Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19

A helping word to one in trouble is often
like q switch on a railroad track-but one
inch between wreck and smooth-rolling
prospGrity.-[Beecher.
Our hope and help are the children. The
great majority who unite with the church
enter it from the Sunday-school. To that,
therefore, we ought TO devote our best en-
deayors.-[ Rev. T. Chase.
Ours is not an age of prayer so much as
of work. The tendency is to action rather
than to worship-to busy toll rather than
to quiet sitting at the Saviors feet TO COM
mune with him. Lutheran.
We all know much better than we do.
and believe more than we reduce TO prac-
tice. How few realize, in experience, the
uprightness and nobleness Of their convic-
lions IRE c. II. Zimmerman.
A good man when dying once said ::
Formerly death appeared to me like a wide
river, but now it has dwindled to a little
rili and my comforts which were as the
rill have become the broad deep river.
We are apt to mistake our vocation in
looking out OF the way for occasions to ex-
ercise great and rare virtues, and by
stepping over the ordinary ones which lie
directly in the road before us When we
read we fancy we could be martyrs but
when we come to act we cannot bear a pro-
yoking word.-[ Hannah More.
1t is very easy to forbear stealing other
mems goods, but hard not so much as to
coyet or desire them; very easy not TO bear
false witness in judgment. but not easy to
avoid detraCti0n in conversation very easy
not to desire another mans DEATH but hard
not TO desire some Inconvenience to him:
easy to forbear defaming our adversary.
but hard not to despise him.-[De Sales.
The highest greatness-suryivin time
and sounds that which proceeds from
the soul of man. Monarchs and Cabinets.
Generals and Adnirals, with the pomp Of
courts and the circumstance Of war, in the
lapse OF time disappear from sight; but the
pioneers OF truth, though poor and lowly,
those whose example eleyateS
human nature and teaches the rights OF
man so that q Government Of the people.
by the people, for the people. may not per-
lsh from the earth :" such haTbinger can
never be forgotten, and their renown
spreads co-extensiye with the cause they
served so ll..[Charles Sumner
How many there are who live on earth |
with a delicious sense of nearncss to the |
world. Almost We seem to touch |
the royal Yesture of friends above On the /
y.
after the tolls of the day are |
over, sweet memories throng about US that |
lit US upward, even to the immediate /
presence of our sainted dead. That we |
nave present trials and disappointments is |
10 evidence that we are distant from our |
friends, or that the final attainment Of the |
oval robe is doubtful. Did they not as
end to their lofty seats through struggle? I
These are they which came out of great
ribulati0n. christian Advocate
Imagine man who disbelieves every
hing he cannot see with his naked eve
suppose that it should come to pass to-
morrow that everything shall be taken
way that cannot be read blythe naked eve
hat will Gomez Shut up the heavens, !
or astronomy must go; and cover over the
ields, for botany shall tell but little to the
faxed eye And all science, indeed, would
'e impoverished, insuited degraded Yet
he man who cannot read his own mothers
etter without the aid of all eye-glass insists
pon reading the infinite and eternal God
y his own unassisted powers ! charge
i'm before Gods face with insulting his
wn common sense and contradicting the
ighest experiences of mankind Joseph
'arker
l open my Bible this morning and peruse !
very short notice OF a good investment"
came from the lips of the Lord Jesus.
nd runs on this wise; The kingdom of
cayen Is like unto treasure hidden in the
cid; which a man found and hid and in
is joy, he gOcth and selleth all that he
ath, and buyeth that field" Now here is
II announcement of a treasure-trove that
)mes-within the reach of everybody. rich ;
r poor, high or humble, provided that he 7
r she is willing to pay the price. That [
find in the field signifies Gospel hope
r Jesus as heart-p0ssession. The man in
ne parable set such high value ON the s
aliet of specie or jewels which he had +
iscoyered in his neighbor's farm, that he :
ad bought the ground. 1t proved to be
BOD Observation-Disclosures I. L. Cuyler.
Whether for good or for evil, the theater :
far too influential to be passed by with ,
different silence by either the Christian :
aren't or the Christian pastor. Our chill
rem cannot but know about it, and become
.ore or less interested in it; for there is !
arccly single daily journal or literary !
agazine which does not call attention to
ID criticise theatrical performances Our
ildren cannot be taught that they are d
liy wicked, and that continually; for
lat is not true. 1t remains to teach them d
discriminate between the good and the L
I'd. This is a most difficult task but it Il
none the less necessary because it is diff 5
ilt lndiscriminate censure reacts in q
oducing indiscriminate attendance. We il
not recommend the pastor to recon- Y
end the theater either by his counseIs or v
: his example. We do not advise the 5
rent to advise his children to attend it. c
e do not counsel private thcatricals of a
" description, the evils of which though I
ferent from, are, perhaps, quite Is great n
those of professional performances. a
1t we do counsel 10 overcome evil with ?
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