The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-11-26

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What chance is there for Paul? But
you cannot tell by mans size or looks
how haed blow he can strike or how
keen blade he can thrust. Witness,
heaven and earth and hell, this struggle
man in the Stadium is Paul. What has he
to fear? He has defied all the powers,
earthly aud internal, and if his body
tumble under the foot and tooth Of the
| wild beast. his soul will only the sooner
| find dis isenthrallment. But it is his duty,
as far as possible, to preserve his life.
Now..sI hear the bolt of the wild
beasts door showed back, and the whole
audience rise to Their tcct as the fierce
brute springs for the arena and toward
its small occupant. l think the first
plunge that was made by the wild beast
at the apostle was made ell the l,oint Of
a sharp blade, and the snarlins monster,
with howl OF pain and rceking with |
gore, turns back. But now the little |
missionary has his turn of ma< king at |
tack, and with few well directed thrusts /,
the monster lies dead in the dust of the !
arena, aud 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
"Ie must reign till he hath put all enc
mics under his feet''-ycs, under his
feet.
Paul told the literal truth when he
said, II have fought with beasts at
jphe aus" and as the plural is used L
think he had more than one such fight,
or several tcasts 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.
In the midst Of this CITY of Ephcsus
t once floate 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
t known earth fioated in and out, carrying
II envy OF the orld. Great Was Ephesus!
1t. Its gymnasia, its hirpodrome, its odeou,
l.. its athenTun, its forum, its aqueducts
n (whose skeletons are still strcwn along
VI tho city,, It's towers, its Castle of Ha-
8 drian, its monument Of AndrOclus, It's
a quarrics. which were the granite cradle
G of cilies; its temples, built to Apollo, to
@ Minerva, TO Neptune, to Mercury, to
Y Eacchus, to Hercules, to Cesar, to For
y tune, TO Jupiter Olympus. What his
C tory and poetry and chiscl and canvas
)t have not presented has come up at the
S call Of arch;rolOgists' powder blast and
crowbar.
~ But have not to unveil the chic
- wonder Of this chieiGst of cities. Ii
. 1868, under the patronage OF the Eng
W " lish government, Mr.. Wood, the eX
~ plorer, began at Epnesas to feel alons
~ under the ground at great depths fD
~ ~ roads, for walls, Tor towers, aud here
- ls-that for which EphGsus was NOR
~ celebrated than all else besldes-th
- temple Of the goddess Dana, called th
~ sixth wonder of the world, and in 1888
" we stood amid the ruins OF that temple
hS measuring its pillars, transtlXed by 1t
VI sculpture and confounded at what wa
ss the greatest temple of ldolatry in al
=" time.
st AS sat on a piece OF one Of its fallel
ch columns l said "What earthquak
of rocked it dowa, or what hurrcan
as pushed II to the earth, or under wha
strong VINE Of centuries did the gian
". stagger and fall?' There have bee
re seven temples of Diana, the ruins c
on each contributing something for tn
es splendOr OF all its architectural success
les sOrs. Two hundred and twenty year
zee was this last temple i'll construction
&C.. Twice as long as the United States hav
I'D stood was that temple in building.
he was nearly twice as large as st. Paul
all cathedral, London. Lest it should
la disturbed by earthquakes, which haV
isc always been fond of making those n
art gions their playground, the temple We
f it built on marsh, which was made tirl
up by layers Of charcoal, covered by fleece
ed of wool. The stone came from Il
ar. quarry near by.
to In removing the great stones tre
the quarry to their destined places
got the temple, it was necessary, in ord
Il to keep the wheels, which were tWel'
on, feet in diameter, from sinking deep i'll
nth the earth under the unparalleled ho
So. that frame of tinbers be arrang
and over which the wheels rolled. To p
his the immense block of marble in its pla
l in over the doorway Of one OF these tel
/ OF pies was SO vast and difficult an undo
ong taking that the architect at one tl
Lwo gave it up, and IN his chagrin intend
ore suicide, but one night i'll his sleep
eat dreamed that the stone had settled
the right place, and the next day
nm. found that the great block of marble hf
,nts by its own weight, settled to the rig
lace place.
foot The temple Of Diana was four hl
1T dred and twenty-five feet long by t
feet hundred and twcnty tnet wide. l
ired Asia was taxed to pay for j.. 1t h
n he one hundred and twenty-seven pilla
le." each sixty teet high, and each the git
with a king, and inscribed with the name
usu- the donor. Now you see the mean
sc it of that passage in Revelation, Just a
use- king presenting one OF these pillars
dis the Temple Of Diana had his own ma
ngry ch.seled on it aud the name OF his 0
light country, so says Christ, "llim t
,east overcomcth will | make pillar in
temple ofmy God, and will write W
,hesc him the Lame Of my God and the ma
1T on of the city OF my God, which Is n
lesus Jerusalem. and | VIII wflle upon
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