Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-21


A writer has said: Sin is bad in the eve
worse in the tongue, worse still in the
heart, but worse of all in theS;fe.
The responsibilities of life are gauget
not by what we are, but by what we may
become. The man who has ventured only
to the limits of his conscious force has only
reached the threshold of his possible at
tainments.-[F. G. Clark.
Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach
and every man can open his door to thesS
angels, and they shall bring him the gift
of tongues. But the man who aims tt
speak as books enable, as synods use, a;
the fashion guides = let him hush
| Emerson.
George Herbert calls the Sabbath "the
torch Of other days" These Sabbaths
placed seven days apart along the path Of
the years, are the fountains of rest and
peace, without which all other days would
be dull and dark and drear.- Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Nothing is more strange, in this mysteri-
Gus complexity of impressions and events
that we call human existence, than the
fact that two beings, entirely cut off from
all natural means of association and com
munion, may yet, unknown to each other,
be breathing the same spiritual air and
learning the same moral and intellectual
lessons Julian Hawthorne.
Learn these two things: Never be dis
corraged because good things get on so
slowly here, and never fail daily to do that
good which lies next to your hand. Do not
be III a hurry, but be diligent. Enter into
the sublime patience Of the Lord. God
can afford to wait: why cannot we? Trust
to God to weave your little thread into a
web, though the patterns show it not yet.
II George Macdonald.
But cannot man pray with his heart
and yet use written prayer? Certainly
he can. Many have done so for years. If
you cannot walk without your crutches,
would sooner you walk with them than
not at all. Still, it is not the best words
put together by the most devout men that
ever lived, nor the hottest language com
posed extemporaneously by yourself, that
can make up prayer if the heart be gone.
LSpurgeon.
Is ll1leIildl II
heavenly freedom; to think and will evil,
as far as the civil and moral laws do not
restrain, to speak and do it, is from infer
nal freedom; but to think and do good,
and as far as opportunity is given, to
speak and do it, is from heavenly freedom
Whatever man thinks, wills, speaks and
dees from freedom, he perceiveS as his
own; for all freedom everyone has from his
love- Emanuel Swedenborg.
The church whose methods of admins
tration and whose social atmosphere are
such as to discourage the attendance of the
poor, is driving Christ from its door, Is
not this His own word, 'Inasmuch as We
did it unto the least Of these We did it unto
me?" 1t is entirely possible to create and
maintain in our churches a spirit and a
way of working that shall make the poor
est people perfectly at home in them. The
church in which these are not found needs
a missionary as much as the Patagonians
do. 1t has not vet learned the alphabet of
Christianity Washington GLADDEN..
1t was when the Lord saw that Moses
turned aside to see that he called unto Him
and mentioned Him by name This is in
deed a great law. If men would turn aside
TO see, God would surely speak to them,
But we do not do this. We pass by all the
great sights of naturewith comparative in.
difference. The sea wants to speak to us.
but we listen not to It's sounding voice the
stars are calling to us, but we shut them
put; the seasons come round to tell their
tale, but We are pre-occupied with trifling
engagements. We must bring so much
with us if we would put ourselves into
healthful communion with nature; we
must bring the seeing eye, the hearing ear,
and the understanding heart; we must at
all events be disposed to see and hear, and
God will honor the disposition with more
than expected blessing Joseph Parker
The time will come when word will be
enough; if the word be the right word, it
need not be multiplied. Its force is in it's
unity; it victory is in its intensity and
concentration. Is this possible-that we
shall have but to say to the poet, when he
has his harp in fullest, sublimist tune,
" The Lord hath need of thee" and at
once he will begin the praise of Emanuel ?
Is it possible that the time will come when
we shall need to say TO the man of money
bnt one word "The Lord hath need of thy
gold" and the Golfers which have not seen
the daylight for many a year will fly open
al the utterance Of that simple word? when
we shall have but to 90 to the young man
of education and intellectual power and
say, "The Lord hath need of thee" and in
stantly he will spring to the front and
say Lord, speak, thy servant heareth."
Is it possible that the time can ever come
when we shall have less of the drama, and
the racing ground, and the billiard table
and little more at least of that which saves
England from damnation and the highest
life of the world from putrefaction? That
will be the victory of victories = Joseph
Parker.
One Of the preachers has said that
nothing was so comforting to the thought
full mind as the assured coming of day of
final allotments on principles of justice.
1t is human to judge. The mind loves to
We are made to form opinions
We come to a thousand conclusions daily,
some of which we know may be wrong. In
all this we are anticipating something
future and final. But one satisfaction in
Judging is seriously disturbed by the fail
ures of multitudes to judge correctly
Men are hasty, biased, limited, ignorant
and perverse and so we are obliged to
cheer ourselves with the idea of a day of
final review. The great day of Judgment
brings satisfaction, on account of the per-
son and character of the judge. He is
man and God; he impersonates love and
justice; he can have no lack Of qualifca-
tons, and no motive to swerve
from the finest lines of truth and
and he is full of SYM
pathy with every mans case. And it
gives additional comfort to US to feel tie
assurance, on his part, of most thorough
sitting of all facts, circumstances, in
tuences, motives, accessories and con-
tingencics Of life and conduct, near and
remote, however slight their bearing, or
secret their operation. Nothing will be
left concealed or untouched that had
weight 1t will be final salts
faction that all wrongs will be righted and
corrected, and not one mis-
take left uncanceled, and not one unknown
excellence left obscured, and not one pre-
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