The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-12-18

( splendor OF all It's architectural sue
cessors. Two hundred and twenty
years was this last temple in construc.
ton. Twice as long as the United
States have stood was that temple in
building. II was nearly twice rs largo
as ST. Paul Cathedral London. Lest IL
should be disturbed by earthquakes,
which have always been fond OF max.
ing those regions their playing ground,
the temple was built on marsh, which
was made firm by layers of charcoal
covered 10y tleechcs of wool The stone
came from the quarry near by After
IT was decreed to build the temple, it
was thought it would be necessary to
bring the building stone from other
lands, but one day shepherd by the
name of Pixodorus, while watching his
foclSs, saw two rams fighting, and rs
they missed the intcrlocl<ing of their
horns and one fell, his horn knocked n
splinter from the rock and showed by
that splinter the lustrous Wilderness of
the rock. The shepherd ran 20 the city
with a piece of that stone, which re-
vcalcd quarry from which place the
temple was built, and every month in
all ages since the mayor of Ephesus
goes to that quarry To offer sacrifice to
the memory Of that shepherd who dis
covered the source of splendor and
wealth for the cities of Asia Minor In
removing the great stones from the
quarry To their destined places in the
temple it was necessary, in order To
keep the wheels, which were twelve
feet in diameter, from sinking deep into
the earth under the unparalleled heft
that frame of timbcrs be arranged
over winch the wheels rolled.
70 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 mp, and in his chagrin
intended suicide, but one night in his
sleep he dreampt that the stone had
settled to the right place, and the next
day he found that the great block of
marble had 10y its own weight settled
to the right place The temple of Di.
ana was 425 feet long by 800 feet wide.
All Asia was taxed to pay for it. II
had TT pillars, each sixty feet high,
and each the the gift of king, and in
scrihcd with the name of the doner.
Now you see the meaning of that
passage in Revelation, just as "A king
presenting one of these pillars to the
Temple of Diana had his own name
>hiscled on il and the name of his own
country, so says Christ: "llim that
ovcrcometh will make a pillar in the
temple of my God, and will write up
ON it the name of my God, and the name
of the city of my God, which is New
Jcsusalcm, and will write upon him
my new name" How suggestive and
beautiful? In addition to these pillars
that / climbed over while amid the
ruins of Diana's Temple, ! saw after
ward eight of those pillars at Constant
inoplc, to which city they had been re-
moved and are now 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 drcnchcd with
brilliant colors. Costly metals stood
in various parts OF the temple,
whore they could catch the fullest flush
of the sun.
A flight of stairs was carved ont of
one grape vine. Doors of cypress wood,
which had been kept in glue for years
and bordercd with bronze in bas-relief,
swung against pillars of brass, and re-
sounded with echo upon echo, caught
up, sent on, and hurled back through
the corridors In that building stood
an image of Diana, the goddess. The
impression was abroad as the Bible re-
cords, that that image, had dropped
plumb out of Heaven into the temple,
and the sculptors who really made
the statue or image were put
to death, so that they could not tes-
tify TO its human manufacture and so
deny its celestial origin. 1t was thought
by intelligent people that the material
from which this idol was formed might
have dropped out of Heaven as an aero
lite.
We have seen in the British Museum,
and in universities in our own West
blocks of stone hurled off from other
worlds. These acrolites were seen To
fall, and witnesses have gone to the
landing places, and scientists have pro-
nounced them TO be the product of 9th
err worlds Bu, the material out of
which the image of Diana was fashion
ed contradicts that notion. This image
was carved out IF ebony, and punctur-
ed here and there with openings kept
full of spikenard so as 10 hinder the
statue from decaying and make it aro-
matte, but this ebony was covered with
bronze and alaOaster A necklace of
acorns coilcd around her. There were
four lions on each arm, typical of
Her head was coroneted.
Around this figure stood statues