THE SUNDAY' SCHOOL. From th Nf* York Obwntr, INTERNATIONAL LEBSONP.' ! ■r ssv, IH.XIH a.avoir, n. , . FKIUU utv '2l.—Thesttnloitiau# nnd V roana. Aoli 17s 1-14, OoLtiRN TKXT.—These wore more no *>!> ttiun tin we in ThcHtutlonica. in that they veeeiveil the won! with nil readi ness of mind, nnd searched the Seirpt •ires daily, whether those tilings were #o.—.Vets IT : 11. Rcleiisod frotn prison, Paul and Silas very soon take leave of what must have been a |>roiiiisiiig hand of converts at I'hilppi, and set forth once more on their missionary journey. Passing through AinphijMilis and Apollonia, they come to Thessaloniea, whence after a little time they push on to Here#. Then, as now, Thessaloniea was a jaip- Hllous and prosperous city. YY ith its j modern name, Saloniki, its a present j .population of some seventy thousand, : llerea, a place of less size and itnpor* i tanoe, is now Y'erra. and has a jmpula ; tion of twenty thousand. There were ) .lews in hoth places ; and it was doubt less for this reason that they was prefer- ; *d to other places through which Paul j passed. It was still his first desire to preach the gosjiel to his own people. From the account given of his work and experience in these cities, we learn : I. The manner of'a pymativc preacher. —Reaching Thessaloniea. "Paul, as hit manner was, went in unto them (the : .lews) and three Sahbath day- reasoned with them out of the Scriptures." een long foretold as the world's hope. What Paul did was to #et this -u- be. 0 fore them as the ground of their hope, their Saviour. This is the manner of nil true and successful preaching. For many year* Henry Verne preached mor ality and witnessed no improvement among his people : then lie was led to preach ''hri-l, and straightway soulsle. gan to turn from their sin : fruit unto holiness began to aliound. '2. A yao-l tiyn of true faith in a iu >/< i ed convert. —"And some la-lieved and con sorted with Paul and Silas." Toward these missionaries they were irresistibly drawn; it was the "fellowship of kin sired minds." The true (Thistian l**#t love# the society of Christian'. Michael Faraday, with all hi# learning and great *ie and world-wide celebrity, never lost hi# intcre-t in the little group of obscure and unlettered Chirstians with whom he ca-t in his lot in his early life. Ife loved no spot more than the place of their weekly prayer-meeting, which h en led. and w here liis face often "shone like the face of an angel.'* There i# safety and joy in the compan ionship with fellow dieiple#. If one doe# not seek and find pleasure in it. he lacks imjiortant evidence of newsne## of heart, of true faith. 3. The cemmm spirit and arts listen to it. But any ami all word# are to he subject led to allot Iter test. Ito they accord with ! the teachings of Scripture? Some p. r 1 sons seeni to he lis ha tiled to he seen i studying their Ril>|<-s. testing new •I - -t rines by the YY'ord of Ood. Hut the noblest spirits kcc|f losest toi ill 1 w ho knows all ? fi. llVuil a well-nigh certain to onie of careful and cmdui study of God 1 i word.—- | 'Therefore many of them heliev-d.' ; Such is the record of those a* Bora, i I'lie word "therefore point# to the re •tilt as a natural one. So it is. '1 he Bible is its own best argument and de fence. tSet men candidly und patient Iv to read it. and they 10011 discover that it is not of man. It- message of salvation i- also found to IHJ suited to their need. Among such reader# of tie* word there will ho some, in thclongrun many, to believe. rACTICAI SI'OOIVsTIH Vs. 1. Men who earn their bread by man ual lat>nr on week day# should prize tlmir Sabbath* not for rest and perona' improvement only, but for Christian work for others. 2. Neither by example or word did Paul teach that minister# of the gospel -hould ftupport themselves. He accept ed support when* it was nth-red as hi tight, ami declared that "the Ixird or dained that they which preach the g.>- Jtel should live of the gospel." 1 Cert : 14 ; Phil. 4 : 16.) ■t. He who would etfi eiualiy teach or ••reach < "hri-l should make him- It at home in the Scriptures, -ine<* it is from these that he will draw all his h< -t argu ments, ap|teals and motile#. 