Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-04
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
TIE GOLDEN DAYS DEPARTED.

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Bright eyes that glistened from behind long
lasieS,
Warm beauty early given back to God,
Red lips that now are ashes.
All. so it is all that hath ever been
Experienced by the spirit is immortal;
Each hope and Joy and grief IS held within
The memory sacred portal.
And yet the soft glow of midnight hour.
\ strain of haunting music sweet and ol9en,
4 dream bird, Il bee n leaf q flower,
\ sunset rich and golden
Can fling that portal open and beyond
Appears the record Of each earlier feeling
al hopes, all joys. all fears, all musings fond
In Infinite revealing
Til the present passes from the sight
Its cares and woes that make us eary-hcarted,
And leaves us basling in the holy light
OF golden days departed.
The greatest of faults is to be conscious
OF Carlyle.
IF nobody loves you, be sure it is your
own fault-[Doddridse.
Promises hold men faster than benefits
hope is cable and gratitude "a thread.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much
vices, almost always too little.-[Hale.
Let all seen enjoymcnts lead to the UNI
seen fountain from whence they flow
Halburton.
If we remembered blessings rs wildly as
we do trials we should never lack for
song of praise.
\ conscience void of offense before God
and man is an inheritance for eternity
daniel Webster.
1t would be sad thing to think that we
shall never be better than we are or can
make ourselves.
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come by reaching after higher satisfaction.
[Rev Phillips Brooks.
4 weak mind is Ike microscope, which
nagniiies tri1ing things, but cannot receive
great ones.-[Chesterfield.
Hone is ike the sun. which. az we jour
ney towards ii casts the shadow of our
burden behind us.-LSmiles.
When get into place ] can easily fill,
! always feel like showing out of it into one
| that requires OF me more exertioa.-[ti Cen
erai Garfield
The more = diamond is cut the more it
! sparklcs, and in what seems hard dealing
God has no end in view but to perfect Ills
peoples araces.
A con;emplative life has more the APP
pearance Of piety than any other; but the
divine plan is 10 bring faith into activity
and exercise. Cecil.
When we have done a favor memory
chersheS the record and we think the
| favored one under obligation to us: when
we receive kindness we are too prone to
| forget both giver and gift.
The world is beginning 10 apprehend
that. after all our disputes and discussions
| upon dogmatic Christianity, religion CON
siSts OF love to God and love to man, and
i,,s, fipai -scf.af mud GRAND o,pet,,,,
ton in chaTacier.-[D r. J. &. Holland.
And when i; is all over. and our feet will
| run no more, and cur hands are helpless,
and we have scarcely strength to murrnur
a last prayer. ihen We shall see that instead
of needing "a large field we have left I'M
| titled many corners of our single acre. ana
| that none OF il j. ..t for our Masters eye,
were il not for the s1ftcniug shadow of the
cross Edward Garrett.
One of the first scientists II the age, the
! late Benjamin Pcirce, said: Is this mag
niiicenl display Of ideality 4 human delu-
sion, or Is it Il divine record? The heavens
and the hearth have spoken to declare TIE
glory of God. II Is not tale told by an
| idiot, Simplifying nothing. 1t is the poem
OF an infinite imagination, siguitying i1E-
mortality"
| If am asked what is the remedy for The
| deeper sorrows of the human heart-what
| a man should chiefly look to in his progress
| through life as the power that is to sustain
| him under trials, and enable him manfully
to confront his atflictionS-I must point "a
something which, III well-known hymn,
| is called THE Old, Old Story told in an
old old book, and taught with an old, old
teaching. which is the greatest and best gift
ever given TO mankind.-l William b. Glad
stone.
This one hundred and third Psalm has ever
seemed to be the Monte Rosa of the divine
chain of mountains of praise, glowing
with a rufidier light than any of the rest,
IL is as the apple tree among the trees OF
wood. and its golden fruit has a flavor such
as no fruit ever bears unless 1t has been
irinened in the full sunshine Of mercy. The
Psalm couAmemoyates Gods many mcrcies,
and specially exults in His forgiveness and
His patience with His peoples weakness
and 6ilure-tSpurgeon.
1t is said chat gardeners, sometimes,
when they would bring q rose to richer
coverings, deprive it for season Of light
and moisture. Silent and Lark II stands,
dropping one faded leaf after another, and
seeming to go down patiently to death.
Bpt when every leaf Is dropped, ana the
plant stands stripped to the Cttermost, 4
lnew life is even then working in the buds,
from which shall spring tender foliage
and a brighter wealth of flowers. So, often
in celestial gardenings, every leaf of earthly
JOY must drop before new and divine
bloom visits the soul Harriet Beecher
Stowe
There is one sin which, it seems to me, is
everywhere and by everybody under-esti-
mated. tolerated with undue tolerance, and
quite too much overlooked in Our valuation
of character. II is the sin of frettins. He
who frcts is never the one who mends.
And when the fretter IS one who is be-
loved. whose nearness Of relation to US
makes his frettng at the weather seem
almost like personal reproach to us, then
the misery Of il becomes indeed insupport-
able. Most men call fretting minor fault
ia foib,e, and not vice. There is hardly
any vice, except drunkenness, which can so
utterly destroy the peace, the happiness OF
a home-tH. II.
Shakespeare is one of the best means Of
culture the world possesses. Whoever Is
at home in his pages is at holne every
swhere.-[H, \. Hudson.