FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1924.
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The three portirs, apparently in a girl, she said, always sat in a the lust stages of exhaustion, tram while she stood, and thought staggered up the gangway, set nothing of striking her. Several down my golf clubs and two small times she had been attacked by suit-cases on the deck and louts armed with iron bars, and once she had been forced to defend demanded one yen. Following the usuni formula. I divided by four, herself-she recalled this with added 15 per cent. as a bonus, and tomboyish glee-by kicking one handed them 40 sen. The result and striking another heavily in
was a chorus of expostulation.
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PRISCA AND AQUILA.
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Prisca and Aquila belonged to fellow-countrymen. The later A further interest is attached to deting General-Governor and a class well represented in this chapters record the beginnings of the order in which the names of withdraw. This necords with the Colony Skilled workers they Christianity among the Gentiles, the married couple appear to the requirements laid down in the Bri-
in quest the missionary journeya of St. Acts and in the Epistles.
tish Note. were far travelled of employment. Tent-makers Paul and his companions and the S. Luke Introduces Aquila, the by trade, they had emigrated progress of the work of the tentmaker and then his wife from the neighbourhood of the Gospel. St. Luke ends his history Priscilla. In the two following
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These are Nakashi, obtained. refugees but the Eternal City, Rome Jewish pilgrims who were Aquila. Copyists have introduced ex-Under-Secretary for the In- No claims will be admitted after which had first attracted them attending the feasts of Passover variations in the Acts corrected interior: Abdel Rabian Faluny, who the goods bave left the Godowns, was imprisoned in 1921 in connec and all goods remaining undelivered called them back and at Rome and Pentecost in Jerusalem had the Revised Version." their wanderings ended."
listened to Reter's sermon on the; The Church on the Aventine tion with a conspiracy case and after 3rd December, 1924..will be Workers and travellers we can day when the converts numbered first dedicated to Prisca and was subsequently released which Zaglul subject to rent enter into sympathetic understand 3,000; among them we would later named after S. Aquila and Pashu took office; and Williaan All Claims must reach us by ing of their story. Difficulties expect to find some of the visitors. Prisca.
Makra Mobsid, u prominent Coptic 10th December. 1924, or they will The historian was a Greek. Waftd-ite, who was recently in not be recognised. which perplex scholarly com
spread to Rome, by means of Luke was in the fullest sympathyLondon with Zuglui, mobility do not impress in the converted pilgrims.
with what was beat in the same way.
Persecution 'scattered abroad the "feminist movement." Paul was the Book of the Acts of the Jerusalem and many would be far but,
Two paragraphs and a line in first members of the Church at Jewish jó hia. conservation; force of circumstances Apostles and three mentions in scattered. The nomadic instinct modified his views, Phoebe, our salutations with which Paul closed survives in the Jew, when he sister, carries his great Epistle to his epistles provide materials from ceased to winder as a shep. Rome and his first greeting is to which to weave a marvellous story herd he began his travels Prisca! of the romance and adventure of labour and pioneer industrial missionary achivement.
"Women!" she sneered. "What is a woman to a Japanese or aedict was revoked, Korean? A dog! You're all right ill you marry one, and then you're in the dirt beneath his
What's the trouble?" demand- ed a strident voice and at my elbow I found a damsel who might have stepped out of a Keystone comedy. She had a round face, turned-up nose, black, eyes, lankfeet." hair "bobbed" into uneven chunks
"Then why not marry a white a shupeless figure and thick ankles
man?" I suggested. around which
her stockings "I do not know white men," she ominously drooped. Instinctively replied hesitatingly. "Japanese one looked for the chewing gum. and Koreans Lcan read. But what "They want one yan" I explains in the white man's mind and
ed.
"One yea!" She turned on, the erring porters with the expression of a hanging judge, burst into a torrent of Japanese, and advanced on the spokesman until her brown fore-finger sawed the air immedi- ately under his nose. What she
said I do not know, but it was wonderfully effective. The port ers, finding that argument merely provoked, her to fresh fury. gave
up the struggle and siank mutter-
ing down the gangway.
me with a sudden shriek of laughter.
Hot work. dis-puting," she said. "Have please a drink with
me.
