Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-29

Faith finds food in famine and table in
the wilderness.
No lessons are so impressive as those
our mistakes teach us-Dr. Z. D. Woolsey
Where we are ignorant God is wise :;
where we stand blindly in the dark He
is in the light.-Palips Brooks.
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
tram up child in the way he should go ;
all you have to do is to 90 that way your
self.-Dr. Lyman Abbott.
If we practice goodness, not for the sake
OF Its own intrinsic excellence, but Tor The
sake of gaining some advantage by it, we
may be cunning, but we are not good
Cicero.
There Will be a fashion in heaven as on
earth, but it will be Il different kind of
fashion. 1t will decide the color of the
dress; and the population of that country,
by a beautiful law, will wear white Tai
mage.
Men are tatooed with their special be-
leis like so many South Sea Islanders; but
real human heart, with divine love in it,
beats with the same glow under all the
patterns Of all earth's thousand tribes.-O.
". Holmes.
Governments have grown humane. War
itself has been ameliorated The cold
marble has felt His touch The cathedral
has sprung into existence to celebrate His
worship. lis very form is cross; aud a
golden cross on lis spire gives benediction
TO the coming and going of the sun.-H
". Beecher.
This life is but the beginnings of things.
the continuation If them will be in heaven:
and who knows but that it may be one of
| the pleasures that our Father has in store
for us, that there the old friendships NAV
be renewed and perfected. and the scattered
| links all united ?-Eed Hope
We do no violence to reason when we
assume that He who made our world in
space made all worlds in space: that He
who made our world in time made all
worlds in time; and that He who gave
matter its form, gave il also its organiza-
ton, or that which is the ground of all its
| forms.-Ldnge.
Order is heavens first law and the
second is like unto it-that everything
serves all end. This is the sum of all
science. There are the two mites, even all
| that she hath, which she throws inio the
| treasury of the Lord and as she does so
in faith Eternal Wisdom looks on and
commends the deed. DR.. McCoh.
1t is surely no incredible thing, that He
who, in the dispensation of the human
period, spake by type and symbol, and
who. when he walked upon the earth in
| the flesh, taught in parable and allegory.
should have also spoken in the geologic
ages by prophetic figues, embodied in the
| form and structure of animals Hugh
| Miller.
There are three kinds of friendships
which are advantageous, and three which
are injurious. Friendship with the up
| right, friendship with the sincere. and
friendship with the man of much inform
| ation-these are advantageous Friend
| ship with man of specious airs, friend
ship with the insinuatingly soft, friendship
| with the glib-tongued-these are injurious.
I-Contucius.
1t is not for the refutation of directors
| merely, and for the conviction of doubters,
| that it is worth while to study the two vol
| umes-that of nature and that of reyeia-
| tion-which Providence has opened before
| us, but because it is both profitable and
gratifying to we'll constituted mind, to
trace in each of them the evident hand
writing Of Him. the Divine author of both
archbishop Whatcly
At one time | was sorely vexed and tried
| by my own sinfulness, and by the wicked
ness of the world, and by the danger that
beset the church. One morning saw my
MHe uIeSSeu III mourning. DO you not
know" she replied God in heaven is
dead d" How can you talk such nonsense,
katie?" / said how can God die? Why.
He is immortal, and will live through all
eternity" Is that really true?' she
asked. "Of course" | said, still not per
ceiving what she was aiming at, how can
you doubt it? As surely as there is a God
in heaven, SO sure is it that He can never
die" And yet" she said. though YOU
do not doubt that, yet you are so hopeless
and discouraged" Then | observed what
a wise woman my wife was, and mastered
my sadness.-Luther.