The following is ar. account of the pres
ent condition of the 'even Cities, showing
how accurately the tbreateninga in Revela
tion have been accomplished: —
Ayassalook, the modern village that
►tends on the site of ansient Ephesus, is a
miserable collection of hovels,having neither
place nor name anoog the important towns
of Asia Minor. The fate of the cities of the
seven churches has been peculiarly melan
choly.
Sin vrta has risen in modern times to be
an important seaport town, and ha«, indeed
throiighcut the last eighteen centuries, and
pel hap* it might be said, for the last twen
ty five hundred years preserved a certain
impmtance in the Eastern world.
Pergsmos, and Thyatira, are sn.all in
land cities of no importance in the world,
and though inhabited by people who go to
make up the number of the Sultan’s sub
jects and pav his taxes, are never heard of
'in modern history, scarcely indeed in mod
ern travel.
Laodicea, i*’a wild waste of ruin, inhabit
ed only by the well, the stork and the vul
ture.
Philadelphia, like Pergamos, is a filthy
Turkish town, noted in modern times and
its immediate neighboihood, for the total
absence of brotherly love, and the frequent
occurrence of brawls and, bloodshed.
Sardis lies buried on the Golden Pacto
ius. In a moonlight night, the two lone
some columns of Cybele stands ghostly on
the plain, sole relics of the ancient idolatry;
but of the few that remained faithful, with
unstained garments in Sardis, there remains
no memorial on earth, save only that eve
present promise, by virtue of which they
shall walk in while robes.
