Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-16
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.

HERE OR THERE.
May God be nearer thee. friend
When we are far away;
May His smile cheer thee friend.
And make ali light rs day
LOOK up, the sky, the stars above
VIII whisper TO thee of His changeless love.
IN distant, desert places
The mounts of Col are found.
His sky the world embraces
And makes it holy ground;
The heart that serves, and loves, and Cling-,
Hears everywhere the rush OF angel wings
To God the there is here,
AL spaces are His own
The distant and the near
Are shadows of His throne.
All times are His the new, the old
" hat boots It where LIES little tale 5 told
liz not for rs to choose;
We listen ana obey;
lis His to call and Use;
It's ours to serve and pray.
Il matters little, here or there,
Gods world is wide. and heaven il everywhere.
We cannot 90 so far,
That home i ont of sight.
The morn, the evening star
VIII say Good day Good night
The heart that loves viii never be alone;
All earth, all heaven 1t reckOEs as its own.
= Henry Burton. il Good Words.
Human things must be known 10 be
loved but divine things must be loved to
be known Pascal.
Death i the liberator of him whom free
dom cannot release, the physician Of him
whom medicine cannot cure. and the COM
forter Of him whom time cannot console.
Cotton.
The more believers love God. the more
they love one another: as the lines of a
circle. the nearer they come 70 the centre
the nearer they come to each other
lCharnOCk.
There's great difference between being
in the world and having The world in us
let q ship be in the wafer ana its all right
bat let the water be in the ship, and down
she GOES d. /. Moody
Not by literature or theology. but only by
rare integrity, by man permeated and
pertumcd With airs Of heaven-With man
lest or womanlicst enduring loye-can the
vision be clear emerson.
Evolution stands by to note calmly the
survival of the titteSt in the struggle for
existence. Christianity goes to work to
make something more lit 20 survive
LCharies :. Stockton, VI d.
The cnthronement of Christ over the
minds of men is steadily going forward.
His kingdom embraces the princes in the
realm of mind. 1t embraces the nations
of the highest civilization. They are all at
the foot of His cross. Edward Thompson.
Men do things which their fathers would
have deprecated and then draw about
themselves a fiimsy Gordon of sophistry
and talk about the advance Of humanity
and liberal thought. when it is nothing al
ter all but preference for individual license.
Rev. John Hall.
Excellence IS never granted TO a man, but
as the reward of labor. II you have great
talents, industry viii improve them; if you
have but moderate abilities, industry will
supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied
to wcll-directed labor nothing is obtained
without it.-LSir Joshua Reynolds.
People talk of the feelings diving out as
one gets older but at present my expert
ence is just the contrary. All the serious
relations Of life become so much more real
to me-p!easurc seems so light a thing. and
sorrow and duty and endurance so great, l
find the least bit Of real human life touch
me in n way il never did when ! was young
er.-[Georgc Eliot
\ Syrian convert to Christianity was
urged by his employer to work on Sunday,
but lie declined. But" said the master,
does not your Bible say that if man has
an ass or an OK that falls into pit on the
Sabbath day he may pull him out?"
Yes answered the convert, but if the
| ass has habit of falling into the same pit
every Sabbath day, then the man should
either fill up the pit or sell the ass"
Take care of your character. Do not be
to- much concerned for your reputation.
Keep the character right, and the reputa-
ton will give no trouble. Character IS