Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10

--A-~- Stt@--A eAib pOh o WINNINGS
We could interpret all this doubt and strife,
And for each mystery could find key.
But not to-day; then be content, poor heart!
Gods plans, like lilies, pure and white I'M
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart;
Time viii reveal the calyxes OF gold.
And if through patient toll we reach the land
Where tired feet with sandals loose, may rest,
Mnen we shall clearly know and understand,
think that we viii say God knew the best.
May Riley Smith.
The innocence of the intention abates
nothing OF the mischief OF the example
! Robert Hall.
no man has any more religion than he
can show IN time OF adversely and trial
| Matthew Henry.
Have purpose in life, and having it,
throw into your work such strength OF
mind and muscle as God has given you
! [Carlyle.
His, gifts are to the OVERLOOKING of the
| cup; but when the cup would overflow, he
| deepeDs its hollow and widens its brim.-
| Miracles of our Lord
Every road which leads to a throne is de-
| llghttul, were it bristling with thorns
| every read which leads to a precipice is
| t1ghttul, were it covered with roses Ten
elon.
Beautiful is the activity which works for
good, and beautiful the stiffness which
waits for good blessed the selfsacrifce of
one, and blessed the self-forgetfulness of the
| other,-[Collyer.
1e who weep, come to Jesus, for he
weeps; We who suffer, come to him. for he
heals; We who tremble, come to him, for he
smiles; We who pass away, come to him,
for he abides.-[ Hugo.
Usually the eyes of the Christian sbould
be directed forward it is foolish to try to
live on past experience; it is very danger
Gus, II not fatal habit, to Judge our
selves TO be safe because of sometime
that we felt or did twenty years ago
[Spurgeon.
In the deepest night of sorrow God
gives us so much to be thankful for that
we need never cease our singing With all
our wisdom and foresight, we can take n
lesson in gladness and gratitude from fine
happy bird that sings all night as if the
day were not long enough to tell its low
[Coleridge.
Hasty conclusions are the mark of a fool.
wise man doubteth; fool rageth and is
confident; the novice saith, 81 am sure
that it is so;" the better learned answers
Preadventure it may be so but, | pray
thee inquire. II is little learning, and
but little, which makes men conclude
hastily. Experience and humility teach
modesty and fear.-[Jeremy Taylor
The oldest known manuscript of the Cos
pei In the Russian tongue, bearing dates OF
1856 and 1857, is just now being reproduced
geographically and photo-lithographi-
cally at the expense of St. Petersburg
merchant, Fila Ssawenkow. Of the latter
edition, 400 copies will be printed, $50 of
which are to be presented by Ssawenkow to
the great Imperial Library, the rest of fifty
only going to the trade.
From the moment of his Standardization.
when he threw his cares away, and went
forth not knowing where to lay his head
the whole energy which others spend in
interests OF their own was poured into his
human and divine affections, and filed his
life with an enthusiasm resistless and
unique, However quiet his words, it is
impossible not to feel the depths from
which they came.-[James Martineau.
No true work since the world began was
ever wasted; no true life since the world
began has ever failed. Oh, understand
those two perverted words, " failure !"
and success, and measure them BY the
eternal not by the earthly, standard.
When, after thirty obscure, toilsome unre-
corded years in the shop of the village car
penter, one came forth to be pre-eminentlv
the man of sorrows. to wander from CITY
to city in homeless labors, and to expire in
lonely agony upon the shameful cross
was that failure? Nay, my brethren, it
was the death of him who lived that we
might follow his footsteps, it was the life.
it was the death of the Son of God-TE. w.
Farrar
The Rev. Dr. Behrends, OF BROOKLYN.
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great question of to-day was not SO much
What shall we do with the poor? as What
shall be done with the lazy? The evils of
poverty We're not SO much the result of
economical conditions as of an absence of
intelligence and thrift on the part of vast
masses OF the people. Ignorance, vice and
want OF energy were the main causes of
poverty. A removal of the evils of poverty
is to be looked for only by an increase of
individual energy. The evils of poverty
as they exist to-day are evils associated
with the classes in whom thrift and intelh-
gence are wanting. Pauperism is to be
cured only by teaching men the necessity,
the duty and dignity of persistent Industry.
by teaching men that they are not sons of
God unless there be in them some reflex of
that creative power of the Almighty by
which he brought the universe into exist
ence.
1t is recorded of 4 certain great philoso-
pher that friend who went to visit him
met the philosophers little daughter before
he met the philosopher himself Knowing
that the father was such q deeply learned
man. the friend thought that the little Girl
must have learned something from him
very deep, something very grave from her
very learned father. So he said to the little
girl, What is your father teaching YOU ,"
The little maid looked up to him with her
clear blue eyes, and Just said the word,
" Obedience" chat was what the great,
wise man taught his little girl, and believe
that is the most important lesson for chill
dren, to learn to be obedient 1t is a lesson
necessary for their happiness and for their
safety l think we may say necessary for
their very life. And, after all, what are
We? Grown people of this great world so
full of mysteries what are we after all but
weak, ignorant little children? How little
we know of what is around us and what is
before us. How little we know what NAV
be the consequences even of our own acts.
Manifestly, therefore, the most important
lesson for US to learn is the childlike lesson
of obedience. And it is our Fathers wish
above all to teach US this lesson. A lesson
that we are to begin to practice upon earth
and to practice forevermore when we serve
him day and night among the angels
ECanon Wynne of Dublin.
Fashion Notes.
There are great many opinions as to
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