Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-26
SUNDAY EASY cHAlR.
The Little Bow that Died.


And the fagot's crack and the clocks dull tick
Are the only sounds hear.
And over my soul, in its solitude,
Sweet feelings of gladness glide;
For my heart and my eyes are full when think
OF the little boy that died.
/ went one night to my fathers house
Went home to the dear ones all
And softly opened the garden gate,
And softly the door OF the hall.
Ny mother came out to meet her son
She kissed me and then she sighed;
And her head fell on my neck and she wept
For the little boy that had died.
shall miss him when the flowers come,
In the garden where he PLAYED;
shall miss him more by the ireslde,
When the flowers have all deeayed.
shall see his toys and his empty chair,
And the horse he used to ride;
And they Will speak silent speech
of the little boy that died.
We shall 90 home to our Fathers house
To our Fathers house in the skies,
Where the hope of our souls shall have no blight,
Our love no broken ties
We shall roam on the banks OF the river OF peace,
And battle in its bissfrl tide,
And OF the Joys of our heaven shall he
The little boy that died. DIR. Chalmers.
The Moravian thinks that one sermon
each Sunday is enough for both preacher
and people. ga few years ago." it says,
sit seemed as if the whole Christian
Church were ready to adopt the old Mora
Wan custom OF having one preaching SER
vice every Sunday, thus giving its minis
tiers and congregations a little more oppor-
tunity for united worship, instead of SIS
now devoting the whole day to instruction
and exhortation. But SO little has OF late
been heard Of this reform that we conclude
it has failed. It is great pity. But we
believe it will yet have TO be brought
about. The circumstances of the times
are ever more and more demanding
thoughtful and thorough sermons. The
problems to be grappled with are becom-
ing more and more profound and intricate.
and the audiences more intelligent. And
80 long as the preacher has to prepare two
discourses every week he cannot come up
to the standard required. We must either
have one good sermon, or two inferior
ones.
There is only one way by which nature
turns winter into spring it is by bringing
the face OF the earth into new position
toward the sun.rays. Then the snow
banks vanish, seeds sprout, the grass peeps
out. the buds open, and the sun reneweth
the face Of the year. Even so is there but
one way to be delivered from spiritual
winter which blights our graces and kills
all spiritual activity. 1t is by coming
back to God go that His face may shine
upon us. Then we shall walk in the broad,
full light of His countenance without
stumbling. Then our affections will thaw
out, and, with some Christians, one of the
first symptoms will be seen in the opened
purse. Then tongues long frozen will be-
gin to be heard in the prayer meeting. A
new quickening power will descend and
make the buried seeds of gospel truth to
start up in the awakening and conversion
of souls. Gods face, Gods favor, will &C.
complish all this and divers other rich and
wonderful blessings. Rev. I. L. Cuyler.
The Christian Intelligencer tells this story
to show that there is such thing az too
much zeal. A young man entered stage
in New York, who was full Of Christian
zeal. An elderly gentleman sat reading
a Bible "This is chance to scatter
seed," thought young Timothy. The old
gentleman alghted SO did he. Starting
down street he overlook him, and with
undisguised solicitude he asked him.
Understandest thou what thou readest p
He understood it all. and looking down
upon his questioner with fatherly smile,
be answered, as he patted him on the
shoulder, d" Young man, have been
preaching this Gospel over thirty years (;
but you meant well, my friend, you meant
WE'LL" The young man lost no time in
turning the first corner, and realizing that
ne needed a little mere serpent to keep
his " dove" company.
The Rev. Joseph Cooks views on death
do not commend themselves to the Chris.
tan Advocate, which combats them with
great vigor. "We believe, it says, "that
in the breadth of his charity and. in his
desire to make the Gospel more acceptable
to men, he has tried to extend the posi-.
bility of repentance to the utmost verge,
and has gone too far. In the language of
the Bible, man is alive or dead, and after
having read the words quoted and crit
icised several times, we must say to our
readers that death-bed repentsnces have
gained no element of certainty or proba-
bility from anything which Mr.. Cook has
said, and that such speculations weaken
Gods truth and lead to fatal postpone.
ment; they seem to us neither Scriptural
nor scientific.
OF Mr.. Newten's book the american
Literary ChurchnsGn says "There is not
one single syllable in our church law which
commits us to any theory of the Bible be-
yond this-it contains what is necessary to
our salvation. Our church does not assert
directly or indirectly that Moses wrote the
whole Pentateuch, or st. Paul the Epistle
to the Hebrews, or that everything in the
Bible is necessary to salvation. In word
it leaves entirely open the whole field of
Biblical criticism, until clergyman comes
to believe-if he ever does-that the Bible
does not contain enough moral and spiritual
teaching to make us wise unto saliva
ton.
Revivals continue to be reported from
various parts of France. Among the
latest is that in the Cevennes, called the
Sinai of France, from the fact that the an.
Gent Huguenots fed to this region OF
bssaltic mountains, there to have the priv
ilege of worshiping God as they pleased.
The meetings are described as most en-.
thusiastic, but the accessories and
meeting places-are most rude; the floors
of stone, children and old people in the
huge chimney corner, and the lamps ver-
itably Roman.
Max Muller says that three of the
worlds great religions are non-m missionary.
These are Judaism. Brahmanism and 10
roastrisnism. Buddhism, Mohammedan-
ism and Christianity extend their faith,
and are distinguished for their aggressive
spirit. OF the latter class two are station
airy, if not retrograding. Christianity
alone is destined TO survive, and its sur
vival will be that of the fittest.
Voltaire's house is now used by the &C.
neva Bible Society as repository for
Bibles. The British Bible Society's house
in Earl street. Blackfriars, stands where, In
1873, the Council forbid Wyckliffe circu-
lating portions of the Holy Scriptures,
and where he uttered the words, 1.-The
truth shall prevail" and the Religious
Tract Society's premises are where Bibles
were publicly burned.
If any speak i'll of thee, flee home to thy
own conscience, and examine thy heart; if
thou be guilty, it is just correction if
not guilty, it is fair instruction make
use OF both, so shalt thou distill honey out
of gall, and out OF an open enemy create a
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