Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15
SUNDAY EASY CHAIR.

For the RBcoRD-UNIoN.l
THAT BETTER LAND.
Journeying onward to that better land,
Hourly drawn thither by an invisible hand,
We see i'll the distance radiance bright,
That to world-weary souls brings JOY and de-
light.
'Tis the bright land of premise the home of the
blest,
That offers to all haven of rest.
In that beautiful home, where all is 50 fair
LIES sorrows and troubles can ne er enter there
Its turmoil is ended, victory won,
When in silence we slumber, with nfe-work
The dark-aowing river, DER which we must
To reach that sweet refuge for the weary storm
tossed,
Let US st:ive with a will each duty to do
Tho our trials in life be many or few,
And God will reward us for each cross we bsar,
And in HIS blest kingdom the crown we shall
wear. -MRs. NELLIE BLOOM.
West Oakland, December 10. 1855.
The deadliest sin were the consciousness
of no sin.-Cdrlyle.
Duties are ours; events are the Lords.
-SamueE Rutherford.
Give not an hair-breadth of truth away,
for it is not yours, but God's.-S Ruther-
ford.
Sin may open bright as the morning,
but it will end dark as night.-T De Wit
Taimage.
Learn to say "no;" it viii be of more
use to you than to be able to read Latin
SpnrgeOa.
True friends visit US in prosperity only
when invited, but in adversely they come
without NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Let US help the fallen still, though they
never pay US; and let us lend without ex-
acting the usury Of gratitude Thackeray.
Joseph's worth, not strife, brought him
to the kings abode; " A stone fit for the
wall is not left On the road" Josephine
Tyler
Heaven leaves touch of the angel in
all little children, TO reward those about
them for their inevitable cares-Mrs.
Craik
Keep your hope in bad times. We
same duties and the same Helper. Hope
thou in God.-Dr. GoodeH.
Get into the habit Of looking for the sill
yer lining of the cloud, and when you have
found it, continue to look at it. rather than
at the leaden gray in the middle. 1t will
help you over many hard places-Dr.
A. A. WUlets.
The tender words and loving deeds
which we scatter for the hearts which are
nearest to us are immortal seed that will
spring up in everlasting beauty, not only
in our own lives, but in the lives of those
born after us.-Spprge0n.
This is the most fearful characteristic of
vice; its irresistible fascination-the ease
with which it sweeps away resolution, and
wins man to forget his momentary out
look, his throb of penitence, in the en-
brace of indulgence.-E. II. Caapia.
We never know through what divine
mysteries of compensation the great
Father of the universe may be carrying
out His sublime plan: but the words "God
is love" ought to contain to every doubt
ing soul the solution of all things.-Mss
lhltIoch.
A painter cannot finish his picture if he
stands close to the canvas. He walks back,
stands off and thus sees the whole at once.
Many man whose affairs were in a snarl
has gone to sea, and in few weeks has
seen the whole tangle, and in few more
has seen how TO get the tangle out If he
had stayed he would have died in his
net. Stand back from your picture.-Dr.
DEEMS
Apart from creeds there is the pure and
there is the impure, the selfish and the
self-sacrifcing. Tenderness, uprightness,
integrity and civic purity are not always
monopolized by men connected with the
church; and after all these are the tests of
character. At the same time, true reli-
gion and high morality are inseparably
connected. True religion cannot be con-
cealed, nor can it contradict ITSELF says Dr.
Card, Principal of Glasgow University.