Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-06

He who controls his thoughts is COM
mander of armies.
Human ability and human responsibility
| never part company.
An account must be given not only of
|. our labor, but also of our leisure.-ICato.
The rose prayed f,- gift and the Lord
gave it thorns; the rose wept until it saw
the antelope ealing lilies.
There is no degree of merit so high as to
place man beyond the reach of temptation
or to prevent him from rising still higher.
. [Dr. Follen.
Do not be surprised if, in your first efforts
at doing good. you are not very largely sue
cessful. Usefulness is an art, science, a
| trade.-[ Talmage.
Satan selects his disciples when they are
Idle, but Christ chose his when they were
busy at work. either mending their nets or
| casting them into the sea- Faron lon.
The ideal charity is that rare and large
! thing which is at ease, and is at work up
and down ard around itself 1t is, i'll fact,
an atmosphere rather than an avenue-TE.
s. Phelps.
i Does any man wound thee ? Not only
| forgive, but work into thy thought intelli-
gence of the kind of pain, that thou mayest
never infiict it on another spirit Mar
! garet Fuller.
! There is a state of heart which makes
| truth credible the moment il is uttered. 1t
| is credible to some men because of what
| they are. Love is credible to loving
heart; purity is credible to pure mind.
| If a canoe be connected by cord with a
distant ship, one in the canoe may draw
/ himself to the ship, if he cannot draw the
{ ship to himself So as has been said is it
| with prayer. If it do not bring God to
man, il will bring man TO God. And this
is always well for man.-fW. P. Breed.
1t is said that at the battle of Waterloo a
! wealthy merchant of Brussels, who had
| been allowed access to headquarters asked
/, Wellington whether he was not exposing
| his person ID great danger, as shot and shell
were falling around The General replied /:
| +" You have no business here, but am per.
| forming my duty" So let US never go
! into spiritual danger from idle curiosity.
| but only when duty calls; then. and then
! alone, may we expect to be safe-[Newman
Hall.
| One of the most wonderful things in the
| word is this power of men to draw them
| selves line beyond which they never
| dream of counting themselves responsible,
across which they look and Judge with cru
elist criticism the men who are really fight
ing the worlds sins and troubles on the
other side, as if of them there were no more
/ to be asked than just that they should be
| perfect in their own self-limited world of
elegant uselessness. Never a brave re-
former tried to break down popular sin,
or to build up some new and needed pro-
gresS, taking on himself the response
blity which q true nan ought to
j take, but these selfappointed scribes
gather round him to criticise his
methods and ridicule his bIunders, but
never lift q hand to show how they, too.
would blunder, if they let themselves step
outside Of their safe and limited and petty
life. This, think, is the way in which
most men OF the world look at Christianity.
and at the efforts Of their brother-men to
live Christian life. q ] am no Christian. y
says the practical man; 6 do not pretend
! 10 be pious or religious And then be
| looks up in your face as if he had settled
! the whole question, as if his entire business
| thenceforth were just to stand by and see
! what sort ofa Christian you were, and how
your piety came Phillips Brooks.