Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-21


known earth floated In and out carrying
on aoommerce which made Ephcsns the
envy OF the world. Great was Ephesus!
It's gymnasia, It's hippodrome, Its odeon,
It's athen@um, Its forum. Its aqueducts
Whose skeletons are still strewn along
the cityl its towers, its castle OF Ha-
drian. its monument OF Androclus, its
quarries, which were the granite cradle
OF cities, its temples, built TO Apollo, TO
Minerva, 20 Neptune, TO Mercury. 10
Bacchus, TO Hercules, TO Cesar. to For
tune, to Jupiter Olympus. What his
tory and poetry and chisel and canvas
have not presented has come up ut the
call OF psychologists powder blast ana
crowbar.
But have now to unveil the chief
wonder OF this choicest OF cities. In
1863, under the patronage OF the En-
giish government. Mr.. Wood, the ex-
plorer. 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 beside, the tenn
pie 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, trans6xed by its
sculpture, and COMPOUNDED at what was
the greatest temple OF idolatry In all
time. AS sat on piece OF one oil It's
fallen columns. I said: "What earth
quake rocked II down, or what hurri-
cane pushed 1t to the earth, or under
what strong wine OF centuries did the
giant stagger and fall?" There have
been seven temples OF Diana, the ruins
of each contributing something for the
splendor OF all its architectural success
sors. Two hundred and twenty wears
was this temple In construction. Twice
as long as the United States has stood
was that temple in building. II was
nearly twice as large as St Paul's CO.
thedral, London.
Lest 1t should be undisturbed by
earthquakes. which have always been
fond OF making these regions their
playground, the temple was built on q
marsh, which was made firm by layers
OF charcoal covered by feeces OF wool.
The stone came from the quarry near
by. After It was decreed to build the
temple, 1t was thought it would be nec-
essary to bring the building stone from
other lands, but one day shepherd by
the name OF Pixodorus, while watching
his nocks, saw two rams fighting, and
as they missed the interlocking Of their
horns and one fell, his horn knocked a
splinter from the rock, and showed by
that splinter the lustrous wilderness OF
the rock. The shepherd ran to the city
with q piece OF that stone, which re-
vealed 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 sacrifices TO
the memory OF that shepherd who dis
covered this source OF sp,endor 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 q frame OF timbers be arranged
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 UNI
dertaking that the architect at one time
gave it up, and in his chagrin intended
suicide, but one night in his sleep he
dreamt that the stone had settled in
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
425 feet long by DO feet wide. All
Asia was taxed to pay for it. 1t had
l27 pillars, each go feet high, and each
the gift of a king and inscribed with
the name OF the donor.
Now you see the meaning OF that pas
sage in Regulation. just as king pre-
senting one OF these pillars to the tenn
pie Of Diana had his own name chiselled
on it and the name 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" How suggestive and beautiful.
In addition to those pillars that
climbed over while amid the ruins OF
Diana's temple, / saw afterward eight
OF those pillars at Constantinople, to
which city they had been removed 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 drenched with brilliant
colors. Costly metals stood up In var
ious parts OF the temple, whore they
could catch the fullest flush of the sun.
A fight 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 has relief,
swung against pillars of brass, and re-
sounded with echo upon echo, caught up
and 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 the image had dropped
plumb ont Of heaven into that temple,
and that sculptors who really made the