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 4;
where we stand blindly in the dark He
is in the light.-PhiHips Brooks
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
train up child in the way he should go
all you have to do is to 20 that way YOUR
self-Dr. Lyman A6bOtt
If we practice goodness, not for The sake
OF its own intrinsic excellence, but for The
sake of gaining some advantage by it. we
may be cunning, but we are not good
Cicero.
There will b, fashion in heaven as on
earth, but it Will be 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 -Tdl-
mage.
Men are tatooed with their special be-
heis like so many South Sea Islanders: but
a real human heart, with divine love in it,
beats with the same glow under all the
patterns OF all earths thousand tribes.-O.
". Holiness
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. It's very form is a cross; and a
golden cross on lis spire gives benediction
to the coming ana going of the sun.-H.
W. Beccher.
This life is but the beginnings of things,
the continuation If them will be in heaven:
| and who knows but that it NAV be one OF
| the pleasures that our Father has in store
for fl,s,f . 4
be renewed and perfected. and the scattered
| links all united ?-Eca 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.-Lange.
Order is heavens first law and the
second is like unto it-that everything
serves an end. This is the sum of all
science. There are the two mites, even all
| that she hath, which she throws into the
| treasury of the Lord and as she does SO
| in faith Eternal Wisdom looks on and
commends the deed. DR.. McCosh.
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 Huqh
| Miller.
There are three kinds of friendships
| which are advantageous, and three which
are injurious. Friendship with the up
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friendship with the man of much inform
atlon-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-C0ntucius.
1t is not for the refutation of directors
merely, and for the conviction of doubters.
| that 1t IS worth while to study the two vol
| umes-that of nature and that of revela-
| 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 Hhatcly.
At one time | was sorey 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
wife dressed in mourning. Do you not
know she replied God in heaven is
dead" How can you talk such nonsense,
katie?' / said how can God die? Why.
He is immortal, and will live through all
eternity" Z" 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. LlHhcr.