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.