Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-16

of his own country, so says Christ: Him
that overcometh will make pillar in the
temple of my God, and will write upon
him the name OF my God, and the name OF
the city OF my God, which is New Jerusa-
lem, and will write upon him my new
name.''
In that building stood an image OF Diana,
the goddess. The impression was abroad, as
the biole records, that that image had
dropped plumb out of heaven into that tenn
pie, and the sculptors who really made the
statue or image were put to death. so that
Ihey could not testify OF its human manu-
iaTsure ana so deny its celestial origin.
This image was carved out OF ebony and
punctured here and there with openings
kept full of spikenard so as to hinder the
statue from decayine and make it aromatic,
but this ebony was covered with bronze and
alabaster. 4 necklace of acorns coiled grace.
fully around her. There were four lions on
each arm, typical of strength. Her head was
coronetted. Around this figure stood statues
which by wonderful invention shed tears.
The air by strunge machinery was damp
with descending perfumes. The walls multi
piled the sceae by concaved mirrors.
The Glory of Ephesus No More.
But all the glory OF Ephesus 1 have de-
scribed has gone now. At some seasons of
the year awful malarias sweep over the
place and put upon mattress or in graves a
large portion of the population. In the ap-
proSimate marshes scorpions, centipedes
and all forms of reptilian life crawl and hiss
and sting, while hyenas and iackals at night
stink in and out of the ruins of buildings
which once startled the nations with their
almost supernatural grandeur.
But here is a lesson which has never vet
been drawn out. Do you not see in that
Temple OF Dlana an EXPIRE sion of what the
world needs? 1t wants God Who can pro-
vide food. Diana was a huntress. In pic
lures on many of the coins she held stag
by the horn with one hand and bundle of
"a i'm a nfh l,ic &c han
world. Diana could not give one pound of
meat or one mouthful of food to the millions
OF her worshipers. She was dead divinity,
an imaginary God, and so in idolatrous
lands the vast majority of people never have
enough to eat.
1t is only in the countries where the
God of heaven and earth is worshiped
that the vast majority have enough to
eat. Let Diana have her arrows and her
hounds; our God has the sunshine and the
showers and the harvests, and in proportion
as He is worshiped does plenty reign.
The Lesson of the Visit.
One thing is certain. and that is that all
idolatry must come down. When the great
est goddess of the earth, Diana, enshrined
in the greatest temple that ever stood, was
prostrated at Ephesus. it was prophecy OF
the overflow ofall the idolatries that have
cursed the earth, and anything we love more
than God is an idol, and there is as much
idolatry in the nineteenth century as in the
first, and in America as in Asia.
As our train pulled out from the station at
Ephesus, the cars surrounded by the worst
looking group OF Williams ever gazed on, all
of them seeming in a wrangle with each
other and trying to get into a wrangle with
us, and we moved along the column
crowned with storks. having built their
nests there, and we rolled on down toward
smyrna and that night in a 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.