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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1924.

ONESIMUS.

A SERMON.

him as the man with the tuneful

name.

once

Our imagination might run riot after the manner of tradition in weaving a story round such a

name.

How and why the fugitive and befouled slave passed through the underworld

of Rome to the

The restraints of the Christian Apostle's prison we know not.

household at Colossac may

remembered have been

THE CHINA MAIL.

to me," and even dearer to both as & servant and as a fellow Christian.

PILFERING CHARGE.

TO SESSIONS.

Mr. Blake ;,. Certainly. Mr. d'Ainunda: The police are supposed to prevent crime.

'ALLEGED CONSPIRACY,

MR. DAVIDSON CROSS. EXAMINES.

"MAGISTRATE'S ADMONITION,

the

wife and son of Philemon. A family given to hospitality, Paul hopes to be their guest when his If therefore you regard me as a ACCUSED BOTH COMMITTED chains have been loosened and he comrade, receive him as if he ́were [is set at liberty. ·

I myself," *Paul, a prisoner,' estreats them. Had he defrauded his Master? Taking as his text at the Naval Garrison and Scout Parade service: to receive Onesimus, the bearer of "If he is in your debt," writes the

The case in which Lo Yung and "And with (Tychicus) I send the letter, as they would welcome | Apostle, debit me without gains, Ho Fai, bolir masters of cargo I will pay in full "I say nothing boats, wito are charged with theft. him. He is my son in the Yalth dear and trusty brother

The of the fact that you owe me even of a quantity of cussia oil and con.. Onesimus, who is one of your and a brother dearly loved.

Aspöstle--plays-on-the-Dame, your own self."--

The two solicitor's clerks charged selves, St. Paul's letter to

formerly, he confesses, he was. Onesimus, the fraudulent and spiring with Clan Sing and others on three cnmts with fraud and Colossians. 4. 9.

The Rev. Clouston Porri, HCF, un-Onesimus, now this to his fugitive slave returns to Colossse to steal a further quantity, was conspiracy appeared again before name he has become Onesimus with a letter that would ensure his continued at the Kowloon Magis Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central preached the following sermon.i.,

Magistracy yesterday afternoon, Onesimus i recalls a little country- to you and to me. That play of welcome and reinstatement in the tragy-yesterday,

words conceals a sordid story of service of his owner and in the The owners of the cargo, Makers. 1 is alleged that they conspired chapel, and a Sunday evening fraud, ingratitude and fight and a fellowship of the Church but.. iBotelho Brothers, were represented together to defraud Wong Tak-yin service conducted by a loca!

beautiful story of repentance, sending him back with that letter by Mr., D. H. Blako. Mr. H. J. of her property by Tales representa preacher, which we attended as a small boy. The story of Onesimus conversion, transformation and Paul suffered.."it is like tearing Armstrong appeared for the first tious that Lo fan was owner

Gofendant und -Mr. Leo d'Almuda of certain lands in the New Ter interested us but, it was the name service. Onesimus, the man with out my own heart," he writes,

The letter to Philemon is at once for the second.

ritories and had transferred the that entered into our memory as a musical name, was just a run-

The No. 2tallyman, who was on same into the name of the suid.. a melody. Onesimus was like away slave and a thief. A Phrygian a self-revelation of the heart of an

of Colossie who belongs to the apostle and a revelation of the the junk when the theft took Wong Tak-yin and desired to mort music in our ear. We thought of

lowest type of slave found in the genius. the power, and the place, denied under cross-examina-gage the same. Thi uther two Roman-world! He had defrauded possibilities of the Gospel of ion that he gave any directions to counts alleged flat the defendants his owner and fled to that goal of Christ. The meanest slave was take the surge to Shanshuipo, conspired, together to induce the St. Paul plays with the name in outcasts, thieves and murderers, not too debased and degraded to Ho Kijow that the cargo would be complainant by falses representa a letter he wrote about him; the Rome, where he could be lost be rescued, restored and trans-pilfered and let them go wherever tious to sign two deeds of sale. - apostle even puns upon the name

The Imperial formed into a son of God and a they pleaosd.. among the crowds.

In the last two counts, not once but twice and thrice City with its glory and vice lured servant of Christ.

Flis Waship remarked that defendants are alleged to have The play of words conceals ahim from the distant Colossze, and We recall a sermon on Christian | from the evidence he had so far (meted in conjunction with Au Hoa- poignant story. Onesimus was

profitable" but he became his youthful yearning to ser life brotherhood based on this letter heard the owners and actually fi and Ho Sai-lok, son of the

to the utmost urged his flight, returning a slave to his owner. known that this gaggy would be complaint, un-Onesimus, the "unprofitable" but at the end of the story he Among the innumerable warrens Paul did not condemn slavery, he stolen, and all this was a police Mr. M. K. Lo'prosecuted, and

of the ancient capital haurits of commended brotherhood. Heap.

