Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-15

The fewer words the better prayer
Martin Luther.
Good thoughts are fragrant spears of
green grass, enjoyed even after they have
IA led.
have lived to thank God that all my
PRAYERS have not been answered. lean
lngelow
BY shaking the magnetic needle, you
may move it from Its place but it returns
to it the moment it is left to itself mike
manner believers may fall into sin, but no
sooner do they wake to reflection than they
repent, aud endeavor to mend ways, and
resume life Of godliness.-[Gotho!d.
God respecteth rot the arithmetic of our
prayers, how many they are; nor the rhet
oric Of OR prayers, how neat they are nor
the geometry of our pray ers, how long they
are; nor the music of our prayers, how
melodious they are; but the divinity of
our prayers how heart-sprung they are
[John Trap.
There are many ways III which it would
be well for us to carry our childhood with
us, even on into old age, if it were possible,
in It's truthfu!ness and Observation-Disclosures,
and willingness not Only to love, but to
show that we love as well. Why, that last
alone would cure many Il heart-ache OF to-
day Mary Z. Mexican.
Like fakes Of Snow that fall unperceived
on the earth, the seemingly unimportant
events OF life succeed one another. As the
snow gathers together, 50 are our habits
formed. No single fake that is added to
the pile produces a sensible change; no
hilit, mans charat ter Jeremy Taylor.
Brethren, ii is not the thinker who is
the true king of men, as we sometimes hear
il proudly said. We need one who will
not only show hut be the truth who Will
not only point but open and lie the way
who viii not only think, but give, because
He Is the life. Not the rabbits pulpit, nor
the teachers desk, still less the gilded
chairs OF earthly monarehs, least Of all the
tents of comprehensive the throne Of the
true king Jesus rules from the Cross
Alexander Maclaren.
1t seems to rae that nearer insight into
the spiritual work has been granted to this
generation, 50 that we no longer dea! with
vague distractions, half-dazed, haif-shad-
owy, in thinking Of departed souls. There
is now something warm and still familiar
in those belove,is Of OURS to whom we yearn
ont past the grave; not cold and CHASTITY
as they once seemed, but human, sympa-
thetic, with well-known faces. They are
not lost to us even on earth; Il little fur
ther of-that is ALL Elizabeth Barrett
Browning.
True hope is based on energy of charac-
ter. y strong mind always hopes, and has
always catise to hope, because II knows the
mutability Of human affairs and how
slight Il circumstance MAY change the
whole course Of events, Such spirit, too,
rests upon itself; 1t Is not confined TO
partial views, 81 10 one particular object.
And It, at last, all Shoui, he lost, It will
have saved it;elf-its own integrity and
worth. Hope awakens courage, while de-
spondenyy Is the last Of evils; it is the
abandonment Of good-the giving up the
,tiattle of life with dead rothingness. He
who can impiant courage in the human
soul is the best physician.-L Religious
Exchange.
diod works in the trees and flowers upon
the same plan with which He operates III
human souls. 4 growth is dependent
,lpon the cooperation Of two regnant
for, es-that Of the inner lie, and that OF
external influence The sunshine faIis
upon the iieicS, tree and flower without
effect 1t is cnsv Is they develop their
latent energies of Growth that they can
appropriate 70 themselves the atiiuent III
liuences with which God has eraciousiy
surrounded them. It Is even 50 with the
individual hrjstitm and the church. 1t
is only us W. spread our arms in vigorous
activity, and each upward in holy aspira-
ton, and spread out on every hand in fra
grant deeds and fruitful service, that we
can become full participators in the
warmth and energy of the divine indwell-
ing Selected.
There IS nothing greater .or which God
made orr tongues, next to reciting His
praises. than to minister comfort to weary
soul. And what greater measure can We
have than shat we should bring JOY to our
brother, who with his dreary ewes looks to
heaven and round about, and cannot find
50 much rest as to lay his cyelids close to-
gether than that the tongue should be
tuned with heavenly accents, and make the
weary soui 10 listen for light and ease and
when he perceives that there is such a
thing in the world and in ther ordc OF
things as comfort and JOY, to begin to break
out from the prison of his SORROWS at the
door Of signs and tears, and by little and
little melt into showers and refreshment?
This is Glory TO thy voice and employment
fit ior the brightest angel Jeremy Tay-
lor.
Some Of IA, able-t writers of tho day are
calling attsation 10 the fact that our ac-
ccptanac oC the Christian faith does not
depend on the results Of that literary and
historical criticism with which Imhelieyers
would occupy our attention. Canon
Barry, Of England writes Our knowl-
edee OF the life Of J c~us Christ IN is broad
outiines is quite unaffected by these qurs-
tions; il ali the Gospels We're lost it could
be reconstructed from the Epistles. Ii the
whole New Testament were to pass away
tomorrow it could be drawn out. with No
difficulty or precariousness Of induction,
from the writings, the ritual and the his
tory of Christianity itself Hence, what
ever may I've thought rs TO details, the
life of Christ, in It's main outlines, appears
20 stand out in indisputable historic reality.
No man can believe that the life which
has thus left lie traces upon history IS 4
mere idtal picture. No NAN who studio,
ii in the Gospels can fail to discern its
general historic truth. No man Who
knows anything Of the Christian thought
of the second century can suppose it capable
ofcreat;ne The Chris, ofthe New Testament.
In whatever light W. consider il We need
not doubt for moment that we can dis
Germ the great features of the true life OF
Chri.t ana Substantially reproduce the
voice which issued from Ills life 50 many
centuries ago. This sane view hs, been
presented n ilr Bernhard Weiss, of Der
i'm. AID ir this country by Professor George
F. Fisher, of Yale College, in his volume.
"The Grounds Of Theistic and Christina
Belief Philadelphia Record.
Power OF Remorse.
an American writer lately endcavored
10 trace the history OF noted men who in
accordance with the code of honor of our