Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-09-08

TAIMAGE IN EUROPE.
EXTRAORDINARY CROWDS GATHER
TO HEAR TIE AMERICAN DIVINE. =

The Witnesses tozSt. Paul's Conaat at
Ephesus and the Witnesses to Every
Mans Combat with SSn-The Welcome
Waiting in Heaven for the Victor.
LoSDoS, Sept. 4.-The great outpour-
inss to hear Dr. Talmage preach con-
sinus. Probably the greatest demon
straeion during the past month was that
at the town hail, birmingham, where
he delivered three addresses the same
evening to audiences aggregating 30, coo
persons. At Sheffield. Derby, Leicester,
Exeter and Bristol also phenomenal au-
diences assembled, the most ccl'uial vel
come being everywhere accorded him.
The sermon selected for publication this
week is entitled Celestial Sympafhiz-
ers," the text being taken from CORN
thians XIV, SO, eIhave Tough, with beasts
at Ephesns,n and Hebrews Xii, l, See
ing.we also are compassed about with
so great cloud of witnesses"
Crossing the Alps by the Mount Gems
pass or through the Mount Gems tun-
mel, YOU are in few hours set down at
Verona, Italy, and il few minutes be-
gin examining one of the grandest ruins
Of the world-the amphitheater. Ihe
whole building sweeps around you IN
circle. You stand in the arena where
the combat was once fought or the race
run. and on all sides the seats rise, ties
above tier, until you count forty eleva-
tons or galleries, as shall see fit to
call them, in which sat she senator's,
tne kings and the twenty-five thousand
excited spectators.
At the sides of the arena ard unde-
the galleries are the cages In which the
lions and tigers are kept without food
until, frenzied with hunger and thirst,
they are let out upon some victim who,
with his sword and alone. is condemned
TO meet them. Think that Paul HIM
self once stood in such place, and that
It was not only fguratively but literal
" that he had fought with beasts at
Ephesus."
The gala day has come. From all the
world the people are pouring into We
roma. Men, women and children, ora
tors and senators. great men and small,
thousands upon thousands. come, until
the first gallery IS full. and the second,
the third, the fourth the afth-all the
way UP to the twentieth, all the way
np to the thirtieth, all the way up 20
tie H. Every place is filed.
j,n,rs audience sweeping the
great Sncle. Sllace! The time fcr
the contest has come. A Roman official
leads forth the victim into the arena.
Let him get his sword with firm grip
into his right hand. The twenty-five
thousand sit breathleSsly watching.
hear the door at the side of the arena
creak open. Out plunges the half starved
hon, his tongue athi?sr Cor Blood, and
with roar that brings all the galleries
TO their feet he rushes against the sword
Of the combatant.
Do YOU know how strong stroke a
man will strike when his life depends
upon the first thrust of his blade: The
wild beast, lame and bleeding, slinks
back toward the side of the arena; then,
rallying his wasted strength, he comes
:lp with feTcer eye and more terrible
roar than ever, only to be driven back
with fatal wound, while the combat
ant comes IN with stroke after stroke,
until the monster is dead at his feet, and
the twenty-five thorsand people clap
their haliuana utter shout that makes
the city tremble.
THERE ARE LIONS IN TUE w.