Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-04

OF honest fame than shedding ssas of gore
byron.
A single grateful thought toward heaven
is the most effective prayer.-[Lessing,
God is better served by resisting a
temptation TO evil than in many formal
prayers.
There is nothing which leaves God and
eternity out of account that satisfies man
in his best hours.-[Golden Rule.
We are Insulting the Lord when we hire
men and women TO sing His praises who
take His name in vain and zcof at Him as
soon as they are safely out OF the church
limits. -[Watchman.
Get into the habit of looking for the sill
yer lining of the cloud, and, when you
have found it, continue to look at it, rather
than at the leaden gray in the middle. 1t
will help you over many hard places. = DR..
A. A. Willis.
In the deepest night of trouble and sor-
row, God gives US 30 much to be thankful
for that we need never cease our singing.
With all our wisdom and foresight, we can
take a lesson in gladness and gratitude
from the happy bird that sings all night as
if the day were not long enough to tell its
joy.-[Coieridge.
The Guardian gives two reasons why
there are so many unemployed clergymen
in cities Il. Wrong men for the minis
try, though right and good men for other
csllings, are among the ordained, and the
Church cannot afford to place incompetent
officers in authority. 2. All vestries and
congregations have not ohurchly views of
the ministerial Office and the man more
than the office is made the qualification"
The Christian Union, referring to the
subject which its name suggests, says ::
There is but one road to Christian unity.
It is in turning the back upon formulsries
of doctrine which are not authoritative,
which are valuable only or chiefly as his
torical landmarks, and going back to the
one creed which is q unifier because it is a
simple statement of historical Christianity,
not complicated philosophy of the uni.
verse. If there ever is a church universal,
with common faith, the symbol of that
faith will be, if not in exact phraseology,
at least in spirit and essence, the Apostles
Creed. 1t is the earliest; the nearest the
Master; the simplest and purest; I'M
stained by blood of persecution or smoke
of battle; the unquestioned faith of the
Christian Church universal"
Take away the gospel and what mock
cry is human philosophy. l once met a
thoughtful scholar, who told me that for
years he had read every book which
assailed the religion of Jesus Christ. He
said he could have become an infidel if it
had not been for three things. First, 1
am man. l am going somewhere. L
have read all that they can tell me. There
is not one solitary ray of light upon all the
darkness. They shall not take away the
only guide and leave me stone blind.
Secondly, l had a mother. l saw her go
down into the dark valley where l am
going, and she leaned on an unseen arm as
child goes to sleep on the breast of
mother. / know that was not o dream.
Thirdly, he said, with tears in his eyes,
"I have three motherless daughters.
They have no protection but myself. l
would rather kill them than leave them in
this sinful world if you should blot out
from it all the teachings of the gospel"
Bishop Whipple.
At last. and in the General Assemblies
at Saratoga and Louisville, peace has been
established between the Presbyterian
CuurcheS OIL NOrtn anu OOutn, Long ago
the army and the navy Of the Federals and
the Confederates shook hands; Northern
and Southern merchants shook hands !;
Bsptist Church and Methodist Church
North and South shook hands at last the
Presbyterian Church has shaken hands.
The two branches are at last one in sympa-
thy, and all good people of all denomina-
tions will feel like singing the doxology.
The Church of God has no ammunition to
spare for internecine wars. The most Of
the old ecclesiastical combatants are dead,
or so nearly dead, that the new blood of
the Church has overruled them. The
generations of Christians are all the time
improving. The highest style of Chris.
tian character is yet to be de.
veloped. There may be in it less creed
and less technicality, and fewer high fences
of separation, but more love, more intelli-
gence, more enthusiasm, more faith, more
spirit of wide and universal conquest. All
the wheels of Gods providence turn for
ward. The forces harnessed will tighten
the traces and press harder into the bit and
go faster. Clear the track for the Kings
chariot. The mountains must be brought
down and the valleys raised, and the
crooked places be made straight, and the
rough places planed. and the glory of the
Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together, for the mouth of the Lord
hath spoken t.-[Leslie's Sunday Maya
zine.