Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-12
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.


Round you, and round me,
Flows the shining sea
OF ;nfinity.
No thought, iced, OF word,
Not sigh, or a pulse is stirred,
But the Fathers ear hath heard.
Through the prison bars of earthly sense,
Through the passionate pain, through The grief
intense.
Like the gentle dew to the thirsty flower.
So comes TO us, in the dnrkest hour,
The secret strength Of IA unseen power.
Round you. and round me,
Flows the shOFeless sea
OF God eternity.
1 Twas wish divine that wrought out the race
hat gave II a right in the realms Of space,
- home and dwelling place.
And hopes, and desires, and hunger 10 span
The endless edge of measureless plan.
Though nothing but atoms, we are atoms still
OF bOuudless force and a bouadless viii,
Ana ne er was crucible so .igned
That cen the power OF an infinite mind
Could reduce to naught part of its kind
Round you, and round me,
Flows the changeless sea
OF Gods divinity.
We shall move from our homes of CLAW
Leaving the small for the larger way
The less for the lighter day
But again we shall meet
in union complete,
With loved ones of yore,
Where parting no more
Shall be known on that heavenly shore.
-IChicag0 InterOcean.
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing
in the world. Ii alone will gentleize if I'M
mixed with cant-[Coleridge
There is no such way to attain to greater
measure OF grace, as for a men to live up TO
the little grace he has.-IThomas Brooks
Without a belefin personal immortality,
religion surely is like an arch resting on
one pillar, like bridge ending in an abyss.
Max Miller.
a more glorious victory cannot be gained
over another man than this, that, when the
injury is begun on his part, the kindness
shonld begin on ours rillotson.
When an old friend said to DR.. Mullen
berg, We are both on the wrong side of
70,' the doctor replied, THE wrong side
surely the right side, for the side nearest
heaven"
Alolt, on the throne of God, and not be-
low, in the footprints of trampling multi
tude, are the sacred rules OF right, which
no majorities can displace or oYerturn.-
LCharles Sumner,
Let patience have her perfect work, and
bring forth her celestial fruits Trust TO
God to weave your thread into the great
web, though the pattern shows it not yet
George Macdonald.
If there is a right thing to be done, and
our way to it, depend upon it there's an
other way to it, and better one, and it is
our own fault, and not Gods, that we do
not find it'll Edward Garrett.
II is the habitual thought that frames
itself into our life. 1t affects US even more
than our intimate social relations do. Our
confidential friends have not so much TO
do in shaping our lives as thoughts have
which we harbor.-[F. ". Teal.
After all, it is the divinity within that
makes the divinity without and / have
been more fascinated by woman of talent
and intelligence, though deficient in per-
sonal charms than l have been by the
most regular beauty Washington Irv-
ing.
Our peaceful, healthful homes-their de-
hghIlll friendships, hallowed associations,
and secrated loves; for our mountains,
grim and grand, with their eXhaustless
mines of untold wealth. for our valleys,
fertile and beautiful, fragrant with rose
buds, luXuriant purple clusters and delici
Gus fruitage for our rivers and seas that
bear our commerce for our railroads, that
afford quick transit for our persons and our
property; for our telegraphs, that flash our
thoughts across oceans and continents; for
peace, for civil liberty for the progress Of
civilization and the conquests of the Chris
tan religion; for the quenchless spirit of
American invention and enterprise; the
products of scientific research and discoy-
cry; the increased appreciation and effici-
ency Of our schools and colleges and uni
yersities, enviuced by their more liberal
endowments and appliances; for all sweet
charities; for all permanent reforms for
all influences that tend to refinement, to
the elevation of the people to a higher
plane of morality and purity, let God be
thanked. Let all the people praise him !;
yea, let all the people praise him.-[Chris
tan Advocate.