Mr. E. Davidson appeared on justified his name.

debauchery and infany, he was undermined the foundations on Mr. d'Alauda : Instead of pre-behalf of the defendants,“ Mr. able to satisfy to the full, the vilest which slavery was built up. At vending wink might have been a H. S. Fitzroy, instructed by Colossae and in other cities mass crime, the police encouraged it. | Messrs. Tape and Russ, watched appetites of his class.

ter, artisans and servants, owners

the proceedings on behalf of Tau We want to set it to

and their slaves gathered together

Shan-cho, the purchaser of certain music The name intrigues us.

for worship and fellowship in the Christian employers of labour,

(property involved in the case. same guest room, together they The DONE Willows, Sergt. Mr. Davidson continued. his hat there is more to be discovered.

joined in the love feast, and one sling, stated that the followed the examination of have found harmonies in the story,

Ho Spi-lok at and all ate of the same broken junk to Cheung Sha Wan ir a yesterday's hearing. Witness Workers, those condemned to the

and bread and drank of the same out-outor ban. meanest and most inonotonous toil

Chi'appénaching the denied But he had gone to Mr. desired when the weariness poured wine in memory of Himjunk nt the Praya, Jour quen dis Davidson's office on November 29. have caught the music and dreamed

had Whose death made them one body, indarked and ran away. Tine of for the purpose of making a pay- that follows sated, lust of possibilities of service and brotherhood before unsuspected. been succeeded by destitution one family, one brotherhood, and them was dressed in a dark blue mont on account-of-certain-pro

fear of discovery and one Church. Where owners and cotton suit and was brought back party involved in the ease or that Some of us listening to the tuneful and

theme death. Perchance some Christian slaves were members of the same by detective. Witness then re he called later to collect it. name, which runs like through the story see visions of slave had learned his sordid story | Church -and loved each other as ted how she found four of the Answering. Further. questions, new industrial, social and and guided him to the Apostle's brothers there was less inequality original drams tampered with, and wither said the only necasion on

prison. Paul had won slaves for than where employers are share the contents of three emptied inte which be signed his infother's name) Onesimus received honourable the Gospel from the underworld holders and the employees mere the drums which the defendants in English was when he necom- mention in a letter written to the of Corinth and Ephesus. He knew dividend producers. The implicated brought with them. A num-mented Lo Shu-fun to the Hong- Church at Colossae. He is the a power which could release the tons of Paul's letter to Philemon ber of tools used in opening the hong and Shnagina Bank and wis subject of a letter to Philemon vilest slaves of sin from the chains are greater than we dream of. drams were lying about.

asked by To to sign cheque made. whose house at Colossac theof-vice-and-make-them-God's Onesimus, the slave with a The No. Tatyan at that on our in his name. This tuppened

and saints. The musical Church was meeting for Christian freedmen

Danie, returned to the 1tl Detobe he hurled the last reur. He thought the cheque worship and fellowship. The two Phrygian Onesimus who unbur Colossae, as a freedman of Christ first defendant a delivery order for us for $10,000, but he received letters supply

material dened his heart and conscience Jesus, and a brother beloved. We 25 drums of t to be handed over no muney, the

to the Apostle found a father can imagine that Philemon wel- to Quai Cheng-

Lo telling him to see) of which we build up the

-------- [pinr again in the afternoon." story. The writer of the letters who received him like a prodigal comed him as he did Tychicus the

To' course of" - cross-examination Mr. Davidson produced a cheque and taught him about a messengers of the chained Apostle: by Me, d'Anada, at me out that and asked witness if he recognised was Paul, Apostle of Jesus Christ 500

An ex-Heavenly Father's forgiveness. He that he restored him to a position there had been a previous theft of that as the one on which he wrote and prisoner of Caesar,

his household and two drums about seven traordinary man was the Apostle in learnt about Jesus who died like a of trust in

month's his mother's name. chains. He converted his prison slave on a cross in order to give received him into the fellowship of go

After a careful sernthy, witness | into the Headquarters of Asian and liberty to slaves and to set them free the Church. We can imagine the

"Be-csamined by Mr. Blake sail the signature appeared to be European Christianity; he made to serve God. The prison became Church meeting for worship and witness stated that the oil only aus his, whengen The Magistrate it the centre of active Christian his birth-place, he was re-born, he praise

listening to the stolen and water put in its place. Jusked him not propaganda and evangelisation received a new spirit; and he was experiences of Philemon, who is theft was not discovered until Pinaliy

the throughout the Roman Empire. transformed from un-Onesimus, would tell how he had met with S. complaints were received from cheque was the same one. Fellow-workers. consulted with the uprofitable into Onesimus, a Paul probably at Laodicea, beard America.

