Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-17

Glad the journey, blest the way
Stepping heavenward, day by day.
-IAnna r. Henderson, in Leslie's Sunday Mag
azine.
Great hearts alone understand how much
glory there is in being GOOD Michelet.
The power of great things generally
arises from the willingness to do small
things.
II we 1.-THE dead wake, we shall know !;
if we do not wake, we shall not even know
that we have not wakened.-[Howell.
1t is not until we have passed through
the furnace that we are made to know how
much dross there is in our composition. =
[Colton.
Learn to despise outward things, and to
give thyself to things inward, and thou
shall perceive the kingdom of God to
become in thee.-[St. Thomas.
Spurgeon says that, "big as many men
regard themselves on account of their an.
cestors, we all trace our line up TO gar
dener who lost his place through stealing
his masters fruit"
Thou, too, must learn, like others, that
the sublime mystery of Providence goes on
ii sliouCcj anu SiNoo no eAPi"nosioh VI
itself, no answer to our impatient question.
ings-[ Longfellow.
If man have not found his home in
Cod, his manners, his forms of speech, the
! turn of his sentences, the build shall l
say p of his opinions, will involuntarily
confess it, let him brave it out how he will.
/ Emerson.
1t is the appearance that fills the scene ;
and we pause not to ask of what realities
they are the proxies. When the actor of
Athens moved all hearts as he clasped the
burial urn and burst into broken sobs, how
few then knew that it held the ashes of his
son. Bulwer Lytton.
Lives there skeptic who deep down in
his own heart would not believe in the
simplest forms OF Christianity if he could
The saddest, most pathetic utterances are
the utterances of men who with the
farthest and subtlest reach of thought,
grasp only negatives. P. Bovine.
But if l err in believing that the souls of
man are immortal, willingly err; nor
while live would / wish to have this de-
lightful error extorted from me and if
after death shall feel nothing, as some
minute philosophers think, l am not afraid
lest dead philosophers should laugh at me
for the error Cicero.
o, the anguish of that thought that we
can never atone to our dead for the stinted
affection we gave them, for the light an
swers we returned to their plants or their
pleadings, for the little reverence we
showed to that sacred human soul that
lived 30 close to US, and was the divinest
thing God had given us to know.-[G George
Eliot.
Give me these links First, sense Of
need second, desire to get /; third, belief
that God has IN store fourth, belief that
though he withholds for while, he loves
to be asked and, fifth, believing that ask.
ing will obtain. Give me these links, and
the chain will reach from earth to heaven,
bringing heaven all down to me, or bearing
me up into heaven Rev. DR.. Guthrie.
By going few minutes sooner or later,
by stopping to speak with a friend on the
corner, by meeting this man or that, or by
turning down this street instead of the
other, we may let slip some impending
evil, by which the whole current of our
I lives would have been changed. There is
no possible solution to the dark enigma
but the one word, providence. ~ Long
fellow.
That is rather searching remark of
Richard Cecil, that "God is often lost in
prayer and ordinances 1t certainly con-
sains a very serious truth. The very
means appointed for finding God may quite
possibly become only the means of losing
him. How often is this the case with the
ceremonials of public worship! After all,
what are forms and obseryances without
the vitalizing Spirit
| He or she that winneth souls to Christ Is
wise, and must be winsome also. A living,
| lovable Christian is the best reply to inf
the gospel. Paul has painted such char
scter; the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
alone can produce it. Let us hang the
great Apostles noble and beautiful por-
trait of the true Christian up before our
eyes, and then strive every hour after it's
imitation. Rev. T. L Cuyler.
Yes, thank God, there is rest many
an interval of saddest, sweetest rest-even
here, when it seems as if evening breezes
| from that other land laden with fragrance,
played upon the cheeks and lulled the
heart. There are times, even on the
stormy sea, when gentle whisper breathes
| softly as of heaven, and sends into the soul
dream of ecstasy which can never again
wholly die, even amidst the jar and whirl
| of waking life. How such whispers make
the blood stop and the very flesh creep
with sense of mysterious communion !
| How singularly such moments are the
! epochs of life-the few points that stand
out prominently in the recollection after
the flood of years has buried all the rest,
as all the low shore disappears, leaving
only few rock points visible, at high tide.
! r. w. Robertson.
Not every good man and woman is low
| able. There be those whom the Divine
| Spirit has no doubt regenerated, yet they
are very hard to lie with. Some persons
religion is sincere, but has too much acid.
ity to taste well. Some also who are con.
scientiously truthful and upright, are too
often betrayed into sharp censoriousness.
| Others in their well. meant aim to avoid
frivolity, freeze into repulsive sanctimo-
niousness. Others again are sound at the
core, but they need sweetening. They
NAV love Jesus, but they do not seem to
make others love them. And if they wan.
tonly make themselves repulsive, they Just
so far commit sin, for every follower of
Jesus is morally bound to make his or her
religion just as attractive and winsome as
possible. This can be done without the
least compromise with absolute holiness. =
REV. T. l.. Cuyler.
We seldom estimate the full value of d.
vine discipline in our earthly separations.
How rich is that spiritual fruitage that
NAV he rinened and pathersd amid our