Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-17
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Our needs?
Do they mingle in olir gladness.
DO they grieVe
When ways Of good we leave
Do they know each thought and hope?
While we in shadows grope,
Can they hear the Futures high behest,
Yet lack the power
To lead us from our i'll or arrest
The hour?
When they find us bowed in sorrow.
Do they sigh
Or when earth passes by
For them, do they forget
The cares that here beset
Their well beloved? Or do they wais
20 be it thus
And watch beside the golden cato
For US?
We are yearning for their secret
Though We call
No answers ever fall
Upon our dullaTd ears
To quen our nameesS fears.
Yet God is over all. Whate er may be,
And trusting so,
Patience, my heart a little while, and we
Shall know.
He who can at all times sacrifice pleas
ure to duty approaches sublimity.-[ Lava
ter,
The rays Of happiness, like those of
light, are colorless when unbroken.-[ Long
fellow.
Many men owe the grandeur of their
lives to their tremendous difficulties.-
[Spurgeon.
We should be as careful of our words as
of our actions, and as far from speaking i'll
as doing ill.-[Cicero.
Reason cannot show itself more reason
bic than to cease reasoning on things
that are above reasoning-CS Sir Philip
Sydney.
True bravery is shown by performing
without witness what one might be capa-
bic Of doing before all the world.-[ Roche
foucauld.
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
train up a child in the way he should go ;
all You have to do is to go that way your
self DR.. Lyman Abbott.
A benefcent person is like fountain
watering the earth and Spreading fertility :;
it is therefore more delightful than honor
able to give than to receive Epicurus.
Those deeds of charity which we have
done shall stay forever with Us; and that
wealth which we have 50 bestowed we only
keep; the other is not ours.-LT Middle
ton.
There IS a yirtuous fear which Is the
effect of faith and there is a vicious fear
which is the product of doubt. One fears
to lose God, the other fears to find him.
[ Pascal.
Anything which makes religion its sec
ond object makes religion no object. God
will put up with great many things in
the human heart, but there is one thing
he will not put up with in it-a second
place. He who offers God a second place,
offers him no place Ruskin.
Like fakes of snow unperceiyed on the
earth, the seemingly unimportant events
of life succeed one another. As the snow
gathers together, 50 are our habits formed.
No single fake that is added to the pile
produces a sensible change; no single action
creates, however it may exhibit, a man
character.
And perfect the day shall be when it is
of men understood that the beauty Of holi-
ness must be in labor as we'll as in rest.
Nay. more, if ii may be, in labor: in our
strength rather than in our weakness and
in the choice of what we shall work for
through the six days, and may know to be
good at their evening-time, rather than in
the choice of what We pray for on the
seventh, of reward and repose.-[ Ruskin.
God makes the glow-worm as well as the
star; the light in both is divine. If mine
be an earth-star to gladden. the wayside |
must cultivate humbly and reioicingly its
green earth-glow, and not seek 70 blanch It
to the whiteness of the stars that lie in the
fields Of blue For to deny God in my
own being Is to refuse to see him in any.
God and man can meet only by mans be-
coming that which God meant him to be.
Then he enters into the house of life, which
is greater than the house of fame. 1t is
better to be a child than knight of many
orders in state ceremonial George
Macdonald.
It's certain that worship stands in some
commanding relation to the health Of man,
and to his highest powers, SO as to be, in
some manner, the source Of intellect. All
the great ages have been ages of belief. ]
mean, when there vas any extraordinary
power of performance, when great national
began, when arts appeared,
when heroes existed, when poems were
made, the human soul was in earnest, and
had fixed It's thoughts on spiritual veri-
ties. Ii Is true that genius takes Its rise
out Of the mountains Of rectitude; that all
beauty and power which men covet are
born out Of that Alpine district.
r. W Emerson.
Oh. nudge mankind from its highest and
It's best Which IS the true glow-worn-
the black insect which you see crawling in
the dav. or the lustrous emeralds Of the
starlit bank? Which is the true man
the man who is yielding to foul distempers,
and whose soul is dim with rage or with
envy or with lust. or the man who, be it
for a moment, has shaken himself free from
the cere-cloths Of his own contamina-
ted baseness to unfold the wings
wrapped within him, and to soar from
earth a creature OF the sky? Yes, choose
man at his highest and his best, but re-
member, at the same time, that in every
one Of YOU lies the Potentially Of either
development-[ Cannon Farrar.
1t Is one Of the wise arrangements Of
that We know so little Of the
future. Few men are to he found who
could safely be intrusted with foreknowl-
edge Of their lives; perhaps none. Is II
not somewhat the same with reference TO
the next world? What our future is to
be in all respects no one can positively
say. Even what the other world is, alb
stractlv considered, is an unsolyed prob
lem. 1t Is not so with all systems Of re-
ligions The Scandinavian theology glows
with descriptions of Valhalla; and 50 do
other religions which know of another
world. Christianity reveals enough, no
doubt; but it deals in generaiities, and
leaves much to conjecture. And as for
each believer, it does not yet appear
what we shall e'-[ Exchange.