Taking my assent for granted, she led the way to the saloon, flopped into a chair, ordered (of all things) a bottle of beer, and obstinately insisted on paying for it herself. And while she sipped her beer she talked and gradually revealed something of a strong life and even stranger mentality,
She was a Russian, she told me, and her name was Helen; and to prove it she pulled out a number of autographed photographs and handed me one, which she graciously assured me I might keep. She was 16 years old, and had lived all her life with her mother in Seoul, the capital of Korea. Yes, her father was alive, she believed. But, alive or dead. what did it matter? Had not the dog gone off 15 years ago with another woman and left her
heart I do not know."
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I assured her that at all ovents he would not be ill-treated.
That is not what the Japanese and Koreans tell me," she said doubtfully. And once more she spoke, a little wistfully, of the Korean she used to play with, and in spite of everything, apparently still loved.
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Helen and the ordinary white girl live in different worlds, but I found one thing she had in
Christianity in all probability mentators surprised at such
Paul to the Church at Rome..
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as a merchant or an artisau Jesus by His teaching and ex- and journeyed through the Roman ample introduced a new scale of Empire..
value into religion, among them We resume their story which we
Prisca and Aquila.were not ex: the infinite value in the sight of had left unfinished and our starting point is the mention of the tent-ceptional in their itinerary. They God-of a little child, of a woman, makers in the greetings sent by were typical, of many of their of a mother and of the family fellow-countrymen, typical too, of Where two or three are gathered their fellow religionists. Mobile together in My game the father, merchants and artisans carried mother and child. there
I am I la the midst of them.” with them their Christian pro-
The emancipation of 'women," The Hoyden flung a parting common with her sisters (as craftsmen at Ephesus, to which fession as well as their trades, and i insult after them, and turned to Macaulay might have said) be.port they had accompanied, hin on many of them were as spiritually their freedom in religion and bluejackets have been seen hore is
his journey to Jerusalem
minded as they were commercially social service found its source and sond the Arctic Circle and beneath making another journey to the disposed. They became the zea strength in the teaching of Jesus the Southern Cross. She had a Holy City-not of propaganda but lous ploneers of the Gospel and and the practice of the Primitive passion for the "movies." Had I of charity; his colleagues carry the
the prepared
for -way.
the Christian Church. Seen Rudolf Valentino in this contributions from the Gentile Apostles, prophets and evange "Greetings,"" to Prisca and Jackie Coogan in that? Didn't Christian Churches founded by him lists who followed them.
Aquila, think Marion Davies the most in relief for the poverty stricken
Prisca and Aquila had prepared Prisca and Aquila amidst the
Brass Mounted Bedsteada. Wardrobes beautiful girl on the screen? And members of the Hebrew Christian
with Bavelled Mirrors, Dressing Table Teeming with that mystery, so she went on till I discovered Churches. He writes to the Church the way for Paul at Ephesus. The changes and chances of travel pre- that she was even fonder of rid-at Rorie-which he intends to visit large room in which they made served their early religious en-
Religion added rom-suspense and fascination which with Bevelled Mirror, Marbla Top ing. It appeared that she had and closes his letter, with saluta tents was suitable for the meetings thusiasm. been a jockey for several years, tions. Among those pamed we find of the Church. They laboured after ance and adventure to their life of mark the vigorous and refreshing Washstand, etc., ato., and had ridden in races at Dairen. Prisca and Aquila, who had return-the manner of the Apostle at their hard toll. They were the brave, Jamies Oliver Curwood stories of
trade and at the work of evange-self-sacrificing pioneers of the the Far North, The Golden ware "Greetings to Prisca and Aquila."lisation. Their work was rewarded, Gospel of Christ, the makers of Snare," which was shown at the On View from Monday the let, Tremendously exciting she had to Rome. found it, and great fun; but it
of Converts and of Queen's Theatre last night, is with- December 1994, seems that the yellow man hased order of the names.
It is interesting to note the chang converts were won and the Church tents.
Their memorial lies out doubt the best screen version of Ephesus began in the workroom Churches. In a prev.
buried on the Aventine" the house vet made of any of the author'a his own ideas of sportsmanship.ious letter, Paul had sent greetings of the tent-makers.
Prisca and Aquila prepared the in which the Church at Rome met works. If he backs a horse and it fails to from his fellow-craftsmen Aquila win he not infrequently signifies and Prisca to the Church at Corinth. way for Paul at Rome. They had for worship" but their work lives The wife and husband are now returned to Rome. Ephesus had in the multiplication of Christian his displeasure with stones.
been made unsafe for them. Churches and the extension from Helen's great ambition as a described as " My fellow-labourers When
were established there Rome as the centre of the Chris jockey, she told me, was to win in the work of Christ,"
when the Apóstle wrote his tianity which spread throughout the Dairen Cup. How she they are first introduced in a short
Their the Roman Empire and is still Acts of the letter to the Romans. achieved it, and then lost the paragraph in the
converted spreading. Apostles they are simply fellow workshop had, been trophy, is so strange a story that tentmakers with whom Paul finds again into a Church.
