Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-09

IL Wouiu De ulIncUlt Tor q congregation
of to-day to sing this without smiling, and
the one that follows is almost as amusing
"The race is not forever got,
By him who fastest runs
Nor the battle by the people,
Who shoot the longest guns
A Northern clergyman, during the civil
war, used to say that never until then had
he found occasion or justification for his
personal employment of David's impreca-
tory psalms; a sentiment which was no
doubt reciprocated on the other side. The
fathers, however, sang without demur:
why dost Thou hold Thine hand aback,
And hide il in Thy lap?
0 pluck it out, and be not slack
To give Thy foes rap ~
There seemed to be little provcation to
devoutnesS, even though in form scriptural
In the paraphrase of the 133d Psalm:
" Tis like the precious ointment
Down Aaron's beard did go;
Down Aaron'S beard it downward went
His garment skirts unto"
But who is there who has not at some
time had his heart touched and been
thrilled by such old hymns as when |
Can Read My Title Clear" Gam la Soldier
of the Cross" Come Holy Spirit Heav-
enly Dove" or "When | Survey the
Wondrous Cross ?"-YoutPs Companion.
Many laughable things have happened
In Sunday but few superintendents
or teachers can ever have been taken more
completely aback than was Bishop Cheney
on one occasion. He was to superintend
his own school, and as he entered the
church he met 4 little group of street
gamins, ragged, dirty and unattractive. |
stopped to speak to them pleasantly and
told them | would put them in classes
after was through with the opening ex
erclses. At this, one of them thrust his
hand deep into his trousers pocket. and
pulled out an old rusty jack-knife. "Mr.
Cheney | wish you would keep that until
after the Sunday-school is over WHY he
wanted me to keep it l did not know then.
do not know now; but l took it, put it
without thought into my pocket, took my
place upon the platform, struck the bell
that called the school to order and was
about to give out the opening hymn, when
my attention was diverted by the patter of
little feet coming up the broad aisle. Itis
long church, and little girl was coming
from the extreme opposite end She came
slowly, but with an expression in her face
that showed she had a most important
message to communicate, and so all exer-
cises were suspended. Every eye was upon
her and upon me as she climbed up the
chancel steps. With face and voice ex-
presslve of lntensest eagerness, she said to
me: Say, Mr.. Cheney, Johnnie wants his
knife. He has got chance to trade"
Lord Coleridge, in one of his speeches.
told spicy story which illustrates a good
deal of what is called Christian giving
. An excellent good Bishop" so he said,
" made speech in my hearing about sub
scrlptionS to church he was interested in.
and he spoke in little pompous, old par
fashion, which is very dan
gerous habit because it leads men to saving
the very opposite of what they wish TO
say. The Bishop wanted to say that peo-
pie should give according to their means
and abilities. The man who had money
should give money, and the farmer who
had no money should send load of bricks.
and he added: Thus each of us in our
degree, and according to our ability, mani
tests the true principles of Christian
charity by giving to Almighty God that
which We can best spare ourselves"
Some people tell us that prayer does not
affect God, because His plans are already
made and He never changes anything. but
still they encourage us to pray because
PRAYER Is good for US. Now suppose that
you were to go, hungry and miserable, on
a bitter cold night, to a prosperous neigh
Dor and knock at the door, and he should
arise and say, cannot let you in, for my
plans are all made for the night but |
want you to keep knocking until morning.
because l know it is good for YOU to
knock" What would you think of him,
and of the blessing of being permitted to
knock at the door all through the freezing
hours Of the night? And what do YOU
think of God urging and commanding
needy, suffering humanity to pray Just for
the sake Of exercise ?-D. L. Moody
Rev. Lee Massey, rector of Pohick
Church, where Washington attended serv-
ice, said: 'I never knew so constant at
tendant on church as Washington. And
his behavior in the house of God was ever
20 deeply reyerential that it produced the
happlest effects on my congregation, and
greatly assisted me in my public labors.
No company ever withheld him from
church. | have often been at Mount
ernon on the Sabbath morning when his
breakfast table was filled with guests: but
% him they furnished no pretext for
his God and losing the satisfac-
ion of setting a good example. For, in
stead of staying at home, he used con-
tantly to invite them to accompany
lim."
The college-founding and endowing
spirit has broken out like a flame in or
about Chicago. At Beloit Mr.. Scoville, of
Chicago, offered to give $4,000 to build
IN academy for the college, on condition
hat Beloit citizens would raise $4,000. |
The citizens responded so as to insure
that amount. Then, a gentle
nan has offered 100000 if other friends
will make up similar amount by July |
lst. The Chicago Alumni raised $4,000 |
IN the spot. But the Baptists have ap-
oarently bigger thing offered them. Mr.. |
Rockefeller offers 100000, if S4OO, 900 more
AN be raised by June of next year. Mr..
of Chicago, Immediately pledged
$4,000.
A good story is told of the Dean of
Chichester, Mr.. Burgon, who, on certain
occasion not long ago, was expatiating on
he nature of man. He pointed out that
,ne great distinction between human be-
ngs and the lower animals consisted in the
,apacity for progress. MAN" exclaimed
he Dean, warming in his theme, sis a pro
yressive being; other creatures are station
Try. Think, for example, of the ass
Always and everywhere it is the same
,reature, and you never saw more per-
ect ass than you see at the present mo-
nent."
Bishop K. S. Foster is to preside in the
California Methodist Conferences and in
Arizona and New Mexico. Bishop Good
'ell comes to Utah, Montana, Nevada,
Wyoming and Colorado. Bishop Bowman
attends the Conferences in Oregon and
Bishop Vincent will attend
he ,Chautauqua Assemblies at Pacific
Grove and Long Beach in July.
The French Catholics have been hold
ng assemblies in the various provincial
,enters of France to deliberate upon the
actual state of affairs, and to formulate
for Catholic policy in France
Of reconstruction and reform. A general
meeting of delegates from these assemblies
will be held in Paris on the Oath, 25th,
26th and 9th of June.
Rev. A. S. Hunt, D. D., Secretary of the
American Bible Society, is on visit to