Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-01
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.


THE SISTER.
She never knew that music soft and sweet
! The patter OF little babys feet
She never knew the world of JOY and bliss
That linger i'll husbands tender kiss;
She never knew the heartache and the pain
OF living loving, and that loving yain
She never knew the sorrow and the woe
OF losing light from eyes whose radiant glow
Was all her sun.
She lives in vain, did you say?
If, then, to live in vain, is day by day
To go among the lowly and the poor
a ray of sunshine to each darhened door;
TO sooth with gentle words and gentle touch
much
To be the link that joins a weary life
To God to be the comforter OF strife:
TO be the soothing balm for every pain
Then that grand woman truly lives in vain
-[Cluskey Cromwell.
Oh fear not in q world like this.
And thou shalt know ere long
Know how sublime thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
-[Longfcllow
Thou prayest to-day? Forwhat prayest thou?
Dost thou pray TO God for repose?
To earth's peace thousand paths lead thee
Only faith the hearts peace knows
Where the Savior's word dwelleth within the
The palm of peace waveth its holy crest"
In speaking of the death of a minister
at the age of So years. who at the last
prayed as earnestly and as clearly as in his
best days, the Christian Ade0cate saws:
There is something very striking in this
survival of religious consciousness and
memory. 1t is not an infrequent act. 1t
shows that when this life of God possesses
the soul it often becomes the most lasting
and longest visible of mental manifesto
lions. But it has to be of the fiber, and
not of the surface, to survive and be vocal
to the last.
Consider how august privilege it is,
when angels are present, and archangels
throng around, when cherubim and seaa-
phim encirele with their blaze the throne,
that mortal may approach with unre-
strained confidence and converse with
heavens dread Sovereign o, what honor
was ever conferred like this ? [Chrysos-
tom.
As the rays come from the sun, and yet
are not the sun, even so our love and pity,
though they are not God, but merelv
poor, meek image and reflection of Him,
yet from Him alone they come. If thare
is mercy in our hearts, it comes from the
foundation of mercy. If there is the light
of love in us, it is the ray from the full
sun of love-[Charles Kingsley.
There is no life so humble that if it be
true and genuinely human, obedient to
God, that it may not hope to shed some
of His light There is no life so mea ger
that the greatest and wisest can afford to
despise it. We cannot know at what
moment it may flash forth with the life of
Cod Philips Brooks.
With its usual pungent way of putting
things the Christian Iatelliqencer SAYS: The
minister FOR whom the gospel of Christ is
not good enough is not good enough for the
gospel. Let him step out. The man who
processes to preach something or somebody
better than Christ Jesus generally breaches
himself"
No Christian whose moral sense is not
perverted, whose Christian culture and re-
linement are anything more than nominal,
can find himself in place in the auditorium
Of theater. Its moral atmosphere is as
baneful to his spirit as fre-damp would
be TO his lungs Christian Advocate.
The dullest observer must be sensible of
the order and security prevalent in those
of beautiful form OF worship in the morn
ing gives, as it were, the keynote to every
temper for the day, and attunes every spirit
to harmony Washington Irving.
One reason why men say the Bible is
always new to them, is because they are
always new to themselves, and as they
come to one and another step of expert
ence it throws light on words that before
had no meaning to them Henry Ward
Beecher.
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou
canst praise God by singing hymns to Him
in church once a week and disobeying
Him all the week long. He asks of thee
works as well as words !; and more, He asks
of thee works first and words aiter-IC has.
Kingsley.
The sages and heroes of history are re-
ceding from us, and history contracts the
records of their deeds into narrow and
narrower page. But time has no power
over the name and deeds and works Of Je-
sus,-[ W. Z. Claiming.
Many persons seem to imagine that they
are always in an amphitheater with the
assembled world as spectators Whereas
all the while, they are playing to empty
benches Monthly Magazine.
My will, not Thine, be DONE" tnrned
Paradise into desert; "Thy will, not
mine, be done" turned the desert into
paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate
of heaven Dr.. Pressense.
1t is 4 trifle," you say, it is nothing
True but it is a nothing that will be
everything to you; for a trifle that you pre-
fer to the will of God is a triile that will
be your RUM Fenelon.
Love is habit God has given to- US
of father and mother, brother and sister to
prepare us gradually for the love Of God.
/ Robertson.
The poet gives us the eminent expert
'ences only-a god stepping from peak to
peak, nor planting his foot but on a noun
tain Emerson in " Poetry and Imagina-
ton"
A benefcent person is like fountain
watering the earth and spreading fertility;
it is therefore delightful and more honora-
bic to give than to receive Epicurus.
DeFotlon 10 tHe person OF cHrist tlial
steers US clear of the doctrines and pre-
cepts Of Christ is sentimental rhapsody
DIR. Herricl; johnson.
He that seeketh forgetfulness of God in
this life will reap the reward of being for
gotten by Him in the world to come
[ Bishop Seymour.
The ambrosia of one generation is the
dnilv broad of the ncyt
Rare beneyolence, the minister of God.
-[Carlyle.
Bribery in Politics.
1t is evident that the only efectual
remedy is the improvement of public senti
ment and the enlightenment of the public
mind aS To the nriIs thnt hrihni,v nrndIlrne