North and I resorted to the wood-pile in the
shed for exercise, till dinner-time, Mrs. North following us to the
door, and charging us not to converse upon this subject till she should
be present.
CHAPTER IX.
DISCUSSION IN PHILEMON'S CHURCH AT THE RETURN OF ONESIMUS.
"My equal will he be again
Down in that cold, oblivious gloom,
Where all the prostrate ranks of men
Crowd without fellowship,--the tomb."
JAMES MONTGOMERY.
"I will now relate to you," said I, as we resumed our conversation, "the
thoughts which came to me one night as I lay awake meditating on this
subject. I wrote them down the next day.
"The subject in our conversation which suggested them was, The relation
of Christianity to slavery.
* * * * *
"About the year A.D. 64, two men, travellers from Rome, entered the city
of Colosse, in Phrygia. Asia Minor, both of them the bearers of letters
from the Apostle Paul, then a prisoner at Rome.
"A Christian Church had been gathered at Colosse. Its pastor was
probably Archippus. Some think that Epaphras was his colleague. This
church, according to Dr. Lardner and others, was most probably gathered
by the Apostle Paul himself.
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