Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-07


| Some angel with a radiant bros
Is walking with US even now
-IHenry S. Washburn.
Flowers are the sweetest things that Cos
ever made and forgot TO put soul into
[Beecher.
There are ten thousand hearts in the
community that are throbbing all the time
with a sense of insignifcance, and saying
"Whe am 1? What can I do? have
no wealth, no education, no position.
That may be true but there is Savior
who judges not by the magnitude of gift
but by the desire there is behind it. There
are great many poor widows whose offer
ings in the sight of God are larger and
nobler than those of rich men who give
largely. There is no act that comes from
the soul which is not seen. Men do not
see it. perhaps, but angels do Henry
Ward Beecher.
The aphorism that the Bible is for com.
mon people, and the Interpretation which
common people put upon 1t must be the
correct one, is one of those halt-truths
which often do more harm than full false.
hood The common people among the
Jews, even the most devout and godly
among them, anticipated no other than a
political Messiah, no other than political
redemption. They read Moses, as Pau
afterward told them, with veil over Their
face. The truth of their revelation wa;
! profounder than they knew. What was
true OF them is always liable to be true OF
us. ANY Interpretation which makes the
Bible seem less to us than it was before we
may instantly reject; but any interpreta'
| ton which suggests to us IN its teaching a
profounder and more spiritual truth may
be true, and is certainly not to be rejected
merely because it has never before been re.
ceived. We are not to be like the Atheni.
ans, always searching for some new thing
not like the Pharisees, ready to stone the
first Stephen who offers US new interpre-
tation Of the word OF God Z; but like the
Bereans, who searched the Scriptures to
see whether these things were SO OF not.
Lyman Abbott.
Some people have to wait long time for
their blessings. Sarah was 90 years old
when Isaac was born. This thing itself is
merely accidental, but the principle which
| Is under it is living and benefcent. If we
have the true life in our hearts, not one of
US has yet seen his best days. Physically
we may be on the wane, but spiritually we
may win our greatest victories actually On
the day of death. You have not yet got
the best your brain can give. There is a
finer wine in your heart than has yet been
crushed out. Do not close the shutters,
rather break out another window. for the
light of the sun is yet plentiful. You may
bring forth fruit in old age, and be fat and
fourishing until the last. You have not
Gods best. He keeps the good wine for
by-and-b by. hear your sigh and your
groan, and for everyone OF them you shall
yet have a hymn or a loud psalm. Your
| great prayer shall be answered the prayer
that drags your heart out in passionate en-
treaty for the runaway boy, for the lost
girl, for the healing of the wound in the
spirit never told of to the mortal Live
IN this hope, and this hope will keep you
young. Sarah laughed at 30, and made all
her friends laugh in her late. come joy
Rev. Joseph Parker.
It is plain, too, that the human element
! in the Bible must be recognized and appre-
ciated if we are to reach better under
standing Of its teachings. The Old Tesla
ment is not mere national literature.
God, for the purposes Of his revelation,
made use Of the natural literary impulses
of chosen people, and the history, and
| poetry, and prophecy, and ethics which the
| Old Testament contains indicate true
! literary movement and development of
that people. This is not merely thing
to be admitted in words a full apprecia-
tiOn OF it, thorough inquiry into the Pc
culiar literary characteristics OF the various
parts, is imperatively demanded for just
understanding Of these parts and of the
| whole. The same thing IS true of the New
Testament. The divine teachings of the
book are indeed Of far greater intrinsic
consequence than the literary form but
the literary form is to be studied dill
gently for the purpose of the light it
sheds upon the teachings. Nor will
the believer be shaken in his faith
If he finds traces here and there
of human Misrepresentation and limitation,
| for we viii DE sure that these, too, in the
wise ordering of God, are not hindrances
to the great purpose OF revelation, but
truly sabservient to it Christian Union.
One thing is certain. Sin can make us
suffer, but it never can give US solid salts
! faction. It can torment, but it can never
! tranquilize. What . powerful picture OF
a soul without God is that drawn in the
prophecy of Isaiah, which describes it as a
troubled sea, whose waters cast up mire
and dirt This is the work of memory.
Let the wrong doer try to hide his sins as
carefully or to bury them as deeply as he
knows how, memory will throw them to
the surface as troubled waters heave no
what has been flung into their depths.
| When vessel had sunk in Lake Erie, an
effort was made to raise the bodies of the
| drowned passengers by firing a cannon
over the spot, and the ar brought them
up. So the tremendous artillery OF Gods
| justice-manned by those two gunners,
memory and conscience-brings, up to our
eyes the hideous sins which we thoug hi
were buried forever. Conscience utters
two great voices, One of them declares
"Great peace have they who love Gods
law in keeping his commandments is
great reward. The other voice is There
is no peace to the wicked; they are like
the troubled sea which cannot rest; the
wages of sin is death" Just in proportion
as we hear and heed these voices, con.
science becomes our sweetest comforter, OF
our most terrible tormentor.-[ Rev. 7. l.
Cupler.
The Occideat is not pleased witt
the revised New Testament. After ask,
ing what has becomeo of it, and the immense
sales which attended its first Issue, it says
that one of the clearest statements of tbs
failure Of this more accurate version tC
supplant the old is given by Matthew il
1.-The Nineteenth Century" where ht
says "0ur established version comes Il
US from an age of singular power, and hal
great beauty. This beauty is a source o.
great power. Use and wont have further
added to the power of this beauty by at
taehing TO the old version thousand
sentiments and associations. Altogether
a force Of the utmost magnitude hal
come into being. The revisers seen
to me 70 have been insuffieientlY aware