Busy: A Poem

456 IMPRO VEMENT ERA. some of the inscriptions names that have become familiar to all Bible students, such as Tryphsena, Tryphosa, Epaphras and so forth. Paul salutes Tryphsena and Tryphosa when writing to the Romans from Corinth (chap. 16: 12). He mentions Epaphras when writing from Rome to the Colossians (chap. 1:7; chap. 4: 12), and also when writing from the same place to Philemon (verse 23). Mr. Russell-Forbes tells us that such names as Amplias, Tryphsena and Tryphosa are to be found on slabs in another of the columbaria, a mile further back on the Appian way, known as the columbaria of the servants of Livia Augusta, and which was discovered in A.D. 1726. It may be presumed, therefore, that such names were not uncommon among Christians in Rome. The Tryphsena and Try- phosa whom Paul knew must be presumed to have died or else re- moved from Rome before Paul's arrival in that city, because in none of his epistles from there does he make any mention of them whatever. Paris, Prance. [to be continued.]

BUSY. (For the Improvement Era.) We are busy, ah ! so busy, That we never think of the friend Who may be in need Of the kindly deed. Too busy are we to lend A hand to make smooth his pathway, Or his burden to make more light; 'Tis hurry away, Without time to stay, E'en a life to make more bright. We are busy, ah ! so busy, Too busy for life to seem sweet. So hurried are we, Our eyes fail to see Riches that lie at our feet. Heedless we trample upon them, In' our worldly greed for gold, And with the throng, Rush madly along, Till our hearts grow small and cold. Grace Ingles Frost. Sal£Lake City, Utah.