Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-11-03

-[Chicago Inter Ocean.
The end of learning is to know God, and
ont of kno owledge to love Him and initiate
Him. Milton.
True science is the natural ally of re-
ligion, for nature and religion are both
alike from God rryon Edwards.
Make others TO see Christ in you, NOV
ing, doing. speaking and thinking your
actions will speak of Him, if He be In you.
Il Rutherford.
A mans charity to those who differ from
him upon great and difficult questions will
be in the ratio of his own knowledge of
them-the more knowledge, the more
charity. y.-[ Norman Macleod.
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis
like a star new born, that drops into its
place, and which, once circling in its placid
| round, not all the tumult of the earth can
shake James Russell Lowell.
His heart was as great as the world, but
there was no room in it to hold the memory
of wrong Character is higher than in
tellect. a great soul will be strong to live
as well as to think Emerson.
What man is to have, that he receives
Even God cannot prevent this. There
fore, borrow no anxiety, and feel no as
constituent. What is written on the fore
head can never be effaced.-[ Hindu.
Faithful prayer always implies correla-
tive exertion; and no man can ask honestly
and hopefully to be delivered from tempta'
| tion unless he has himself honestly and
| firmly determined to do the best he can to
keep out of it.
The truth cannot be burned, beheaded
or crucifed. A lie on the throne is a lie
still, and truth in a dungeon is truth still ;
and the lie on the throne is on the way to
defeat, and the truth in the dungeon is on
the way TO victory. Mckinley.
II any man among you seem to be reli-
gious and bridleth not his tongue, but de-
ceiveth his own heart, this mau's religion
is vain. Pure religion, and undefiled be-
fore God and the Father, is this-to visit
the fatherless and the widows in their
atiliction, and to keep himself unspotted
from the world.-[St. James.
Grace Church, in Broadway, New York
City, is to have majestic $50, 900 splre oi
marble in the place Of the wooden spire
which was recently taken down. This
spire is to be 2l9 feet in height, and be
surmounted by a cross made of metal and
glass, which, when illuminated at night,
will be a conspicuous object for many miles
around.
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 shrinking from duty or slug
! gishness but what has LETT its impress on
US and on the other hand, no gift, no act
OF self-denial, which does not still work in
US beneicent power,-[R. S. Storrs.
The subjects for the International Sun
day-school lessons have been chosen fol-
| 1884. For the first six months the lessons
will be in the Acts and Epistles. Three
months will then be spent with "Davit
and the Psalms" The last three month";
will be spent with Solomon and the
Books of Wisdom" the selections being
from Kings, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.
There is no night where the hearts igh
and the candle of the Lord beats sunshin,
out and out. Fortune may be blind, bu
faith is not for it rends the veil from tol
to bottom, and sees visions of God that ar
hidden from common eyes, Hope, such a
God gives, has sn eye like an eagle, and cal
gaze at the sun. Love outstrips them both
and lives in the sun, with a glory al
around. Selected.
There is call, indeed, for the religion
education Of our young people, that the,
may be nurtured in reasonable faith whicl
will be help and Joy to them forever bu
there is faith in them already which W
mast bring out and put to use, life to
called out and disciplined and strength
ened, and this, among other ways, in shar
ing in tue life of the congregation, par
ticipation in its worship and work. In m
judgment you neglect a very importan
part of church training when you make n
provision as church for the instruction {
the children in sacred song.-[Dr. Ruff
Ellis.
The stoutest timber stands on Norwegia
rocks, where tempests rage and long, hsr
winters reign. The muscles are seen mo:
fully developed in the brawny arm tina
plies the blacksmith's hammer. Even 81
the most vigorous and healthy piety
that which is the busiest, which has diff
culties to battle with, which has its hand
full of good works, which has neither tim
J nor room for evil, but, aiming at gref
things both for God and man, promptl
> and summarily dismiss temptations wit
Nehemiah's answer :" have great wor
to do, therefore cannot come down.
A beautiful custom prevails among tf
q simple dwelers on the Swiss Alps.
the setting sun gilds the summit OF tt
Alps, the shepherd who lnhablts the higl
est peak of these mountains takes his nor
: and cries with loud voice, Praised
the Lord. As soon as the neighbour
shepherds hear him they leave their hui
and repeat these words. The sounds al
: prolonged many minutes, while the echo,
OF the mountain and grottoes repeat tt
name of God. Imagination cannot pictui
anything more solemn or sublime tbs
such a scene. During the silence TIN
: succeeds the shepherds bend their kne
and pray in the open air, and then repa
= to their nuts to rest Sunday Magazln
. They tell as that in some trackless land
e when one friend passes through the pat
e less forests he breaks twig over and ant
n as he goes, that those who come after ma
h see the traces of his having been ther
4 and may know that they are not out OF q
h road. Oh, when we are journeylng throus
g the murky night and the dark woods
Z afiiiction and sorrow, it is something
find here and there spray broken or
leafy stem bent down with the tread
Christ's foot and the brush of His hand
e. He passed. and to remember that the pa
S. He trod He has hallowed, and that the
IN are lingering fragrances and hidd
g strength in the remembrance, Tin
rs points tempted as we are, bearing gr
9; for us, bearing grief with US, bearing gr
"a like us.-[ Msclsren.