Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-26

-LPhnbe Cary.
There is one thing worse than cant in a
man Of Christian birth-it IS paganism.-
Professor Phelps.
As in the SUMS eclipse we can behold the
great stars shining in the heavens, so in
this LIES eclipse have these men beheld
the lights of great eternity, burning sol
EMMY and forever Longfellow.
The philosophers, as Verro tells Us
counted up $40 answers to the question,
"What is the supreme good {" How need
full, then, is a divine revelation, to make
plain what is the true end Of our being
[Tyron Edwards.
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate
preacher. Don't bewail and Noemoan
Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us
with incessant alternatives Don't waste
yourself in rejection, nor bark against the
bad, but chant the beauty Of the good
Emerson.
4 recent German writer says: "The
lark goes up singing toward heaven; but
if she stops the motion of her wings she
falls. So it Is with him who pravs not
Prayer IS the movement of the wings OF
the soul; it bears one heavenward but
without prayer we sink"
A Uniyersalist congregation recently,
with It's pastor, went over to Unitarianism,
This gays rise 10 the question, What is
the difference between the two denomina-
tions, anyhow which the Standard OF
the Cross ventures, by way of experiment,
to answer thus: The Universalist believes
that God is too good to punish a man eter-
nally; while the Unitarians believe that
man is too good to be so punished. y Les
lies Sunday Magazine.
q" Dear mother" said a delicate little
girl, 8" have broken your china vase"
Well, You are a naughty, careless, trouble
some little thing, always in mischief; 90
upstairs till l send for you" And this
was a mothers answer TO the fearful little
culprit, who had struggled with the con
quereG temptation TO tell falsehood to
screen the fault! With disappointed,
disheartened look the child obeyed and at
that moment was crushed in her little
heart the sweet flower Of truth, perhaps
never again in after years to be revived to
life. Oh, what were a thousand vases in
comparison IN. Y. Witness.
There was a dispute among three ladies
as to which had the most beautiful hand.
One sat by stream and dipped her hand
into the water and held it up; another
plucked strawberries until the ends of her
fingers were pink, and another gathered
violets until her hands were fragrant. An
old, haggmd woman, passing by, asked {;
Who will give me gift, for am poor p
All three denied her But another who
sat near, tnwashed in the stream, unstained
with fruit, unadCrned with flowers. gave
her 4 little gift and satisfied the poor
woman. And then she asked them what
was the dispute; and they told her, and
lifted up their beautiful hands. Beauti-
ful, indeed" said she, when she saw them.
But when they asked her which was the
most beautiful, she said 3" 1t is not the
hand that is washed clean in the brook it
is not the hand that is dipped in red it is
not the hand that is garlanded with fra
grant flowers, but the hand that gives to
the poor, that Is the most beautiful As
she said these words. her wrinkles fled. her
staff was thrown away, and she stood before
them an angel from heaven, with authority
to decide this question in dispute And
that decision has stood the test OF all time
A wise preacher once remarked, the
largest remnant Of Eden left was lodged in
the home A lovely oasis would truly have
been snatched from Eden's shut gates, and
planted in our midst, if husbands and
wives in their special relations, obeyed
Bible commands. The rhapsodies OF poet
and lover fade into tawdriness compared
with Inspirations conception of wedlock.
The brief commands enforced in Ephesians,
chapter V: OF themselves complete in
beauty" Reverence and duty from the
woman; love and providing given by the
man; such Misunderstanding picture, The
single would indeed have right to be
moan were marriage what the Lord would
have it. There Is a marriage mysticIl,
glorious sweet and eternal, TO which every
human soul is wooed who has heard OF
Christ To this marriage the Spirit and
the bride say, Come Christ pleads for
it when tie entreats that they all may
be one; as thou Father art in Me
and | in Thee, that they also may be one
in Us" That they may be made perfect
in one" and that heworld may know that
Thou has sent Ne and hast loved them as
thou hast loved Me- To be one with God
in Christ, is the true soul-marriage-
Leigh Noryal, in Frank Leslie's Sunday
MAGAZINE