--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 12 number: 9 published: 1909-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Triviality," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 9 (July 1909): 709.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1209unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1209unse start_page: 709 end_page: 709 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1209unse publication_year: 1909 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Triviality ST. PAUL'S COMPANIONS IN ROME. 709 find that in the year A. D. 64, five years after the time that Tychi- cus and others had left Ephesus in Paul's company for Macedonia, the Apostle despatched him to both Ephesus and Colosse with his epistles which he had written to the churches established at those places (Eph. 6: 21 and Col. 4:7). This was near the close of St. Paul's first Roman imprisonment. Tychicus must have either re- turned to the Apostle to Rome after delivering the letters, or else he must have met him after the latter's release from his imprison- ment, because we find that when Paul wrote to Titus the Bishop of Crete in the following year (A. D. 65), he proposed to send Artemas or Tychicus to him as his messenger, showing that the latter, whom he had dispatched to Ephesus and Colosse in A.D. 64> must have since then joined him again A year still later on, . . . namely A.D. 66, St. Paul, during his second imprisonment, in writ- ing to his son in the faith, Timothy, tells him that he had no one with him except Luke, and that he had sent Tychicus away to Ephesus. This must have been a second message to Ephesus, per- haps another epistle which the Apostle entrusted to Tychicus to deliver, for the latter was evidently with him in A.D. 65 as shown above (II Tim. 4: 12). Very little is known about this devoted companion of St. Paul except that he was an Asiatic (Acts 20: 4), and that he was first heard of in connection with the Apostle at Ephesus, so that in all probability he was one of that great preacher's Ephesian converts. According to tradition Tychicus became eventually bishop of Chalcedon, in Bythinia, or Neapolis in Cyprus. Pas de Calais, France. [to be continued .] TRIVIALITY. "In youth triviality seems only ludicrous and insignificant, but it slowly envel- ops its victim in its grayish mist, penetrates his brain, pollutes his blood like a poison or the fumes of charcoal, and the man soon becomes like an old signboard eaten through and through with rust. It looks as if something was painted upon it once upon a time, bat now it is impossible to distinguish what it was."