Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-08

Let US with caution indulge the suppo-
sition that morality can be maintained
without religion. - Washington.
1t is the nature of God to make some
thing out of nothing therefore when any
one is nothing God may yet make some
thing out of him Frederick of Saxony.
Some one sent to Luther to know whether
it was permissible to use warm water in
baptism. The doctor replied Tell the
blockhead that water, warm or cold, is
water"
If Christians must contend, let it be like
the olive and the vine, watch shall bear
most and best fruits not like the aspen
and elm, which shall make the most noise
in the wind.
Christian faith is a grand cathedral with
divinely. pictured windows. Standing with
out you see no glory, nor can you possibly
imagine any; standing within, every ray
of light reveals harmony of unspeakable
splendor -[ Bishop Porteus.
In self.examination, take no account of
yourself by your thoughts and resolutions
in the days of religion and solemnity but
examine how it is with you in the days of
ordinary conversation, and in the cjroum-
stancWS secular employment. i Jeremy
Taylor.
The best things are nearest -; light in your
eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your
hama, the path of God Just before you.
Taen do not grasp at the stars, but do life 6
common work as it comes, certain that
daily duties and daily bread are the sweet.
est things Of life.
The life of Christianity" said Luther,
" consists in possessive pronouns." 1t is
one thing to say, "Caris5 is a Savior, II
Is quite another thing to say, q" He Is my
Savior and my Lord" The devil can say
the first; the true Christian alone can say
the second II. Q. Ryle.
Christian life Is not all contemplation
and prayer i. is not all muscle and sinew.
1t Is a perfect, practical union of the two,
/ believe in Joyful emotions if they result
in self-denying, patient work for Carist-l
believe in work If it Is winged by faith and
prayer Mrs. Elizabeth Preutiss.
When men work, they cackle. God
never nature, never. The sun performs
his projects silently, continuously, mar
velousIy. Thsre is no sound in the air.
This great globe, like Solomons temple
was built without the sound Of the ham
mer. So are the works OF God in all tn,
universe. LBsecher.
As the rays come from the sun, and ye
are not the sun, even so our love and pity,
though they are not Sod, but merely
poor, weak image and ref ection Of him, We
from him alone they come. II there i
mercy in our hearts, it comes from tn,
fountain OF mercy. II there Is the light @
love in us, II Is a ray from the full sun 0
love- Kingsley.
l have heard that a woman who hs
d" mission makes poor wife or a baC
mother This Is very possible, and q
the same time very lamentable but tn
mission I urge Is not all OF this sort
Dirty rooms, slatternly gowns, and chil
dren with unwashed faces are swift wit
nesses against the sincerity Of those VIII
keep other vineyards and neglect thei
own. have no faith in that woma
who talks OF grace aud glory abroad an
uses no soap at home. -. Rev. c. Il
Spurgeon'
We miss half the joyous experiences {
the Christian life because we persist j
placing ourselves where they cannot come
We do not come 10 a receptive attitude be
W..
handed. If we choose TO make our HON
under the shadow of a mountain, W
ought not to complain that the suuhgh
does not enter there. II we seek a dwell
mo Mace in a cavern underground, W
ought not to cry out against God for nc
giving US a blue sky, and green field
and flowers and birds. It is all our ow
doing n The Criterion.
In a recent letter by Rev. C. c, Foot,
published in the CWleSHre. appears the fol
lowing in relation 10 the Rev. Dr. FiuRey
the great revivahst, and who was for S
many wears President OF 0oerlin College
He saws To no man am l more indebte
for blessings that shall abide with me fo
ever than to President Finney. | sa'
and heard him first in 1880, during n
first GREAT revival work in Rochester, \
Y. o. that awful sermon from Rom. Vi
% 1.-The wages of sin is death.
Shundered in nv ears and l could repe1
nearly the whole Of the sermon for year
In after years sat as pupil at his fee
At first [ could not endure those terribl
searching eyes, but as became more int
mate with him it was a luxury to slt an
look into the depths Of his great soul, no
gushing with Joy, and now sorrowini
in tears and groans. Sometimes,
overwhelmed would he be with n
emotion, tina. he would fall upon h
knees crying out, ''0h! l cann'
preach, and then he would call ups
some one to pray while he wePt alou'
shall grieve to the end of my life that
did not take notes of his prayers. Sue
prayers l shall never hear again. 1t was