4. Tie* church is the outgrowth of tip Christian heart's need, in w-ll a- an in stitittion ordained of tiod : those who love a common Saviour would In- * ll impelled to hand together for united worship and work. ■*>, It i# the business of Christians not to conform to the world'# principle# ami fashions and pleasures, but to overturn them, ami substitute those of t bri-t in their stead. *, line sign of a genuine minister of Christ or Christian teacher is that h-- sends his hearer# to the gospel to —■* if hi# teachings accord with tlia'. Row r ■ of the man who in*i#t# that \->u s(, i, blindly submit to bis words a- tiual Since each must give an account ot him self unto'hel. it is hi- pri* ilege nnd duty to read and interpret the word for him self. 7. Tin* Rcre.vns * searched the word daily." To search implies diligence, lalmr, patience. They who do this daily n-ap great intellectual and spiritual re ward. The seeker finds. H. If knowledge of the gospel is so precious, the first *tep towards Having with, how earnest should we lie tntcach our children or the young about u# its saving truth*! Captain Mary Miller Talks Mr# Miller it a trim, bonney little wo man. whom nobody would credit with year* enough to be the mother, a# he is, of a family of four children, two of whom are almost grown. "I oome of a steamboat family, said the lady : "my father was a steamboat man, and after f married Captain Mil ler—that was seventeen year# ago—l, of course, spent much of my lime on the river. We have a beeutiftil home at liOuisviile. and my little one# are all thete now, but for the last four year# I have been living mainly on a boat. My husband used to do nothing but pilot, and I spent much of my time in the pilot house, and learned to manage a boat and bow to navignte certain rivers in spite of myself. -There ia no reason why a woman should not know or learn how to manage a boat a# well as a sewj ing nachine." "Women often lack confidence in their own ability," hazarded the re porter. Hhe stared a bit, nnd then : Yea, that ia true. They know what to do, but prefer to stand by and tell some man how to do it for them. But, aa I was aaying, I learned to handle a boat a# well na any man on the river, and several years ago I had occasion to teat my ability. Once my husband fell ill with fever, and we had a run of half a bun dred mile* to make, with several -m & ♦ l>U) itgo we had to go niul take oil loaded barges from a large boat stuck on it ► <1 1. tr >v<" to. Mr hu• • ' b n hit lo leave on I'd it to 11 iii mh ; on "• o ci. h ' i w I* >i-ug 1 "i y. ninl so 1 took the deck, had the barge* made fast to uh, turned the boat round and carried her down to Cairo. Captain Cannon mid that I ha I a* good right to a Captain'# license a* anv man on the river." '•What do you do with your elf nil me iime, Mi*. Miller? a*ki I the i# P w . nr. ••Well I manage ll the money mat. t.-r*. When we are up in the prihe* I buy and loud tiie bout with cottonseed, which I buy after inspecting rumple*, and bring tnem to New Orlean* an I roll out to merchant*. We carry other freight, of c. ure, and I buy nil the boat'* proviaio mid provision* lo to *ell to tlm plutitation hand* up thn country. Then Ido all the collecting and banking hu-ine '. At first th* merchant* ihougiil u odd to see a wo man come in collecting, but I have never yet been treated with anything hut ciurte-y and kindness; and, be-nb*, 'i*v never halloa out to me to 'call agiin,' *> toy might io a man." "Po eI of your Captain'* 1 -u -, ; what do you me >n to do V" I ' I nil .11 ke p on j>i*l I am mot inc. except tii it I shall i • ion ! and looking after the bo*; when .he land* and pu -lit ■ V . on I w n> I a ! ,'ns* I -.uise I ha 1 nc 1 . nd w bed to unde V e when n> suy i n# -i . e of a - * n'" . C.,J lilt." Ai.i.ioator llt'.N'Tlvri. —■ 1-lorida alligator hunter*, when successful, earn from $ 1,000 to f.1,000 in a season. ' They generally hunt in couple*. They go for their game in the night in a , skirt* or light boat, along the mnrgtna of a lake or stream. One man holds a lantern in the bow of the boat to attiact the alligators —they, like all j wild animals, being readily lured to l ward a torch—and when they have Jcome close euougli the second man who stands in the stern with gun in hand, pours a volley of large shot into 1 the eyes, killing in a moment, as the leaden bullets go direct to the brain. I If the guuner misses fire and send* his ' shot into the body instead of the eyes. : the reptile lashes the water into t -am with its tail or boldly charge* the skitf and ei:b' r np* t it or breaks a piece ■•lit of the gunwale. This i* the only danger the hunters have to encounter, as an alligator never attack* a man in the wnier utile** the latter is bleeding freely or is too crippled to keep afloat. Nr* I'.iooto'iri !