Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-01


Whatever pay befal
Accepting good or i'll as He shall send,
And wait until the end
= Margaret J. Preston.
All along the pathway of life are tomb
stones, by the side OF which we have
promised to strive for heaven.-[D. L.
| Moody.
To pray against temptations and yet to
rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers
into the fire, and then pray they might not
be burnt.-[Stecker.
Though there be much of mystery, it is
not for us to question the propriety Of
Gods ways, but rather say, "He doeth all
things well. y! Young.
a firm faith is the best divinity good
life the best philosophy clear conscience
the best law honesty the best policy, and
temperance the best physic.-[Charron.
The greatest works have been done by
the units, and l would rather choose the
solitary hero in truth than 90 with the
majority to do the evil Rev. c. h. Spur
geon, Jr.
The world is simply the threshold of our
vast life the first stepping stone from nom
bility. 1t is the infant school of the soul.
IT. Starr King.
Religion stands upon two pillars, viz:
What Christ did for us in His flesh, and
what He performs in us by His spirit.
Most errors arise from an attempt to sepa-
rate these two. j ohm Newton.
1t is rare friendship that will tell
man his own faults. a man will take al.
most anything else in hand sooner than he
will offend friend by saying to him,
"You are liable, here, to downfall and
disgrace" and before a man knows his fall
ings himself everybody else knows them
| Beecher.
Evolution is simply the doctrine of d.
vine method in the creation of this world.
The old doctrine was that the creation was
at once. Evolution says that the Divine
method was gradual and slow. God said
let there be light, and there was light -
magnificent poetry, but poor science. Evo.
luton says that myriads of ages interviewed
before this earth was ripe.-[H. W.
Beecher.
Thus saith the maiden Lachesis, the
daughter of Necessity: Ye short-lived
souls, new generation of men shall begin
the cycle of its moral existence. Your
destiny shall not be allotted to you, but
you shall choose it for yourselves. Let
him who draws the first lot be the first to
choose life which shall be his irrevocably.
Virtue owns no master he who honors her
shall have more of her, and he who sights
her, less. The responsibility lies with the
chooser. Heaven is guiltless. Plato.
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God, but so infinitely does He know you
that He has counted the very hairs of your
head, as though they were precious.
Every hair is precious All, that figure
l bear in my wallet little wreath of hair.
1t was my mothers. 1t came to me, and
l carry it with me, and money could not
buy it, Every hair of my mother whispers
something to me of comfort and consola-
ton. Often and often, precious beyond
silver and gold is little lock of hair And
God SAYS that the very hairs of your head
are numbered. He is tender to that extent.
He has an infinite sphere of those delicate
attentions and sensibilities which we have
cramped and veined with selfshness and
mperfection. plymouth Pulpit.
Once the soul, travelling with it's spirit.
ual guide, which is Faith, came to bright,
happy land where it was eternal spring,
and flowers fairer and purer and far more
fragrant than the flowers of earth clothed
the land in never. fading beauty And the
land was peopled with the loveliest of the
Angel race. They foated among the fan
forests, and plucked the sweetest and most
beautiful Of the flowers then afar off they
wandered through the infinite realms Of
space, and laid them on the souls of those
who were to be taken early to heaven,
that they might be more beautiful and
angel.hke in life. "And this" said Faith,
sis the eternal mission of these guardian
angels of childhood and these are they
who died too early to sin."-[Selected.
would not give one moment of heaven
for all the JOY and riches of the world
even if it lasted for thousands and thou.
sands of years. Good works do not make
a Christian, but one must be a Christian
to do good works. The tree bringeth forth
the fruit, not the fruit the tree. The best
name by which we can think of God il
Father. 1t is a loving, deep, sweet, heart
touching name for the name OF father is
in its nature, full of Unborn sweetness anc
comfort. 1t is not for me to determine
whether the danger to the Gospel be create
or less by my life or death. The truth o
God is a rock of fear, placed for the fall
ing and rising of many in Israel. Tn
Lord takes up none but the forsaken
makes none healthy but the sick, give
sight to none but the blind, makes non,
alive but the dead, ssnctifies none bat sin
ners. and to all these He is precious,
Sayings of Martin Luther.
His nature, his character, his promise
are still the same. Try and prove if he b
not still a God of truth and grace ant
love. Try if the residue of the Spirit i
not with him, and beseech him to pour i
forth. Try if his Gospel will not still
, convince, convert, and save. Try him by
humbling yourselves IN his sight, and Sc
if he will not lift you up Try him b,
more frequent and fervent prayer, and se
il he will not cause you to receive till you
Joy shall be full. Try him by fresh ant
full surrender of your heart TO him, ant
see if he will not fill you with love and lif
and power. Try him by more diligen
use of all the means Of grace, and see If h
will not cause your soul to delight itself IL
fatness And try him by an enlarged lib
crafty, and see if he will not pour you on
blessing that there shall not be room
enough to receive it. And in all thes
respects try him now.-[King's Highway.
Rev. Mr. Savage, of Berkeley, recent.
said in discourse upon the growth o
Christianity; There are those who Zip
PANTY speak Of the religion of Jesus a
one OF the bygone notions Of the world, a
relic of a superstitious past, which th'
world is rapidly outgrowing or has alresd!
well nigh outgrown. Such statemen
certainly reflects little credit on those WHIT
make it, as to their knowledge Of facts
Let me give few statistics drawn from tn
official records OF the various Christian de
nominations in our country In the yea
1900 there were spproximsting 5000 Prot
estant Christian churches in the country
In 1880 there were 81 ,000 an increase o
thirty-two fold. OF communicates in thes
churches in 1900, there were abcdt 3S5 900
Ia 1880, more than 10 600. 600, an increas
of tweaty-seven and half fold. Tire pop
ulation of the United States in $500 wa
, five and one-thiri millions; in 1880, owe
so 600 600, or an increase of about MIN
and half fold. That is, while the popula
tion in 1880 was nine and a half times a
large as IN 1900, the membership OF Pro
testant churches in the country was TWEEN
ty-seven and half times as large Doe
that look as though the power of Jesu