Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-13

Where there is peace, there God is
George Herbert.
The laws of nature are the thoughts of
God Heinrich Zschokke.
The burning of little straw may hide
the stars Of the sky but the stars are there,
and viii reappear.
No man has any more religion than he
can show in the time of adversely and
trial Matthew Henry.
We often censure the conduct Of others,
when, under the circumstances, we might
not have acted half 50 well.
lfthou art wise, thou knowest thine own
ignorance, and thou ert ignorant if thou
knowest not myself Luther.
A man full of hope will be full of action
a lively hope and a diligent hand are in
separable companions Hope viii make a
man dc, though he die for doing.
II we practice goodness, not for the sake
of its intrinsic excellence, but for the sake
of gaining some advantage by 1t, We may
be cunning, but we are not good.-ICicero.
It is a gentle and aiTectionate thought
that in immeasurable Nights above us, al
our first birth, tie wreath of love was
woven with sparkling stars for flowers
[Coleridge.
After reading the doctrines OF Plato, Soc
rates or Aristotle, we feel that the specific
difference between their words and Christ's
is the difference between an inquiry ana q
revelation-LDr. Joseph Parker
How easy it is for one benevolent being
10 difluse pleasure around him and hop
truly is a kind heart fountain OF glad
ness. making everything in its vicinity &c
freshen into smiles III Washington irving
As the Dead Sea drinks in the river Jor-
dan and is never the sweeter, and the
ocean all other rivers and IS never the
fresher, so we are apt 10 receive daily mer-
cies from God and still remain insenslble
to them, unthankfuI for them Bishop
Reynolds,
1 will frankly tell you that my expert
ence III prolonged scientific investigations
conyinceS me that belief in Coda God
who is behind and within the chaos OF
vanishing points of human knowledge
adds wonderful stimulus 10 the man who
attempts 10 penetrate into the regions OF
the unknown Professor Agsssiz.
There are eyes which need only to look
up to touch every chord of breast checked
by the sitting atmosphere of stiff and stag
nant society, and to call forth tones which
might become the accompanying music OF
mind is the secret ofsympathy. It is never
understood, but ever felt and where il is
allowed to exert its power it fills and ex-
tends intellectual life far beyond the meas
are OF ordinary conception.-[Jean Paul.
Live for something. Do good, and leave
behind you a monument of virtue tina; the
storms of life can never destroy. Write
your name by kindness, love and mercy on
the hearts of thousands You come in con-
tact with year by year, and you will never
be forgotten. No; your name, your deeds,
will be as legible on the hearts you leave
behind as the stars on the brow of the
evening. Good deeds VIII shine as bright
on the earth as the stars of heaven.-lDr.
Chalmers.
In his autobiography, Benjamin Frank
lin gives an account of q sermon which he
heard on one Of the verses in the passage
assigned by the committee for the Sunday
school lesson Of May 18th. The incident
is worth recalling ia this connection, as an
illustration of how not 10 teach this lesson.
Franklin paid his annual subscription, he
says, for the support of the only Presoy-
terrain minister in Philadelphia, and at