city which Ephesus was. Read the nineteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles and you will find that it was a great city, prosperous, but thoroughly pagan. Its inhabitants worshipped a goddess called Diana and they cried ‘Great is Diana of the Ephesians.’ They were proud of themselves, and of their goddess. Not only so, there was much practice of sorcery and magic and things of the kind. The Apostle Paul visited the city and all he found was a group of twelve men who were disciples of John the