Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-14

And weary souls shall wander out no more;
Where bliss is greater for all woe before;
Where fair flowers blow. without earths sad decay,
And friendships happy voices, as OF yor6-
But ten.f0ld dearer- neer again shall say
" Farewell"-but ever " Welcome 20 this shore p
Or, IL Hail, tired pilgrims to this golden day"
And % Come, ye blest, 70 joys which will not pass
away I"
A country in whose light our souls shall bask;
eOodly heritaee-where all we sought
OF hope and love and every pleasant task
Shall center glady-fIr beyond all thought
And He the Lamb-Who from all evil bought
His chosen people-shall our eyes behold.
And graciously, as when On earth He taught
His voice shall speak aEain-clear, as of Old,
But with no ring OF SORROW in itl tone.
Glat presence, walking in the streets OF gold
A mighty King, with people all His own
-iChambers Journal.
If the way 10 heaven is narrow, it is not
long [Beveridge.
A godly mems comforts ard guidances
are alike hid from the world. Taylor.
The Sabbath is the golden clasp which
holds together the volume of the week.
Prayer should be the key OF the day and
the lock OF the night. bishop Berkeley.
A holy life is a voice it speaks when tho
tongue is silent, and is either a constant at
traction or a perpetual reproof.
The stimulating power and comfort of
sympathy, none can express, save he who
has realized it. It has power liks the
magnet, unseen but potent, which draws
to Itself the wandering scattered particles
that exist around it.-[Rev E. Fl. Delk.
The ancient motto of the prosecuted
Waldensian Church was candlestiok,
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rounding darkness, and encircled with
lucet in tenebris" the light shineth in
darkness.
A Brahmin has made pOint-one that
is incisive yea, az sharp as two.edged
sword. He wrote TO missionary; 1--WE
are finding you ont. You are not as good
as your Book II your people were only
az good as your Book you would conquer
India for Christ in five years"
DR.. Mark Hopkins, in recent lecture
TO the theological students of Princeton
Seminary, is reported to have expressed
his views IN regard to evolution very forci-
bly,, saying that the theory was not only
atheistic," but entirely Insufficient to ex-
plain in any way the origin OF the human
species.
In the deepest night of trouble and anx-
iety God gives us go much to be thsnkfnl
for that we never need cease our singing.
With all our wisdom and foresight we can
take lesson in gladness and gratitude from
the happy bird that sings all night, as if
the day were not long enough to tell its
joy Abbott.
There is inestimable blessing in cheer
ful spirit. When the soul throws its win
dows wide open, letting in the sunshine
and presenting to all who see it the evil
denoe OF it's gladness, it is not only happy,
but il is has an unspeakable power of do.
ing good. To ali the other beatitudes may
be added, Blessed are the joy,makers."
There is in our day marvellous idolatry
of talent. Is is strange and grievous
| thing to see how men bow down to genius
and success. Let US draw the distinction
sharp and firm between these two things
goodness is one thing, talent is another.
When once the idolatry of talent enters
the church, then farewell to spirituality /;
! when men ask their teachers, not for that
which will make them more humble and
God-hke, bat for the excitement of an in
tellectual banquet, then farewell to Christ
ian progress. IF. w. Robertson.
Standing in trent Of my 1900 books on
science, history, political economy and the
oIogy "a goodly company of friends-I
said to them and to my own soul, "When
the world learns that things are SO consti.
tuted that two and two inevitably make
four, the millennium will not be far off.
The secret of success and the dreadful Sc
cret of failure are hidden under that ig.
nored proposition. Science is based upon
the immutability of that fact history is a
long series of varying illustrations of it
political economy, with its dream of an
| ideal society, is practical application OF
it TO the progress OF mankind and the
ology is the voice OF the living God, rever-
berating through the ages the Sinaitic fiat,
1.-Two and two make four" II is short
way OF saying that natural laws cannot be
repealed by any human majority, and that
Gods juries always agree on verdict Sc
long aa the statement holds good, the
acorn will produce an oak, and never a
maple, evil will be simply evil, and good
will be its opposite, and there will be en-
nifty between the two, Rev, George II.
Hepworth.
The religious world has been recently
sgitated by determination on the part Of
theologians to square off and fight the re-
ligion of their fathers. Some think it ar
CUES great pluck for a man to assail the
Bible and the Church and set up new re-
ligion. The fact is, it requires DO courage
st all to do so, for he is always sure of the
favor and applause of a multitude who hate
the Bible and would be glad to see it struck
| i - H,yr ,nA.n
pied. The Bible antagonists do not realize
they are attempting to stop an express train
by putting their foot on the track, or to ar.
rest an Alpine avalanche by bracing them.
selves against one OF the Ice.cakes. The
Bible goes right on, and the Church of God
goes right on, and Christianity goes right
on, and the chief damage is done to the
critics. Tnere never have been 80 many
live churches in the United States as to.
day More people believe the Gospel than
ever before, and vaster multitudes are at
tempting 20 practice it's precepts. The at
tempt to shstter the Bible for the last three
hundred years has not rent asunder or dis
lodged single doctrine or sentiment. AT.
ter its present assailants are all dead their
fuaeral sermons will be preached from King
James's Translation, not one verse omitted
from the first page of Genesis to the last
page of Revelations. One would think the
world would get tired of bombardment
of the Bible castle when with all their con.
centrated fire of three hundred years they
have not been able to knock out of its walls
splinter large enough to make the most
sensitive eyeball culver. Ola am so glad
We are in the army which will finally win
the day Here and there repulse may
come through the perfdy of some officer,
or the backing out of some traitor in the
camp; but there are enough Of the mounted
cavalry of the King to ride down all oppo-
sition and to dismount the guns of the en-
envy. | have no nervousness az to the re-
suit. l am only anxious TO be on the right
side in the contest, and to 90 my share OF
the hard marching and hard fighting DR..
Talmage, in Lssie's Sunday Magazine.
CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS. The passage