Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-11
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
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| SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
| THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS.
Think truly and thy thoughts
Shall the worlds famine feed;
Speak truly, and each word of thine
| Shall he Il fruitful seed
Live truly. and Thy life shall be
4 great and noble creed.
-lHoratio Bonar
On thee we flung our burdening woe,
| Oh love divine, forever dear
Content to suffer while we know,
Living and dying, Thou art near.
Holmes.
For right is right since COG IS God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be dsloyalty,
To falter would be sin. Selected.
Gods ways seem dayl, but soon or late,
They touch the shining hills OF day:
The evil cannot brook delay,
The good can well afford to wait.
i John o. Whittier.
! Life is too short for any bitter feeling;
| Time is the best aYenger, il we wait
The. years speed by, and on their wings bear
We have 40 room for anything like hate.
This solemn truth the low mounds seem reveal
That 5!G % and so3s a0ou0oF f3 p5e W ssa
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as
not to iniure future onos.-lSeneca.
The person who has firm trust in the
Supreme Being is powerful in his power,
wise by his wisdom, happy b. his happi-
ness Addison.
l am but poor son, but the son of a
mighty Saviour. | have been near enough
| the gates to know that. for all who believe
in the Holy Ghost. the going home preci-
ous.-[Rcv. DIR. GOOdell.
| Christ is q rock in a weary land, covert
from the tempest of divine justice, receiy-
ing through the ages the SHOWS Of divine
mercy, and melting them for the green
| pastures and still waters Of Gods peaceful
| hocks.-I Edward Thomson.
In cemetery little white stone marked
the grave Of q dear little girl, and on the
stone were chiseled these works a child
! of whom her playmates said, 1t was easier
to be good when she was with US No
more complete epitaph of praise for the de-
| parted WIS ever written.
The happiness of your life depends upon
the character of your thoughts, therefore,
watch well over them. and entertain none
that are contrary 10 purity and truth so
that il your soul were laid open, there
would appear nothing but what would bear
AisS ilS1Ilti tlii4 (dli u y 10 biu9LI-
A gentleman was one day relating TO a
Quaker a tale of deep distress, and con
Guided very pathetically by saying |
could not but feel for him; Verify,
friend" replied thaQuaker, thou didst
right in that thou didst feel for thy neigh
Dor: but Clidst thou feel in the right place
didst thou feel in thy pocket? '-LSelectcd.
A man in the path of duty is twice as
10 INF of A
fish is twice as strong in the water as on
shore; but four-!Ootcd beast is twice as
strong on land rs in the water. The reason
is because the water is proper element of
one, and the earth of the other. Thy work
is thy element wherein thon art most able
to resist temptation.-[Se Selected.
The common mercics we enjoy all sing
Of love, just as the sea-shell, when we put
it to our ears, whispers OF the deep sea
whence it came but if we desire to hear
the ocean itself, we must not look az every
day blessings, but at the transactions of the
crucifixion. He who would know love, let
him retire TO Calvary and see the Man of
Sorrows die.-[C. II. Sturgeon.
A chemist Will 90 to one of the summer
watering places and take the water and an
alyze it, and tell you that it contains SO
much OF iron, and so much of soda, and SO
much of lime, and so much of magncsia.
| come to this gospel well, this willing
fountain, and analyZe the water, and / find
its ingredients are peace, pardon, forgive
ness, hope, comfort, life, heaven. " Ho,
every one that thirsteth come ye.'-[ral-
mage.
The church must be 50 constructed as to
be of the mind and will Of God, as that
every man that loves God and men and de-
votes the power of his life to their welfare
shall be Undisturbed in it. It is said that
men that are going out To be preachers and
teachers and expect to have the Endorse
ment Of the ecclesiastical authorities, must
give an account of what they are going to
teach. | think a Iuan must give this ac-
count. believe all the world is IN sin
| believe Jesus came 20 redeem men from
their sins. l believe that lie taught that
there was power given forth in answer to
faith, prayer and practice, by which the
Holy Ghost did lift q man up into the
higher realm of his nature, and
gave him asccndency there. | believe
that when man has Otherwise
constitutional strength and organization
by which, being inspired Of God, he has in
sight more than that, The power of working
something that looks very much like mira
Cles-I believe in that. | believe in that
theology that stands directly with the disci-
pine and perfection of the human race.
If besides al! that, the church wants to
carry bag and baggage and all sorts of fur
niture and ordinances, all very well, do it.
There is no law by which man shall not
fight now with Saul's arrnor, but he would
be L fool to do il i'll Il midsummer day. |
hold that the church people, therefore, can
be just as foolish as they please if they do
not make themselves u model, and exercise
those that do not follow their path
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