The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-12-18

splcndor OF all It's architectural suc.
cessors. Two hundred and twenty
years was this last temple in construc.
ton Twice rs long rs the United
States have stood was that temple In
building. II was nearly twice rs largo
IA ST. Paul Cathedral London. Lest II
should bo disturbed by earthquakes,
which have always been fond OF maxi.
ing those regions their playing ground.
the temple was built ON marsh, which
was made firm 10y layers OF charcoal
covered 10y tleechcs of wool. The stone
came from the quarry near by After
1t was dccrecd to build the temple, IL
was thought II would be necessary to
bring the building stone from other
lands, but one day shepherd 10y the
name of PiNodorus, while watching his
noclSs, saw two rams fighting, md rs
they missed the intcrloclSng OF their
horns and one fell, his horn knocked u
splinter from the rock and showed 10y
that splinter the lustrous Wilderness OF
the rock. The shepherd ran % the city
with piece of that stone, which re-
vcRlcd quarry from which place the
temple was built, and every month in
all ages since tho MAYOR Of Ephcsus
goes to that quarry 90 offer sacrifice to
the memory OF that shepherd who dis.
covered the source of splendor and
wealth for the cities of Asia Minor In
removing the great stones from the
quarry 20 their destined places in the
temple il was necessary i'm order to
keep the wheels, which were twelve
feet in diameter from sinking deep into
the earth under the unparalleled hcft
that u frame of timbcrs be arranged
over which the wheels rolled.
70 put the immense block Of marble
In it, place over the doorway of one OF
these temples was so vast and difficult
an undertaking that the architect at
one time gave it up, and in his chagrin
intended suicide, but one night In his
sleep he drcampt that the stone had
settled To the right place, and the next
day he found that the great block Of
marble had 10y its own weight settled
TO the right place. The temple Of hi.
ana was 40 feet long 10y 80 feet wide.
All Asia was taxed TO pay for IL. IL
had In pillars. each sixty feet high,
and each the the gift of n king, and in
scrihcd with the name OF the doncr.
Now you see the meaning OF that
passage in Revelation, just AS u king
presenting one Of these pillars to the
Temple of Diana had his own name
>hisclcd on il and the name Of his own
country, so says Christ: "llim that
ovcrcomcth will | make pillar in the
temple of my God, and will write up
on IL the name of my God, and the name
of the city of my God, which is New
JcSusalcm, aud will write upon him
my new name" How suggestive and
beautiful? In addition To these pillars
that | climbed over while amid the
ruins Of Diana's Temple, ! saw after.
ward eight of those pillars Mt Constant
inoplc to which city they had been re-
moved and are now "A part OF the
Mosque Of st. Sophia. Those eight
columns are all green jasper, but some
Of those which stood in Diana's Temple
1T Ephcsus were fairly drcnchcd with
brilliant colors Costly metals stood
in various parts Of the temple,
whore they could catch the fullest flush
OF the sun.
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