Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-11-21


necessary to bring Tie building stone
from other lands, but one day shep-
herd by the name of Pixodorus, while
watching his flocl:s, saw two rams fight
ing. and as they missed the interlocking
Of their horns and one fell, his horn
knocked q splinter from the rock and
showed by that splinter the lustrous
whiteness of the rock
The shepherd ran to the city with a
piece of that stone, Which revealed a
quarry from which tile 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 discoy-
sered this source isplendor and wealth
for the cities of Asia Minor IN re.
moving the great stones from the
quarry to their destined places in the
temple, it was necessary, in order to
keep the wheels:@wllich were twelve
1 feet in diameter from sinking deep
into the earth und the IN aralleled
theft; that frame Of ti1nbers be ar
ranged over which the wheels rolled.
To put the immense block of marble
in its place over the doorway of one of
these temples was SO vast and difficult
an undertaking that the architect at
one time gave it up, and in his chagrin
intended suicide, but one night in his
sleep he dreamed that the stone had set
tied to the right place. and the next
day he found that the great block of
marble had by its own weight settled
to the right place. The temple of
Diana was four hundred and twenty
five feet long by two hundred and
twenty feet wide. All Asia was taxed
to pay for it. 1t had one hundred and
twenty-seven pillars, each sixty feet
high, and each the gift of king, and
inscribed with the name of the donor.
Now you see the meaning of that
passage in Revelation, just as king
presenting one of these pillars to the
temple of Diana had his own name
chiseled on it and the name of his own
country, so says Christ, "Him that
overcometh will make Il pillar in the
temple of my God, and Twill write upon
him the name of my God and the name
of the city Of my God, which is New
jerusalem. and will write upon him
my new name" How suggestive and
beautiful
GREAT WAS DIANA OF EPHEsUs.
In addition to those pillars that I
climbed over while amid the ruins OF
Diana's temple saw afterward eight
of those pillars at Constantinople, {,
which city they had been removed, and
are now a part of the Mosque of st.
Sophia. Those eight columns are all
green jasper, but some of those which
stood in Diana's temple at Ephesus
were fairly drenched with brilliant col
ors. Costly metals stood up in various
parts of the temple, where they could
catch the fullest flush of the sun. A
flight of stairs was carved out of one
grapevine. Doors of cypress wood,
which had been kept in glue for years
and bordered with bronze in bas relief,
sounded wifi echo upon4echo; caught
up and sent on, and hurled back
througL~the corridors.
Ii that building stood an image of
Diana, the goddess. The impression
was abroad, as the Bible records, that
that image had dropped plumb out of
heaven into that temple, and the
sculptors who really made the statue
or image were put to death, SO that
they could not testify of its human
manufacture and SO deny its celestial
origin. 1t was thought by intelligent
people that the material from which
thisidol was formed might have dropped
out of heaven as an aerolite.
We have seen in the British museum.
and in universities of our own west,
blocks of stone hurled off from other
worlds. These aerolites were seen to
fall, and witnesses lave gone to the
landing places, and scientists have pro-
nounced them to be the product of
other worlds. But the material out of
which the image of Diana was fash
toned contradicts that notion. This
image was carved out of ebony and
punctured here and there with open
ings kept full of spikenard SO as to hin
der tile statue from decaying and make
It aromatic, but this ebony was covered
with bronze and alabaster.
A necklace of acorns coiled graceful
ly around her. There were four lions
on each arm, typical of strength. Her
head was coroneted. Around this fig
ire stood statues which by wonderful
invention shed tears. The air by
strange machinery was damp with de-
scending perfumes. The walls multi
piled the scene by conceived mirrors
Fountains tossed in sheaves of light
and fell in showers of diamonds. Prax-
iteles the sculptor, and Apelles, the
painter, filled the place with their tri-
umphs. Cresus, the wealthiest of the
ancients, put here and there in the
temple golden heifers.
The paintings were so vivid and life
like that Alexander, who was moved at
nothing of terror, shuddered at one
battle scene on these walls, and SO true
to life was painting of horse that
when Alexanders horse was led up to
it he began to neigh, as one horse is ac-
customed to greet another. One paint
ing in that temple cost S193,75o. The
treasures of all nations and the spoils
of kingdoms were kept here for safe
deposit. Criminals from all lands fled
to the shelter Of this temple, and the
law could not touch them. 1t seemed
almost stranpe that this mountain of