•. M i.l n. *2. 1*- . i I wi*hloony lo you that I have been suffenr g for the last five year* fwith 1 a severe itching all over. I have heard f of Hop Hitler* md have tried it. I have used up four l>ottle. and it hi done me more good than all the doctor* nnttle* of your medicine, my skin is well, clean and smooth a* ever. Hr.xar Kvomit. ♦ Good and Bad Cooking Houoekfopera or cooka da a vast ami unt of mischief by the perversion of taate and jhe auboequcnt derange , mentof theatomacb. Making sour bread ii one of their mort common *io*. Many do not know when bread ia sour, and supply it with a distinctly acid (lav or believing that it ia very "nice" lie cause it ia ao very light. They suppose bread ia sour oply when all the vinooa 1 fermentation ha* changed to the acetic. Bread i* sour a* soon a* it taate* at all sour. This may pn on increasing, hut to the beat bread maker the leaal acid flavor la a source of grief. Heally good bread ia poaitively sweot and will b* just as light and |*>ngy as then-eest sour bread if good material and proper care are used. In families where the taate is perverted by sour bread other abomination* are usually tolerated— biscuit* tnating either of excess of soda or of bitter buttermilk; vegetables seasoned with bad butter; piecrust strongly flavored with lurd or tnllow ; cake tasting of rancid hutter, etc. Along with this diet naturally goo* a deal of spicing to cover W1 flavor*, or much washing down with hot or strongly Reasoned coffee or tea. Sour bread ia never good in milk, and children prefer to lunch on pie or cwkc rather than on soar bread and milk or butter. The whole family eat aa little bread aa possi ble, and the butcher's bill ia very heavy —and they call ihia "good living!" .lu-t c-unt the empty bottle* labeled "bitter*" or "blood purifier" that lie around the house where sour bread and "good living" i a* generally understood) either or both hold sway. The plainest cooking car; be made to ! tiuite very g!. How he Became A Mormon. -u t tut av.R' imnt's storv or his SKCiiMi COfßTStlir. A Salt Lake correspondent write* to the SrwM the following story a fair sample of the social amenities of Mor motnlom "The su;>erit,tendeut of the great CO operative store ha* told tne how lie contracted a polygamous marriage, and I will try and repeat his story a* nearly as I can just as lie gave it to me "You see, 1 .ic a Monnon in England !>ofore 1 cetne here, In fact 1 was born a Morn-, n. In IW., when 1 wa quite a lad. I came to Salt I-skc City and got a position in the store*. Bringham Young look a fancy tome and advanced me rapidly, and in n few year* I ■ a cashier, at a salary of 81000 n month. About that time 1 rnel my first wife, herself the child of a |>lygamou mar rivge nd .> l.-lie\ cr in ;>ol\ gamv. After a short cotirthip in which there *m . romance enough to make it interesting, we were married You can readily understand that at the time 1 w more intcreat.-d in making mt self * js.Mtion I than anything else. I don't mind -av ing that I ;s*. if not opj-ow-d to jsily - tiny, at lent not an advocate of it. and I never deemed it a possibility that I would marry a second wife. We had two children, and my wife did do every thing to make our home happy. Mie wo* successful too, and I have never forgotten it, either. "i "no evening we were at a party, and I -iu there the prettiest and most attractive girl I ever **w. I w*s desd struck with her before I knw it. and I went around Irving to get sr. introduc. j tion to her. I didn't succeed, but finslly I came to inv wife and asked ber who that girl wa*. She says; 'That's Belle Weill, daughter of Gen. Wells, the Mayor of Salt Lake. 'Well.'say* I. 'I want an introduction to ber. My wife say*: She's my oldest and best friend. I will lecure you the introduc tion., Nbe did, and Mia* Wo|| made such an impression on me a* no woman had ever done before. "But it didn't atop. We didn't tee each other for some day*, but I was really very much distressed, and so was abe for aotno day* afterward.