at hand, wrote:  “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:  Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.”  Meditating on the noble and lofty sentiment the apostle here expresses in connection with his solemn charge to the young evangelist, I have found my sentiments well expressed in Balaam’s parable, where he says:  “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his” (Num. 23:10).

Near the front of the theater, on the left as one comes out, is quite a space, which seems to have been excavated recently, and farther to the left excavations were being made when I was there.  An ancient lamp, a fluted column, and a headless statue were among the articles taken out.  The workmen were resting when I viewed this part of the ruins, and an old colored man gave me a drink of water.  Beginning a little to the right of the theater, and extending for perhaps fifteen hundred or two thousand feet, is a marble-paved street, along which are strewn numerous bases, columns, and capitals, which once ornamented this portion of the great city; and to the right of this are the remains of some mighty structure of stone and brick.  In some places, where the paving blocks have been taken up, a water course beneath is disclosed.  While walking around in the ruins, I saw a fine marble sarcophagus, or coffin, ornamented with carvings of bulls’ heads and heavy festoons of oak leaves.

J.S.  Wood, an Englishman, worked parts of eleven years, from 1863 to 1874, in making excavations at Ephesus.  Upwards of eighty thousand dollars were spent, about fifty-five thousand being used in a successful effort to find the remains of the Temple of Diana.  I followed the directions of my guide-book, but may not have found the exact spot, as Brother McGarvey, who visited the place in 1879, speaks of the excavations being twenty feet deep.  “Down in this pit,” he says, “lie the broken columns of white marble and the foundation walls of the grandest temple ever erected on earth”; but I saw nothing like this.

When Paul had passed through Galatia and Phrygia, “establishing all the disciples,” “having passed through the upper country,” he came to Ephesus, and found “about twelve men” who had been baptized “into John’s baptism,” whom Paul baptized “into the name of the Lord Jesus.”  He then entered into the Jewish meeting place and reasoned boldly “concerning the kingdom of God.”  Some of the hardened and disobedient spoke “evil of the Way,” so Paul withdrew from them and reasoned “daily in the school of Tyrannus.  And this continued for the space of two years; so that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.”  The Lord wrought special miracles by Paul, so that the sick were healed when handkerchiefs or aprons were borne from him to them.  Here some