Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-03

| ra0OXes OF TIE SlODe, Dy giving them
common platform of two or three great
ideas, commonalty of origin, and project
ing cosmic brotherhood, the dream OF all
hope, all time-that the long trains, gesta-
tions, attempts and failures, resulting in
the New World, and in modern solidarity
and politics of old poetic lore, which, more
than any one thing else, has been the axis
Of civilization and history through thou
sands of years-and except for which this
America OF ours, with its polity and essen
tials. could not now be existing.
No true bard Will ever contravene the
Bible. Coming steadily down from the
past, like ship, through all parturbstions,
all Gibbs and flows all time, it is to-day his
arts chief reason for being.
The Rev. William Mellen, a returned
missionary from Zdluland, says that it is
very hard to convert and instruct the Ia
lus, because they want nothing "They
crawl into their low huts, lie down on a
mat with their feet Co the central fire and
| sleep with their head5 on blocks That is
their hight of happiaecs, and their heacts
desire nothing more. They at figs5 look
upon clothes OF all kinds IS impediments,
and in square houses with several rooms
| feel lost and uneasy. We FIRST teach them
the benefit of hat They feel the heat of
the sun upon their heads and hold up their
shields for shade. A hat is to them a
shield which fits the head. I fad that if
a man wants one thing and has it supplied,
| he straightway wants two or three things
more. Soon our negro wants boots to pro-
/ tect his feet from the sharp stones, and the
/ wearing of shirt reconciles him to the use
| OF light clothing, He may be the bearer
OF g letter from one missionary to another,
and be marvels exceedingly that the man
seems to be talking with the paper while it
talks with MIN. He then wants TO know
! if paper can talk, and how it can do so is
explained to him. He now feels an intel
! lec5ual want, and is taught to read and
write. We then talk to him of heaven, and
ne wishes to know how he can get there.
He never thought of such 4 thing before,
but he now feels spiritual want, and it is
supplied.
President Eliot, of Harvard University,
in speaking Of the difficulties which the
clergy have to meet with in the present
day says: A new method of spiri5 of in.
quiry has been gradually developed, which
is characterized by an absolute freedom on
the part of the inquirer from the influence
of prepossession of desires as to results.
No other method of inquiry now commands
respect. Even The ignorant have learned
to despise the process OF searching for proofs
of foregone conclusion. The civilized
world mas set up new standard of intel.
lectual sincerity /; and Protestant theo.
logians and ministers must rise to that
standard if they should continue TO COM
mand the respect of mankind. The fault
is quite as much that of the churches or
sects as Of the individual ministers, for al.
most every church or sect endeavors to tie
its members, and particularly its ministers,
TO creed, set of articles, or body of
formulas No other profession is under
such terrible stress of temptation to intel
lectual dishonesty as the clerical profession
is, and at the same time the pablic stand
ard of intellectual candor has been set
higher than ever before.
There is ga great deal of human nature
in men," There is great deal in men that
is not very human. There is a great deal
That is man-hke which is not manly. Amid
all sorts of limitations and trsvesties, every
one has 20 look ont for true manhood
what it is, where it is, how to build it.
1t will not build itself. 1t cannot be built
without aids. It cannot be bnilt without
opoositions. It may have to be built as
Nehemiah built his wall, sword in one
hand, tools in the other. And yet there
are those who fancy it a natural, common
and easy thing to become man; whereas
| one VINO comes up to the years Of manhood,
in q common and easy way, may be no man
at all. A true manhood must have in it
I ,,,ta Oh, bovor
purity and good will, not to say religion.
And few of these qualities are primary in
human nature. Most of them come in the
line Of 4 second nature, and hold their place
By an induction whose springs are celestial.
Tine Pacific.
The Young Mems Christian Association
has paid great deal OF attention to work
among railroad employees throughout the
country. This work, begun only few
years ago in very small way, has grown
until it now has branches On many lead
ing roads, with fifty.six secretaries or
superintendents, devoting all their time to
the care of these branches. Reading
rooms, libraries, parlors, smusement-rooms,
! bathrooms, classes for instruction and hos
pital equipment, are among the Christian
| agencies employed. The work has com.
manded the interest and approval of rail-
road mausgers to such an extent that these
secretaries are most o. them on the pay
roll of the companies, the corporations
thus cooperating with their employees in
making the work efficient in all It's branches,
social. educational and religious.
The latest official statistics of the Socie-
ty of Friends or Quakers, for 1882, show
/ hat ir,E P-ftaTr, nd T~alonH fha total
number of members is II 977. In addi-
ton TO these there are $3.50 regular at
tendants az the Friends meetings who are
not in full membership. About %. 900
Fcholars, adult and junior, are regularly
under instruction by the Friends in their
Sunday schools; bus very few of these be-
come members of the society, and only
about 5000 out of the 25 GOO are esti-
mated to be attcnders of the Friends meet
ings.
In Milwaukee new Lutheran church
was recently dedicated in which rather
remarked bic congregation worships. The
members represent no less than seven ma
tionslities, consisting of Norwegians,
Swedes, Icelanders, Germans, Danes,
Scotch and Americans. The pastor breaches
Norwegian in the morning and English in
the evening
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they
| grind exceedingly small:
Though with patience He stands waitiag with ex.
actness grinds He all. -lLongieow.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is
all ye know on earth, and all ye need to
know John Keats.
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