The cross-examination took wit-) him, messengers brought him son of God, profitable, to God and the Gospel, and had become 3 The two defendants were then mess over a series of incidentes, in Christian, and of Onesimus, who committed for trial at the next connection with which the replies He became the servant of would-relate how from the Criminal Sessions, Tath defen ling of the witness frequently took the S. Paul; but what a servant! "My underworld of Rome

was solicitors reserving their defence. Ton of "Fém't remember." At own child, whose father I have led to S. Paul's prison.

he too

one stuge his Worship rebuked bim heard the become while in my chains."-where

in this wise: "You remember } impossible though it may seem. Gospel and found that power "I mean Onesimus." Truly did

a lot. Whenever it is convenient of God which raises the most the son gain and hold the love of degraded slave from the depths of

you can't remember." his father in the faith..

baseness to the heights of holiness. and services. Owner and slave would together lead a chorus of praise and thanksgiving to God Whose grace and mercy and power were magolfed in their transformed lives.

the

church order that is to be.

a

man."

and

he

closed his career at Puteloi or at

DR. COLIN ROSS.

ON CENTRE OF WORLD.

GRAVITY.

(Reuter's Service.)

Berlin, November 6. In the connie, of an article in the Vossische Zeitung Dr.

to prevaricate.

witness admitted

After further questions the rese was adjourned until this afternoon.

I

TROUBLE IN BRAZIL.

“SAO PAOLO" OFFICERS, IN,

REVOLT.

(Reuter's Service.)

news of the Churches, and re- turned bearing letters from him. From his prison he administered to the Churches, and ministered to the soldiers who guarded him and the strangers who sought him.

One Epaphras a fellow-worker, old comrade, and founder of the Church at Colossae arrived bringing disquieting news about the Church Thus it was that Onesimus won and the usual trouble caused by back his name which was as music rival teachers. Paul dictates two in the ear of the Apostle. letters for the three Churches at By a strange coincidence the Ephesus, Laodicea and Colossae owner of Onesimus was also a and writes a personal letter to convert of St. Paul's. What won Philemon. These be dispatches derful ophies the Apostle gather- by Onesimus and Tychicus. ed! Slave owners and slaves; Lpaphras sends his greetings as fugitives and imperial guards. a fellow-prisoner of the apostle! The Church of Christ was indeed Onesimus is commended to the a mixed community! Church at Colossae as "our dear. Onesimus became a problem to and trusty brother, who is one of the Apostle. He was a slave and yourselves."

belonged to his friend Philemon. Onesimus, the man with the Hebrew law was clear on the point, tuneful namie, was one of Paul's Thou shalt not deliver up a slave trusted messengers, brother to his master who escapes to thee beloved and a servant honoured by from his master. With thee shall his master's confidence.

he abide." The new Christian That tradition tells of the storm In the letter which he carried to ethic was also clear. Onesimus of persecution which burst upon Philemon the Apostle writes of him was now a brother, of the same the Church in the house of affectionately. He is my own family as his master Philemon. Philemon in the days of Nero entry and exercise decisive in- but was apparently resultless, The child whose father I have become He was bound to him by a fresh Enraged mobs attacked the Chris fluence on the affairs of the Pacific, general situation is well in hand while in my chains-I mean, tie. Pau! desires to retain him; tians with murderous fury. He emphasises the importance of and complete reliance is placed on

he is too much. beloved and Philemon the slave owner, Apphia, the Singapore base, in this respect the rest of the navy and army. He was a trophy for the Gospel profitable to lose. We feel his wife, Archippus, his son, and and says that the Tabour Govern- won by the captive. A wanderer. the conflict in the Apostle's Onesimus, their slave, were seized ment's rejection of this scheme who found his way to Paul's prison letter. Philemon 'owed his and dragged into the open. The contributed more than it knew to and found also forgiveness, own self "to him. It would be a mob encircled them. Stones fellite downfall. He is of the opinion freedom and the fraternity which small thing to allow him to own like.rain. When the crowd with that one of the first note, of the is in Christ Jesus. He is of great | Onesimus.

drew, slave-owner, family, and Conservative Government will be use to me" writes the Apostle. Paul returns him to Philemon slave had made the supreme to proceed with the scheme. An “Onesimus," profitable to me but not alone; he sends him in the sacrifice for the faith. Undivided Dr. Ros thinks this fact has an and a servant ladispensable. How company of his fellow-worker in Christian fellowship and important, influence on the British much his service meant to the Tychicus. He makes him a mes service, they were undivided in attitude towards the execution of apostle in chains, and aged the senger to the Churches and com- heroic martyrdom. Their names the Dawes report, as the consolida- letter conveys. Paul loved him as menda him to the Church at stand together 00 the foll. tion of the situation in Europe in. a son, his presence in the prison Colossae as our dear and trusty of those whose glorious memory essential to any British plan to brought the warmth of comradeship brother, one of yourselves," He we honour and whose blood detach the main body of its mili and friendship. He must leave carries with him a letter in' Paul's was the seed of the Church, tary and naval forces to India or the apostle and in the company of hand-writing, the most exquisitely Christianity conquered the Rothe Pacific..: Tychicus set off for the Asia | beautiful and tender epistle ever man Empire becuase It was a Churches with the precious letters. penned.