"Greetings Tertullian's address to his wife,
his best beloved fellow servant I suspected she was borrowing a lodging in Corinth, for the con- too, to the Church that meets at from the screen. But Korea is a ventence of following his trade.
their house."
applies equally to Priscilia, wife strange place, and Helen is a They are not called disciples " How inscrutable are the ways of of Aquila." Where are we to find strange girl. and so it may be true. and they were not claimed by the historians! St. Luke mentions "the words" he wrote, "to tell the
"I was in the train, with my Apostle as his converts.
When brethren who went as far as "The happiness of that marriage,the riding clothes on, and a box of he left Corinth, he took them with three Taverns to meet St. Paul Church cements, the oblation con- Chinese cigarettes in the case with him as far as Ephesus, where he on his arrival but of the Church in firms and the benediction signs the Father the cup," she said. "Then the left them to await his return, Rome of which they were members and seals, which Customs officer come, and I go Three years later Paul rejoined he leaves us untaformed. We ratifies "
What kind of a yoke is that of yellow with fright, for I remem-them. Their house had become know that a Church existed and ber the smuggled cigarettes. I the meeting-place of a company of that it met in the house of Prisca two believers partakers of one have no money to pay a 2,000 yen Christian brethren. Aquila and Aquila. A postcript in a letter, hops, one desire, one discipline. fine-oh, they are very strict and Prisca" writes, St. Paul a greeting to two tent-makers, con-one and the same service?
Both are brethren, both fellow- and I don't like to go to prison, so from Ephesus
Corinth tain strangely enough the earliest to I make excuse and leave the car-
send greetings, together, with reference to the Church at Rome servants, no difference of spirit or
Between the two echo psalme riage. As frightened as hell I am. with the Church which meets at "Prisca and Aquila, my fellow of flesh, nay, they are truly two in And then-I am desperate, you their house," Fellow-workers in labourers in the work of Christ on desh.
tentmaking they had learned from Jesus" are the first whom Paul | Together they pray, together and hymns and they mutually understand--I see the river, and the Apostle the making of dis mentioned in his salutations and perform faste, mutually teaching, challenge each other which shall dive through the window into the ciples and gathering them into the then the Church that meets at their mutually exhoning, niutually sus better sings when God
Such things sees and taining. Equally are they both. water far below.
Church. My fellow-labourers in house." "When I come up, the train had the work of Christ," the founders
found in the Church of God, equal-hears He joys. To these, He sends The founders of the Church at "Brothers marry and go forth and gone. I swim a long way, and a of the Church at Ephesus, which Ephesus continued their labours ly at the Banquet of God, equally His own peace. Where two are
bostman pick me up
in persecutions and refreshments, there withal is He Himself, Where I give him Faut made the centre of his labours in Rome. Their house became the Neither takes aught from the other He is, there the evil one is not.** put their sisters from their minds 50 yen to say nothing, and he in the Roman province of Asia
meeting-place of the Church as it neither shuns the other, neither is Greet" Prisca and Aquila my and hearts. They go their path. row me to Shingishu. I stay They are "friends who have had been in Ephesus The
For Coughs and Golds troublesome to the other: The sick helpers in Christ Jesus." Who have she must go hers, No one can there three days, very ill with the endangered their own lives for lonely on the Aventite marks the are visited, the indigent relieved for my life laid down their "own
When changeable weather or exposure help you, no, one. The mission-
coldness of the water, and then mine." The apostle mentions in his spot where in all probability with freedom. Alms are given necks: vato whom not only I give to cold and wet results la bronchitis. start at once taking Chamberlain's afies say "Come to church and.
I go home.
I read in the paper greeting some unrecorded set of must look for the cradle of the without danger of ensuing torment, thanks, but also all the Churches Congh Rendy. Standard for over Bity pray, but I say 'No.' When I there that a jockey with the name heroism, on the part of Prisca infant Church at Rome."
sacrifices attended without scruple of the Gentiles."
years, and strongly recommended for have my own prayer it is from a I ride under has been killed, and
and Aquila. Most probably it Were Prisca and Aquila the
"Likewise greet the Church that stubborn, weakening coughs. For malo secret place. If God will not so I know that I am safe. But risked their own necks to save Historians leave us guessing. The
was at Ephesus where the couple founders of the Church at Rome? and daily datles discharged with
out impediment
is in their house"-at Rome.
everywhere.
never again can I ride in races.
