Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-11-19

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/ is there for Paul? But you cannot tell
| by mans size or looks how stout a
/ blow he can strike or how keen blade
he can thrust Witness, Heaven aud
earth and hell, this struggle of Paul
with a wild beast. The coolest man in
the stadium is Paul. What has he to
fear? He has defied all the powers
earthly and Internal, and if his body
| tumble under the foot and tooth of the
wild least, his soul will only the sooner
| find disenthralment. But it is his duty,
as far as possible, to preserve his life.
| Now | hear the bolt of the wild
| beasts door shove back, and the whole
! audience rise to their feet as the fierce
| brute springs for the arena and toward
! it's small occupant. I think the first
! plunge that was made by the wild beast
| at the apostle was made on the point OF a
| sharp blade, and the snarling monster
with howl of pain and reeking with
gore turns back. But now the little
missionary has his turn Of making at
| tack, and with a few well directed
| thrusts the monster lies dead in the dust
OF the arena and the apostle pats his
right foot on the lion and shakes him,
and then puts his left foot on him and
| shakes him-a scene which Paul after
ward uses for an illustration when he
wants to show how Christ will triumph
over death-s'he must reign till he hath
| put all enemies under his feet;'' yes, I'M
| der his feet Paul told the literal truth
when he said, ST have fought with
beasts at Ephesus," 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.
But we pass out of the Stadium, for
we are in haste for other places of inter-
est in Ephesus. To add to the excite
ment of the day one of our party was
missing. No man is safe In that region
alone unless he be armed and knows how
to take sure aim and not miss fire. Our
companion, DR.. Louis 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 again and again, yet where
no man unaccompanied should venture
now. But after some time had passed,
and every minute seemed as long as an
hour, and we had time to imagine every
thing horrible in the way of robbery and
| assassination, the lost traveller appeared,
to receive from our entire party q Volley
of eXpOStulatiOn for the arOuSaI of so
many anXieteS.
In the midst of this city of Ephesus
once tloated an artificial lake, brilliant
with painted boats, and through the
River CaySter it was connected with the
sea, and ships from all parts of the
known earth fioated in and out carrying
on commerce that made Ephesus the
envy of the world. Great was Ephesus
Its gymnasia, it's hippodrome, it's odeon,
it's athen9um. it's forum, it's aqueducts
(Whose skeletons are still strewn along
the city,, its towers, its Castle of Hadrian,
it's monument of Androcius, it's quarries,
which were the granite cradle of cities;
it's 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.
But | have now to unveil the chief
wonder of this chiefest of Cities In
1868, under the patronage of the English
Government, Mr.. Wood, the explorer,
began at Ephesus to feel along under the
ground at great depths for roads, for
for which Ephesus was more celebrated
than all else besideS-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 it's
pillars, transfxed by it's sculpture and
COMPOUNDED by what was the greatest
temple of idolatry in all time. AS 1 sat
on a piece Of one of it's fallen columns I
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,
each one contributing something for the
spiendor of all it's architectural success
sors.
Two hundred and twenty years was
this last temple in construction. Twice
as long as the United States has stood
was that temple in building. 1t was
nearly twice as long as st. Paul's Ca
thedral. London. Lest it should be dis
turbed by earthquakes, which have al
ways been fond of making those regions
their playground, the temple was built
on q marsh, which was made firm by
layers of charcoal covered by feeces 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 shep-
herd by the name of PiXodorus, while
watching his tiocks, saw two rams fight
ing, and as they missed the interlocking
of their horns and one fell, his horn
knocked splinter from the rock and
showed by that splinter the lustrous
w ,iteness of the rock.
The shepherd ran to the city with a
piece of that stone, which revealed a
quarry from which the temple was built,
and every month in all ages since the
mayor OF Ephesus goes to that quarry to
offer sacrifices to the memory 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