Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-28

! We like those to whom we do good bet
! ter than those who do US good.-IDe Saint
Real.
Aim TO be in all things acceptable to God,
, and you need trouble yourself but little
about the opinions of man.
Truth is the food of the human spirit.
which could not grow in its majestic pro-
portions without clearer and more truthful
| views of God and His universe Garfield
The little soul that won high place in
Heaven. Its guardian angel said OF it:
This soul has always graciously taken its
! share of sunshine, of shadow and of toll,
! and has never questioned anything in
! which there was no offense against God -
! [' Golden Sands
1t may seem possible now, by avoiding
! all extremes and all thOroughneSs in reli-
| gion or in worldliness, to conform to both
! but in the day of separation it will be found
to have been q failure for eternity-a fail
ure as complete as it Is disastrous and
remediless.-[ Bonar.
| Religion is the tic that connects man
| with his Creator, and holds him to His
| throne. If that tie is sundered or broken,
! he floats away a worthless atom in the
universe, his destiny thwarted, and his
whole future nothing but darkness, desc
Here am, lump of clay Thou art the
Potter. Mold me as Thou i'll Thy wisdom
wilt. Never mind my cries Cat nv life
off, so be it; prolong it, so be it. Just as
thou wilt, but | rely on thy uncianging
guidance during the trial. 0, the comfort
that comes from this It" Chinese" Gordon.
Centers or wooden frames, are put under
the arches of a bridge, to remain no longer
than till the latter are consolidated, and
then are thrown away or cast into the fire.
Even 50, sinful pleasures are the devils
scafiolding to build habit upon; and
once formed and fixed. the pleasures are
sent for firewood and hell begins in this
life Coleridge.
/ remember standing gazing on one of the
| sunsets in the Holy Land, near the shores
of the Dead Sea. The side of a mountain
sloping toward its leaden cavernous depths,
and which shortly before seemed to par
take of the sterility around, BECAME all at
once lit up like a sheet of living fire. 1t
was the myriad clusters of red anemones,
which clothe Palestine like a carpet in
early spring, that were kindled and trans
formed into ruby splendor as the flaming
orb of day descended over the nights Of
Moab; picture of the promises Of God,
which new beauty and glory impaired TO
them when seen in Christ, under the ra-
dance of One above the brightness of the
sun; aye, and we may also add, reaching
down to the very brink of humanity's dead
and deadeSt sca-shores.- III Rev. J. E. Mac
duff.
Servant Of Christ, keep good heart Lis
! ten to thy Masters feet behind thee, up
holding and cheering thee on He will
soon come and pay thee thy full wages
wiz wipe the sweat Of toll from thy brow,
and wreathe it with an amaranthine crown
of glory, honor and Immortality. Then
comes the welcome and reward "Well
done good and faithful servant, enter into
the JOY of thy Lord" With such service
and such q rccompcnse who, with but
glowing spark of the love of Christ in his
heart, will not exclaim Here, Lord am
|, what wilt thou have me dor l have
but one life-thou hast bought it with thy
life blood. BE it thine. thine wholly, for
ever thine" With significance more
profound, and with an earnestness more
than that with which the words uttered by
the Mohammedan chief, pointing his sword
to the earth and then up to heaven, we
would say to you, " Here is the place of la
bor-thcre is the place of rest, "-[0ctayius
Winslow, d. D.
| Tacitus, who saw only the ruin and desc
| lation, stands as one under q midnight sky.
u
| blot upon the landscapes. Human nature
itselfis in decay; virtue has died out ser
Witty and rapacity are universal; deSpotism
| has become a necessity; and he describes
| the face of things as if he were the last man
who stood self-contained, wrapped in his
mantle and surveying the ruins. What is
unknown" he says. " is thought grand and
mighty but no longer is there any tribe
beyond US, nothing but waves and rocks,
and Romans fiercer than they, whose unre-
lenting cruelty you would vainly escape by
obedience and good behavior. Blunderers
of the world, after the land falls from their
r,vage, they grope into the sea, being greedy
of the wealth if the enemy be rich, imbib-
ing his servility if he be poor; men whom
| neither East nor West can satiate. Alone
of mankind they covet alike mems affiu-
ence and men sindigence Theft, butchery,
robbery, they falsely name empire, and
where they make desert they call it
peace" On such a field rs this Jesus Christ
appeared, some say the product of his
times He must have been the product Of
| the times very much as q Lapland spring
| bursting from the bosom Of an arctic winter
is the product of its ice and snow. Chris
tianity appears in the next century in the
form Of little Communions called churches,
emerging as a thousand glittering iSlets out
of the sea of blackneSS. the islcts charging
their area till they touched each other !;
| very much as the biologists say Europe
rose from the deep, first in spots of emerald
that lay As Scattered gems on Wilderness
of waters, but which grew toward each
other till they formed great continent
clothed in luxuriant green.-LDr. L. II.
Sears.