The Globe-republican., 1891-12-03

order that they may be especially r.
venous and bloodthirsty. What chance
is there for Paul? But you cannot tell
| by . mans size or looks how stout q
blow he can strike or how keen . blade
he can thrust Witness, Heaven and
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 il his body
tumble under the foot and tooth of the
wild beast, his soul will only the sooner
| find disenthrallment 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
its small occupant l 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 we'll 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-''he must reign till he hath
put all enemies under his feet;" YES, I'M
der his feet Paul told the literal truth
vuh hn hov vuit I,
beasts at Ephesus," and as the plural is
used l 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 volley
OF eXpOStulation for the arOusal of SO
many anXieties.
In the midst of this city OF Ephesus
once fOated 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 flOated in and out carving
on commerce that made Ephesus the
envy of the world. Great was Ephesus!
Its gymnasia, its hippodrome, its odeon.
its athenaum. its forum, its aqueducts
(whOse skeletons are still strewn along
the city,, its towers. its Castle of Hadrian,
its monument of AndrOcius, its Quarries,
which were the granite cradle of cities;
its temples, built to Apollo, to Minerva.
to Neptune, to Mercury, to Bacchus, to
Hercules, to Cesar, 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 unvcil the chief
wonder of this chiefest of cities In
1863, under the patronage of the English
Mr.. Wood. the explorer,
began at Ephesus to feel along under the
ground at great depths for roads, for
walls, for towers, and here it is-that
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 its
pillars, transfixed by its sculpture and
by what was the greatest
temple of idOlatry in all time. As l sat
On q piece of one of its fallen columns l
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 |
sp;endOr of all its architectural success |
,Ors.
Two hundred and twenty years was |
his last temple in construction. Twice |
rs long as the United States has stood
vas that temple in building. 1t was
1early twice as long as St Paul's Ca
.hedral, London. Lest it should be dis
,urbed by earthquakes. which have al
ways been fond of making those regions
heir playground, the temple was built
IN marsh. which was made firm by
ayers of charcoal covered by feeces of
WOOL. The stone came from the quarry
rear by. After it was decreed to build
he temple, it was thought it would be
to bring the building stone
rom other lands, but one day a shep-
lerd by the name of Pixodorus, while
his flocks, saw two rams fight.
ng, and as they missed the interlocking
4 their horns and one fell, his horn
a splinter from the rock and
bowed by that splinter the lustrous
: ,iteness Of the rock.
The shepherd ran to the city with q
'iece Of that stone, which revealed
quarry from which the temple was built,
md every month in all ages since the
mayor of Ephesus goes to that quarry to
fer sacrifices to the memory of that
hepherd who discovered this source of
plendor and wealth for the cities OF
Asia Minor. In removing the great
tones from the quarry to their destined
laces in the temple, it was necessary,
q order to keep the wheels, which were
welve feet In diameter, from sinking I
cen into the earth under the unnaral.