Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-11-20

ing of horse that when Alexander's
horse was led mp 10 IL he began to
neigh, as one horse is accustomed to
greet another. Ono painting in that
temple cost Sl9s, 760 The treasures of
all nations and the spoils of kingdoms
were kept hero for safo deposit
Criminals from all lands fed
20 the shelter of this temple,
and the law could not touch
them. Ii seemed almost strange
that this mountain of architectural
snow outside did not melt with the
fires of color within. The temple was
surrounded with groves, in which
roamed for the temptation Of hunters,
stays and hares and wild boars, and
all styles of game, whether winged or
four-footed. There was a cave with
statue SO intensely brilliant that it
extinguished the eyes of those who
looked upon it, unless, at the command
of the priests, the hand of the specta-
tor somewhat shaded the eyes.
No wonder that even Anthony and
Alexander aud Darius cried out in
the words of my text: Great is
Diana of the Ephesians." One
whole month of each wear, the month
of May, was devoted to her worship.
Professions in garbs of purple and vio-
let and scarlet moved through ii, and
there were torches and anthems, and
choirs in white, and timbrels and tri-
angles in music, sacrifices and dances.
Here young men and maidens were
betrothed with imposing ceremony.
Nations voted large amounts to meet
fha nf tho vynrchir EiChariQa
of vast resource were devoted TO the
support of this resplendence. Horace
and Virgil and Homer went into
rhapsodies while describing this wor-
ship. All artists, all archeologists. all
centuries agreed in saying: Great is
Diana of the Ephesians. Paul in the
presence of this Temple of Diana in
corporates 1t in his figures of speech
while speaking of the spiritual temple.
Now, If any man build upon this
foundation, gold, silver, precious
stones, etc" and no donbt with refer
ence to one of the previous temples
which had been set on fire by Hero
stratus just for the fame of destroying
it, Paul says: "If any mans work
shall be burned, he shall safer loss,
etc." and all up and down Pauls writ
ings you realize that he had not only
seen, but had been nightly impressed
with what he had seen of the Temple
OF Diana.
So also in the Temple of Diana the
world expressed its need of refuge.
To il from all parts of the land came
debtors who could not pay their debts
and the offenders of the law that they
might escape Incarceration. But she
sheltered them only little while, and
while she kept them from arrest she
could not change their hearts and the
guilty remained guilty. But our God
in Jesus Christ is a refuge into which
we may fly from all our sins and all
our pursuers, and not only be safe for
time but safe for eternity. and the
guilt is pardoned and the nature is
transformed. What Diana could not
CO for her worshipers, our Christ ac-
complishes for us
Rock OF ages cleft for me.
Let me hide myself In thee,
Then, in that temple were deposited
treasurers from all the earth for safe
keeping. Chrysostom says it was the
treasurer-house of nations; they
brought gold and silver and precious
stones and coronets from across the
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Diana of the Ephesians. But, again
and again were those treasurers ram
sacked, captured or destroyed Nero
robbed them, the Scythians scattered
them, the Goths burned them. Diana
failed those who trusted her with
treasures, but our God, TO him we NAV
entrust all our treasures for this world
and the next, and fail any one who
puts confidence in HIM he never will.
After the last jasper column has fallen
and the last temple on earth has gone
into ruins and the world itself has suf-
fered demolition, the Lord will keep
for Us our best treasures
AS our train pulled out from the
station at Ephesus, the cars surrounded
by the worst looking group of
Williams l ever gazed on, all of
them seeming in a wrangle with each
other and trying to get into ~
wrangle with MS, and we moved along
the columns of ancient aqueducts, each
column crowned with storks, having
built their nests there, and we rolled
on down towards Smyrna, and that
night in n Sailors Bethel, we spoke of
the Christ whom the world must know
or perish, we felt that between cradle
and grave there could not be anything
much more enthralling for body,
mind, and soul, than our visit to
Ephesus.