* Mr*. Wella herelf. one of five wive*, and Belle's mother, came to the atore to ace me. "What's the matter with you and Belle?* I told her nothing tbnt I knew of. 'Welt, she's airk and wanta to see you.' 'Ail right,'says T, 'I will go and *ee her.' 1 went up to the house and found Belle in bed, very pale and sick looking. Now, yott could have got beta of a thousand to one right here in Ball Lake, that Belle Well* would never marry in polygamy. Nhe wa* opposed to it." "What did you *y to Belle?" I asked. "Well, I forget exactly. I said : 'You ent forme.' 'No, I didn't *cnd foryou,' she replied. 'Weil, you wanted tne to come,' anid I. 'Ye*, I did, very much,' she replied, and in lea* than ten tnin ate* we had arranged to be married." How did you ask the question f" '1 really don't remember, but I kr'k! if she wanted to try it, why, I was will ing. Bo T went down stairs and met General Wells, and said to hint; 'General if you are willing. I'm going to marry Belle.' 'A!! right,' aaya he, 'you can have her, or any othordaughter I've got, or aa many of them a* you want.' ' I only want one of them,' says I. 'You had better think it over about Belle,' say* he. *Thi* only an infatuation is be twren you, and will die out, and you j don't want to make any mistakes at . this stage.' I told him, 'No, it wa* not any infatuation ; i' m-unt business from the start.' He rays; -Go ahead. Belle is a flighty girl and perhaps fickle, but *h* i*a lov.-ly girl at heart, and perhaps it will turn out well,' | wont bock to Belle and told her. She naked metotell my wife I said 1 would, and *lie said she would call oti her the next day. After supper, at home, that day, I say* to my wife, abruptly : 'Do you remember that Mi-s Wella you introduced me to?' i j She said she did. 'Well,' bay* 'I, I'm going to marry her." "Well," 1 a-ked in breathless interest, j "what did she *ay?" "She -aid that she had expected that i would marry again, and while she would not attempt to deny that the new, wa* ablow to her abe was glad that it wit* a woman she liked n lie did Belle Well*. Then she said she would eull on her. I told her Belle wa* corn ing tomorrow. The next afternoon Belle came while I ** at the store, and I lo- two women had a long and atifac tory talk." "Do you know what pas-ed between them "No, any further than they were both •ati-lied witli it." "It wo* in the fail we were engaged, . but it wan riot until April that we were married. I furnished two house* ad joining each other |Ut alike, and we ! occupied them." "Did you your first wife go to the wedding?" "Certainly "And to the reception ? "Ye*' She saw the house was in order for Belle * corning." "Are the women good friends?" ! "Like #i-ters." "Which do you love thebc-t?" i "Both alike. When my btuineaa en deavor* bop- fruit I gave my first wife a house before I gave Belle one. I gave them both alike. I've fixed theiu ao they'll have $25,000 apiece if I should die." 'How many children have you got?" "Six by each wife." Love them all alike?" "I hot s easy to do. 1 rn happy iu my ( family. C line around and dine to night; you will *ce all the rhril-lrrn and my I first wife. Beile's in the east now." 1 A Damiir u CofxraaraiT —There sre dangerous c • iM-rf' its in circulation purporting lo te* " Walnut Leal llair Be • t'T.-r." The strongest evidence of its gr**t va'.ue i th" fact that parties know ing it great efficacy try to tmif/fc if. Ks- h bottle of the Ijrnuint h** a far l.mi l* of walnut leaf—hi- wn in the g!*> : and a (>r-en I.e*f-in the outside wr| p- r. The "Kestorer" Is * harmless *► water, while • it possesses all the properties necessary to restore life, vigor, growth and color to the hair. 1' in ha*e only from rr>/.n> par. firs Ak your druggist for it Karh bot tle is warranted Johnston, Hoik-way V '<'•>, Philadelphia, and 11*11 A tanti, sjew York, Wholesale Agents. quirk Railway Time. JU., .lan. IKW), TAir n it. certify that ire hare appointed F~ ink I', liiatr, We aper.t for the tale of our 1 ',H,teh Train Hai/rr . i Wofchet in the fntm I i llelU/nnte. lb* a roan W*r< h fVia-*ar. BY lIOSMKR P. H I'LL AND. Sec. 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