Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-05
SUNDAY EAsY-CHAIR.
OF BLESSED MEMORY.

OF BLESSED MEMORY.
! often wonder mother loves to creep
Up to the garrett where cupboard stands,
And sit upon the musty floor aud weep.
Holding babys dresses IN her hands.
! often wonder grandma loves to sit
Alone where hangs picture the wall
a handsome face across whose features fit
The phantOms OF a love she would recall.
] wonder, too that sister, pale and sad,
Waits at the gate, and waiting, seems to hear
The footballs of the brave, heroic lad
VINO neyermOre may WOO her waiting there.
The little lips in voiceless death are sealed
The naughty squire sleeps a lasting sleep
Tine lovers bones bleach on 4 battlefield
And brokeu-hearted women live to weep.
The English missionaries in Madagascar
heaped Goals Of fire on the Jesuits by inter-
fering in their behalf and saving them from
being murdered by the natives. They have
gratefully acknowledged the service.
God never accepts good inclination in
stead of good action, where that action
may be done nay, so much the contrary,
that if good inclination be not seconded
by good action, the want of that action is
made so much the more criminal and mex
cusable.
An Australian expounder of Daniel xi.
and xii. says that a time of awful trouble
Is t. begin about 1890. The harbinger of
the trouble will be the destruction of Mo.
hammedanism Greece, Persia, Turkey,
all western Europe will go down, and the
first resurrection will occur.
II was like the song of some wonderful
bird, and it made the air shine after the
sound had died away and yet it was just
the remark of brave young man who
walked past me one day arm in arm with
a companion Depend upon it, Tom,
st. Edmund of Canterbury was right when
he said to somebody: Work as though
you would live forever; live as though you
would die to-day. u Exchange.
Paul was noble example of Christian
courtesy, and Peter exhorts to the exercise
of the same virtue. 1t were to the honor
of religion were it more generally practiced
by the followers of the Saviour, in whom
it was conspicuous. 1t is one of the meth
DDS by which His religion is advanced and
commended. The Christian who is deficient
in courtesy is lacking IN one OF the most
beautiful garments that religion calls US TO
put on The Criterion.
Through sufferings we learn patience.
1t cannot be learned in any other way. 1t
is not Unborn, but is an exotic, and must be
cultivated with great care. Many Chris
tian people do not cultivate patience, but
on the other hand they often let impotence
govern their actions. We gain nothing
GOOD without an effort, and even then
we must often wait patiently for re-
suits. Those who are not willing to labor
and wait are unworthy OF the best things
OF this life Wisdom, labor, love ana pa
thence will give us the victory. Jamlson.
The human heart has gone SO far astrsy
as to have lost almost completely the sense
OF gratitude. We eat and are full, and
abound in numberless blessings, aud then
feel few, if any, emotions of gratitude for
them. 1t Is said that some races and
classes Of men are peculiarly ungrateful !;
but it seems hardly worth while to Investl-
gate this matter, as we all have enough to
repent of at home. Would 1t not be well
for us to take lessons Of what We ought to
he and to do from some Of the lower orders
OF animal life? Even dog often shows
much more gratitude and kindness than
we do, and he seems to have sense OF shame
about coniessing it Banner OF Love.
On the other side Of the street there may
be some poor soul whom all the town shuns
as vagabond, who, since his birth, has
fought desperately, and sometimes in vain,
against inherited weaknesses, fevers IN the
blood and brain. which drive him to iCla-
ness. rag5. hunger crime. God knows the
man. though we turn our backs upon him.
1t is not the pride Of place, Of righteous
well.doing, Of sqotless garments that were
never tempted into the mlre, that he hon
ors: it Is the man who has fought faith
fully against the heavier odds. Many a
poor. despised wretch, forced into pau
per's grave by circumstance or some talnt
OF blood. has heard the words. " ell
done, good and faithful servant. -. New
Jrk Tribune.
1t is said that Dannecker the great
German sculptor, spent eight years IN pro-
duciDg a face Of Christ, and at last per-
fsc.ed one IN which were blended so beau
tItully the emotions Of love, of sorrow and
infinite tenderness, that none could look
upon it without tears. His Couutrymen
afterwards, wishing him to employ his
wonderful talent upon a statue of Nenus,
were answered thus " ! can never make
q Venus after I have looked upon the face
of Christ Is there not a sublime secret
In those words, a secret that reveals the
observation-disclosures of the faircst earthly
thing that trslsoends the glitter OF this
worlds s2,eudor that betrays the poverty
OF every human attraction, and so en-
frances the soul with the vis.oa OF the
only one altogether lovely, that "5eholding
asln a glass the glory OF tae Lord we
are changed into the same image from
glory TO glory, even as by the Spirit oil
the Lord - Rev. Dr. Smith.
DO not understand me at all as saying
that there is no mystery about the planets
motions. Tlcre is just one single mvs
terv-zrsyi,atj7n-3 Is is a very pro-
found one. How it is that an atom Of
matter can attract another atom, no mat
ter how great the distance, NO matter
what intervening substance there may be
how it will act upon It, OF az least behav,
As e ID viii ac, upon 10, or OIL least behave
as il it acted upon 1t, DO not know,
cannot tell Whether they are pushed
together by means OF an intervening ether
or what is the action, I cannot understand
II stands with me long with the TACT tia
when will my arm shall rise, It rises. j
is fnscrutalls. Al. the explanations tina
have been gwen of it seem So ns merel.
10 darken counsel wish words an
no uuderst sndjug. They do not re
move the difficulty az al. 1t Wer
70 say what l really believe, 1t woUl
bs that the motions Of the spheres OF tn
rn1rerial universe stand in some such rela
ti3n 20 Him in whom all things exist, th
ever-present aud omnipotent God, as tn
motions of my body do my will d
not know how nor never expect TO know
Professor c. a. Young.
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