Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-30

All those who journey soon or late
Must pass within the gardens gate;
Nut kneel alone in darkness there
And battle with some fierce despair.
God pity those who cannot say,
" Not mine, but thin e - who only pray
" Let this cup pass, and cannot see
The purpose in GethEemane.
Christ's religion is summed up in His
own person. Christ is Christianity
Gladstone.
There is no vacant place in tine universe
so suggestive IS the empty grave Of Christ.
II. NJ Pendleton.
One Of the greatest blessings you can en-.
Joy is tender, honest aud enlightened
conscience. / Pascal
Good has but one enemy-the evil but
the evil has two enemies-the good and
Itself. Julius Muller.
In every man there is loneliness, an
inner chamber of peculiar life. into which
God can only enter.-[George Macdonald.
The aerene. silent beauty OF holy life is
the most powerful influence in the world,
next TO the might of the Spirit of God.
LSpurgeon.
We should act with ns much energy as
those who expect everything from them
selves; and We should pray with as much
earnestness as those who expect everything
from God. Fuller,
It Is the preaching of Christ cur Lord
which is the secret and substance, the CEN
ter and heart, OF all preaching. Not merely
Of facts about Him, bat of His person, His
work, His character and His simple but
unfathomable sayings-here Is the secret
and art of preaching. Gladstone.
do wish that all tired people did but
know the infinite rest there is In fencing off
the six DAYS from the seventh-in anchor
ing ths business ships of our daily life as
the Saturday draws to it's close, leaving
them to ride peacefully upon the flow or
the ebb until Monday morning comes again.
[Anna Warner.
We picture death SO coming TO destroy !;
let US rather picture Christ "a coming to
save. We think OF death az ending; let
us rather think of life a. beginning, and
that more abundantly. We think of los
ing; let US think of gaining, We think Of
parting; let US think of meeting. We
think OF going away lei us think of arriv-
inc. And as the voice of death whispers,
" You must 90 from EARTH" let Us near
the voice of Christ saying, "You are but
coming to Ne !'-[Norman M Leod
A mans transit from one life to the other,
or from one world to the other, is like q
journey from one place 60 another and he
takes with him all things that he possesses
in himself as a man so that it cannot be
said that man after death, bis death being
only that of the terrestrial body, has lost
anything that belonged TO himself. He
also carries with him his natural memory
for everything be had ever heard saw, read,
learned or thought from his earliest infan-
cy to the last day Of his life, he still retains.
[Swedenborg.
Il ia thought by many that merely to be-
Heve that which the Church teaches purifies
a man from evils ; by some, to know, speak
and teach such things as are of the Church
by some, to read the Word ana hooks OF
piety by some, to frequent churches to
hear sermons, and especially to receive the
holy supper; by some, TO renouLce the
world and study piety by some, 80 con-
TESS themselves guilty Of all sins; and so
on. But, nevertheless, none of these things
90 at all purify mao, unless he examines
himself, perceives his sins, acknowledges
them, condemns himself on account of
them, and repents by desisting from them;
and all these things he must do as from
himself, but still from an acknowledgment
of the heart that he does shem from the
Lord. -[Swedenbnrg,
The heroes of the Bible were not men of
goodY type, nor were they men OF piety
without ability. They we're men Of mag
uifcent qualities, of vast abilities, and I'M
firing industry, who would have made their
mark anywhere. Modern law and civiiza.
ton acknowledge their debt to the master
creative mind OF Moses. David with IN.
dsuntedspirit worked his way to the throne:
with marvellous genius he formed COM
pact nation of few hostile tribes Isaiah
combined remarkable political sagacity with
unriysled eloquence He was the Glad
stone of his age. Daniel, though a captive,
had such genius for government that. like
Disraeli, he held his place as Prime Minis
ter over all the native princes and against
constant efforts TO unseat him. These
men, because of their eudowments and at
tainments, held places of influence and en-
inence that made men respect and heed the
principles of their moral life. Obscure
men, who barely added another talent to
their original endowment instead of three
or four, may have been equally God-fear.
ing, but they had no such influence to
WELD over their fellow men, Christian
Union.
To my judgment the great peril of the
day is compromise, smalgamation and sup
preston of truth by mutual consent a
DlausihIa INIT iusincere union and cO-onera.
tion not merely with known, avowed and
shameless conspirators and traitors, but
with SacTamentalists, Sacerdotalists and
Nothingarians, who are all smiles and
beaming piety, but who in heart hate the
doctrine OF justification By faith who ig-
more the works Of the Spirit, the CONVEX.
sion OF the soul by grace, and such like
grand and fundamental truths. Neither
the Pope nor the iDfdel would make such
havoc among us il the little band OF faith
full men would come out and be separate.
Oar most dangerous foes are not the deco
rstige and monsstio Ritualist, nor the
loud barking athesist or skeptio hut the
plausible, courteous, afiliatiag, dearly
beloved brethren" who would knit all the
so-cslled churches IN one patchwork quilt,
which might cover them in q soft and
downy bed of spiritual sleep, leaving them
to dream Of security and charity while the
DoxiOus errors which prevail among them
ara eating out the vitals of true godliDess,
spiritual experience and sound doctrine.
[Dean Of Carlisle.
It is not presumption to say that man
could have been better made if he is not to
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