Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-09

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And plead His love for love.
And so beside the Silent Sea
! wal. the mufi I'd oar;
No harm from Him can come 20 me,
Ga ocean or on shore
know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
] ooiY know cannot diff
Beyond His love and care.
Every mans lie is a plan of Cod
| Horace Bushnell.
The power Of choosing right or wroni
makes man moral agent. his actually
choosing wrong makes him a sinner. lily
man Beecher.
Happy the heart to whom God has giver
enough strength and courage to suffer pa
tiently and find ones own happiness il
the happiness OF others. C. iton.
We may not carry our moistened spoDg,
over the tablets Of Coos commands, ant
then bind ourself only by the hAlf-legiblt
lines that remain. -ED. W. FAunce.
The law Of the harvest is TO reap more
| than you cow. Sow an act, and you rear
habit SOW habit, aud you reap char
acter SOW a character, and yon reap ;
destiny. George D. B1ardman.
a man dies very much as a bucket o.
water is drawn from a river. There is {
little depression FOR a moment, then with
gurgle the waves I'LL i, and the stream
flows on with the sun shinius upon the
spot as before.
The religion that the world needs for til
complete regeneration is that kind which
takes hold upon the life of a man and
shapes its every action, directs It's every
effort, and asserts itself in the character in
every conceivable relation.
l. there were no enemy there could be
| no conflict, were there no trouble there
could be no faith, were there no fear there
cou d be no hope. Hope, faith ard love
are weapons, ard weapons imply foes and
encounters, and relying on my weapons,
viii glory in my sutferings ~ DR.. New
man.
A person present during the last hours OF
! President Chadbourne, Of the Massachu.
sets Agricultural College, writes that " nc
one who. saw his face, radiant with heav.
! emily light, or heard the triumphant words,
like psalms Of praise, that burst from his
dying lips" could doubt the reality OF a
| future life.
| Ii the belief in God be lost TO humanity,
we shall lose not only the direct, but meal
j culable effects on individual souls OF the
I belief Ia q Divine Searcher of hearts, but
also the indirect and universal uplifting in
Auence on society of the presence of men
/ who have experienced such effects and
| formed their moral standard accordingly.
t. 4 L.
1 be depreciation OF the common ideal
standard, and a consequently still further
depression Of the practical level of personal
virtue ?-[ Frances Power Cobbe.
The Christian Union hopes that the Old
Testament Ievisers will not give us q
book from which much OF the power to de-
light and move men has departed" and
says Agsuredly, failare on their part to
act in accordance with this sentimental
objection Will result IN their translation be-
ing regarded as an excellent commentary,
but In no sense a substitute for the estab-
lished version. We hope the revisers will
take a lesson from the criticisms which
have been visited upon the New Tes ament
revision. Some of these we grant were
puerie but many are well made, and must
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plant the Old"
Specification is genuine and gracious
process and Il never reaches completeness
| IN this life. This should make us tolerant
and charitable toward the iniirmities of
sincere followers Of our Master. Yet it
should never excuse cur own willful adher.
ence to words, or practices, or traits OF
character which dishgure our religion and
mar our influence. In building a character
for eternity, we should regard its impress
sion on our feilOw-meu. we are as much
bound to ornament it as we are to make the
structure solid and enduring. An attract
i've Christian is the one that hits the most
nearly that golden mean between plian5
laxities, on the one hand, and severe or
sanotimOnious harshness, on the other hand
He is strict, but not csnsodous. He is
sound, and yet sweet and mellow, as one
who dwells much ia the sunshine OF Christi
countenance. He never incurs contempt
provoke Others 10 dislike hin by his doing
right in a very harsh, or hateful, or bigsted
fashion.-IRey. I. L. Cuyler.
A talented but eccentric friend some
times puts his text at the end of his SER
mon. ii begins with a proposition
proves it, draws conclusions from it, builds
pyramid OF statements and demonstra-
ton, until he arrives at a logical climax
The climax he finds proof text for, and
that is the text of the sermon. He says
"Now, brethren, you see from what we
have established in this discourse, that
The soul that sinueth, it shall die, as the
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brother breaches to his text, and not from
it. Bat the impression made upon his
hearers Is thai the Bible is not authority
with him unless he can establish the truth
of its statement by q process Of reasoning
In this he enscts the part OF an advocate
and not the part of an ambassador. Our
business is to tell men what our Lord says,
and not to show them that he had a right
to say it. Let us preach the Word, and
not preach about it, or put it as label
upon our own theories and fancies.- The
0eeiden5.
John Bright made tie principal address
at the recent thirteenth Triennial Confer.
encs of the Liberation Society in London.
To conclusion Mr.. Bright eaid Il com.
plain, then, Of the Estab ished Church ia
THIS utu|u HtdDutas lH4b II uoea uDNNllS 10
guide the State in the way Of righteous
ness that it is in certain respects the bond
slave Of the State; that in all the great
matters which must affect our country the
Bishops aud the clergy are dumb, and their
activity Is shown when any comparatively
small measure Is discussed which they
think .resds little upon their position
and their supremacy. Well now, what
viii come cannot hope, and many here
cannot hope, TO live to see it. but probably
many here viii see it. The
Church as an established Church will
perish. Bat as a Church, when that event
has taken place, it will flourish far more in
the right way Of fourishing than it has
done when tended by the State. When
free it will look back with horror to the
Grains from which it has been delivered,
aud viii exult with an unspeakable re.
joscing at the freedom BY which it has
been enriched, And the people will have