FOR

SUNDAY-SCHOOL SCHOLARS.

7 cents per copy; $5 per 100.

A handsome card, measuring 15 x 101⁄2 inches, lithographed by L. Prang & Co., showing beautiful Floral Cross, open Bible and exquisite Flowers, with blank spaces for name of scholar, school and superintendent or teacher.

E AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 1122 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 10 Bible House, New York.

JUNG PEOPLE'S PAPER.

A FOUR-PAGE ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.

R HOME AND SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
The best and cheapest published.

52 Papers for 20 cents

(One for every Sunday in a year), When five or more copies are ordered to one address.

The Youth's World and Sunday Hour, which have been discontinued, are merged in this paper.

A special feature for 1892 will be a

LIFE OF CHRIST,

Illustrated by fine pictures, and written for this paper. This feature alone will be worth many times the cost of the paper.

Considering its size, type, paper, pictures and general make-up, the Young People's Paper is the cheapest paper published for Sundayschools. It costs only 20 cents per year for each copy, where five or more copies are taken; 11 cents each for six months, or 6 cents each for three months. Single subscriptions, for any number less than five, 40 cents each per year.

This paper is issued weekly, not monthly or semi-monthly; and subscriptions may begin with the first issue in any month, but must be for three months or more. Sample copies furnished free.

Send your subscriptions at once to THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,

1122 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

10 Bible House, New York.

THE PRIZES.

The First Prize will be a ten-dollar gold

piece.

The Second Prize will be a five-dollar gold piece.

The Third Prize will be books worth three dollars.

HOW YOU CAN TRY FOR THEM. 1. You, or your Sunday-school, must take the YOUNG PEOPLE'S PAPER regularly.

2. You must be less than seventeen years old.

3. You must be a Sunday-school scholar.

WHAT YOU MUST WRITE ABOUT.
One of these three subjects:

1. The life of Jesus until his baptism.
2. Jesus at Capernaum.

3. Jesus raising the dead.

HOW YOU MUST WRITE. 1. Write only on one side of the paper, with black ink.

2. Not less than eleven hundred words, nor more than thirteen hundred words.

3. Send a certificate from a minister, superintendent, or teacher, that you are not yet seventeen years old; and that you wrote your sketch without help.

4. Send in your composition, with your postoffice address, and the name of your Sundayschool, before May 1, 1892.

5. Send it to The Editor of the YOUNG PEOPLE'S PAPER, 1122 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

The compositions which take the prizes will be published in the YOUNG PEOPLE'S PAPER, with the names of the writers.

NEW SERIES.]

REV. EDWIN W. RICE, D.D., EDITOR. REV. MOSELEY H. WILLIAMS, ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Just in the crush of the holiday trade in the retail department, and in the rush of mail orders from new and old subscribers for periodicals, the "grip" demoralized our working force, throwing double duty upon some. If any papers failed to reach their destination on time, please impute it to this unavoidable cause.

...

The American Institute of Sacred Literature, in affiliation with the Philadelphia branch of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, is giving helpful service to Bible students by its various courses. Dr. William R. Harper, president of the University of Chicago, gives a course on "The Wisdom of the Hebrews." Prof. Peters, of the University of Pennsylvania, gives two courses. There are also opportunities for the study of the English Bible, the Hebrew, and the New Testament Greek.

The list of International Lessons for 1893 appears in this number, exactly as prepared by the Lesson Committee. This scheme will be followed in THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORLD and other lesson helps of the American Sunday-School Union; but in accordance with the plan agreed upon in the conference of editors and lesson-writers, no lessons will be designated as special, and no optional lessons will be given. The first lesson of the second quarter will begin with the book of Job; the optional lesson for that date will be omitted. For December 24 the lesson on the birth of Christ will be presented, as suitable for Christmas, and the optional lesson for that date, suggested by the committee, will be omitted. The lesson on

[VOL. XXXII. No. 2.

Timely Admonitions, for March 19, will be given, and the optional lesson of the same date also omitted.

. . . It will not be necessary to direct attention to the strong plea for Sundayschool libraries for mission schools which is given in another column. Whoever begins to read it will be led on by the "persuasiveness" of the argument to the end. Similar urgent pleas come to us from the Southwest, the middle states, and from the Pacific coast. Superintendent McCullagh knows whereof he writes, not merely from the reports of missionaries but from his personal work. For, like his distinguished father, he not only directs others in missionary labors, but learns how to do it well, and to know the needs and possibilities of his district, and what a consecrated man can do by actual work himself in some of the hardest places of the South. Those who have funds to give cannot do better than to provide such schools with libraries.

.. People who dwell in cities and wealthy communities have no conception of the dearth of reading-matter in some sections of our land. If any gentleman wishing to disseminate Christian literature has ten dollars to spare, we can distribute twenty-six hundred well-illustrated and attractive papers among young people who need them. For a hundred dollars we can scatter ten times as many.

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CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES.

“Why, Prof. Weller gave a talk on a capital way of building up and keeping up a Sundayschool."

"That's rather an old subject, it seems to me," returned Jamie indifferently. "It's about worn threadbare, isn't it?"

"But he treated it in a new way," persisted Merle. "You see, he made an acrostic, as he called it, with the word CAPITAL; that is, he used seven short sentences whose first words, taken in succession, began with the letters of that word. Then he talked a little while on each sentence. You ought to have been there."

"Well, what did he make out of his acrostic, as you call it?" questioned Jamie, becoming interested.

"The first letter of the word capital is C. That means 'Come yourself,' he said. You can't help to build up your Sunday-school without attending it yourself. 'The stay-athomes,' he said-and here he became very earnest-never yet built up a Sunday-school.' We ought to attend ourselves because it sets a good example to others, and makes those who loll about at home ashamed of their laziness."

"I wonder if he was driving at me," said Jamie. "Maybe he was," laughed Merle.

"The second letter of the word capital is A. 'What appropriate word begins with that letter? Prof. Weller said. Ask, of course. That is, ask others. Every teacher, every scholar, every officer, ought to resolve himself into an asking committee, inviting everybody. to attend Sunday-school. Many persons have been won to a good life by being asked. There isn't a Christian here this evening,' he said, 'who did not become one by being invited by some one to come to Christ.'"

"I must say I never thought of that," de

[Feb.

"What is the next letter of the word ?" "Why-let me see-P."

"That is the first letter of pray,' the professor told us. 'Do you boys and girls ever pray for the Sunday-school, for the superintendent, for your teachers, for one another? There is power in a boy's or a girl's prayers. Without prayer no Sunday-school can be built up or kept up.' The next letter is-"

"It's I," said Jamie quickly.

"Improve time,' Prof. Weller said. 'Don't let a single chance to help the school go by unimproved. Always be on the lookout for something to do and some one to invite.' Of course, he said a great deal more on this subject that I can't remember.

"Then he asked what the next letter was. We all answered T, for we were beginning to become excited. When he asked what appropriate word began with that letter, Joe Turgan blurted out, "Try! That pleased the professor very much. He said he hadn't thought of that word himself, but it was every bit as good as the word he had been thinking about. You see, he never hurts anybody's feelings by saying that an answer is wrong, but always makes some apt use of it, and that's the reason the boys and girls are so ready to answer him the best they can."

“And what did he say about trying?” Jamie asked.

"Oh, he said a great deal. He said we should never get discouraged if we failed at first; if some one bluffed us when we invited him to Sunday-school, we should try again.”

"Good! But what word had he thought of?" "Talk,” replied Merle. "Talk up the school, the superintendent and your teacher. It will encourage them to know they are appreciated. First make the school as good as you can, and then tell about it wherever you are."