RUINS OF TEMPLE OF DIANA, EPHESUS-Visited by the Cruise, April 1, 1904 One of the Seven Wonders of the world. The statue of Diana was said to have fallen from heaven, and may have been a meteorite. Burned in 356 B.C. and rebuilt. Destroyed by the Goths in 262 A.D. "Diana. whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. ' The site of the temple was rediscovered in 1869. Acts 19: 27. A Memorable Easter Service on the Mediterranean April 3, 1904 WE had as fellow passenger from Smyrna to Beirut, Archbishop Agathaggelas of the Greek diocese of Grevena in Macedonia. On Sunday morning, by invitation of the Central Committee, he attended the Easter service. Parts in the service were taken by delegates from Manitoba, Michigan, Beirut and Alabama. The sermon was preached by Rev. Ernest Bourner Allen, of Toledo, Ohio, from the text: "Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead." At the close of the service Archbishop Agathaggelas said: Beirut is the port of Syria. BEIRUT, CITY, BAY, AND MOUNT LEBANON It has no Bible history. The bay is protected on the north by the mountains of Lebanon. The American Protestant College is the chief attraction. THE cruise was a great study-class in foreign missions. The leader from New York to Beirut was Dr. Henry H. Jessup, silverhaired, past threescore years and ten, whose life of service in the Syrian field reads like a story from the annals of the New Testament church. The members of the cruise found his practical knowledge of customs and practices in Eastern lands invaluable as a guide to conduct on shore. For Dr. Jessup, though having embarked in ill health, was ever ready to respond to demands for counsel and information and public address. His loving pride in the missionary institutions at Beirut, the Syrian Protestant College and the Press, was contagious in its enthusiasm and his joy at returning to his field of labor for the remaining years of life did not accord with certain popular and mistaken notions of missionary sacrifice. THE AMERICAN PRESS The Founded in Malta, 1822; moved to Beirut, 1834. Here is found the first complete copy of the Arabic Bible. plant and stock are worth $180,000. The Bible, in whole and in parts, is produced in seventy different forms. Eighteen million pages of Scripture were printed here last year. On March 7 and 8, 1904, the day before and the day the "Kurfürst sailed from New York, 28,900 copies of the Scriptures were ordered from the American Press. |