Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-16
THE HOME OF DIANA.
Ephesus, the Wonderful City, and Its
More Wonderful Temple
ONE SCENE In PAUL'S MINISTRY.
Obscure Passages in the Scriptures Made as
Light as Day.
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON OF YESTERDAY

entitled, "From the Pyramids to the
Acropolis His text was: Acts xix, "a,
'Great is Diana of the Ehpesians.
We have landed this morning at Smyrna,
a city of Asiatic Turkey. One of the seven
churches of Asia once stood here. You read
in Revelation, TO the church in Smyrna
write" 1t is city that has often been
shaken by earthquake, swept by confagra-
tion, blasted by plaques, ana butchered by
war.
But we are on the way to the city of Eph-
esus, about 50 miles from Smyrna. We are
advised not to &c to Ephesus: the bandits in
that region have an ugly practice of cutting
Off the ears of travellers. The bandits suv-
gest to the friends of the persons from
whom the ears have been subtracted that if
they would like to have the rest o: the body
tnev will please send an appropriate sum OF
money. II the money is not sent. the mutt
lated prisoners will be assassfnated. We
DID not feel like putting our friends to such
better omit Ephesus.
Must See Ephesus by All Means.
But that would have been a disappoint-
ment from which We would never recover.
We must see Ephesus-associated with the
most wonderful apostolic scenes. We hire
special railway train, and in about an hour
and half we arrive at the city OF Ephesus,
which was called The Great Metropolis of
Asia, and lone of the Eyes of ASIA and
The Empress of 1onia, the capital of all
learning and mas nitcence. Here, as said.
WAS one of the seven churches of Asia, and
1lSI of all we visit the ruins of that church
where once an -Ecumenical Council of 1000
ministers of religion was held.
Mark the fulfiilment of the prophecy! OF
mended in tie book of Revelation and three
were doomed. The cities having tho four
commended churches still stand: the cities
having the three doomed churches are wiped
ont. 1t occurred Just as the Bible said it
would occur.
Drive or and you come to the theater.
which was $50 feet from wall to wall, capable
OF holding j6, 700 spectators. Here and there
the walls arise almost unbroken, but for the
most part the building is down. just enough
OF it is left to help the Imagination build it
ana clapped at some great spectacular.
Their huzzas must have been enough to stun
the heavens
Paul Would Face a Mob There.
Standing there, could rot forget that
III that building once assembled a riotous
throng for Paul's condemnation, because
what he preached collided with the idolatry
OF their national goddess. Paul tried to get
into that theater and address the excited
multitude. but his friends held him back
lest he be torn in pieces by the mob and the
Recorder of the city had to read the riot act
among the people who had shrieked for two /
mortal hours till their throat were sore and |
they were black in the face: Great is Diana
Of the Ephesians' |
Now, we step into the Stadium. Enough |
O; Its walls and appointments are lett to |
snow what a stupendous place it must have !
with wild beasts.
1t must have been great fun for these |
hatefs OF Christianity to hear that on the |
morrow in the Stadium in Ephesus the mis- |
slonary Paul would in the presence of the |
crowded galleries fight a hungry lion. The /!
people were early there to get the best seats, |
never assembled. They took their dinners |
with them And was there ever a more un- |
equal combat proposed? Paul, according to |
tr..CitiOD, small, crooke backed and weak /
eyeC. but tine grandest man in 60 centuries
Is led to the center as the people shout It |
Is PLAIN that all the sympathies of that
crowd are with the lion.
One of the Party Missing.
But, we pass out OF the Stadium, for we are
in haste for other places of interest in Ephe-
sus. To add to the excitement of the day
one OF our party missing. No man is
sa1e in that region alone unless he be armed
and know 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 |
az ain and again. yet, where no man unac-
should adventure now But |
after some time had passed, and every min
ute seemed as long as an hour, and we had
time o imagine everything horrible in the
v;lr of robbery and assassination, the lost
Traveller appeared, to receive from our entire
party volley of expostulation for the
ar5esal of so many anxieties.
IN the midst of this city of Ephesus once |
fcated artificial lake, brilliant with
painted beats, and through the River Cav |
suer 1t was connected with the sea, and ships
from all parts of the known earth fioated in |
and out carrying on q commerce which made
= ,1Ns . 49,.
EDlesus, Its gymnasia its hippodrome its
cdeon, its athenaeuln. its forum, it aQue-
ducts twhoSe skeletons are still strewn
Along the city,. its towers, its castles of
its monument of Androclus its
qEar!ies.
Diana's Temple the Great Wonder.
But have now to unveii the chief wonder |
Df this cEiefest of cities. In 1863 under the /
patronage of the English Government Mr.
v ood, the explorer, began at Ephesus to |
teei along under the ground at great depths |
'ol roads Tor walls. for towers, and here it i.
-ttst for which Ephesus was more cele.
D.ated than all else beside-the temnle of | ,
The goddess Diana. called the sixth wonder
1f the world, and in 1889 we stood amid the !
'GIn7 OF That temple, measuring its pillars =
by its sculpture and confounded
It hat was the greatest temple of idolatry =
II all time.
A sat on a piece of one of its fallen :
,oinmns / sald: What earthquake rocked :
7 down, OF what hurricane pushed it to the :
,artn. or under what strong wine of CEN 4
uries did the giant stagger and fall?' There |
ave been seven temples of Diana the ruins I
" each contributing something for the
l5icntior of all its Architectural successors |
Two hundred and twenty years was this | =
asst temple in construction. Twice as long
s the United States have stood was that 7
cmple IN building. 1t was nearly twice as | y
argr as St Paulfs Cathedral, London Lest | 4
; should he disturbed by earthquakes | 5
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