Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-13

OF one on earth CHERISHED most,
Would be a measureless delight;
| would not shrink.
| -GChas. D. Bell d. D.
Holiness is not the way to Christ, but
Christ is the way to holiness, -[Toplady.
Sincerity is the way TO heaven. To think
how to be sincere is the way of man,
Mencius.
In every man there is loneliness, an
inner chan Der of peculiar life, into which
God only can enter.
Divine love is a sacred flower. which in
its early bud is happiness, and in full
bloom is heaven. [Hervey.
Purity, sincerity, obedience and self
surrender are the marble steps that lead to
the spiritual temple Bradford.
1t is not until we have passed through
the furnace that we are made to know how
much dross there is in our composition.
l came from God, and Pm going back to
God and won't have any gaps Of death
in the middle of my life.-[George Mac
Donald.
1t is the crushed grape that gives out the
blood-red wine. 1t is the suffering soul
that breathes the sweetest melodies. -
[Gail Hamilton.
Faith, like light, should ever be simple
and unbending while love, like warmth,
should beam forth on every side and bend
to every necessity.
Sin is never at stay if we do not re.
treat from it we shall advance in it and
the further on we go the more we have to
come back Barrow.
Our lives are like some complicated ma.
chine, working on enc side of a wall and
delivering the finished fabric to the other.
We cannot cross the barrier and see the
end The work is in our hands-the com.
pletion is not.
Let me right here remark, that it were
better for parents to teach their children
morals, and cultivate their hearts rather
than their brains in the present generation.
We would thus have fewer criminals and
more virtue. Trude.
l feel convinced that every man has
| given him of God much more than he has
J any idea of, and that he can help on the
worlds work more than he knows of.
What we want is the single eye, that we
may see what our work is, the humility to
accept it, however lowly, the faith to do it
for God, the perseverance to go on till
death. Il Norman Macleod.
The gospel is the completion and con.
summation of all that preceded. Christ
came to fulfill as the flower fulfills the
plant. In testifying to it the secrets of
the heart are made manifest. 1t "be-
came" God to be merciful and gracious. 1t
is godlike to set the example and appoint
the motive of love. The truth fortities in
temptation, upholds in trial, gives solace
in sorrow we have content and hope as
we trust. A document once held up in a
law Court to the light showed water
date proving its falsity, for the paper had
not been made at the time when it pur.
ported to be legal document. There are
| ity of man is evident. Does it answer to
the test, "My thoughts are not as your
thoughts 7" Will it avail for all times
Is there &c divinity within it that wakes
not old?" Compare it with false religions,
animation, and come forth verified for
every fiery trial.-[G. McMichael.
We are quite certain that what we are
cannot be the end of Gods design. When
ace block of marble half chiseled, with
just, perhaps, hand peeping out from the
rock, 40 man can make me believe that
that is what the artist means it should be-
And know | am not what God would
have me to be, because l feel yearnings
and longings within myself to be infinitely
better, infinitely holier and purer than 1
am now. And 80 it is with you; you are
not what God means you to be 4; you have
only Just begun to be what He wants you
to be. He will 60 on with His chisel of
affection, using wisdom and the craving
tool together, till, by and by, it shall ap.
pear what you shall be for you shall be
| like Him, and you shall see Him as He is.
| 0 what comfort this is for our faith, that
from the fact that our vitality and the fact
that God is at work with us, it is clear and
true and certain that our latter end shall
be increased. I do not think that any
man yet has ever got an idea of what man
is to be. We are only the chalk crayon
rough drawings of men, yet when we
come to be filled up in eternity, we shall
be marvellous pictures, and our latter end,
indeed, shall be greatly increased.5Spur-
geon.
For weak, sensuous persons, strongly at
tached to what is earthly-persons to whom
what they eat, and what they drink, their
household furniture, their money, their
worldly position, ard the consideration in
which they are held by others, are the
most important matters-must, of course,
be more fearful of the future than others,
because they have set their hearts on
things that must perish. They must trem.
BILE, in spite of their trust in God, for they
know beforehand that God will not leave
them forever to the joys of the senses.
Their own conscience tells them that they
cling more to what belongs to the dust
than to what is divine and eternal that
they value their worldly appearance more
| than the virtue which raises us above the
world. The truly God.fearing and God.
trusting Christian, on the contrary, looks
cheerfully towards the future. 1t terrifies
him not because it may bring punishment
from hidden sins, for he is guiltless, though
not fsultless. Whatever wrong he has
done he at once endeavors to make amends
| for. He has done all that man can do.
Whatever God may have ordained, whether
it be war or peace, riches or poverty, JOY
| full intercourse with beloved objects, or the
death of the latter-storm or sunshine-he
knows that God rules. And when he sees
the storm cloud rolling toward him it is
Gods voice that says to him, BE still
and know that I am Cod From the
| German of Zschokke.
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