Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-31


-lFrederic {. Weatherly in The Culver for Sep
tember.
Never defend an error because YOU once
thought it TRUTH Franklin.
1t is the privilege of truth always to grow
on candid minds.-[Scrivener.
He that hath no bride on his tongue
hath no grace in his heart.-[St. Gerome.
People seldom improve when they have
no model but themselves to copy after
Goldsmith.
Fruitless is sorrow for having done amiss
If 1t issue not in resolution to do so no
more Bishop Horne.
Science has nothing to do with Chris
tianity: only it should make US careful
about our proofs Darwin.
l know by myself how Incompetent
sible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend
the parts of my own being.-[St Bernard
Christ came not to talk about beautiful
light, but to be that light not to speculate
about virtue, but to be virtue-TH. G.
Taylor
l have been benefited by praying for
others-for by making an GRAND to God
for them l have gotten something for my
self Rutherford.
As they, who for every slight infirmity
take physic to repair their health, do rather
impair it, so they, who for every trifie are
eager TO vindicate their character, do rather
weaken it.-[Mason.
True charity makes no noise in the
world. A person who does good out of
pure motives never spreads it abroad in
the circle in which he moves, nor makes
it public through q newspaper.-[G George
Z lot.
We see in the risen Christ the end for
which man was made, and the assurance
that the end is within reach. Christ rose
from the grave changed and yet the same :;
and in Him we have the pledge and type
Of our rising.-[Westcott.
1t is the habitual thought that frames it
self into our life. 1t affects US even more
than our intimate, social relations do. Our
confidential friends have not so much to do
in shaping our lives as thoughts have
which we harbor.-[F. w. Teal.
Eternity is crying out to you louder and
louder as you near its brink. Rise, be
going! Count your resources; learn what
you are not fit for, and give up wishing for
it; learn what you can do, and do it with
the energy of man.-[F. w. Robertson.
The habit of faltering and distinguishing
and concealing, and putting forward the
CbSt Vi Tue II ull, vi SllONlIlS DOlulN
the full face of it. at last leads men into an
insincerity so habitual that they really do
not know when they speak the truth or
not Cardinal Manning.
Thou art seeking thy light in the disper-
sion of the cloud, and all the time thy light
is in the cloud. Thou art like the old patri-
arch of Uz. Thou art asking God for an
explanation of thy darkness, and thou art
expecting an answer from all quarters but
one-the darkness itseIf-[George Madi-
son, D. d.
True humanity consists not in a squeam-
ish ear; it consists not in starting or
shrinking at tales of misery, but in dis
position of heart to relieve it. True hu-
mainly appertains rather TO the mind than
to the nerves, and prompts men to use real
and active endeavors TO execute the actions
which it suggests.-LC. J. Fox.
One sterling devotional book kept by us
and used in retirement, not only ministers
TO our growth in grace and knowledge, but
nightly energies us for the outward life
The mower stops to use his milestone fire.
quently such book always within reach
puts finer edge upon the Christian s
spirit, and so prepares it the better for its
work in Gods harvest field Presbyterian
Journal.
revelation of his power and wisdom in
Christ Jesus. Let others, therefore, dread
and shun the Scriptures for their darkness
shall wish may deserve to be reckoned
among those who admire and dwell upon
them for their clearneSs. There are no
songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no
orations equal to those of the prophets, and
no politics like those which the Scriptures
tesch.-[John Milton.
Faiths life is song She marches to bat
tie with psalm. She suffers with HYMN
upon her lips. She glorifies God in the
fires. She passes ont of the world to the
music of the TIE Deum," and not to the
dolorous notes of G dirge. She thrusts out
the walters and iamenters from the cham
Der of her departed, and enters the room,
having none with her but the Lord, who is
the resurrection and the life. Does doubt
compose sonnets or chant hosannahs p
Lutheran.
We must discriminate between Gods
will and Gods nature. We are not COM
petent to understand the nature of God, to
round out a portraiture. We are able to
understand what are the laws of righteous
ness. He has made known to US, in short
what is the great morality in life, what are
the relations of conduct to character and to
future estate. That is the measure of our
understanding. We know what we ought
to do and ought not to do. And there
is the line, il seems TO me, of instruc-
ton in the household and in the church
Not wasting our intellectual acumen
upon impossible tasks of crystallizing
God and attempting to fashion his
attributes into some definite character
God said to Moses, "No man can see
my glory, but will cause my good
ness to pass before you He revealed his
disposition, forgiveness, patience, love, long
suffering. Again, the voice of revelation
says " l set before you a way of life,
choose it and the way of death, avoid it."
Again, the voice comes have no pleas
ure in the death of him that dieth Choose
we that We may live" Again, the voice
cries out, in the later dispensation lie
that sows 10 the flesh shall reap corruption;
he that sows to the spirit shall reap the life
everlasting" SO then, we may follow the
law and the righteousness of God. BY
faith in his existence and by the strength
which he provides in every one Of us may
we go from glory to glory, until we stand
in Zion and before God.-[H. w. Beecher