Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-03


used to question; now, I gladly trust
My Lord to lead:
Not seeing-tearing;-ius to follow on
Ils rest, indeed
LILLIAN Grey in the Christian Intelligence
There is something better than revival
and that is Christian life that doesn'
need to be reviyed.-[D. L. Moody.
In many pursuits, of whatever kind lei
this come to my mind: How much shall
| value this on my death bed?"-[ President
Edwards.
To the believer every providence is bu.
another stroke of the chisel upon the mar
BILE rock, shaping it for its position in the
heavenly temple.
All that We call modern civilization, in q
sense which deserves the name, is the yisi
bic expression of the transforming power
OF the gospel-[J. a. Froude.
God himself does not speak prose, but
communicates with us by hints, omeps, in
ference, and dark resemblsnces in objects
lying all around us.-[ Emerson.
Not day passes over the. earth but men
and women of no note do great deeds,
speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
OF these obscure heroes, philosophers and
martyrs, the greater part will never be
known till that hour when many that
were great shall be small, and the small
great.-[Charles Reade.
A gentleman was one day relating 10 8
Quaker tale Of deep distress, and conclud-
ed very pathetically by saying: 81 could
not but feel for him Verify, friend, 4"
replied the Quaker, thou didst right in
that thou didSt feel for thy neighbor but
didst thou feel in the right place-didst
tlou feel i'll thy pocket?"
For the holiness that fights against sin,
battles with temptation, keeps unspotted
from the world and lays self on the altar,
there is a crying need in our time. 1t is a
sympathetic spirit going about doing good,
yet it has no sympathy with evil customs
and fashions of the world. 1t strives TO
keep clean, Against the downward pull Of
the world it braces itself up and says: =" If
others do this yet will not II 1t dares to
be singular and questionable. 1t keeps
out of places where it would be smirched,
and finds such enjoyments in its prayer
service, its Bible study, its deeds of charity
and the innocent joys of life. that it does
not banker after the playhouse and kim
dred sensualities. Walking in the spirit,
it does not stoop to the lusts of the flesh
[Dr. T. L. Cuyler.
How we prize the life that now is-this
mortal life; this life of uncertainty this
life that is fast fleeing away this life with
all its environments, with all It's imita-
tons, with all its aches and pains and dis
appointments How, withal, we love this
life how we long to retain it how we
would like to invest it with immortality,
and dwell here forever How 10th we are
to part with it With what reluctance,
with what unayailing protests we yield to
the inevitable Yet this life to which we
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parison with the life possible to US and
promised to us-the life we have even now,
and shall have forever if We have Christ
life unlimited; life that has all eternity
for its fuller expansion q life that knows
no aches, no pains, no disappointments, no
death. Is it not strange that so many may
be found who have no appreciation of it
no deep yearning for it; who so little prize
it that they refuse it when it is freely Of
fered them without money and without
price christian Intelligencer.
shall never forget the feelings had
once when climbing one of the pyramids OF
Egypt. When half way up, my strength
failing, I feared I should never be able to
reach the summit or get back again. well
remember the help given, by Arab hands,
drawing me on farther; and the step |
could not quite make myself, because too
great for my wearied frame, the little help
given me-sometimes more and sometimes
less-enabled me to get up, step by step,
until at last | reached the top and breathed
the pure air, and had grand lockout from
the lofty height. And so in iife's Journey
we are climbing. We are feeble Every
one of us. now and then, needs little
help; and if we have risen step higher
than some other, let US reach down for
our brothers hand and help him to stand
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we shall go on conquering, step by step,
until the glorious eminence shall be gained
All! how many need help in this world
poor afflicted ones poor sorrowing ones
poor tempted ones, who have been over
some, who have been struggling, not quite
able to get up the step; trying, falling try
ing, Responding; trying, almost despairing /!
y, give such one help, little kindly aid,
and the step may be taken, and another
step may then be taken and instead of dy-
ing in wretchedness at the base, he may by
a brothers hand. be raised to safety, and
finally to glory Your mission is TO be
Christ to such, to take such by the hand /;
for to you to live is Christi Bishop
Simpson.
There is work for all of us. And there
is special work for each, work which can.
not do in crowd, or as one of mass but
rs one man. acting singly, according to my
own gifts, and under sense of my personal
responsibility. There is, no doubt, asso-
ciated work for me to do; | must do nv
work as part of the worlds great whole, or
as member of some body. But l have q
special work to do, as one individual, who
by Gods plan and appointment has sepa-
rate position, separate responsibilities and
a separate work; if do not do it. il must
be left undone No one of my fellows can
do that special work for me which have
come into the world to do; he may do q
higher work, greater work, but he cannot
do my work. / cannot hand my work over
to him, any more than | can hand over my
responsibilities or my gifts. Nor can
delegate my work to any association of
men, however well ordered and powerful.
They have their own work to do, and it
may be a very noble one. But they cannot
do my work for me. | must do it with
these hands or with these lips which God
has given me. l may do little or l may do
much. That matters not. 1t must be my
own work. And by doing my own work
poor as it may seem to some, shall better
fulfill Gods end in making ME what | am,
and more truly glorify his name than if l
were either going out of my own sphere to
do the work OF another, or calling in an
other into my sphere to do my proper work
for me- Ruskin.
Glass In Civil Service Reform.
what is well deserved holiday"
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