Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-03

And men are still singing of Him that was born
And bells are still ringing of that blessed morn,
When angels first sang on the Bethlehem plain
OF glory TO God and of peace among men.
This song shall continue and ever be new,
Till Brahman and Buddhist and Moslem and
The chorus shall Join of His wonderful birth,
And songs of salvation shall cover the earth.
i Rev. W. q. Queal.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly
beggar.- Emerson.
Sin may open bright as the morning, but
it will end dark as night DR.. Talmage
For knowledge to become wisdom, the
soul must be rooted in Cod Mrs. Mount
ford.
For want of self-examination many are
like travellers skilled in other countries but
ignorant of their own.
Keeping Gods commandments is better
and more pleasing to Him than building
churches NJ. Henry.
The generous never enjoy their posses
sions so much as when others are made
partakers of them.-[Sir w. Jones.
Christ came not to talk about a beauti-
full light, but to be that light; not to spec
ulate about virtue, to be virtue II. G.
Taylor.
Let us begin our heaven on earth; and,
being ourselves tempted, let us be pitiful
and considerate and generous in judging
others John Page Hops.
In all things throughout the world the
men who lock for the crooked viii see the
crooked, and the men who look for the
straight viii see the straight.
If instead of 4 gem, or even flower, we
would cast the gift Of a lovely thought
into the hearts of friend, that would be
giving as the angels must give George
Macdonald.
Aloft on the throne of God, and not
below, in the ot-prints of a trampling
multitude, are the sacred rules of right,
! which no maiorities can displace or over
turn Charles Sumner.
As flowers carry dewdrops trembling on
the edge of the petals, and ready to fall at
the first wait Of wind or brush OF bird, so
the heart should carry its beaded works of
thanksgiving. and, at the first breath Of
heavenly favor, let down the shower per-
fllmed with the hearts gratitude II. W.
Beecher.
Our true knowledge is to know our own
ignorance. Our true strength is to Know
our own weakness. Our true dignity is to
confess that we have no dignity, and are
nobody and nothing in ourselves, and to
cast ourselves down before the dignity of
God, under the shadow Of whose wings
and in the smile Of whose countenance,
alone, is any created being safe Charles
Kingsley.
1t is not in the bright path of earthly
success that mans best good Is wrought out
There are many ways that God mOlds
and fashions souls for his service on earth
and for the perfect life in Heaven. A
rough block Of marble may lie forever in
a garden of rare flowers, and never become
anything but the same unsightly stone.
But the skillful and severe use of the
hammer and chisel, in the hands Of the
sculptor, unt0lds life-Iike form of exquis-
tie beauty. So it is in the dispensations
OF the divine sculptor.-[S. 5. D.
To believe your own thought, to believe
that what is true for YOU in your private
heart is true for all men-that is genius.
Speak your latent conviction, and it shall
be the universal sense; for the Utmost in
due time becomes the Outmost-and our
first thought is rendered back to us by the
trumpets of the last Judgment Familiar
as the voice of mind is to each, the highest
merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and
Milton, Is that they set at naueht books
and traditions, and spoke not what man
said but what they thought Z. ".
Emerson.
When | was young man there lived in
our neighborhood a farmer who was usu-
ally reported to be very liberal man and
uncommonly upright in his dealings.
When he had any produce OF his farm to
dispose of he made it an invariable rule to
give good measure-or rather more than
would be required of him. One of his
friends, Observing him frequently doing 50,
questioned him as TO why he did so; he
told him he gave too much, and said il
was to his disadvantage. Now mark the
answer of this excellent man: Good has
permitted me but one Journey through the
world, and when | am gone | cannot re-
turn to correct mistakes" The old farm
er's mistakes were Of the sort he did not
want TO rectiy.- ioratio Seymour.
The vastness OF the universe renders
foolish the supposition that this little
planet Is the only inhabited one and the
unity of laws and of substance asks US to
imagine the beings upon other spheres to
be moving to and fro in the likeness of man,
speaking a language and busted by the
useful and the beautiful We may even
assume that such is the oneness Of intelli-
gent life that if these inhabitants of differ
ent planets were to meet in some general
home in Immortality they would prove to
be of one race-a human race having differ
ent minor details of history, but all mem
bers of one brotherhood, and capable of one
friendship one virtue, one taste, one piety
ten thousand worlds full of one music,
one art, one tenderness, one virtue, one
creature-man-one God David Swing.
1t is loudly claimed that infdeIity is
rapidly increasing in our country. l don't
believe ii. | admit, and rejoice in the
fact, that with progressive science there is
progressive disbelief of many Of the tradi-
tional interpretations Of our Holy Bible,
progressive rejection of many of the dismal
dognas of superstition and churchianity:
but am sure, that in essential Christian
itv as embodied, taught and lived by an
adorable Saviour, there is growing faith,
increasing confidence. | believe that
Christian manhood commands higher
premium than ever before, and the worlds
best thinkers and most practical workers
are finding out that Christianity meets the
universal needs OF all souls reconstructs
humanity into the image Of God, and that
all else leads TO bewiIder and dazzles to
blind George c. Baldwin, D. d.
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