Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-08
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
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THE MONK WHO PAINTED.
read legend of a monk who painted.
IN an old convent cell, in days gone by.
Pictures OF martyrs and of virgins Saiuted
And the sweet Christ face with the crown of
thorn.
Poor daubs not fit to be a chapers treasure
Full many haunting word upon them fell.
But the good abbot let him. for his pleasure,
Adorn with them his solitary cell.
One night the poor monk unused Could but
render
Houor to Christ as other painters do.
Were but my skill as great as is the tender
Love that inspires me when His cross view :,
" But no-'tis vain toll and strive in sorrow;
What man so scorns still less can He admire,
Ny LIES work is all YaluelesS-tO-morrOW
III cast my ill-wrought pictures on the fire
He raised his eyes, within his cello wonder.
There stood a visitor horn-crowued was he,
And a sweet voice the silence rent aSUuder-
" Scorn 10 work that done for love of me.
And round the walls the paintings shone re-
With lights and colors to this world unknown;
A perfect beauty and a hue transceudeut,
That never yet on mortal canvas shown.
There is meaning in this strange Old story.
let none dare Judge his brothers worth or
need;
The pure intent gives to the act its glory,
The noblest purpose makes the grandes deed.
4 Home Journal.
The Lord may lead you round, but he
will lead you right.
The way Of every man is dcclarative of
the end OF every man.-lCccil.
knowledge unused for the good of others
IS more vain than unused gold EusNIn.
All the scholastic scafIolding falls, as a
ruined editice, before one single word
taith.-[ Napoleon.
The occasion j nilad biqh with ditficnI-
ties. and we must rise high with the occa-
sion Abraham Lincoln.
A boIv lite has = voice # .nool,s ,.bop
the tonetue is silent and * eirber n constant
attraction or a continual reproof-rHinton
Have purnose in life and bavino +
throw into v6ur work gt,cb strenrtT If
mind and muscle As God has civen Won
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the
bridge over which he himself must pass if
he would ever reach heaven; for every one
has need 10 be forgiven Herbert.
When two truths seem directly opposed
to each other. we must not question either.
but remember there is tIird-God-wb
reserves to himself the right to harmonic
them.-rMadame Swetchinc.
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Ii your cup seems TOO bitter II your bur
ueh seems 100 neaVy- De sure mat II Is
wounded hand that Is holding the cup, and
that II Is lie who carried the cross that IS
carrying the ourden.-lN. y. observer.
In the deepest night Of sorrow God gives
lis so much to be thankful for that we need
never cease our singing. With all our wis
dom and foresight we can take q lesson in
gladness and gratitude from the happy bird
that sings all night as if the day were not
long enough to tell its ioy.-L Coleridge
For want of selfrestraint many mon are