Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-20

That heavens new wine may show more clear.
I praise Thee while my days go on
Let not unworthiness scare the childr en-
of God. Parents love their children, and
do them good not because they see that they
are more worthy than others, but because
they are their own Archbishop Leigh
ton.
Infdelity reproves nothing that is bad.
It only ridicules and denounces all that is
good. 1t tears down-it never constructs !;
it destroys-it never imparts lie; 1t at
tacks religion, but offers no adequate sub
stiture.-[J. R. Paxton.
He who walks with God has a good in
heritance. What youth sows, age must
reap. Wisdom flows from wounds. and
pain teaches patience. Love begins in
secrecy, but must live in openness, because
it lives in Joy. 1t is as with foliage, that
which grows cannot hide ITSELF Bjorn.
son.
AS the rays CONE from the sun, and yet
are not the sun, even SO our love and pity,
though they are not God, but merely a
poor, weak image and reflection Of Hin,
yet from Him alone they come. If there
is the light of love in US, it is ray from
the full sun of love- Kingsley.
This prayer was found in the late DR..
Bethune's Bible at the time of his death:
lord, pardon what have been, sanctify
what am, and order what | shall be, that
Thine may be the glory and mine the eter.
nal salvation" "These words, from one
of the ancient fathers" DR.. Bethune wrote
underneath, "are proper for any believing
sinner, in life or in death.
There comes time when men feel that
they are born into a new earth, under a
new heaven. They see Gods presence as
they did not before they behold the
sublimity of duty; they feel themselves
heirs of Immortality they long to make
the earth better than it is they rejoice
with exceeding great Joy in the privilege of
becoming co-workers with God. Then they
can say, Yes we are indeed born again.
Henry Blanchard.
If you stand quarter of mile off from
your father, you will be sore puzzled to
know what he says, or what he means !;
but if you go within five feet OF him,
everything will be plain. So, my Christian
brother, if you stand off and away from
God, your Heavenly Father, in the midst
of worldly absorptiens, you will undoubt-
will but If you live near to Him. walking
with God las the scripture expression SO
significantly gives it,. you will have no diff
fculty of this ort.-[ Howard Crosby.
You cannot reason your heart into
purity. a single days work in such
task would make more progress than
century's words. II thinking is not fol-
lowed by doing it is like plant that
promises well, but never comes to fruitful
ness. 1t is a very easy matter to think of
doing great things, of making great sacri.
fees for others good, of being charitable
and helpful to your fellow men, but to
have this thinking blossom out in noble
deeds is quite another thing. Many think
of doing good, while the few set out to
frame their thoughts in living deeds.
All that is in the heavens and in the
earth praiseth God, and He is the mighty,
the wise. He will bestow on you the light
to walk in. Hast thou not seen how all in
the heavens and in the earth uttereth the
praise of God-the very birds as they spread
their wings! Every creature knoweth its
prayer and its praise He will guide to
Himself him who turneth to him, those
who believe, and whose heart rests securely
on the thought of God. What shall not
mems hearts repose in the thought of God
They who believe and do the things that
be right, blessedness aWaiteth them.-
Koran.
The stoutest timber stands on Norwegian
rocks, where tempesss rage, and long, hard
fully developed in the brawny arm that
plies the blacksmiths hammer. Even so
the most vigorous and healthy piety is that
which is the busiest, which has difficulties
to battle with, which has its hands full of
good works, which has neither time nor
room for evil, but, aiming at great things
both for God and man, promptly and sum-
marily dismisses temptation with Eehe-
miah's answer al have a great work to
do, therefore l cannot come down. ~ [Ex-
change.
Some men have queer ideas of Christian.
ity. They seem to think they can be
Christians and still indulge in the most
unchristian spirit. They are suspicious,
revengeful and spiteful. They are desti-
tute of all charity and Christian forbear.
snce, and denounce in the most bitter
manner all who refuse to follow their lead
and submit to their dictation. Such men
are very unpleasant associates on earth,
and without change of spirit would be
very much out of harmony with the pure
and holy inhabitants of heaven. Meth
odist Recorder.
The fault of rationalism appears to me
to consist not so much in what it has as in
what it has not. The understanding has
its proper work to do with respect to the
Bible, because the Bible consists of human
writings and contains a human history.
Critical and historical inquiries respecting
it are, therefore, perfectly legitimate it
contains matter which is within the prov.
ince OF the understanding, and the under
standing has Gods warrant for doing that
work which He appointed it to do; only
let US remember that the understanding
cannot ascend to divine things that for
these another faculty is necessary-reason
or faith. If this faculty be living in US,
then there can be no rationalsm and what
is called so is then no other than the voice
of Christian truth. When a mans writ
ings show that he is keenly alive to the
divine part of Scripture, that he sees God
even III IL, anu EeSaTus IL truly a5 Dis
word his judgments of the human parts
in it are not likely to be rationalistic; and
if his understanding decides according to
his own laws upon points within his own
province, while his faith duly tempers it,
and restraints it from entering upon an
others dominion, the result will, in all
probability, be such as commonly attends
the use of Gods manifold gifts in their just
proportions-it will image, after our i'm
perfect measure, the holiness of God and
the truthfulness of Godfrey. Thomas
Arnold.
MIXED ASSOCIATION. - An IrishmaR
dropped into saloon and was very much
taken with parrot which hung in cage