Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-22
SUNDAY EAsY.cHAIR.
The Wrong Pew.

VINO sang Oh ucIssl hLssiIf VI S0-eteAS AOA.e AIN
lorn,
mans inhumsnity to man makes countless thou
sands mourn !"
The hand that held that golden pen-that golden
tongues dust;
dust that's dear to hearts that hold his homely
And YOU who read this simple tale of wrath, and
ruth, and wrong,
MAY hear the echo OF the sob that breaks upon my
song
sat upon the Sabbathday within the sacred fame,
The sunlight through the windows poured Use rain
wtinted rain;
While maids and matrons passing fair, and men OF
high degree,
All fashions proudest votaries, knelt low on oended
knee.
And there was one of stature tall, whose robe of
silken sheen
Draped quiet grace and courtesy that might have
Save only that her palid face, and dropping, tear
dimmed eyes,
Looked ike the Peri's, waiting by the gates Of Par
disc.
What is it moves that jewelled throng eli dainty
worshippers!
Their hearts have probed the cruel wrong that
raukles sore in hers
For she who sat beside her there-ah, heart OF
hardest stone
Swept forth with stern and naughty stare and lett
her there alone.
Then one, God bless her woman neart tue lowell
est woman there,
Stepped down the aisle with stately tread, and calm
and steadast air;
With gentle voice, and tender eyes dstlllng heaV-
ems own dew,
She VIII spered to the shrinking girl, i've room,
my FRIEND for you"
think earths sorest sinners need judge less stern
than they
Who wear their ermne clasped across breast OF
common clay
think heavens loveliest angels come amongst us,
To bear the cruel earthly Cross and then regain the
crown.
Alas alas for paltry pride arrnyed in rich attire
And woe is me for priestly praise which Is our
hearts desire
Would could seek, like pilgrims gray, beside tnat
sun-it sea,
The simple faith that lit the shores OF sacred "ah
lee
Sometimes it seems that ages past our souls nave
sOjourned here
But Gods great angel guards the gate and stands
beside the bier
For when some mystic touch aWaKes the chorus OF
memory,
His awful hand holds down the note, ana clasps the
quiverng key.
Bend low bend low the lofty brow, and bring the
sackcloth gown;
Throw dust and ashes on our heads, and through
the sinful town;
| think the green earth grows more gray, oeheath
its golden sun,
Because the cooi God sits in heaven, and such
evil done edward Renaud
We often do more good by our sympathy
than by our labors. Canon Farrar.
Heaven will be the sweet surprise of
perfect explanation. -[Dr. Robert Price
What we need is to pray, not work up
philosophy of prayer.-[Rev j. H. Ecob.
Good will, like a good name, is got by
many actions and lost by ONE Francis
Jeffrey.
If thou wouldst bear thy neighbours
faults, cast thine eyes upon thine own
[NIolinos.
Is it not the wisest sympathy, when a
man has suffering point, not to touch
upon it all
No one perfectly loves God who does not
perfectly love some of his creatures. ST. Mar
guerite de Valois.
If you would not cease to love mankind,
you must not cease to do them good
Marie Eschenbach.
Everybody, no matter how rich or how
Door, needs all the kindness he can get
from others.-[Rev. j. F. Clarke.
We have only to be sure that we are
following Christ and walking in his way,
for along no other path has God laid up
stores of goodness. 81 Rev. j. R. Miller.
II there be good in the world that we do
without knowing it, without conjecturing
the effect it may have upon human soul,
it is when we show kindness to the young
in the first barren foot-path OF the noun.
tain of life,-[Lytton.
G ,oronhaa,,ioor - To raIoot
the evidence of prophecy till all divines
duct as wise in the infdels If they should
decline sitting down to a good dinner till
all the clocks in London and Westminster
struck 4 together Bisbip Horne.
a virtuous man is one who controls and
coerces the anarchic passions within him so
as to conform his actions to law; noisy
man is one in whom passionate enthusl-
asm absorbs and anpuls the anarchic pas
sions altogether, go that no internal strug-
Gle takes place, and the lawful action is
that which presents itself first and seems
the one most natural and most easy to be
done.-[Seeley.
When blight or mildew comes to a
garden, the plants that suffer first
and most are those which have been
badly cared for, and are, in conse-
quence, weak and sickly. 1t is not
often that hardy and vigorous plants
are attacked or injured. II we fail to use
the means which are needful for sustaining
our souls in spiritual health and soundness
we shall be very liable to the blighting in
huences of evil. 1t is only by being care
full to maintain vigorous spiritual lite that
we can hope to keep ourselves inspected
from the world - B. Wilkinson.
Let the old Thanksgiving feast be kept
more bountiful than ever. 1t is beautiful
in itself as the expression OF gratitude
which is a credit to human nature. 1t re-
minds us of the old days when our ances-
tors in the America which was then little
else than wilderness, spread the festive
board and gathered around it with their
children and grandchildren, to pour out to-
gether their gratitude for heavens abound
ing mercies. How bare and bleak their
lot seems to us to-day. The memory OF
their brave endurance, their sturdy viz
tues, their tireless toll, their great Joy IN
the little they had to rejoice in, and
their heroic faith, which no hard
ship could beat down, is INSOFAR
able from the occasion. For those
quantities made the nation WhaE IL Is, ana
formed the root out of which our liberties
and prosperity have grown. 1t is to them
a home feast, and the affections that conse-
Grated family life were Unexpectedly con-
nected in their thought with love to God.
Home and religion were parts OF perfect
whole. The family and the church were
too closely identified in facs to be separated
IL pious regard, and both were cherished
as mutually dependent In these days
when foreign customs and pernicious ideas
are finding Judgment here, it is of special
value once in the year to celebrate an
occasion which owes much of its significance
and sanctity to the hearth and the heart
New York Evangelist.
There is a striking passage in which a
great philosopher, the famous Bishop
Berkeley, describes the thought which oc-
Cured to him OF the inscrutabe schemes of