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                               ONESIMUS

                   Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul




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=PHILOCHRISTUS.= Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord. 16mo. $1.50.

=ONESIMUS.= Memoirs of a disciple of St. Paul. By the author of
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  ROBERTS BROTHERS,
  PUBLISHERS,
  BOSTON.




                               ONESIMUS

                                MEMOIRS

                                  OF

                        A DISCIPLE OF ST. PAUL

                  _BY THE AUTHOR OF “PHILOCHRISTUS”_


     Νυνὶ δὲ μένει πίστις, ἐλπίς, ἀγάπη, τὰ τρία ταῦτα· μείζων δὲ
                            τούτων ἡ ἀγάπη.


                                BOSTON
                           ROBERTS BROTHERS
                                 1882




ONESIMUS TO THE READER.


_Art thou a slave, as I was? Or an orphan, as I was? Or wanderest thou
still, as I long wandered, in the wilderness of doubt and sin? Then for
thee is written this story of one that was made free in Christ, and
adopted to be the child of God, and in the end brought safe out of the
deep darkness of Satan into the Light of the Eternal Truth._




THE TABLE.


  _THE FIRST BOOK._

  Section                                                          Page

  1 _Of my childhood_,                                                 1

  2 _How I first saw the Holy Apostle Paulus_,                         3

  3 _Of the Stranger, and of Diosdotus the Priest of Zeus_,            6

  4 _How we grew up at Lystra_,                                       10

  5 _How Ammiane died, and my brother and I were sold for
  slaves_,                                                            12

  6 _Of the death of Chrestus_,                                       15

  7 _Of my life in the Ergastulum_,                                   20

  8 _How I was sold to Philemon of Colossæ_,                          25


  _THE SECOND BOOK._

  1 _How I returned to the worship of false Gods_,                    29

  2 _How some of Philemon’s friends avowed a belief in one God_,      31

  3 _How Nicostratus urged that, without the belief in the
  Gods, the life of Man would be void of pleasure_,                   34

  4 _How Philemon, falling sick, inclined to superstition_,           38

  5 _How I accompanied Philemon to Pergamus_,                         44

  6 _How I went down into the cave of Trophonius_,                    47

  7 _How Artemidorus spoke against the belief in Gods_,               52

  8 _How I journeyed with Philemon to Antioch in Syria_,              58


  _THE THIRD BOOK._

   1 _Of my first thoughts concerning the Christians_,                64

   2 _Of the Doctrine of the Christians_,                             68

   3 _How Artemidorus questioned me further concerning the
      Christians_,                                                    75

   4 _How the Christians honored the Prophets of the Jews_,           83

   5 _Of the ancient Histories of the Jews_,                          90

   6 _How Artemidorus questioned me further, and of his
      relation concerning the casting out of the swine_,              95

   7 _Of the Traditions of the Christians, and of the nature of
      Christus_,                                                     