Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-28

A tired child restless, as the night came on,
Mond ring at twilight where the day had gone
Watched vt the window with a weary sigh,
Till heaven should hang its star-lamps in the
sky
F." Why don't they come, mamma she ques-
tiouing said
Then looking up. Come, pretty stars she
plead.
Deeper the shades of night around hergrew,
While patiently she peered the darkness through.
At last, with shout OF JOY. a star she spied
. see one now Why not before" she cried;
The mother kissed her eager lips and smiled,
Because it was not datk enough, my child.
SO shine the Eternal Stars in sorrows night;
The deepest gloom but serves to show their Light.
Take courage then. o heart that most hsth bled
God stars OF Hope are shining overhead
4 Anna Gordon.
If you want to lie miserable, think about
yourself, about what you want, what you
like, what respect people ought to pay YOU,
and what people think Of you Charles
Kingsley.
Say everything for vice which you can
say, magnify any pleasure as much as you
please, but do not believe you have any
secret for sending on quicker the sluggish
blood, and for refreshing the faded nerve
-[Sydney Smith.
God requires no such faith, nay, he ac-
cepts, nay, he excuses no such faith as be-
lieves without reason; believes, he knows
not why. As faith, without fruit, without
works, is no faith, SO faith without Il root,
without reason, is no faith, but an opinion.
-[Dr. Donne.
Gods presence is enough for toll and
enough for rest If he Journey with lis
by the way, he viii abide with Us when
nightfall comes and his c3mpanionship
will be sufficient for direction on the road,
and for solace and safety II the evening
camp Maclaren.
Some people are very entertaining for
the first interview, but after that they are
exhausted and run out on a second inter
view we shall find them very fiat and
| monotonous. Like hand-organs, we have
| heard all their tunes; but, unlike these
instruments, they are not new-barreled
easily.
The older ! grow-and | now stand on
the brink Of eternity-the more comes
back to me that sentence in the catechism
| which | learned when a child, and the
J fuller and deeper its meaning becomes
hat is the chief end of man? Toglori-
fy God and enjoy Him forever" II Thomas
| Carlyle.
The glory Of this world passes attention
should be fixed on that which is to come.
Without that belief how could we bear
the dark days of trouble, how face the
weird mystery Of pain unless We felt that
suffering had a purpose, and that each
stone in the great temple of souls needed
| to lie chiseled, and that each blow was
dealt by that unerring hand Of the Great
| sculptor In that faith we could suffer in
silence Cannon Liddon.
Out of hearts ploughed by contrition
| spring flowers fairer than ever grew on
the hard ground Of unbrollen content
| There bloom in them sympathy and charity
for other erring mortas; and patience
under suffering which is acknowledged
to he merited; and lastly, sweetest bios
| som OF all, tender gratitude for earthly
and heavenly blessings felt to be free
gifts Of divine love- Frances Power
Cobpe.
Never give way to melancholy. Moth
ing encroaches more. fight against it
| vigorously One great remedy IS to take
short views of life Are you happy? Are
you likely to remain SO till this evening"
or next month, or next year? Then, why
destroy present happiness by 4 distant
misery, which may never come at all, or
YOU NAV never live 10 see it? For every
most of them shadows OF your own max
ing Sidney Smith.
We are sometimes apt to forget that no
| holy thoughts or feelings are in their own
nature permanent, and the illusion that
they are often tends to accelerate their
! fading. 1t is no wonder if we, in our Sc
| lectest hours Of high communion with
the living God" should feel as if that lofty
experience would last by virtue of It's own
sweetness, and need no effort Of ours to re-
tain it. Bnt it is not so. All emotion
tends to exhaustion, as surely as pendu-
lum to rest, or as an eastern torrent to dry
up. All our flames burn to their extinc-
ton Alexander Maclaren.
compare the troubles which we have to
undergo in the course Of the year to great
bundle of fagots far too large for us to lift.
| But God does not require us to lift it all at
once. He mercifully unties the bundles
and gives us first one stick which we are to
carry to-day, and then another which we
are TO carry tomorrow, and so on. This
take the burden appointed for US each day;
but we choose to increase our troubles by
carrying Yesterdays stick over again to-
DAY, and adding to-morrow's burden to our
load before we are required to bear it
John Newton.
He who sows mere human thought and
fancies sows the grass and the flower Of the
field. But he who sows the word of God
is handling and storing q seed which Gveth
and abideth forever. 1t was not the man,
John Wiclif-grand and good, sturdy and
scholarly, as he was-who wrought the
transformation of England and the refor-
nation Of the church. His enemies, in
childish spite, flung his ashes into the rivers
which swept them tothe sea. God carried
far and vide over England and the world
the seeds Of truth which he scattered, and
the light of a Christly and apostolic life
which he shed about him. His dust has
mingled with the clements for half
millennium, but his soul still marches on.
Il Z. N. Zabriskie.
Great as is the goodness which He has
wrought before the sons Of men for them
that trust in Him. there are far greater
treasures Of goodness laid up in the deep
mines of God for them that fear Him.
Bars of uucoined treasure and ingot5 Of
nassy gold lie in His store-houses, to be
pat into circulation as soon as we need,
and can use them. Hence we have the
right to look for the endless increase in our
possession Of God and from the consider
alton of an Infinite Spirit that imparts
Himself, and of finite, but indefinitely ex-
pansible spirits that receive, the certainty
arises of an endless life for us of growing
glory; a heaven Of ceaseless advance,
where in constant alienation desire shall
widen capacity, and capacity increase fru-
ition and lead in, not safety, but quick
ened appetite and deeper longing Alex
ander Maclaren