Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-24

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We rise, and all the distant and the near
Stands forth in sunny outline brave and clear
We kneel how weak we rise how fun of power
Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this
wrong
Or others. that we are rot always strong,
| That we ave ever oyerborne with care,
That we should ever weak or heartless be,
| Anxious or troubled, when with US is prayer,
| and iov and strength and courage are with
| Thee? 4 Archbishop Trench.
We doubt the word that tells US, Ask
! And We shall have your prayer;
We turn our thoughts as to task,
With will constrained and rare.
And vet we have These scanty prayers
| Yield gold without alloy.
o God but he that trusts and dares
| Must have boundleSS joy,
George Macdonald.
Not in Thy courts o Lord! with the great
| throng,
Nav |. this happy Sabbath morn, appear
The morn that marks the zenith of the year
And meet TO crown with glad Thanksgiving
song
| Yet shall not absence do my soul the wrong
| Mine eyes uplifted glance, or dropping tear
| To let-as if Thy presence were not here
| Ny pain to soothe my weakness TO make strong.
| Thine earthly temples are not fanes alone
| Where choir and organ peal the Gloria out
And pTismed tints upon the altar shine.
Each breath OF prayer, that Heavenward is
Makes holy all the solitude about,
And each sequestered soul may make its shrine.
-fWm. C. Richards, in The Current.
Be rigid to yourself and gentle to others.
| [Confucius.
A good thing out of place or in excess
becomes an evil.
God has never ceased to be the one true
aim OF all human ASPIRATIONS Ninet.
Regard no vice so small that thou may
est brook it, nor virtue so small that thou
mayest overlook it Oriental.
We are taught and we teach by some
thing about us that never goes into Ian
guage at all Bishop Huntington.
When any calamity has been suffered,
the first thing to be remembered is how
much has been escaped johnson.
Intellectually the difficulties of unbelief
are as great as those of belief, while NOR
ally the argument is wholly on the side of
belief DR.. Arnold.
Gods presence is enough for toll and
enough for rest. If He Journey with us by
the way, He will abide with Us when night
fall comes; and His companionship will
be sufficient for direction on the road, and
for solace and safety in the evening camp.
Il Maclaren.
Every promise of God rests on four pill
lars His holiness and justice, which will
not suffer Him to deceive; His grace and
goodness, which will not suffer Him to for
get; His truth, which viii not suffer Him
to change; His power which makes Him
able to accomplish.-[Roc
To read, to think, to love, to hope, to
pray-these are the things that make men
happy. They have power to do these
things; they viii never have power to do
more. The worlds prosperity or adversely
depends upon our knowing and teaching
these few things, but upon iron or glass,
steam or electricity, in no wise Ruskin.
One of the "notices" in the porch Of
the church at Hawarden, England, near
Mr. Gladstones castle, reads thus: On
your way to the Lords house be thought
full be silent, or say but little, and that
little good Speak not of other mems
faults; think of your own, for you are
going to ask forgiveness. Never stay out
side: 90 in at once; time spent inside
should be precious"
Next to the grace of God, there is moth
ing to save young man like home, warm
with a mothers and sisters love. The
highest merit of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association is that in some degree it
supplies the need of home. 1t offers a
place of meeting; it brings young men to-
gether; it gives them society; and so it
keeps the feet of many in the paths of
purity and peace New York Evangelist.
The New York Sun is discussing the
grammar of the family prayer, Now lay
me down to sleep" 1t pronounces it all
right 1t undoubtedly is But, grammat-
zeal or not, it has gone up to the great
Judgment seat freighted with the sweetest
confidence and trust that only iniantile
humanity can understand That simple
petition will endure as long as Christianity
prevails, and will be familiar to more
hearts and lips than probably all other
prayers combined. Few English-speaking
men and women but learned it at mothers
knee, and few wholly forget it.-l Indian
apolis Journal
VIII the good Christian men who have
shouted themselves hoarse over political
candidates now let Us hear their voices
raised in the social meetings Of the church? |
VIII the inyalids, whose health would not
allow them to come to prayer-meetlng, but /,
who have recruited it by exercise in night !
parades, now resume attendance on prayer |
meetings? VIII the men who were short |
of money when the benevolent collections
were taken, but who have since been in I
better condition, as shown by their liberal .
contributions, now begin to full |
fill their VOWS to contribute of their ability |
to the church benevolences? VIII the /
men who have shown good degree Of per- /
sUasive power with their friends in behalf /
of their candidates, now exercise that tai /,
eht in persuading men TO come to Christ ,
[ Christian Advocate.
We say nothing against the science Of
theology We should not have Professor .
Langley's pictures, if it had not been for
those lonely hours when stretched upon /
his back he waited past the midnight for !
the thrilling moment when a certain star /
should tremble on the meridian-or those i.
days, when, shut from the world, he APP /
piled to his observations the tests of the
finest and most complicated mathematics.
But when he talks to us he must come out
of the observatory, and the foios of expert
mcnts must be limited to us only in the
statement of the last result. Oh! |
for preachers who can give us the last result
Of days and nights, and not befog us
with their processes and experiments. The
wants light, not speculation.
Not the spectrum but one pane of crystal
glass through which the morning may
break, with undimmed glory The In
terror.
THE WOMAN FOR A WIFE.