--- 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: 9 number: 4 published: 1906-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Too Many Vinegar Peddlers," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 4 (February 1906): 295.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0904unse 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: improvementera0904unse start_page: 295 end_page: 295 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0904unse publication_year: 1906 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 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Too Many Vinegar Peddlers LIFE OF ST. PAUL FOR THE YOUNG. 295 When in the theater the scene was suddenly changed from the gladiatorial and other wicked amusements, to the judgment on the king, the multitude fled, rending their clothes according to the custom, in horror. A careful student of the life of Paul suggests the possibility that he and Barnabas were witnesses of these things in Csesarea on their way from Jerusalem to Antioch. The enemies of the Church, amazed at the deliverance of Peter from prison, and awed by the death of Herod, changed somewhat in their cruelty toward Christians. More than eleven years had passed since the crucifixion, when Barnabas and Saul made their visit to the church in Jerusalem to carry the relief sent by that in Antioch. We may suppose that during it they were the guests of the relatives of Barnabas — ' 'John Mark" and his mother Mary. He was a young man of deep feeling and excellent spirit, apparently willing to go anywhere in the service of Christ. During the stay of his kinsman and Saul in his home, it was determined that he should leave it and join them on their return to Antioch. So Mary, his loving mother, in separating from so good a son was comforted in the thought of the glorious work in which he was to engage with such companions for his encouragement and guidance. I (to be continued.) TOO MANY VINEGAR PEDDLERS. Is it not a pitiable thing to see people going through life peddling vinegar, radiating bitterness, criticizing, finding fault, seeing only the ugly, ignoring beauty, nagging, worrying, fretting, and tearing down? Some people seem to have a genius for seeing the crooked, the ugly, the disagreeable. There are too many vinegar peddlers. We need more joy peddlers, more sunshine makers, people who ignore the ugly, the bitter, the crooked, but who see the world of beauty and perfection which God has made. We need the people who see the man and the woman that God made, — pure, clean, sane, and healthy; not the ugly, diseased, discordant, criticizing one that sin, wrong thinking, and wrong living have made. — Success.