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'I suppose now life will be all duty, said Pauline, with a sigh. Tryphosa smiled. 'That is not the way I read my Bible. Peter says we must "love the brethren," and John, "This is Christ's commandment, that we believe and love," because "he who loveth knoweth God," and Paul, "The love of Christ constraineth us." 'Well, but I must do something, my lady. 'Don't fall into that snare, little one.
Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. Salute Apelles, approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household. Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
'It will not be, dear child, when the mists have rolled away, and in the clear light of the Sun of Righteousness you look across to the other shore. 'Couldn't you tell me what it is like, my lady? You seem to know. I can't fathom it, and everything looks so dark. Tryphosa lifted a plain little book from a revolving bookcase of morocco-bound treasures, which stood within easy reach.
And remember, "perfect has no clipped edges, no dreary blanks." Little one, I want you to strive to be a perfect Christian. Pauline fell on her knees beside the couch, and buried her face in the cushions. 'I am not worthy, she murmured. Tryphosa laid her hand very tenderly upon the bowed head, as she repeated in low, triumphant tones:
Tryphosa said the other day that if you were to take away grandpapa Flavel's wig and bands from the picture in the Evangelical Magazine he would be just like him." "It seems to me," replied George, "that if there's any nonsense going about the town, it always comes to you. People don't talk such rubbish to me."
So in our various spheres of difficulty and of temptation we may feel that the greeting from heaven, like Paul's message to the slaves in Rome, comes to us with good cheer, and that the Master Himself sees us, sympathises with us, salutes us, and stretches out His hand to help and to keep us. 'Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. ROMANS xvi. 12.
As they rose to go, Tryphosa drew Pauline's face down until it touched her own. 'Dear child, won't you claim your birthright? 'I will, my lady. The summer slipped away, and to Pauline it was a continual dream of pleasure.
These two, Tryphena and Tryphosa, were probably sisters. That is rendered likely by their being coupled together here, as well as by the similarity of their names. These names mean luxurious, or delicate, and no doubt expressed the ideal for their daughters which the parents had had, and possibly indicate the kind of life from which these two women had come.
She would strive to lift them from the torpor of their common-place into a higher life. Life was magnificent! Poor Tryphosa, in her narrow sphere of pain, how could she be so happy! Belle hurried along the hall and stopped at the door of the blue-draped chamber. 'My dear Paul, do you know we are all waiting? What have you been doing?
But, Dick, how can you be such an atrocious sceptic as to doubt the possibility of one's living above the clouds when you know my lady! 'Ah, but she is Tryphosa, the blessed. 'Tryphosa! echoed Pauline in a mystified tone. 'That is her name, said Richard Everidge, with a tender reverence in his voice, 'and she deserves it, for she is among the aristocracy of the elect.
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