Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-31


Though LIES sunlight be brilliant its sunset is
sweet,
Since it brings longedfor rest to weary, weary
feet.
The silence of the soul speaks to God
[Bossuet.
Faith is to believe what we do not see,
and the reward of this faith is to see what
we believe. Augustine.
Coleridge said he thought the act of
praying to be, in its most perfect form, the
very highest energy of which the human
heart was capable.
Professor Eardthausep, of Laipsic, has
completed his catalogue of the Greek manu-
scripts to be found in the convent at Sinai,
which he made during stay of nearly six
months on the spot.
1t is the crushed olive that yields the
oil the pressed grape that gives forth the
wine and it was the smitten rock that
gave the people water. So it is the broken,
eontrite heart that is most rich in goodness
and most fragrant in grace.
Until we discover the difference between
creatures and children, and believe that we
are not simply the product of Gods skill
and power, but the real offspring of His
heart, our belief in God can produce no
agreeable feelings toward Him.-[C. F.
Deems.
We may presently look upwards and,
turning from the shadow to the substance,
from things seen and temporal to the I'M.
seen and eternal, may vail our faces before
the vision of greatness that is unsearcha.
BILE and goodness that is unspeakable.-
IProf. Birks.
Depend upon it in the midst of all the
science about the world and its ways, and
all the ignorance of God and His greatness,
the man or woman who can say, "Thy
will be done, with the true heart of CIV
ing up, is nearer the secret of things than
.the geologist or theologian. Mac
donald.
General Halderman, the American Min
lister to Siam, presented the American mis-
sionaries in Bangkok to the King recently.
His Majesty expressed his appreciation of
their labors to promote the moral and in
tellectual welfare of his people, and, though
. Buddhist, promised to tolerate all reli.
gions that had such ends in view.
There is no life which in the past has
testified to the power and beauty of the
gospel but what lives to-day and shall con-
tinue in our future, unfolding life. There
has been no Sinking from duty or slug
gishness but what has left its impress on
us; and, on the other hand, no gift, no
act of self-denial, which does not still work
in us as bene6cent power. R. S. Storrs.
No words can express how much the
world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms
horn in xxzild Most rs ha
epistles were written in a prison. The
greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers
have all passed through fire. The greatest
poets have Learned in suffering what they
taught in song" In bonds, Bunyan lived
the allegory that he afterward indicted,
and we may thank Bedford Jail for the
Pilgrims Progress.
Though the New Testament gives us
very little information respecting the ex-
ternal order and organization of Apostolic
churches, it Is full of information respect
ing their spirit. They had no common
creed, but were bound together by com.
mon faith no houses of worship, but every
church was true household of faith no
ritual, but a spirit of fearless reverence
which made their worship as sublime as
its instruments were simple. Lyman Alb
bolt.
Much faith is temporary. It is not un.
like the faith mentioned in Esop's fable,
when the stag stood looking into the water
Sat its branching sntlers, and tossing his
head with defiance. "Why," said he,
"am I afraid of the hounds A dog come
near me? Impossible If the hound does
but see my horns, he will fear death. /
L. IL =, !, H. L L..
will let the pack see what am made Of :"
Just then there was heard bark, and
away went the stag like lightning, as terri.
fed as ever. How like to us? We appear
to be SO grandly strong, so quietly believ.
ing yet the first trouble that comes scat
tiers our courage. G. II. Sturgeon.
It is Mr. Ruskin who says: 81 believe
that the root of almost every schism and
heresy from which the Christian church
has ever suffered has been the effort of men
to earn, rather than to receive, their saliva
ton and that the reason that preaching
is SO Intellectual is that it calls men oftener
to work for God than to behold God work
ing for them. If for every rebnke that we
utter of mems vices we put forth claim
upon their hearts; if for every assertion of
Gods demands from them we could substi-
tute display of his kindness to them if
side by side, with every warning of death,
we could exhibit. proofs and promises of
Immortality; if, in fine, instead of assnm-
ing the being of an awful Deity, which
men, though they cannot and dare not
deny, are always unwilling, sometimes I'M.
able, to conceive, we were to show near,
visible, inevitable, but all beneficent Deity,
whose presence makes the earth itself a
heaven, l think there would be fewer deaf
children sitting in the market-place. 4"
1t is reported upon apparently good au-
thority that certain London society for
the suppression of blasphemous literature
has announced its purpose of prosecuting
Huxley, Tyndall, Spencer, John Morley,
and the publishers of the works of the late
John Stuart Mill, for having " sown WIDE
spread unbelief, and in some cases rank
atheism. This society could not do a
more foolish thing. That it's criticism upon
the works in question has some force is
true, but, even If it could prove that these
authors had intended to teach unbelief and
atheism, as such, which may not be easy in
every case, and had violated law in so do
ing, it could not direct world. wide atten-
ton to these gentlemen and their books in
any other way so effectively. If it really
desires TO diminish their influence it
should not force them into the position of