Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-01

The things without US have naturally a
| voice, if we only had not lost the power to
hear that voice. To the old Greek and
Roman mind there was a holy mystery
| about the earth and sky. which we are
| IN danger of missing in these DAYS of
cold intellectually We name processes
OF nature and then seem to think we
have got 10 the end of them. ANALYSIS is
fatal TO mystery, as it is to love. Our
scientific knowledge is hardly more
than ignorance reduced to classical
ton. We are in danger of making
what we know throne instead of foot
stool for the attainment of what is beyond.
There IS more for the spirit in PRESENT.
nent of far-otf truth than in the
knowledge of q close one. Stand where
we may, we stand on holy ground We
shall still find God in nature when we
kneel in nature.-[Dr. C. H. Parkhurst.
What is God? The telescope by which
| we hold converse with the stars. the micro
scope which unvails the secrets of nature.
the crucible of the chemist, the knife of the
anatomist, the reflective faculties of the
| philosopher, all the common instruments
of science, avail not here. On the threshold
of that impenetrable mystery a voice ar
| rests our steps. From out the clouds and
| darkness that are round about Gods throne
the question comes "Canst thou by
searching, find out God? Canst thou find
| out the Almighty to perfection - Thomas
Guthrie.
When we are told that God is the re-
| deemer of the world, we know that love
dwellS i'll the bosom of the most high: but
| If we want to know that God feels for us
| individually and separately, we must learn
by heart this syllable OF endearment "Mv
redeemer.' Child of God, if you would
have your thought of God something be-
yond a cold feeling of His presence. let
faith appropriate Christ. You are as much
the object of Gods solicitude as if none
lived but yourself.-IF. w. Robertson.
You cannot stay the shell in its flight
after 1t has left the mortar it goes on to its
| mark, and there it explodes. dealing de-
struction all around Just as little can YOU
stay the consequences of a sin after it has
been committed. You may repent of it.
you may even be forgiven for it, but still il
goes on its deadly and desolating way. 1t
has passed entirely beyond your reach ::
! once done it cannot be undone.-TWm. NJ.
Taylor.
All my friends, we must look ont and
around to see what God is like. Ii is when
we persist in turning our eyes inward, and
prying curiOusly over our own imperfec-
tons, that we learn to make God after our
own image, and fancy that our own dark
| ness and hardness of heart are the patterns
OF His light and love- Charles Kingsley.
What is our death but nights sleep d?
For, as through sleep, all WEAKNESS and
taintneSS pass away and cease and the
power of the Spirit comes back again so
that in the morning we arise fresh and low
ous-so at the last day We shall rise again
as II we had only slept at night, and shall
be fresh and strong Martin Luther.
Character is so largely affected by associ-
atons that We cannot afford to be indiffer-
ent as to who and what our friends are
| They write their names in our albums, but
they do more, they help make US what we
are. BE, therefore, careful in selecting
them; and when wisely selected, never
sacrifice them.-LM NJ. Hulburd.
Christ left his grave clothes behind him
IN the sepulcher because he rose to die no
more; death was to have no more domin-
ion over him. Lazarus came out with his
grave clothes on, for he was to use them
again; but Christ, rising to an immortal
life, came out free from those incum.
brances.- Matthew Henry.
Let not unworthiness scare the children
of God. Parents love their children and
do them good, not because they see that
they are more worthy than others but be-
| cause they are their own Leighton.
After reading the doctrines of Plato. SOC
| rates or Aristotle, we feel that the specific
difference between their words and Christ's
is the difference between an inquiry and a
revelation.-[Dr. Joseph Parker
Bible and a newspaper in every house,
a good school in every district-all studied
and appreciated as they merit-are the
principal support of virtue, morality and
| civil Liberty Franklin.
The heart has always the pardoning
power.-[Madame Swetchine>
IT'S but short journey across the 18TH
mus of Now Bovee.