Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-21
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
Written for the REooRD-Us1os.l

SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
Written for the REcoRD-UNIes.l
PERHAPS tbs BEST.
Perhaps tbs best we may not know the morrow,
The weary, rugged paths our feet must tread.
The dark and unrelenting clouds of sorrow
That in the future will hang overhead
Perhaps It's best the past has had its woes,
Twill tit us for the trials yet to be;
Perhaps It's best that they should come. Who
knows,
Although their justice now we may not see.
Perhaps tbs best that we should toll and strive,
Rest comes more sweetly TO our own Preside
When to each duty we have been alive
From morn till noon, from noon till eyentide.
Perhaps it's best the Crown is still before
While presses heavily each day the Cross;
We yet may know before this toll is DER,
Twill be our gain what now we deem our loss
For soon with all ife's journey will be DER.
And we shall tread no more these paths so
dim;
Perhaps tbs best before we reach that shore
To only know " that we shall be like Him"
Woodland Cal. I. J. RICHARDS
"Think and thank" was the motto of
the late Sir Moses Montefore
There is something wrong within among
all those who are afraid to look Within
Seeker.
Every man has his faults but to have
faults and not attempt to correct them is
the greatest fault man can have.
Have a purpose in life, and having it,
throw into your work such strength of
mind and muscle as God has given you
[Carlyle.
We must lend an attentive ear, for Gods
voice is soft and still, and is only heard of
those who hear nothing else. All, how
rare it is to find soul still enough to hear
God speak !-[Fenelon.
Infidelity reproves nothing that is bad. 1t
only ridicules and denounces all that is
good 1t tears down; it never constructs
1t destroys; it never imparts life. 1t at
tacks religion, but offers no adequate sub
stitute-[J. r. Paxton.
There are many ways in which it would
be well for us to carry our childhood with
us, even on into old age, if it were possible,
in its trustfulness, not only to love- but to
show that we love- as well. Why. that last
alone would cure many heartache of to-
day.-[Christian Advocate.
We are born for a higher destiny than
earth; there is a realm where the rainbow
never fades, where the stars will be spread
before us like islands that slumber on the
oceans, and where the beings that pass be-
fore us like shadows will stay in our pres
SliCe IOiONcI = DulWeI bSllOh.
Brethren. we are sailing home; and by
and by, when we are not thinking of it,
some shadowy thing (men call it DEATH at
name, and will say l have message
for you from home God wants you heaven
waits for you. "-[H. w. Beecher.
And when, in the evening of life, the
golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly
upon the golden mountains, and the light
of heaven streams down through the gath
ering mists of death, | wish you a peaceful
and abundant entrance into that world of
blessedness, where the great riddle of life
will be unfolded to you in the quick con-
seriousness of a soul redeemed and puri-
fied.-[J. G. Holland.
Mr.. Ruskin prints his mothers list of
the chapters with which, thus learned,
she established my soul in life" 1t is as
follows: Exodus, chapters XIV and Xxx; 2
Samuel, chapter i, from the 18th verse to
the end; l Kings, chapter viii; Psalms
chapters xiii, xxi, xc, xci, CHI, cxii,
cxix, cxxxix; Proverbs. chapters ii, iii viii,
xii; Isarah chapter lviii; Matthew, chap
tiers V, vi, vii; Acts, chapter XVI; / CORN
thians, chapters xiii, XIV; James, chapter iv;
Revelation. chapters V, vi. And truly
(Mr. Ruskin says) though have picked
up the elements of little further knowl-
edge-in mathematics, meteorology, and
, the like, in after life-and owe not little
| to the teaching of many people, this
maternal installation of my mind in that
property of chapters l count very con-
| fidently the most precious and, on the
| whole, the one essential part of all my
education. "-[Central Presbyterian.
The trouble is that religion is not offered
in an attractive form: The pulpit breaches
You'll be damned if you do not come to
religion Some say they would rather be
damned than do so; while Others through
pure fear of the consequences, come in I'M
| der the threat. Is this the way Christ in
tended religion should be preached? No ;
| he meant religion to be a joy, radiance,
glory, an inspiration to him who feels it,
| pride that shall enable him to stand up
bravely ard exclaim: If God be with
me, who shall be against me?" Religion
is not night and darkness it is light and
| daylight. 1t is intended to enlighten and
cheer up, to encourage in you the elements
of manhood as contradistinguished from
mere animal existence. There are very
| few who reject religion outright. There
are many who reject Church doctrines and
! economics, and rightly, too. But there are
very few who do reject the principle which
| Christ taught Of the emancipation of ones
self from selfshness, from all pride and
| conceit, and the elevation of ones charac-
ter to the dignity, beauty, safety and gran
deur of Christian manhood Henry Ward
! BeCcher