Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-21

| Sad and sedate through the Gothic door
| passed with the goodly throng,
ARd the quaint little ehuren was hushed oace more,
| SO H. rest for a whole week long;
| But for days and days. In recesSe5 gray
OF memory, long locked fast,
| phantom choir held sovereign sway
With the anthems OF the pLst.
The supernatural value Of our actions de-
ponds upon our degree of union with God
, at the time we do them.-IF. W. Faber.
Long visits, long stories, long essays,
long exhortations and long prayers seldom
profit those who have TO do with them.
Life is short. Time ia short. Moments
are precious. Learn to condeDse, abridge
and intensity The Lutheran.
paid the debt Of nature" No; il is
not paying debt it is rather like bringing
a note to the bank to obtain solid gold for
it. In this case you bring this cumbrOus
body which Is nothing worth, and which
you could not wish to retain long; you lay
it down and receive for it from the eternal
treasnres-liberty, victory, knowledge, rap
ture, Il Foster.
The Bible is book which is the result Of
inspiration of the best seuls of every age of
| the world. It contains the sugar, as it
were, the very sacchsrine juice, of the
richest things that have been produced in
all parts of Gods domain, expressed in hu.
man language, and illustrated by human
! figures, 80 that they are cognizable to the
human race; and though | do not under
stand it from beginning to end | do not re-
! ject and undervalue it Henry Ward
| Beecner.
| In ba Two l1,rr, - h. 30
| approaches OF the last sleep, the dear pres
ence of an Almighty Guardian, to whom
age is as childhood, and who creates the
future with the past, fills the Responding
shadows with mild and holy light. Let
Him only be near and the obscuring vail OF
mortal ill, that sometimes seems to shut us
in and tempt US to believe in nothing but
the sun and rain, is soon Withdrawn, like
the cloud lifting itself from out the glen,
and the Gun first glorides and then dissi.
pates the haze, leaving the mountain range
OF immovable goodness and beauty clear
against the everlasting sky. So pass the
storms away. So deepens the heavenly
view to the soul that will bat "rest in the
Lord and wi,spatiently for Him."-IMar'
tineau. -"
The Church has sometimes, nay, often
resisted human progress; but it has been
only when she was degenerate and apos.
tate. The true Church has always been
the advance guard first to lead the way,
bold to press forward, patient to wait. In
the journeyings in the wilderness the tab
ernacle was the leader OF the host when in
motion, and the center and heart of the
camp when at rest. When Christ was born
the Jewish Church was given over wholly
to traditionalism and ceremonialism but
the new advance to Christian civilization
was inspired by Christ and led by Paul
the Ark and the Chureh-the new Christ.
ian Church-went before, and humanity
followed after. Throughout the Middle
Ages the Church, with all its faults, with
all its apostate endeavors to resist the ire.
sistible progress of human thought, yet
furnished the great thought-leaders. She
gave literature it's refuge and literati their
resting places. She furnished science with
her pioneers and agriculture with her first
advance from an ignorant drudgery to an
Intelligent industry. She educated Lu.
Their, Copernicus, Columbus, Ridley. Lati-
mer, Tyndall, William of Orange, Coligny
and Cromwell. 1t was her energy that
| founded the first successful colonies in
New England. 1t was her voice in White
field and Wesley that first awoke the oorn-
mon people of England to that life whose
nineteenth-century fruits are household
suffrage, public school system and ma
tional temperance movement. Her ships,
sent out by missionary church, have
| opened the ports where tardier commerce
has followed. And the same Church to.
day in our own land is planting the school,
academy, college and house of worship
slongside the station and the farm house
in the far West.-[Rav. Lyman Abbott.
THE FAITH OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The Rev. Charles H. Hall, D. D., in an
elaborate article in Leslie's Sunday Nagr-
zine for August, upon the faith of the
church of which he may be said to be fore
most representative in the United States,
gays: What is the faith of the Episcopal
Church? She has made the two creeds
essential to her communion. The two are
really one, and are still further condensed
in the catschism, as belief in God the
Father, who is the Creator in God the
Son, who is the Redeener and in God the
Holy Ghost, who is the Sanctifier of all the
people of God. In baptism of infsnts or
adults only one question is asked concern
ing inner belief "Dost thou believe all
tbs articles of the Christian faith as con-
tanned in the Apostles Creed I do.
Wilt thou be baptized in this faith? That
is my desire" Sponsors and parents are
exhorted to see to it that the child be
taught the creed, the Lords Prayer and
| the Ten Commandments, and all ether
things which Christian ought to know
and believe to his souls health. The
creed is pre-. eminently this responsible
| knowledge. In the eighth article of Rs-
ligion we read, "The Nicene creed and
that which is commonly received as the
Apostles creed, ought thoroughly to be
received snd believed for they may be
proved by most certain warrant OF Holy
Scriptures. All her children stand to-
gether on this plain and certain foundation
as upon rock. Whenever two or three
of them meet for worship they reoite the
creed. as proved by certain warrant Of
| Scripture, and as vital to godliness saw
| ing them, on the one side, from all doubt
of the great verities of the redemption, and
| freeing them, on the other side, from all
the perplexing theories and varying sys-
| TENS and devices of men. The molding
opinions of Epiacopalians flow out from
this fountain OF the creeds. Whatever
metaphysics or PHILOSOPHERS may suggest,
| whatever individual teachers, learned or
ignorant, talented or eccentric, may effect,
all of us stand together as enc body of be-
levers in the early creeds, as proven by
Gods Word, and tested by universal expe-
rience. The thirty.nine articles take
lower place. Schemes of Interpretation OF
the Prayer book, though different and dis
cordant, are subordinate to this paramount
authority. Hence we can endure schools
of opiaion, while all recognize promptly
| God as Father, Christ as Redeemer, and
the Holy Spirit as Ssnctifer. The water
OF the River of Life is sometimes discol-
ored by the soil through which it flows
we trust to it to purify and refoe at last
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