Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-08-18

Twelve years ago Germany had only
l.S70 theological students. Now it num-
bers 3, 707 Protestants and $50 Catholics
preparing for the ministry.
A deaf and dumb person being asked to
give his idea of forgiveness, took pencil
and wrote: 1t is the sweetness which
flowers yield when trampled upon"
See that the feelings, thoughts, actions
Of each hour are pure and true then viii
your life be such. The wide pasture is but
separate spears of grass the sheeted bloom
Of the prairies but isolated flowers.
When all the scaffoldings which surround
the Bible are taken away, by which men
have tried to prop it up, the world will be.
gin truly TO recognize its real glory. King.
doms fall, institutions perish, civilizations
change, human doctrines disappear but
the imperishable truths which pervade and
sanctify the Bible ehall bear it above the
| food of change and the deluge of years.
| James Freeman Clarke.
A Methodist preacher of long experience
IA doctor of divinity tool lately remarked
in a Southern paper 81 have known hun
dreds of men and women, who made no
pretensions to holiness, who had expert
enced no second blessing, who had found
no new light, who sought no higher life,
| who, in fact, were just as pure, true, and
holy in life and conversation as the best So
called holiness people I ever saw, and
not half so troublesome in the church"
There is nobody who can stir up so many
church rows, and keep them boiling SO
long, as your brother or sister who has re.
ceiVed the second blessing" and is liv-
ing the higher life. New York Exam
iper.
On looking back through thirty years of
church life we are compelled to come to the
conclusion that the most unsatisfactory
members we have ever had have been those
who were most satisfied with themselves.
One brother became so thoroughly sancti-
fed that he could not live with his wife
and another had SO clean escaped from sin
of every sort that he Quilted us all in dis.
gust. We find in the Sunday school, the
Lay Preachers Association, the Christian
Young Mems meetings, and in all other
forms of work, that as soon as any Of the
brethren or the sisters begin TO Drag about
their holiness they become wholly useless,
and before long the place that knew them
knows them no more.-[Spurgeon.
There are two almost equally important
factors in the problem of human happi.
ness. First, of course, the soul, and Sec
ond, the digestive organs. When both are
in healthy condition, man has nothing
to ask OF the Lord, but vast deal to be
grateful for. When either is functionally
disturbed, it were better to be manikin
than man. Soul and stomach are the
aristocrats of all time. There is no heaven
hereafter, unless you surrender to the
claims of the first and there is no heaven
on earth, unless you are loyal to the Sec
ond. Defy the one, and you suffer hope.
less despair willfully disregard the other,
and the acuteness of avenging agony teaches
you that you afe by no means master of
yourself. REV. George H. Hepworth.
1t is said that John Wesley was once
walking along road with brother, who
related to him his troubles, saying he did
not know what he should do. They were
at that moment passing stone fence to
Do you know" said Wesley, "why the
the one in trouble 81 will tell you, said
Wesley, because she cannot look through
it; and that is what you must do with your
lOUh over anu aDON6 L06l1s
Depend upon it, in the midst of all the
science about the world and its ways, and
all the ignorance OF God and His greatness,
the man or woman who can say, "Thy will
be done" with the true heart of giving ur,
is nearer the secret of things than the ge.
ologist or theologisn.
Fer my sake" These three little words
are the touchstone of love- The applica.
ton of this touchstone begins with infancy
and ends only with the end of life. If that
baby in the mothers arms could speak in
| telligibly it would say " 1t Is for my sake
that mothers eye watches unsleeping
through the midnight hours, and her arms
hold me until they are ready to drop off
for WEAKNESS" "For my sake many
successful man acknowledges gratefully
that his parents toiled and economical in
order to buy books and pay college bills.
For my sake" provides the sheltering
roof and the armchair for dear old grandma
at the fireside. Take these three words out
of our language and you would rob home
of its sweetness and human life of some Of
it's noblest inspirations. = REV. I. L.
Cuyler.