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A Community of Grace
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2201 Benita Drive, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
Phone: (916) 635-5502 Fax: (916) 635-4985
E-Mail GraceRCelca@sbcglobal.net
Office Hours 9 am - 2:30 pm
The Rev. Steven D, Krogh, Pastor
The C. Arthur Schultz, Pastor Emeritus
This essay was assembled by Della Shirer and June Lambeth Meyer,
June greatly admired her Aunt Della . Della Shirer was a school teacher around the turn of the century when she assembled this essay by laboriously typing over 50 pages twice. She made very few typing errors. I have tried to keep her format and punctuation as much as possible without adding too many of my own mistakes.
R.
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GLEANINGS 2
We ought not to look back, except to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of Profiting by dear-bought experience.
George Washington.
The set of his own Past is not a man. To change and change is life, to move and never rest; Not what we are, but what we hope, is best.
Lowell
"A helping hand word in trouble is often like a switch on the rail-road track,
but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity."
"Fail? fail? In the lexicon of youth which Fate reserves for a bright manhood there is no such word as fail."
"Be not simply good - be good for something."
"The successful men in every calling have been endowed with keen sense of the value of time.
They have miser of minutes."
"Sum up at night what thou hast done by day, and in the morning what thou hast to do. Dress and undress thy soul."
Beware of little expenses,
a small leak will sink a great ship!
Study your self, and most of all,
note well wherein kind nature invites you to excel.
Longfellow.
A fig for your bill of fare;
show me your bill of company.
Swift.
Like leaves on trees the race of men is found,
Another race the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise.
Homer's Lliad.
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed;
Who does the best his circumstances allows,
Does well, act nobly,
angels could do no more.
Youngs.
"A man's good deeds are this best and most enduring monument."
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong; which is only saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than yesterday."
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker - it is a ship of thought, deepfreighted with truth and beauty.
Theodore Parker.
"Every thoughtful moment is a profit over hundreds to come."
"Who would not give a trifle to prevent that he would give a hundred worlds to cure."
"What are called wild oats when they are sown often prove tares in the reaping."
"Our ills are largely imaginary, Many a cloud that rose before us Never poured on us its rain."
"Attempt the end and never stop to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find
it out."
If there be some weaker one, Give me strength to help him on;
If a blinder soul there be;
Let me guide him nearer Thee.
Make my mortal dreams come true<
With this work I fain would do; Clothe with life this weak intent,
Let me be the thing I meant.
J. G. Whittier.
Let your religion be seen.
Lamps do not talk but they shine.
A light-house sounds nodrum,
it beats no gong, yet far over the waters its friendly light is seen by the mariner.
C. J. Spurgeon.
But human bodies are sic fools,
For a' their colleges and schools,
That when nae feel ills perplex them,
They make enow themselves to vex them.
Robert Burns.
Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft,
lifts it above the clouds, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer.
C. H. Spurgeon.
For whatever men say in their blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth, There is nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Carey.
Seek not to pour the world into thy little mold,
Each its nature is, its being must unfold;
Thou art but a string in life's vast soundingboard,
And other strings as sweet may not with thine accord.
W. W. Story.
"Write injuries in the dust, benefits in marble."
"Show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than those who have succeeded at first trial."
"There is a time in life when we look onward; It is the time of youth, when we wish to become men. There is a time when we look backward; it is the time of manhood, when we wish for youth again. The wish is as vain as foolish. If you could have your youth back again, the inevitable result would be that you would do all that you have done. If you could have your time over again, plus the experience, it would not be you at all, but some other you."
J. K. Appledee.
"True worth is in being, not seeming; In doing each day that goes by Some little good - not in dreaming of great things to do by and by."
"Difficulties may intimidate the weak, but they only act as wholesome stimulus to men of pluck."
But what is education? Of course it is not book-learning. Book-learning does not make five per cent of the mass of common sense that runs the world.
Wendell Phillips.
To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul - that makes life worth living.
James Freeman Clarke.
You find yourself refreshed by the presence of other people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? You will find half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say
anything gloomy.
Lydia Maria Child
Gossip is always a personal; confession either of malice or imbecility; and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture,relieve themselves of all temptation to indulge in it.
There are neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies for life by it. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.
Holland.
"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."
What a rare gift is that of manners
Better for one to possess them than
wealth, beauty or talent; they will more than supply all.
Bulwer Lytton
"Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse."
In ourselves the sunshine dwells;
From ourselves the music swells;
By ourselves our life is fed
With sweet or bitter daily bread.
Goldsmith
If you hate your enemies, you will contract
such a vicious habit of mind as by degrees will
break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.
Plutarch.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong. We are and must be one and all, burdened with faults in this world, but the time will come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh. It is a creed in which I delight, to which I cling. With this creed revenge
never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgust me, injustice never crushes me too low, I live in calm looking to the end.
Charlotte Bronte.
