Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-13
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.
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In the cool failing shadows of even.
While the weary of men were at rest
And the mothers of Israel Gang softly.
With baby lips pressed to the breast,
There dwelt in the garden weary
And hard-burdened man among men;
Aud the shadow grew dark as ne fingered
And darker still falling and then
He pleaded the cup might be taken
Away from his lip5-but the cross
Loomed up in the distance and claimed him
Yet the world was the price of his loss
In the passionate stress of the garden.
In the piteous death on the tree,
In the white life he lived, as he wandered
Unfriended in dark GalIlee;
In the gospel he gave as he told it
In love on the mount by the sea-
Was proved the divine and that Jesus
Was God-and none other than hel
u. FL. Kennedy in Current
Simplicity of character is the natural re-
suit of profound thoughts.
The innocence of the intention abates
nothing of the mischief of the example
To have what we want is riches, but to
be able to do without is power-[Donald
Grant
Promises made in time of affiiction re-
quire better memory than people COM
monty possess.
Every man has some peculiar train of
thought which he falls back upon when
alone. This, to a great degree, molds the
man.
Behind the snowy loaf is the mill-wheel
behind the MILL the wheat-feld; on the
wheat-feld falls the sunlight; above the
sun is God.-[J. S. Russell.
If heaven consists in a state of holy dis
positions and affections. and not in .pearly
gates and purling brooks this is the state
We ought to cultivate if we would reach the
heavenly life.
There are souls in the world who have
the gift OF finding Joy everywhere, and of
leaving it behind them when they go.
Their influence is an inevitable gladden.
ing of the heart.
Beauty is admired. talent adored but
virtue is woman's crown With it the poor
are rich without it the rich are poor. 1t
walks through life upright and never hides
its head for high or low.
If we are to do well we must think well.
Water will not rise higher than its source.
nor will human performance go beyond
the reflection from which it starts. Every
man who achieves anything worthy is a
thinker.
Strength of character is not mere strength
of feeling. 1t is the resolute restraint of
strong feeling 1t is unyielding resistance
to whatever would discomfort us from with
out or unsettle us from within.-[Charles
Dickens.
You cannot stay the shell in its flight !;
after it has left the mortar it goes on to its
mark, and there explodes, dealing destruc-
ton all around. Just as little can you stay
the consequences of sin after it has been
committed. You may repent of it, you
may even be forgiven for il. but still it goes
on its deadly and desolanng way. II has
passed entirely beyond your reach; once
done 1t cannot be undone.-[William NJ
Taylor.
Every solitary, kind action that is done,
the world over, is working briskly in its
own sphere TO restore the balance between
right and wrong. Kindness has converted
more sinners than either zeal, eloquence or
learning; and these three never converted
anyone, unless they were kind also. The
continual sense which kind heart has of
its own need of kindness keeps it humble.
Perhaps an act of kindness never dies. but
extends the invisible fluctuations of its in
tiuence across the breadth of centuries.