mightler power than Caeserism. It could change a base born Phrygian slave and a fraudulent insignificant contribution towards fugitive into a brother beloved, a the conversion of the world! friend of an apostle, a saint, a hero, What, a mean trophy to reward and a martyr.

the Apostle's struggle! Only a Christianity will conquer the slave added to the Church at world. S. Paul bolleved it; and Colossal Only a short letter. that faith made his Roman prison about him included in the New

Onesimus, if one tradition is true, became the bishop of Beroza and of Ephesus; travelled in Spain Colin Ross, the well-known public and preached the Gospel there and ist who has just returned from a Rome as saint and martyr lugthy visit to the East, expresses

London, November 6. Another tradition, which we hope the opinion that the ecmonic and

Official information has reached is the true one, left him at Colossar, political centre of gravity of the Toudon from Rio de Janeiro that a member of the Church, "a brand world is moving from the Allantie the junior officers of the warship. plucked from the burning," and at the Purife. He observes that "Sao Paolo" Revolted on the 4th. America controls the and started seaward with the in- witness to the mighty saving While

Paintna Catral, power of the Gospel.

or the western tention of relieving the politicil entry thereto, it is possible for isomers incarcerated on an island. military-val power based on the The fort fired on the intileship Malacca Straits to block the cast and a short ongigesnent ensued

Daesimus

Paul writes, "I am sending him "Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ? back, it is like tearing out my own-in the opening sentence he heart" He entreats Philemon to reminds Philemon of his chain receive him as he would the writer, before he mentions his slave on

Onesimus must have been a whose behalf he pleada. wonderful ⚫ servant to have "Though I might with Christ's endeared himself thus to the authority, speak very freely and Apostle. His departure darkens order you to do what is fitting, it is the prison-house, breaks the hear for love's sake that instead of that the headquarters of an evangelism. Testament1 Ooly a tradition that of his father in the faith and leaves-although I am none other than which he knew would spread he died a hero and a martyr, -the Apostle feeling old and Paul the aged, and am now also a throughout the Empire and the A slave won the heart of the lonely in his chain

prisoner for Christ Jesus, I entrent world. He laboured in the Epistles Apostle, confirmed his faith, and to you on behalf of my own child which he dietated that he might strengthened his hope. Daesimus, whose father I have become while prove that the Gospel of Christ was 10 S. Paul more than...a in my chains-I mean: Onesimus." is the wisdom of God and he triumph of race, he was the

Onesimus bears a letter

Philemon. A personal and in- limate letter, probably the only

by the Apostle and not, dictated.

one preserved which was written He does not condone his fault; preached in Roman cities and promise of the triumph of the he was not an Onesimus to you be talked in his 'Roman prison Kingdom of Christ. The power Of all his correspondence this but -now-all is changed, he is to any who would listen about the. which changed an “unprofitable" letter was the most charmingly true to his name, he is increasingly Gospel of Christ, which he belley Mave lato and Onesimus," pro- phrased and even in translation an Onesimus to you and to me.” fed to be the power of God. fituble and a brother beloved, was is an epistolatory gem of zarest He would be remembered at Apostle, organiser, administrator, the same which had changed him beauty. Philemon was a wealthy. Colossae as a nunaway slave, but and theologian he isboured that from a persecutor, and the chief of citizen of Colossar and an owner Paul with graciousness and charm the vision of a world wide Kingdomainners into an apostle, and that of slaves.' He was a Christian, a suggests that.....?" perhaps it was, of Christ might become icutal. An janme power he knew was destinedi convert of St. Paul's and a fellow for this ranson he was parted from Evangelist, wih a passion for the to conquer the world, GTAKILA worker in whose house the Church | you for a time, that you might| salvation of humanity, he spent Onesimus! the name sounds to gathered to wrrahip.." Apphis, I receive him back wholly and for- days, perchance, weeks in teaching, us like, music, a far, off↑ strain of our sister, and. Archippus nur ever, yours; no longer as a slave, an- ignorant, mil away slave and melody, z-little-theme, in the fellow-soldier mentioned" in the but as something better, than a thief the way of salvation and swelling triumphal march of the loner were in all probability, the"" slavema brother peculiarly dear, peace. 1. Onesique); what an. Kingdom of Christ. S

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