Paul's from the executioners axe. Fobscurity which surrounds begin. Helen the jockey is dead."
He is grateful to them and authenings envelope the introduction of to take an engagement as a
Helen was travelling to Tokyo alone, but all the Gentile Churches Christianity,
also." dancer. Watching her ugly walk
Into the Eternal City but amidst "Greetings to Prisca and Aquila-
mother to shift for herself?
"No brothers or sisters?" said. "What a pity."
"A pity" She shrugged her shoulders with the terrible cyni- cism of those who have been dis- illusioned young. For Helen had come face to face with the ugly realities of life at an age when most of as still believe in fairies, and out of bitter experience she had evolved a philosophy of which the fundamentals were distrust of her fellow men, a resolute indepen- dence and fierce rebellion against what she regarded BA the hypocritical rant of the missions. "Each of us is alone," she said.
listen unless I shout with the rest, then I'll have no God at all. At. the missions they talk of bro- therly love. Words, empty words, I know, I see brothers leave sisters, and sister strikce sister; and ungraceful figure, one could follow-labourers, greetings, too, to all that is uncertain, one fact stands į and so I swear years ago to go my hardly imagine her blossoming the Church that meets at their out clearly defined and that is the way alone.
What I like I do, and into a Pavlova; but at least she house."
The words recall the no missionary, or even my own has one asset-grit.
earller salutation to the Church that mother, shall turn-me. I have
"When I go to Japan last year," meets at their house in Ephesus. chosen my own path, and I shall she said, "my mother try to stop possibly rarely noticed that the St. Peter when he arrived there.}
It is an interesting fact and earliest reference to existence of
follow it to the end."
me. When I still go she say, "Tele-
Church at Rome in the house of the tent-makers. St. Paul knew of the Church some two or three years before he reached Roms. according to trustworthy tradition,
| Prisca and Aquila,
Reared in poverty, this strange graph when your money is all gone, Christian Churches in the two found a home in the house of
and if I have it I will send more But I get work, and in a month, occur in Apostolic salutations and to the married
great centres of Romeand Ephesus Peculiar interest attaches itself that the Churches are in the house
Russian girl had picked up Eng- lish at the mission schools- mainly from Americans, judging from her accent but had lived all her life amongst the Koreans and the Japanese. She spoke their languages, as well as Russian, like
instead of telegraphing for money,
couple whose
I write: Here, mother, is of the travelling tent-makers Prisca They were true
wanderings we have followed.
home for
trade
S.
yake-fellows hundred yen.' Now I go to Tokyo and Aquila, Their hospitality working together At · their again, and when I succeed do you began with providing
and labouring together know what I shall do? Buy an an apostle, and ended by providing the work of evangelisation. a native, and had learned to judge aeroplane and become a flier. Ia home for the Church. everything by their standards. can drive a car now, and in Japan
They are mentioned, six times "Greet Prisca and Aquila”— in the New Testament -and She played with a little Korean I shall take lessons in aviation. They are among the last words
always mentioned together. boy in childhood, fought with him, They tell me that if I qualify and dictated by the Apostle in a prison Paul must have had them in mind later fell in love with him, and take a Japanese name the Govern- Letter to Timothy Persecution
when he wrote to the Christians at finally saw him married by his ment will engage me for good was raging in Rome and most Corinth. Be ye unequally yoked parents to a Korean.
And then" the clasped her hands probably two of the Christian together with unbelievers Prisca She saw nothing strange in a
workers most urgently wanted and Aquila were well-known to round the world." yellow men were the only men she
house the Church had met. They knew. But she had no illusions and is doing all she can to adver couple who had risked their own Differences of belief or unbelief Japan already has a girl pilot escaped to Ephesus, but the heroicness of a married couple equally yoted for work and service. about their character. The tise and encourage flying; and so necks on behalf of their lodger and average Koreani youth, as she it is just possible that some day fellow-labourer in Christ took the may or may not result, la dis painted him, was not exactly a Helen's wild dream may come risk of returning to Rome and into cordance, but they make im Galabad. He had no respect for true.
passible Joint labours o the work of God?
white girl loving a Korean, for rapturously then. I shall fly were the tent-makers la, whose them as an example of the useful.
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