Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-14

l have lived to know that the secret oil
happiness is never to allow your energies
to stagnate.-IAd Clarke
Ten thousand of the greatest faults in our
neighbors are of less consequence to us
than one of the smallest in ourselves. =
archbishop Whately.
Wouldst thou see reason for all that
God saith? Look into thine own under
standing, and thou wilt find reason why
| thou seest not reason.-L Augustine.
1t has long been the policy of the devil
to keep the masses of the world in ignor-
ance; but, finding at length that they will
read, he Is doing all in his power to poison
their books.-[Kirk.
When two truths seem directly opposed
TO each other, we must not question either
but remember there is a third-God-Who
reserves to himself the right to harmonic
them.-[ Madame Swetchine.
The painter Giotto, Vasari tells us, re-
newed art, because he put more goodness
into his heads. To awake in man and to
raise the sense of worth, to educate his
feeling and judgment so that he shall
scorn himself for bad action, that is the
only aim Emerson.
In the deepest night of sorrow God gives
us so much to be thankful for that we need
never cease our singing. With all our wis
dom and foresight, we can take lesson in
gladness and gratitude from the happy
bird that sings all night as if the day were
not long enough to tell its joy Coleridge.
Most people think if they keep all the
best rooms in their hearts swept and gar
nished for Christ that they may keep lit
tie chamber in their hearts wall for Belial
on his occasional visits, or a three legged
stool for him in the hearts counting house,
or a corner for him in the hearts scullery.
where he may lick the dishes. 1t won't
do! You must cleanse the house of him,
as you would of the plague, to the last
spot. You must be resolved that all YOU
are shall be Gods John Ruskin
God has sympathy with anybody that
is in any kind of toll. He knows how
heavy is the load OF bricks that the work
man carries up the ladder of the wall {; he
hears the pickaX of the miner down IN the
coai-shaft; he knows how strong the tenn
pest strikes the sailor at the mast head he
sees the factory-girl among the spindles,
and knows how her arms ache he sees the
sewing-woman in the fourth story, and
knows how few pence she gets for making
garment; and louder than all the din and
roar of the city comes the voice of a sympa-
thetic God: :" Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, and he shall sustain thee '-TDr.
Talmage.
Religion must always lead man back of
the seen and human to the unseen and
superhuman, the infinite and eternal be-
ing, in whom we live and move and have
our little being; whom no man hath seen
at any time, neither can see, who dwelleth
in light unapproachable. But the religion
which leaves the human soul before the
inscrutable mystery of the unseen one,
who is beyond our utmost thought, will
always miss the secret of the profoundest
power over man. The secret of original
Christianity was that, without dogmatizing
upon the mystery of the person of Jesus
Christ 1t made men see in him the form
of God 1.-The very character and nature of
the divine being Heber Newton.
There has been preached in days gone by
the doctrine of reprobation, and as that has
been stated itwould seem that though every
man of honor should reject it with scorn
and indignation. But there is a
reprobation foreshadowed in the his
tory of Jesus Christ namely: men that
set themselves apart to do evil will
go on until they come to period
in which the resistency of their moral
nature IS lost, the moral stamina ON which
all change takes place is gone, and while
there are outward health and physical pros
perity they are corpses inside, with only
an external animal life, and they are on
courses that certainly lead to destruction.
There is no mercy thaSis imperative and
absolute in God to change men. The tears
OF Christ had no power. The sorrow of
Christ had no power over corrupt Jerusa-
lem. She was made heap of desoiation,
and knowing this, still Christ fingered over
her and wept.- II. w. Beecher