Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-19
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
LOOK UNTO HEAVEN.

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LOOK UNTO HEAVEN.
Look unto heavenl
The still and solemn stars are burning there,
Like affairs lighted in the upper air.
And to the worship of the great God given,
When the pure spirits of the unsinning dead,
Redeemd and sanctiied from Earth, might shed
The holiness of prayer.
Look ye abovel
The Earth is glorious with its summer wreath
The tall trees oend with yerdure and, beneath,
Young flowers are blushing like unwhlsperd
love
Yet these viii change-Earth's glories be no
And all her bloom and greenness fade before
The ministry of Death.
Then gaze not there
Gods constant miracle-the star-wrought sky
Bends DER ye lifting silently on high,
AS with an Angels hand, the soul of prayer;
And Heavens own language to the pure of
Earth
Written in stars at Natures mighty birth,
Burns on the gazing eye.
Oh turn ye, then.
And bend the knee Of worship; and the eyes
Ofthe pure stars shall smile, with glad surprise,
At the deep reverence of the sons of men.
oh bend in worship, till those stars grow dim,
And the skies vanish, at the thought of Him
Whose light beyond them lies
Thanksgiving makes our prayers bold
and strong and sweet feeds and enkindles
them as with Goals of fire-[Luther.
Every man has some peculiar train of
thought which he falls back upon when
alone. This. to a great degree, molds the
man-[Dugald Stewart.
Patience and strength are what we need
an earnest use of what we have now and
all the time an earnest discomfort until we
come to what we ought to be- Phillips
Brooks.
Grace alone can preserve grace. When
We get particular blessing, we need an
| other TO preserve it; and without this, we
shall soon be shoEn of our strength, and
become as other men, Adam Clarke.
No man must go to heaven when he dies
who has not sent his heart thither while
! he lives. Our greatest security is to be de-
rived from duty, and our only confidence
from the mercy of God through Jesus
Christi Bishop Wilson.
The most comforting of David's psalms
| were pressed out of him by suffering; and
if Paul had not had his thorn in the flesh
we had missed much of that tenderness
which quivers in so many of his letters
| [Rey. w. NJ. Taylor, D. D.
Eternity is crying out to you louder and
louder as you near its brink: Rise be GO
| ing! Count your resources; learn what
you are not fit for, and give up wishing
for it; learn what you can do: and do it
with the energy of q man.-LF f. W. Robert
son.
God never accepts a good inclination
instead of good action, where that action
may be done; nay, so much the contrary.
! that, if good inclinction be not seconded
| by good action, the want of that action
is made SO much the more criminal and
inexcusable.-[South
How often it is difficult to be wisely
charitable; TO do good without multiplying
the sources ofeyil. To give aims is moth
ing unless you give thought also. II is
written, not blessed is he that feedeth the
poor" but blessed is he that censidereth
the poor" A little thought and little
kindness are often worth more than a great
deal Of money! Ruskin.
Sing in fine weather. ANY bird can do
| that. Praising God when all goes well is
| a commonplace work. EVERYBODY marks
the nightingale above all other birds, be-
cause she singeth when the other Ministries
of the wood are silent and asleep and thus
doth faith praise God under the cloud.
Songs in the day are from man, but God
himself giveth songs in the night.-[Spur-
| geon.
The mysteries Of the Bible should teach
US, at one and the same time, our nothing
ness and our greatness producing huIuil-
ity and animating hope. | bow before these
! mysteries. l knew that should find them.
| and l pretend not to remove them. But
whilst | thus PROSTATE myself, it is with
deep gladness and exultation of spirit. God
would not have limited the mystery, had he
not hereafter designed to explain it
| [Albany Journal
| If there be any one thing which this
world wants and lacks, it is the spirit of
restfulness; a spirit not insistent with
| activity, not inconsistent with aspiration
which men call ambition-in a lower
! sphere; yet the power of a mans soul to
return into itself and rest as a bird that all
| day long has been winging its way oft
chased at times driven by winds, seeking
| food hither and thither, as the evening
draws on, returns unto its nest-[H W.
! Beecher.
Learn from the earliest days to insure
your principle against the peril of ridicule.
| You can no more exercise your reason if
| you live in the constant dread of laughter
than you can enjoy your life if you are in
! the constant terror of death. If you think
| il right to differ from the times. and to
make points of morals. do it: however
rustic, however antiquated however pc
dante it may appear, do it-not for inso-
| lence, but seriously and grandly. as a man
! who wears soul Of his own in bis bosom,
and did not wait till it was breathed into
him by breath OF fashion.-[Albany Jour