
as ST. Paul Cathedral. London. Lest