The Ephesians stand before us in the pathway of the world, at the door by which the West visited the East,
and from which the East looked out upon the West, as a dignified people worthy of their great position, who
had lived through a noble history in the past, and were on the whole not unworthy of it in the present, who
maintained their high tradition--and yet one thing was lacking, the power of loving and of making
themselves loved.