Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-23

Come unto Ne and find the promised rest
| " Come INTO Me- Oh. words diyinely sweet
Ny heart remembers what His lips repeat;
And all day long they thrill my weary breast,
And am glad because Of promised rest.
-[Eben L. ReXlord.
PRAYERS POWER.
More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams Of Wherefore ie' LILY
Rise ike a fountain for me night and day;
For what are men better than sheep OF goats
That nourish q blind life within me Drtil'
If. knowing God, they lift not hands OF prayer
Both for themselves and those VINO eail 'hen'
friend
For SO the whole round world is every way
-ITennyson.
A life Of mere money getting is always a
failure, because YOU will never get as much
as YOU want. The poorest people III TINS
country are the miiiionalres ana ~ next 10
them those who have 100000. There Is
not scissors-grinder in New York or
Brooklyn 50 anxious to make money as
those men who have piled up fortunes for
wears The disease of accumulation has
eaten into them. That is not life worth
living There are too many earthquakes III
it. too many Shipwrecks, too many pcrdi-
tons They build their castles and open
their picture galleries, and make every in
ducement for Happiness to come, but she
will not So, also life that chiefly strives
for worldly approval is a failure. The two
most unfortunate men in the United States
for the next six months will be the two
Presidential nominees. Two great reservoirs
of malediction have been gradually filling
up. and about midsummer they will be
trimming full. and a hose will be attached
to them and they will begin to play ON the
hDV To sta
and take 1.-THE falsehoOd, the cariCature,
the venom, the filth, and they will be rolled
over in it and choked with it. To win that
privilege a hundred candidates are striving.
The same thing is seen on smaller scale
in the strife for social position. Good morals
and intelligence are not necessary; but
wealth or the show of wealth. is absolute
lv necessary 1t don't make any difference
how YOU get your wealth, if you only get
it. Perhaps you get it by failing four or
five times-thc most rapid way of accumu-
latiOn in this country. If a man fails once
he is not SO very well off; but if he fails
twice he is comfortable and by the time he
fails three times he is afiiuent. But when
you really lose your money, how quick they
drop you. High social life is constantly
in change-insecurity dominant wretch
edncSS dominant, and life not wort -iiy
ing.-[Dr. Talmage.
1t is well enough to crush all of that old
fancy which the church once thought the
voice of inspiration, and whose dreams it
formulated into doctrines, but it is not well
to destroy all the imagination of the soul,
and thus to cut down the tree which needed
only to be grated and trimmed. The
sweet orange groves Of the South are made
out of those trees which once bore bitter
fruit and the rich, delicious olives come
from old wild stocks whose great utility
and flowers science has turned along the
paths of a better fruitage. Thus that re-
ligiOUS imagination and affection which
bore such bitter fruit as fell in the middle
ages could be employed in our era in grow
ing for US new children. better oranges and
olives than those from even the orchards of
Dante and Milton. Our period has cult
waited the absolute and material to such a
degree that We fear that, instead of grating
the old tree of imagination, it has cut it
down rs i cumbcrer of the ground, and has
sown with wheat and corn the field where
it grew.-[David Swing.
The sense of duty done is the brave
mans sOace in failure or misfortune. He
has done what he could the rest he leaves
with God. The cause he believed just has
broken down; the plans he had formed
have failed; the good he intended has
been brought to naught before his eyes he
sees injustice prevail and wrong tri-
umphant; b. he has done his duty; and,
oppressed in poverty, in disgrace, in sor-
row, not for himself, bet for others, or for
the cause he believes right and sacred, he is
still serene for he says, " the end l leave
with God, and he trusts that in the future
life he viii see that all this failure and suf-
fering had some good meaning which now
he cannot penetrate. Holding this faith
life is still important and full of meaning
To him. where otherwise extinction would
be welcome; and he feels and knows that
what concerned MIN was only to do his
duty and leave the result with Cod
LCharcs Nordhoff.
ChristS cause Is the cause of truth. All
that hc desires is that the truth, as taught
by God 5 word and works, should be known
and obcyed bv all And il isa humilating
sight, that the world has too often seen,
that of the protested disciples of Him who
is " the Truth denouncing the study of
God works, lest their teachings should be
found to contradict His word. He has no
need and no desire for such cowardly cham
uiuus rs these. The Bible Is no more
afraid of facts or truth. of whatever kind. |
or from whatever source, than the fields are !
afraid of sunshine or showers. If it is, we
ought to he afraid Off We want to know |
all that can be known about God about !
His modes of work rs well as about the |
truths of His word. We are no more |
afraid of conflict between them than we |
are Of the most searching Investigations |
into the character and life OF Jesus Christ. |
Advance.
We may not have to meet such bitter !
things a. the early disciples did-fdmine !
and persecution and cruel suiJcrinS-but we
Ia. I,l
through Him that loved Us. If we learn |
in His strength TO be patient and loving |
and for5iving when others are unjust and |
unkiud, we are conqUcrOrs. if we overcome |
our sins by faith and trust in His name We |
are conquerorS, and day by day We shall |
learn TO KNOW how true Il Is that all things |
which our Father sends us do really bring |
about our good. so that we may not only be |
disciples, but glad. happy disciples, prais-
ing and singing rs we 90. If God be for |
Us. Who can be against Us - The Chris !
tian Union.
JOY is prize unbought, and is frecst |
pure~t in lis iiow when il comes unsought |
40 getting into heaven. as place will |
compass il You must carry it with you, !
c.>elt Is not there You must have il in |
YOU. a. the music of a wcll-ordcrcd soul |
the ire OF holy purpose the yelling NJ. |
'ttt 'l llif 'tt'4R+ N''lN' 80 cue ll fIiIlEN
thar hide the waters there Bushnell.
We have proposed to enter our protest |
against all idle gossip, against all democrat :,
ling and wicked waste ofJime, also against |
the fullics and tyrannics of fashion, against |
all external impositionS and disabilities; in |
short, against each and everything that OPP |
poses the full development and use of the |
faculties conferred upon us.-LA Alice Cary |
The doctrines of grace humble a man |
without degrading him, and cxalt him with |
out initiating him Charles Hodge.
Through faith we do good works; and !
through good works faith is made visible |
and comprehenSiblc.-[L Luther.
BUTrEHEp Flour MNNvFAcTURE.-A Con- |
necticut company makes flour all ready for |
baking into biscuit D. strawberry short |
cake; il only required TO be mixed with |
milk or cold water and the batter is ready |
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