Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-07

VIII, hare his chain that babe them 70 be bound,
| And, at the end, in finding not have found.
->'' spectator.
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt re.
! alized.-[F. R. Havergal.
Cicero gave expression to very beauti.
full thought when he says, 81 go from life
as from an inn, not as from home"
Man is greater than world, than sys.
TENS OF worlds there is more mystery in
the union of souls with the physical than
in the creation of a universe.-[ Henry
Giles.
There is nothing SO graciously inclined
toward us as God and our conscience be-
cause no other knows the manner in which
things happen within US, and the inner
workings of our souls Rahel Varnhagen.
The great hindrance to Christian progress
is unchristisn NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. doc
trine without Christian practice. The
chief priests, scribes and elders were reli-
gious after an irreligious kind. They
mumbled the right words, but they did
not live the right life, or develop the right
spirit. 1t was religion gone sour-the wine
of piety turned into the vinegar of resent.
ment.-[Joseph Parker.
1t is reported that DIR. Benson, the new
Archbishop of Canterbury, recently had
long interview with Mr.. Booth, the leader
of the Salvation Army, and expressed him.
self as being in sympathy with that organ.
ization. $50 on, he said do all the
good you can get at the people. We re-
joice, only we would like it to be done
somehow or other in harmony and in uni
son with the Church Of England"
The living Christian, pure of heart and
unspotted by the world, is the best
preacher of the gospel in these days. And
it is Just from the lack of this gospel salt
that society suffer- from corruption and de.
cay. Revivals and conversions are pain.
fully few. The revival that is most ur-
gently needed is a revival Of practical
godliness. Sunday preaching is not enough
we want more sermons all through the
week. 1T. L. Cuyler.
If all the blind men in the kingdom
should endeavor to bear me down that the
sun is not bright, or that the rainbow has
no colors. / would still believe my own eyes.
have seen them both /; they have not. l
cannot prove to their satisfaction what
assert, because they are destitute of sight,
the necessary medium they would not
| they could not-hesitate moment, if they
were not blind. Just so they who have
been taught of God, who have tasted that
the Lord is gracious, have an experimental
perception of the truth which renders them
proof against all the sophistry of the inf.
del.-[Newton.
This is the teaching that the children be.
long to Christ, "0f such is the kingdom of
heaven" When Christ was preaching his
sermon on conversion, he did not take an
Apostle and put him in the midst of the
children and say, except We be converted
and become as Peter and James and John
ye shall not enter into the kingdom of
heaven he took little child and put him
i'll the midst of the Apostles and said to
Peter and James and John, Except ye be
converted and become as this little child we
shall not enter into the kingdom OF heaven.
He is not alienated from God, though he
may become so. He may not know Christ,
but Christ knows him /; he may not be able
to reach up and take hold of Christ's hand,
but Christ can reach down and take hold of
his In his little battle with temptation
and sin, all the sympathies and the infu-
ences of his parents and his home may be
against him, but the sympathies of Christ
are with him. He is Christ's from the
cradle not because he is good. but because
Christ is good. Christian Union.
Mr.. Cook criticises the Brahmo Somaj
because sit has not exhibited power to
deliver men thoroughly from the love of
sim" That is severe test to put any re-
| ligious movement too, and it is a very pure
Christianity that can stand it. Most
Christians are not thoroughly delivered
| &c.,, L. - -, D,,& . = IL
in the theory of Christ as only great
prophet-the greatest of the prophets-the
power is lost which Christianity finds in
Christ, the gift of special mercy and recon-
Citation sent from God to man. Because
| Chunder Sen, in his eclectic search after
the true which we may Gull out of all reli.
gions, has found most in Christianity,
therefore his religion on the New Dispense.
tion is the purest and highest form of nat.
ural religion ever offered to tie world ; but
it fails of full power. 1t has done good to
some souls. but it does not appeal to the
many. The challenge which a mis-
sionary made, that it show a dozen
drunkards converted, has not been
publicly met, possibly because it appeals
to traits not found in drunkards but
Mr.. Cook shows that it has done much
good and must be regarded as the happiest
signs of the times in India Independent.
| The first star that steps out into the twi-
| light is like a human soul when God first
sends it out into the world. 1t sees no
one, it knows no one but its own constella-
ton, its own immediate family but as
| life goes on, and its shadows deepen, its
sphere of knowledge and of acquaintance
becomes larger, and it sees that it is but
one among many in the mighty armament
around it, and but few heed and take note
of its existence As life flows on into
youth, a few noble friends arise, like the
glorious planets of the evening, and
shed their sweet influence over his
pathway, and he rests his whole
love, his whole character almost, up
on them and for years perhaps knows no
other want. no other happiness, and does
not notice, in his all-absorbing interest, that
some of these beautiful lights upon his
journey have already long passed their
zenith, and are steadily declining toward
the horizon. They still shed their sweet
influence over him, still smile upon him
from afsr, and he never thinks, never
dreams of the dark hour coning, when
the light of their love and sympathy shall
forever have vanished from his life.
Writing of Progressive Judaism" and
of the champion of Reformed judaism,
Claude Monte6ore, Frances Power Cobbe
says in the Contemporary. "Clsude Mon.
tefiore's announced intention of entering
(if accepted the Jewish ministry, and thus
devoting his manifestly high abilities, his
calm Judgment, and his ripe scholarship,
with all the influence of his position, to
L. ~ 1xy fo.l q
prove an immense addition to its chances
Of success. Great religious movements are
not the work of one man; but they rarely
succeed till the soul of one man enters into
them and leads them. Possibly-but it is
far too soon to speculate-the hour
for the Reformation of Judaism has come i;
and the Refermer. II is startling pros
pect this which has opsned before ur. If |
uything seemed fixed in the endless flux
of nations and religions it was the hall. pet
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