Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-21

IN nedNell-- '9t't-HOIu'
Sin may open bright as the morning, but
it will end dark as night-[E DE Witt
Talmage.
To overcome our passions, and meelSly
to bear the passions Of Others Is the effect
of virtuous gEs.ce.
] find the doing of the viii of God
leaves me no 1ime for disputing about has
plans George Macdonald.
In matters of conscience, first thoughts
are best IN matters Of prudence, last
thoughts are best f. Hall.
Natural ability without education has
oftener raised men to glery and virtue
than education without natural ability.
tCicero.
Character is the precipitate from the
stream of conduct, which, like the Nile
delta, gradually rises solid and firm above
the parent river and confines its flow
( DR.. McLaren.
Forgetting the things that are behind
and reaching forth unto things that are
before press onward toward the mark for
the prize of the high calling Of God in
Christ Jesus Paul.
The great perennial power Of good
pastor over his flock is heart-power. Nine
tenths Of the people in any congregation
are only to be reached through their aftec
tions Sympathy is power Theodore l..
Cuyler
Life, like war, is series of mistakes :;
and he is not the best Christian nor the
best General who makes the fewest false
steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that,
but he is best who wins the most splendid
victories by the retrieval of mistakes T.
w. Robertson.
| believe in the colossal: need as deep
as hell and grace as high as heaven. be-
lieye in a pit that is bottomless and
heaven that Is topless. | believe in an in
finite God and an infinite atonement; in
love and mercy; an everlasting covenant
ordered in all things sure, of which the
substance and reality IS an infinite Christ.
[Spurgeon.
Mr.. Marsh, at a recent meeting, having
referred to the fact that though many read
but very few really study the Bible, re-
marked that it was noted in one Of the
great diamond fields Of South Africa that
black men got more diamonds than white
men, and the reason was found to be that
they got en- their knees to work. Let us
ali them III liilS ItoiIfNl3 diN
for the precious truths of God, which are
hidden to the careless, but are discoverable
to those who work upon their knees.
Lutheran
When the mother goes before her child
that is taking its first little journey across
the room, to move this chair and that stool,
and to clear the course for the little trav-
eler, is she haughtily saying am your
head am greater, and older, and better
than youW She never thought anything
of the kind the very fact Of her going
before, the apparent act of priority and su
perioritv, comes ont Of her love, and gen
tleness, and care, lest one of the steps Of
her child should slide So let US not al
WAYS think Of God as exhibiting proofs of
royalty and supremacy, or as throwing his
shadow upon us to teach us our littleness,
but rather think of Him going before us
that He NAV remove the mountains and
gather up the rough stones, and make plain
places for our feet; and so, out Of what
some regard rs great oyershadowing and
chilling dominion, let Us get the better idea
of a patient, watchful, inexpressible ten
derness.-L Joseph Parker.
i was curious experiment, made by
the late DR.. Draper, and used by him as
an illustration Of the possible permanenee
ofall mental impressions that if a wafer
be placed upon a piece of cold FURNISHED
steel, brcathed upon, and the wafer then
removed. when the steel IS again lreathed
upon, even after a lapse of several days,
there viii appear upon it spectral image
Of the vanished wafer. Ifso slight a con
tact between insensitive materials produces
l.. ,,
what must be the effect Of visual impress
sions upon the sensitive ganglia Of the
brain? Nav we not believe that every
thing which the eve beholds is photo
graphed iudelbiv upon the mind, to be
reproduced if we but look for the tails
manic number of the negative? 1t Is a
startling suggestion, when We think of it,
that oar brains must receive unerasible
pictures Of all that our eyes behold
whether We wish TO receive them or not;
and one that enioins US TO cast our lines in
pleasant places Bat whether it be true
or mot that single impression makes an
indelible mental mark, there is TO doubt
that repetition OF impressions does; and
if We want to keep our souls picture gal
lery free from unworthy images We must
not 90 where these are seem Christian
Union.
There is in our nature a law Of associa-
ton, which iv manifold indissoluhle links
connects our minds with the objects and
facts that have come wjthin the sphere Of
our being These links may be very fine,
and for the most part unconsciously worn,
and vet. when touched or breathed upon
hy any influence idep1ical with the past,
S1rill with an unceasipg vitality, repro
ducing The past IN the recognition OF the
present These associations may be, ac-
according to the original character OF our
experience, pleasant or somber, eleyatiug
OF depressing, purifying or detiling: and
SO on through all the varieties and con-
traSts of our mental state In many Of
them we have no responsibility whatever
rs they have come into or personal his
tory without any voliti0u Of ours, and have
fastened themselves upon our faculties of
thought and feeling and memory, even
against our most reSolute protest. But for
many Of them weare accountable, in the
play Of passion, in the consent and vel
come Of disorderiy sensibilities. in the
transient qualification Of corrupt pro
pensities We walk in the midst Of
these associations through all our wake
full hours, and find in them puiSsant
forces Of character, from which we cannot,
by any resolution of choice and purpose,
be wholly free The quickening calls be-
gin with the first conscious pulses Of the
morning, and assert their fellowship with
US through the day The tones of voice
to which we listen are not merely strange
or familiar, coarse or refined. but they
bring back to Us the utteranee of lips now,
perhaps, Ear away from US or perhaps silent
for years and repeat the ministry of words
and thoughts so long ago mingling with
ours. A note of music brings back some
twilight scenes Of fellowship in the past,
then and there enliyened with song from
some dear companion by our side. The
tints of this twilight hour, in the special