Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-14

Such as these have lived and died
-ILongfellow
The way to avoid great faults is to be.
ware of small ones.-[Spurgeon.
Live in the present, that you may be
eady for the future Charles Kingsley,
Christianity, degraded or perverted into
the service Of this world, is found to be
unfit to do even this world service 1t is
like fallen angel, which, ceasing to be
he messenger of unearthly good, becomes
he instrument of unearthly evil Bishop
Harris.
We are born for higher destiny than
earth there is realm where the rainbow
never fades, where the stars will be spread
before us like islands that slumber on the
ocean, and where the beings that pass be-
fore us like shadows Will stay in our pres
ence forever Bulwer Lytton.
As we look up into these glorious cul-
limitations, how grand life beeomes To
be forever with the Lord, and forever
changing into his likeness, and still more,
forever deepening in the companionship of
his thought and bliss, "from glory to
glory"-could we desire more?- Bishop
Foster.
Behold what wondrous love God has
made known He who has shown such
love to such men as us must have more to
show The wealth of love and grace we
have shared is wonderful, but who can tell
what boundless goodness remains to be I'M
folded, when we are more prepared to APP
preciate the unfolding ?-[ Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Whosoeyer will go to heaven must have
faith of his own. In Gideon's camp
every soldier had his own pitcher; among
Solomon's men Of valor every one wore
his own sword, and these were they that
got the victories. The five wise virgins
had every one oil in her lamp, and only
these entered in with the bridegroom
Another's eating of dainty meats make
thee none the fatter.-[ Thomas Adams
1t is recorded of Mungo Park that, when
lost in the desert, way-worn, hopeless,
without courage to go on, or patience to
stay, his respondent heart was turned from
its hard mood by the sight of tuft of
moss. This tiny, lovely creation, speaking
in its minutenese so much of One whose
hand fashions nothing amiss or in vain
the little living jewel, among endless
wastes and arid rocks declaring spring to
be yet in store for the world, and vitality,
even in its most insignificant forms, a
thing God gives and loves; this simple
spray of moss melted the travellers heart.
of God cares for the moss" he said,
surely He cares for me-" and he went
On,
There are two great studies which men
in our day are pursuing. These are phys
zeal science and the word of God. Rejoice
in both. 1t is a sublime spectacle, the
multiplied activities which are directed
toward the exploration of nature Men are
dredging the sea till it yields up her dead
and her living; they hasten to the anti
podes at the behest of governments, to
watch an eclipse; they brave martyrdom
amid the torrid heats of the dark continent
or the icy fields of the poler zones; they
map ont the heavens as they are unrolled
above the telescope eyes that watch them
in Chicago and Paris and Berlin; they
examine the microscopic wonders that
float through the occasional sunbeams of
England; they study in some cases the
changes which domestication makes
in animals, in the benevolent hope
Of finding in the chimpanzee man and a
brother; they ask the storm wind to ex-
plain It's motions; they multiply schools
of investigation till they are thicker than
the schools of ths prophets in old Ephraim.
Agassiz clubs of boys and young men are
springing up literally by the thousands in
our own land; ages Of culture separates
the savage who hunts for scalp and the
child who hunts for beetles; that elder
Scripture written by Gods own hand in
the black-letter print of the ferns on the
coal beds, in the rainbow and starry auto
graphs Of the skies, and in the fast-unfold-
ing secrets Of magnetic and electric force,
all is certainly worth the effort which
men are making to read it Rev. J. II.
Barrows.
1t is quite time that the family Bible
should be brought TO the front. 1t will be
to many persons a discovery, novelty, =
living book, n part Of the living age, book
to be kept within reach, to be taken up in
moments Of WEAKNESS and waiting to he
opened from time to time when one is
longing for some great thought which will
afford nourishment, comfort, rest. And
We must meet these questions about the
Book in the light Of orr modern life; we
must meet the Book itself rs it comes TO Us
in its modern way, seeing it as it really is,
claiming for il only what it claims for
ITSELF no longer placing what is least
elevated and what is most elevated
upon the same dead level allowing
what is really vital and everlasting
in it to speak to our conditions as it
spoke to past conditions. We must bear in
mind always that whilst it is one book it
Is also many books of quite unequal value
and running through many long centuries,
and il viii presently appear that scholars,
autiquarians, men of science have not in
tbs least impaired the worth and charm
OF the Bible as the book of mans moral
and religious life On the contrary an in
terest which was largely conventional and
customary VIII give place to hearty,
healthy wondering appreciation. II you
are i reader OF books, this books will have
place among your dozen or half-dozen
chosen volumes, and however il may be-
come worn and even soiled, you shall
hardly be willing to exchange the old for
the new-you will still say the old is bet
ter Rufus Ellis.
LIGHTNING IN THE TRoPIcS.-To con
firm other experiences Of tropical thunder
storms, J. J. Myrick reports that very few
persons or buildings are ever injured by
lightning in the plains Of India, although