Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-16
SOME RELIGIOUS MAxIMs.

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child.
1t is easier to build temples than to Be
temples to God.
As fire is discovered by its own light, SC
is virtue by its own excellence.
God has placed us here-that is much.
He is with us-that is more.
Religion is a blessed thing to die by, but
it is grander thing to live by.
Gods Words looks at things eternal, and
so should our desires and hopes.
Many Christians run with the world, yet
hope to be saved with the church.
Sanctiication is giving the soul wings,
and disposition to fly up to God.
God answers our prayers by teaching us
to order our affairs with discretion.
The fathomless, shoreless sea of the
Lords loving kindness can never run dry.
Revelation leads the heavenly pilgrim
by the double symbol of light and cloud.
God will cause that to issue in our com
fort in which we sincerely aim at his glory.
Happy are they who work. Then, the
task finished, each one sleeps the same
sleep.
Providence has ways of making those
honest in the event that are not so in their
design.
Many preserve themselves by humbling
themselves the bullet flies over him that
stoops.
Some persons instead of "putting off
the old man, dress him up in new shape.
[St. Bernard.
A downcast man is raw material, which
can only be manufactured into very ordi-
nary Christian.
Much as we dislike to admit our defects,
we find it better to know and guard against
them to ignore them.
Men of honor and business must look
upon an acquaintance with Gods Word to
be their best business and honor.
If the Christian religion were not fully
in sympathy with every phase of the
worlds growing necessity, it would itself
ere this have been outgrown.
Every mans own besetting sin is the
tempest. You love God j; you walk upon
the sea the swellings of this world are
under your feet. [Anselm.
Though the word and the spirit do the
main work, yet suffe ring so unbolts the
door of the heart that both the word and
the spirit have easier entrance.
In Chrst's religion, earth and heaven 90
together; and there is not a flower that
blooms on the green earth that does not
owe its beauty to the sum- Joseph
Parker.
Round dealing is the honor of man s
nature and a mixture of falsehood is like
alloy in gold and silver, which may make
the metal work better, but it embaseth it.
Lord Bacon.
Gods providenees often seem to contra
dict his promises but when they do so,
they really magnify the promise and make
the performance of it so much the more H.
ustrious.-[Matthew Henry.
Let our people find new meaning in the
divine oracle which declares that "a little
child shall lead them, " for our little chill
dren will soon control the destinies of the
Republic. / President Garfield.
think that till a parents love for a
child is of the same character with that
divine love of which we learn somewhat in
life's supremest hours of communion, till
then his or her love is poor and faulty
Frances Power Cobbe.
Humility and repentance are the result
of large acquaintance with Cod Humili-
ty is produced by the sight of His great
ness, repentance by knowledge of His
purity. 1t is the union of these that forms
the idea of Cod Robt. Hall.
Alas we shall never know the value of
time till it has slipped from US and left us
in eternity. Eternity is the. only preceptor
that can rightly teach the science of using
time. Dearest Lord! will it leave us then
with Thee IF. W. Faber.
Wherever we are, in whatever spot of
all the wilderness, this word to Hagar,
"What aileth thee ?" is meant for us.
Arise, lift up your duty, your responsible
ty, your trial, your fear; then will the
Lord work for you gloriously.-[An
Warner.
The education of the moral nature of
man is not only necessary, but it is the
grand necessity. If the intellect runs to
waste without education, much more the
moral nature, which, like the earth with.
out cultivation, will only yield thorns and
thistles.
DID you ever know or read of any one
becoming strong, healthy Christian who
did not read the scriptures with much
prayer and thought? AS well might we
expect our bodies to grow strong and
healthy by eating only two or three meals
a week.