Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-08


Whoever says when clouds are in the sky,
Be patient heart; light breaketh BY and by
Trusts 'he Most High.
Whoever sees, meath winters field CT snow,
The silent harvest of the future grow,
Gods power must know.
Whoever lies down on his couch to sleep,
Content to lock each sense in slumbsr deep,
Knows God will keep.
Whoever says " Tomorrow" "The Unknown"
" The Future, trusts that Power alone
He dares disown.
The heart that looks on when the eyelids close,
and dares to live when life has only woes,
Gods comfort knows
There is no unbelief;
And day by day, and night, unconse;ously,
The heart lives by that faith the lips deny
God knoweth why
Intellect has been called the starlight of
the brain. Religion is the starlight of the
soul. Russell.
Queen Caroline wrote with diamond on
the window of hez palace: Lord, make
others great; keep me innocent"
Let your religion be seen. Lamps do not
talk, but they do shine. A lighthouse
sounds no drum, it beats no gong yet. far
over the waters, its friendly light is seen
by the mariner.-[Spurgeon.
God never accepts good inclination IN
stead of good action, where that action
| that if good inclination be not seconded
by good action, the want OF that action is
so much the more criminal and inexcus.
able South.
Practice to make God thy last thought at
night when thou sleepest, and thy first
! thought in the morning when thou wakest
so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the
night, and thy understanding be rectified
in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful
and thy labors prosperous [Quarles.
We sorely complain of the shortness of
time. and yet have much more than we
know what TO do with. Our lives are
either spent in doing nothing at all, or in
doing nothing to the purpose, or il doing
nothing that we ought to do. We are al
ways complaining that ouI days are few,
and acting as though there would be no
end of them Il Seneca.
Every solitary kind action that is done
the world over, is working briskly in its
| sphere to restore the balance between right
| and wrong. Kindness has converted more
sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or
| learning, and these three never converted
anyone, unless they were kind also. The
continual sense which kind heart has of
its own need of kindness keeps it humble.
| Perhaps an act of kindness never dies, but
extends the invisible undulations of its in
| fuence over the breadth of centuries. IF.
| w. Faber
Remember that since all sin begins in
thought, if your thoughts are safe then you
are safe. "When our chalice is filled with
holy oil, it will entertain none of the waters
of bitterness" When the air is filled with
sunlight there ia no opportunity for deeds
of darkness. When the soul has tasted of
the bread of life, it cannot hunger for the
stones of the wilderness. Where God is
all to US, this world is nothing. II any of
you have honestly tried as you think to en-.
| counter evil hand o-hand, and have failed
because it seemed to have you at disad.
vantage, now try another and better way !:
Try now to draw into some innocent and
useful channel that life which gives to evil
all its strength. The sure way to overcome
the evil is to develop, and feed, and fortify
the good.-[Canon Farrar.
The place honors not the man It's the
man who gives honor to the place. II a
word spoken in its time is worth one piece
of money, silence in it's time is worth two.
When wine enters the head the senses fly
| out. The camel desired horns and his ears
were taken from him. Silence is the fence
around wisdom. Rather be the tail among
lions than the head among foxes. Truth is
heavy, therefore few care to carry it. De-
| scend a step in choosing the wife ascend
a step in choosing friend. Commit sin
i twice and it will not seem to thee crime.
! Despise no man, and deem nothing impos-
sible every man hath his hour, and every
! thing its place. The best preacher is the
| heart the best teacher is time the best
book is the world tpe best friend is God.
There is great difference between one who
can feel ashamed before his own soul, and
one who is only ashamed before his fellow
mem From the Talmud.
Love is the very foundation of the di.
vine nature, and to love devotedly is to see
God. Love for another, when it is un-
alloyed with selfishness, when it seeks the
good of the person loved, and is not ap-
palled by the sacrifices involved, knows the
very heart OF God. Then mother who
loves her child has the vision of God? Ger
| tainly, in degree. Through cur mutual
| love we understand the love of God. The
love Of parents TO their children is used to
illustrate Gods love for us. Love may 60
out in only one or two directions, while the
main tendency of life is selfish but if the
love which goes out to one person becomes
the ruling motive in all relations, there is
as complete a vision of God as can be OBJ
tanned in this world. Every one that loveth
is born of God, for God is love. To love a
little is to know God a little; to love much
is t. know God much to love in many re.
lations, to have love as the ruling motive,
is to know God deeply and largely Prof.
George Harris.
"Be not overcome with evil, but over.
come evil with good" Aim at that which
is good cleave TO that which is good oc-
cupy your time with that which is good !;
fill your thoughts with that which is good,
and the assaults of evil will have loss half
their power. An earnest employment, a
steady purpose in life, a diligent use of
time-these are an irresistible panoply
against vice, these strike out of the DEVILS
hands his worst implements of temptation.
You will remember that terrible touch in
! one of the Lords sternest parallels, about
the evil spirit returning to the house
whence he came out and finding it Temp.
ty, swept and garnished y then goeth he
and taketh TO himself seven other spirits
more wicked than himself, and they enter
in and dwell there, and the last state of
the man is worse than the first. What
does that " empty, swept and garnished "
mean? It means that if your heart ia not
preoccupied with good, it will be invaded
| by evil. o, beware of jdleness In its every
form idle procrastinations, idle talk, idle
habitp, idle thoughts, these are the certain
ruin of the soul. The laborer who stands
idle in the market.place is ever ready to be
hired in the DEVILS service. The worm of
sin gnags deepest into the idle heart. Pre-
occupy your heart with good preoccupy
your time with honest industry, and you
are safe. Whatever things are true, hon.
est, just, pure, lovely, of good report-if
there be any virtue, any praise, think of
these things. Evil can as little encroach
on the domain of good rs darkness can
force it's way into the circle of radiance
which lamp filings into the night. t.-fCanon
Farrar.
INDIAN JUSTICE A gentleman, who
formerly lived on the Klamath Indian res
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