I only know that if our masters and servants would take the Apostle Paul's Epistle to Philemon as the rule of their spirit and life, there would be no such thing as oppression, nor fugitive servants.

Now, as to revolutionizing society to eradicate slavery, I would no more attempt it than I would try to dig down Cadmus to dislodge yonder snow and ice upon his top.

The sun will in due time melt them and pour them into the Lycus and the Moeander.

So the Gospel, when it has free course, will dissolve every chain, break every yoke, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.' * * * * * "Philemon was now the first to rise.
"'I am the master to whom Paul the Apostle sends back my fugitive servant.

This man, Onesimus, is my brother in Christ; in heaven, it may be, I shall see him far above me as a faithful servant of our common Lord.