Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22

Whose voice shall be missed when the twilight
shades
Hang low and deep around
When Night her ssble mantle spreads
Ger all this earthly ground.
Whose eyes, where the love-Hght shone SO bright,
From morn till the twilight came;
Whose smile played sweetly round the lips,
And softly called your name!
Whose heart-beats echoed back your own,
Aud gave you sigh for sigh;
And babe you still hope on when e'er
The tear-drop filled your eye!
All they miss the kind ones from the heSrth
Who did the freside cheer;
The patient ones that faltered n ot
When trials they drew near.
Jennie NJ. Davis in Leslie's Sunday Magazine
The soul is strong that trusts in God
Massinger.
Sorrow for sin is the golden key that
opens the palace OF eternity. Milton.
God is love. It is He who hath made
every thing and he loves every thing that
he has made Brooke.
Our prayers and Gods mercy are like
two buckets in well while one ascends
the other descends. Bishop Hopkins.
True religion gives happy, cheerful
turn to the mind, admits all true pleasures,
and even procures them for us.-[ Addison.
God hath promised pardon to him that
repenteth, but he hath not promised re.
pentance to him that sinneth.-[Sk. Angus
tine.
The American Bible Society is issuing
1000 of it's books day. 1t has printed
$50, 900 of it's 25-cent Bibles and l, $50, 900
of its scent Testaments.
A correspondent of the Christian Adoo.
cate proposes to amend the Apostles
Creed" by substituting for the words
"Church of Christ"
The Rev. Phillips Brooks is carrying
everything before him in London. At
Westminster and st. PAuls, and in the
cathedral cities, he is sought after, and
crowds attend his preaching.
Bicycles and tricycles are coming into
use among the English clergy. both in the
way of business and recreation. They are
found very convenient in pastoral visiting
and in travelling long distances.
We often hear it said that this or that
person 50 died Christian" That is very
well, but we had rather hear it said they
lived as Christians. 1t is the living Chris
tians that we need most, not the dying
ones.-[ The Criterion.
Nothing is easier than to doubt. A man
of moderate ability and learning can doubt
more than the wisest men believe. Chris
tianity is matter of intelligent faith, but
infidelity requires no one to give reason
for the doubt that is in him. The Cri'
terion.
For a few brief days the orchards are
white with blossoms. They soon turn tc
fruits, or else float away, useless and
wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will il
be with present feelings. They must b'
deepened into decision, or be entirely dis
sipated by deloy.-[Cuyler.
The Christian Union says, upon the eff
feet of opening the public museums and
libraries on Sunday "Iu those commune
ties where the library and the museum
have been opened, they have done neither
the i'll that was dreaded nor the good tha'
was hoped they have emptied neither the
churches nor the grog-shops."
The CAurchman says "The Rev. C. w
Ward has very forcible article on the
value and Importance of amusements il
the August number of the Century, HI
argues that for the moral good of the peo
pie places of amusement should be endowed
and kept under supervision, just as surely
as hospitals are provided for their phYsica
health"
The love of Jesus for men is, to my
thought, the key to His character and the
secret of His influence. His love made
Him great and gave Him His sure place
among the immortals. We seem to-day tc
feel that love through all the intervening
centuries ; and Renan goes not whit be
yond our own feeling when he says "Hil
worship will grow young without ceasing
His legend will call forth tears without
end His sufferings will melt the noblest
hearts; all ages will proclaim that among
the sons of men there is none born greater
than Jesus. ."IRev. D. N. Utter.
In every land of earth and in every age
of the world, every man who has become
unfolded into pre-eminent manhood hal
passed through the noble ordeal of self
sacrifice. He has renounced his own indi
vidual preferences in the interest of uni
vers3l principles. He has been Just in
and manly for the sake of that magnificent
manhood which is SO royal in its full
grandeur as TO seem to partake of the very
majesty Of God. In short, the way uE
into that eminent domain of character
wherein eternal principles rule is o way oil
self surrender for eternal good.-[A. NJ.
Weeks.
Friendship is one of the supreme factors
of life. II the home be founded upon
chastity and the nation upon integrity /; if
| through faith we diacern the future with
all its aspirations for the weak and all
its joys and comforts for the sick and
the dying; if patience be grace that
| lightens burden and floods our daily path
with sunlight if loyalty be noble sttri-
butte of the soul, lifting the thought and the
life of men into higher and grander dispo-
sitions, making them brave and strong
aud self. .forgetful if reverence fills the
human spirit with large and larger meas.
ure of the beauty and divine spirit to
whom we bow; if Home, Sweet Home F"
be the swelling pathos Of humanity; if
songs of our native land awaken loftiest
emotions within our breast if heaven be
word of surprising sweetness, and praise
is the natural language OF pure heart
then reverend and holy are the ties of
friendship p-[Rsv, W. 5. Grove.
Even the mountains teach us Gods love.
What use is that valley? You cannot
grow much corn there, nor build city
there and make commercial center
What did God make it for? 1t is use
enough for me that it is beautiful thing
for human eye to rest upon, and that it
gratifes our sense of grandeur and beauty.
We give those we love beautiful things
simply because they are beautiful, without
reference to their use. And shall God do
less? 1t is an end worthy of loving and
an all.powerful God to believe that only
and solely for the qualification of mans
love for mountain and waterfall, for the
elevation of his soul by the contemplation
of Gods works, for the expansion of his
mind by contact with nature, that God
scooped out that valley and piled up those
rocks. Even SO He ps;pted the flowers.
He carved the shells, He gave grace to the
deer, and softness to the human eye. He
sent the sun to sleep amid a curtain of
gold, and azure, and crimson, and ses the
silver stars upon the blue Of heaven be-
cause He loved to see US happy in the
beauty of His gifts.-tReN. DR.. Locke.
Allowing the blues" to master you ia a
sure way of cutting your Life short.