Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-09

| With faith and hope 10 the old mans God.
IS. i. Foster in Inter-Ocean.
Our grand business in life is not to see
what lies dimly at a distance, but to
do what lies clearly at hand.-[Carlyle.
Love is like painter, who, in drawing
the portrait of {. friend having 6lcmiSh in
one eye, would picture only the other side
! of the face-[South.
comprehend all things. To Him there is
nothing past or future. Everything is
present. Cervantes.
Death is the liberator OF him whom free
dom cannot release, the physician of him
whom medicine cannot cure, and the COM
forter of him whom time cannot console.
Cotton.
There never did, and never will, exist
anything permanently noble and excellent
in a character which was a stranger to the
exercise of resolute Self-denial.- Sir Wal
ter Scott.
The empire of Christ is moral, not a
material empire; it is a realm not of bodies,
but of souls instinct with intelligence and
love. Its seat of power is the conscience
of mankind.-[Canon Liddon.
The resurrection is only the tomorrow
morning of death, and when we think of
the grave we should do as in the happy
DAYS of our childhood we thought of our
bed when we retired to it for the night. ex-
pecting an elder brother to call US in the
morning and take US with him on pleas
ant excursion.-[D DR.. VIM. NJ. Taylor.
| say, without seeking, truth cannot be
known at all. 1t can neither be declared
from pulpits nor set down in articles. nor
in any wise " prepared and sold in pack
ages ready for use. Truth must be found
for every man by himself out of the husk
with such help as he can get, indeed. but
not without stern labor of his own Rus
kin.
He who spares vice or apologies for it in
the places of the world wrongs virtue in
every place; he helps the good to look
unto it leniently, ard thus to lower the
tone of morality within themselves; he
assists the bad to make it respectable, and
thus to give them warrant and license in
its imitation, and ever in its emulation
re-. H Holland.
The devil does not trap us twice alike. If
yesterday he came through vanity, to-day
he will come through pride. If to-day he
comes on one side, tomorrow he will come
on the other. And we are always watch
ing the hole at which he came in last,
while he is coming in at another. We are
guarding an empty hole, while he is dig
ging new one.
Every day is little life, end our whole
life is but day repeated, whence il is that
old Jacob numbered his life by days, and
Moses desires to be taught this point of
holy arithmetic, to number not his years,
but his days. Those. therefore, that dare
lose day are dangerously prodigal; those
that dare to misspend it, desperate. 81
All the days are His who gave them a be-
ginning and continuance; yet some He
hath made ours, not to command. but to
use. In none may we forget Him in some
we must forget all beside him Bishop
Hall.
When I was young man there lived in
| our neigiborhood q farmer who was usually
reported to be a very liberal man, and I'M
commonly upright in his dealings. When
he had any of the produce of his farm to
| dispose of, he made an invariabe rule to
give good measure, or, rather more than
would be required of him. One of his
| friends, observing him frequently doing so,
| questioned him as to why he did it; he
| told him he gave too much and said it was
| to his disadvantage. Now mark the
answer of this excellent man God has
permitted me but one journey through the
world, and when | am gone l cannot re-
turn to rectify mistakes. The old farm
er's mistakes were of the sort he did not
want to rectify.-[ Horatio Seymour.
1t is not God or Christ that is forgotten or
to be forgotten in this new epoch. It is
only the Presbyterian or Baptist or Catho-
lie that is to grow less in love and less in
memory. that man the Christliile may grow
| greater in reality and in promise. What
| fading shall come will result from an excess
| of light in some new orient, casting all else
into shadow, The world was thus made
| for man, for his education, his genius. his
| arts. his home, his amusements. his love.
| his Righteousness, his worship. Compared
with these objects all names and terms fail
of importance. But of all these God is seen
as the cause, Christ the earthly agent of
heaven And in this new drift of theology
the glory of mankind becomes the mole
sublime and measureiess glory of Cod
| David Swing.
We should spend our evenings. or some
evenings in each week not in card-playing
in silly trivialties and friyolities, but in
company with the great poets and think
ers and above all in company with the
inspired sages and prophets who have
written this great book full of the wisdom
OF God, which never perishcs. Fill your
minds with some of this wislOm-with
beautiful pictures and thoughts. Make
them a garden of roses and daisies, so that
when the afternoon of life comes. and
things around YOU begin to wither and the
sunshine to turn to shadows, you can look
within and refresh yourselves with the
beauty, the pictures and the flowers YOU
find there. If you would lay up riches for
the future. enrich your minds and decorate
your souls-[ Rominger.