Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
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Over the old tired world ,nc soothing night
Sinks softly down: still family gsaws the west
me eager birds now cease their joyous fight
ana seek the loving shelter of the nest;
Oh, heart. fret not; pause in the fading light
[ This evening time thou, too, shalt have thy
| rest.
| Homeward the weary cattle wind their way;
The evening star hangs in the quiet sky;
Athwart the fields the shadows long and gray
| Stretch out like arms, and prone and darkling
| Upon the unresting brooks; gone is the day;
Oh, restless heart thine evening, too, draws
nigh. flames B. Kenyon.
l feel as if God had, by giving the Sab
bath, given fifty-two springs in the year.
LColeridge.
Lighthouses don't ring bells and fire cam
| mons to call attention to their shining
they just shine Moody.
If our religion is not true. we are
| bound to change it; if it is true, We are
bound to propagate it Archbishop
| Whateley.
Hold fast to the present Every position,
every moment of life, is of unspeakable
value as the representative of whole
! eternity.-[Goethe.
Our Lord Jesus is everything. and does
hand. As long as there is vessel of grace
not yet full 10 the brim. the oil shall not be
stayed.-[Spurgeon.
Depend upon it, in the midst of all the
science about the world and its ways, and
all the ignorance of God and his greatness,
the man or woman who can say, Thy will
be done. with the true heart of giving up,
is nearer the secret Of things than the
geolOgist or the theologSan III George Mac
donald.
Keep list of your friends and let God
be first on the list however long ii may be.
Keep list of the gifts you get and let
Christ, who is the unspeakable gift, be first.
Keep list of Your mercieS and let pardon
and life stand at the head. Keep list of
your hopes and let the hope of glory be
foremost.-E Selected.
Plain straightforward morality and every
day righteousness are better than all emo
ton and dogmatism and all churchism,
says the world, and Christianity says much
the same; but plain straightforward
Righteousness and everyday morality come
most surely when a man is keeping close
to Christi Maclaren.
Can it be that there is aught superior to
faith-a sight a vision? Can there flash
from above some ray that should give more
light to certain men than TO certain others?
And during the broad day of life, will God.
from out of the dark, deep cloud, manifest
himself to some few? But even if that
could be. who would dare to fatter himself
that he had this illumination Joubert.
The youthful John, leaning on the
bosom of the Lord, seems TO us a sanity
character But we do not discover the
strength of full-grown and triumphant
spirit until we have seen the aged John at
Patmos Banished and alone, stricken
with full 90 years he could not be banished
from the presence of his Savior, or de-
spoiled of his immortal soulgrowth-[ AL
bany Journal.
If our churches gave the kind of manly
and muscular teaching which puts virtue
next to faith, which counts courage, and
steGdfastness, and perseverance, and man
ly heroism as truly Christian virtues as
meekness, and patience, and gentlene.s,
and non-Tesistance, and long suffering; if
it helped men to do their life-work as it
helps women to bear their life-burdens,
perhaps it would fill up the empty seats
with them Selected.
Never mind where you work care more
how you work never mind who sees if
God approves. If he smiles, be content.
We cannot always be sure when we are
most useful. 1t is not the acreage you SOW,
it is the multiplication which God gives the
seed which makes up the harvest. You
have less TO do with being successful than
with being faithful. Your main comfort is
that in your labor You are not alone. For
God the Eternal One, who guides the
marches of the stars. is with you.-[Spur-
geor.
The world is an immense picture-book
Of every passage III human life. The lover
sees reminders. of his mistress in every
beautiful object; the saint an argument
for devotion in every natural process, and
the facility with which nature lends itself
to the thoughts of man, the aptness with
which a river, flower bird, fire, day or
night, can express his fortunes, is as if the
world were only disguised man, and with
q change of form rendered to him all his
eXperience.-[R. W. Emerson.
When you come before God in prayer,
and you are pleading with him, and your
faith discerns that glorious face-the face
of Jesus, your heart cries 81 am accepted
God is hearing my prayer: | may ask
what | will, and it shall be done unto me.
l am not praying like stranger | am
pleading like child. l have my fathers
ear and heart, and His countenance is to-
ward me-. Oh, then, it is a glad time
with you You are being heard. and an
swered, and your heart beats to music.
[Spurgeon.
The truth is that genuine giving the
giving THAI touches the line of personal
self-sacrifce, is very rare except among the
poor. If our wealthy men were to give till
they felt it no worthy institution of charity
would languish for want of funds. Our
services, our worship, our giving are worth
just what they cost us, and no more. Let
MS take this matter to heart, and bring to
Gods altar not the manned, or the halt or
the blind, but the tirstlings of the flock and
the fairest of the fruits of the field.-[Chi-
cago InterOcean.
There is a story told of Alexander the
Great. 1t has no historical foundation, but
it nevertheless illustrates an important
truth. 1t is related of that great conqueror
that when he died, at an early age, in a
drunken bout, his body was exposed to the
view of the entire army but his hands,
instead of being wrapped in the death
mantle. were extended open to show that
he who had conquered the world went out
of it empty handed. So will every man go
out of the world emptyhanded. carrying
nothing of its gold or honors with him.
But his character will go with him whether.
he wishes it or not. That is an eternal
possession Rev. H. F. Rominger.
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medicine Dr. W. II. Parmlee, Toledo, O.,
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