The Newtown bee., 1895-04-19
NUMBER l6.

N keep the peace, when the horrible Ar m meinian massacre is so fresh in the mind
 Smyrns has about POOL inhabitants / In 1t we see & good deal of European E life. and one thing for which we thani r our stars is that we have seemingly Jeff i, cries for "backsheesh" behind. Mi Clark had told us that tram car E would carry us to the railroad station, T and we who were nevices in travel won- , dered what sort of curiosity the tram car
 might be. It proved to be our good
 old American horse car, advertising
 signs and all, though the advertisements
 were in Greek.
 It was only some 50 miles from Smy-
 rna to Ephesus, and the good railway AT EPHEsUs
 we saw our first ruins; indeed,
 ruins are all there is here to see, for this city, which in Paul's day was the great
 commercial city of Asia Minor, is now a
 desolate waste. Right by the railway
 station are the stone columns that mark
 Roman aqueduct. Evidently these pill
 lars were put here to stay, and stay they
 will for many decades to come. Sum-
 bling over rocks and climbing down rough slopes we came to some piles of rock, where, they tell us, stood the mighty Templekof Diana, which in it's glory was honored as one of the seven | wonders of the world. Nothing now speaks of the former splendor; in a | ruined Turkish mosque near by are some massive granite pillars said once to have graced Diana's Temple; but that is all. Surely the breath of Time bloweth upon the most substantial works that man can | rear, and they vanish like thin mist be- fore the increasing light of the sun. UD the hill by A hard climb we came to the Cave of the Seven Sleepers. The | sleepers long ago awaked and quit the l scene; but their abode still makes the | tourist pant and puff as he reaches the spot and wonders how much of the story is true. Seven young Christians in the days of persecution, so the tale is told, took refuge in this cave; an earthquake, for which this region has been ever famed, closed the sleepers in, and there FOR TWO CENTURIES THEY sLUMBERED until, in some wondrous way released, they came down into the plain to find their prosecutors dead and all things en- tirely changed. The myth hides a great and glorious truth. For centuries this Eastern world has been sleeping; but the day of it's awaking must soon come. The same old gospel which was preached right here in Ephesus by the great mis- | sionary evangelist for more than two | years will yet run it's course and be glo- rified; and these nations who now sleep in the shadow of great unbelief will let the light shine in their hearts, the light of the gospel of the Sun of Right eousness.
 Let us now in trice take night run across the Aegean Sea, so that when we awaken we shall find the morning sun brightly shining on the Acropolis of Athens. We E"Friesland" cruisers are ge tting quite used to this, going to sleep | at one part of the coast and coming again
 to consciousness 150 miles or so away,
 where our ship is resting queitly in some beautiful harbor and a busy day of
 sight seeing is before us. This is cer-
 tainly ''doing" the places laid down in
 the itinerary at pace that would almost
 make our grandfathers turn over in
 their graves.
 | The Piraeus is the port of Athens, and
 the classic city is five miles away among
 the hills. Of course, in Athens you ex-
 pect to look upon he noble descendants
 of Socrates and Pfato and Demosthenes
 and Aristides the Just; but alas for
 these degenerate days and the degener-
 ate seions of a mighty rscei Of Athens
 130, 900 people only 10000 or so can lay
 any claim to being Athenians at all;
 THE REST ARE A MoNGREL TRIBE
 from almost any country that the sun
 shines on. It is an honor, though, to be
 an Athenian; and. when one has lived in | the classic city five years, he becomes
 naturalized and has all the pride neces-
 sary for one really born under the shad-
 ow of the Parthenon.
 | The thing to see in Athens is the
 Acropolis; and you cannot help seeing
 it from any point, for it Is far above all
 else. Most of the temples, arches and
 statues in Athens, beautiful even yet in
 their ruins, date back to period three
 or four centuries before Christ, and the | wonder is that so much still remains. It
 was said of ancient Athens that it was | easier to find god there than a man;
 and, as now you wander through the
 streets, you can easily imagine how this
 was true, for at every turn, nay, at
 every step, you meet with ruins that
 cause you to halt and admire. The Acropolis is great hill of marble, and
 marble of the purest sort, the beautiful Pentelic, brought from the famous quar-
 ries some four and half miles away.
 But what was the Acropolis when the lParthenon, the magnificent temple of
 goddess Minerva, crowned it's summit
 with it's snow-white columns glistening
 in the sun, and when the statues
 of Phidias, which initiated the human SO exactly that they did all but breathe, had come fresh from the masters hand The man who can look upon these ruins
 to-day and not feel a thrill of deepest
 emotion stir his breast is surely made of
 meanest clay.
 THE ROMAN EAGLES OF WAR screamed their victorious notes from the , friths of the Clyde to the leaping cata- racts of the Nile. and Roman law made ! the standard of jurisprudence for the , world, but Greek writers gave us beau , tiful thoughts in the most perfect setting } of language the world has ever known, ] and Greek sculptors marked out in mar
 ble the noble conceptions of their minds, l and before their creations we fall in ? speeches. adoration, for they still stand
 unrivaled and alone.
 We stood in the Theatre of Bacchus
 and there was the marble pavement 2 worn smooth by the tread of tripping $ feet, and there rose tier upon tier where g the spectators sat and applauded the play. Here was the row for the priests e and here was the row for the generals oi e the army, and here was the seat of the !. one at whose beck or nod the play ceased 2 or began. Not far away are the massive B ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Olympus q which once contained a colossal statue a of the king of the gods. When built the s temple had 11S columns, and of thess | but IA now stand; but, when you think ! that each of these is 5S feet high and d some six feet through, you can yet al e idea of
 . THAT MIGHTY WORK OF MAN, D Interesting as all these relics of Greel e art may be, for the Christian Athens is D sacred place because connected with tn, U missionary labors of the Apostle Paul s We climbed by flight of rough ston, + steps to the summit of an eminence tha
 still Is called Mars Hill, which over IT lcokod fho u0rc rv rnarkaf- -n1nro holo~