Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-08

To lose faith in man is to lose faith in
God who made him; to lose faith in mans
nature is to lose faith in our own. All
men are not liars, all friendship is not
feigning, all virtue is not prudential ego
tism. The man who has arrived at such
conclusions is no longer to be trusted; he
tit for treasons, stratagems and spoils To
be in such Il condition that no man pleases
us, is a painful sign of our own degrade
| ton. 1t is recorded of two men. and two
men only, in ancient history, that they
were firmly convinced that no human
being was pure. But who were those two
men? There were the very vilest men
whom rotting civilization ever produced.
One was the Emperor Nero, the other was
the Emperor Heliogabalus Men who fall
into such abysms of vile Judgment have
become the enemies and corrupters of their
race Canon Farrar.
Cultivate the beautiful. Seek for it in
nature, in the works of man, in the world
of mind. Beauty dwells in the fowret, in
the grass, in the dew drop, the insect, in
the stars, the sun, everywhere it has its
home. If these things are so beautiful,
what must the beauties be of that world
of light and glory where God dwells and
which He has fitted up for His redeemed
Let your dress, you manners, your homes,
your lives prove that you love the beauti-
! full, and above all things aim for beauty of
soul, which time cannot destroy and which
| will one day be fitted for the beauties of
the eternal world.-[ E. Il. Donehoo.
Work explores the secrets Of the universe
Il,
make the sum of knowledge. 1t counts the
ribs Of the mountains and feels the pulses
of the sea, and traces the footpaths OF the
stars and calls the animals of the forest
and the birds of the air by names 1t
builds and binds into unity great philoso-
phies along which run the life and thought
of ages. 1t embalms the life of nations in
literature, in whose crypts are scattered
seeds of thought that only need the light
to spread into harvests of bread for living
generations II. G. Holland.
Our Christ is the Christ of the gospels
giorified. The Christ OF the gospels is the
rock cut out of the mountain without
hands. Our Christ is the same rock now
grown to 4 great mountain. Christ of the
gospels is the well-beloved Joseph in his
| fathers tent, receiving the fathers approx
al in a coat of many colors. Our Christ is
the same Joseph sitting in splendor on the
| throne Of the Pharaohs, no longer receiv-
ing, but dispensing to his brethren life and
a land in which TO DWELL Rev. j. NJ
Sitter.
All the illustrious dead speak to US of
neyer-failing impulses to good conduct,
because they came up to their immortality
| by different paths. When calling died
with man, along came new man with
new calling. Thus the true aim OF being
is reached by many paths. 4 Latin classic
! laid down the law in two words Use the
day-Crpe diem. Ask not yesterday what
it did want, nor tomorrow what it will
want, but to-day what it does want Pro
fessor Swing.
Somebody asked Mr. Moody how il was
that he was so successful, and he is said to
have replied: Well, if must tell YOU, it
| is, | believe, because we come out fair and
square upon the doctrine of Substitution"
In that remark he hit the nail on the
head. That is the saving doctrine. Keep
that before the minds of those whom YOU
would benefit Let the Lord see that YOU
are always thinking of His dear Son
[Spurgeon.
1t has often been noticed that great
variety Of beautiful colers are produced by
a sunset, and yet each succeeding day
more coiors are revealed by the same sim
| pie phenomenon, many of them unknown
to science and wholly detying the painters
art. SO it is that the simple love of Jesus
Christ and of divine truth, shining from
behind the everlasting hills, presents itself
in variety of different colors.-L Prof
Swing.
Like fakes of snow unperceived on the
earth, the seemingly unimpertant events
Of life succeed one another. As the snow
gathers together, so are our habits formed
| No single flake that is added to the pile
produces sensible change; no Single. ac-
ton creates, however it may exhibit, a
mans character.-[Jeremy Taylor.
BY shaking the magnetic needle, YOU
may move it from its place; but it returns
to it the moment it is left to itself. In
like manner believers may fall into sin
but no sooner do they wake to reflection
than they repent and endeavor to mend
ways and resume a life Of godlinesS.- eiott-
hold.
When Alexander heard Of the wealth of
the Indies, he divided all of Macedon
amongst his soldiers They asked him
what he kept for himself. He replied :
"iIope" And that treasure keep bright
and shining, whatever else [ surrender.
Hope thou in Cod Talmage.
On, how great task it is for poor soul
that comes, sensible Of sin and Of the wrath
Of God, to say in faith but this one word
Father! The spirit must be sent into the
heart for this very thing, it being too
great work for any man to do knowingly
and believingly without til Bunyan.
Chastity enables the soul to breathe y
pure air in the foulest places; confluence
makes her strong, no matter in what con-
dition the body may be; her sway over the
senses makes her quecnly; her light and
peace render her beautiful.-[ Joubcrt
Any young woman Of social position and
means who is sought in marriage by one
conspieuously her social inferior may we'll
be on her guard against base motives on
his part Christian Weekly.
-Four things indispose US for prayer:
Inordinate sadness, very high spirits, i'll
temper and a carnal, worldly spirit
For my own private satisfaction, | had
rather he master of my own time than wear
a diadem.-[ Bishop Berkeley.
a weak mind is like a microscope, which