We all have times when our thoughts go as high as anybody's; we don't keep them there, but let them come down and go commonplace ways. The choice soul great men and women refuse to be commonplace.
Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seek a lonelier still
Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cup of love to fill.
Frances Fidley Havergal.
Just as war throws back the progress of a nation, so passion running loose, torch in hand blast every province of the soul. What vice can be overcome and what virtue can be cultivated when a man has no control of himself, but is the slave of the wildest impulses.
Ian Maclaren.
Give if thou canst, any alms, if not, afford
Instead of that, a sweet and gentle word.
Herrick.
The happiness of your life depends upon the character of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius.
The heights by great men reached and kept; Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.
Longfellow.
"The inner side of every cloud I, therefore, turn my clouds about And always wear them inside out, To show the lining."
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Franklin.
The truest help we can render to an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call
out his best strength that he may be able to bear the burden.
Phillips Brooks.
"Why fret thee, soul, For things beyond thy small control?
But do thy part, and thou shalt see Heaven will have charge of them and thee.
Less wayward let me be,
More pliable and mild;
In glad simplicity
more like a trustful child. Less, less of self each day,
And more, my God, of thee;
Oh, keep me in the way,
However rough it be.
"What shall I do?" My boy, don't stand asking;
Take hold of something - whatever you can,
Don't turn aside for the toiling or tasking;
Idle soft hands never yet made a man." "Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed
Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain;
For all our acts to many issues lead."
To have the harvest we must sow the seed.
Bailey.
Talk not of talents; what hast thou to do?
Thy duty, be thy portion five or two.
Talk not of talents; is thy duty done?
Thou hast sufficient, were they ten or one.
"We know a man's character by the things he loves."
"Curved is the line of beauty,
Straight is the line of duty,
Follow the last and thou shalt see
The other ever following thee."
Nothing ever happens but once in this world. What do I now I do once for all. It is over, it is gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
Carlyle.
If you would know and not be known, live in a city.
Calton.
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing, - when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to
do because he is a child of God.
Philip Brooks.
I never doubt a friend; one would better be trustful of 99 friends who are false than doubtful of one who is true. Suspicion and supersensitiveness are at once the badge and the bane of a little soul.
Charles Major.
Even the strength of love, if stretched too far or spun too fine, dies.Presume not too much upon its strength.
Dr. J. Addison Alexander.
"Guard well thy heart; thy thoughts are heardin heave."
A commonplace life, we say, and we sigh;
But why should we sigh as we say it?
The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky,
Makes up the commonplace day.
The moon and the stars are commonplace things,
The flowers that bloom and the bird that sings,
But sad were the world and dark our lot,
If the flowers failed and the sun shone not;
And God, who sees each separate soul,
Out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.
Susan Coolidge.
It fortified my soul to know
That, though I perish, Truth is so;
That howsoe'er I stray or range,
Whate'er I do, He does not change,
I steadier step when I recall
That if I slip, He does not fall.
"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other, you will find what is needful for you in a book or a friend; or, best of all, in our own thought the Eternal thought speaking in you thoughts."
Life is too short to waste
'Twill soon be dark;
Up! mind thine own aim, and
God speed the mark!
Emerson
"If we can send a child out to the University of Life with his faculties well trained, how easy it will be for him to go and become more and more learned as the years roll over his head.
Rev. A. D. Mayo.
"We know not of what we are capable until the trial come - till it comes, perhaps in a form which makes a strong man quail and turns a gentle woman into a heroine."
"Hope may often deceive us, but without it man could never have risen out of the savage stage. There is false hope and true hope. False hope trusts in luck; true hope is willing
to think, act and wait. True hope is the lever that moves the world."
MAY WE MEET
May our path, tonight dividing,
When the earthly trial is past,
Lead us all where tears of sorrow
Seems as
pearls in heaven at last.
There to clasp our hands forever,
May we meet on Eden's shore,
Walking by the crystal river,
There to part, Oh, nevermore.
Marguerite.
"No law yields a greater benediction to
those who keep it then the law of labor. The idlers
are not happy, there is for them little joy of life.
They do not know the luxury of work, and they
cannot, therefore, know the luxury of rest. Only the
tired man knows the sweetness of repose.
T. W. Hanford.
"The heights by great men reach and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Longfellow.
"Our lives glide on; the river ends - we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore."
"We may so walk the ways of life, that our word will be music, our smile sunshine, and our veryshadow a benediction."
T. W. Hanford.
God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears, in order that they may read aright Hisprovidence and His commandments.
Dr. Guyler.
No stars shine brighter than the kingly man,
Who nobly earns whatever crown he wears,
Who grandly conquers, or as grandly dies;
And the white banner of his manhood bears,
Through all the years, uplifted to the skies!
Mrs. J. C. R. Dorr.
God hath made many sharp-cutting instruments and rough files for the polishing of His jewels; and those He especially loves and means to make the most the resplendent, He hath oftenest His tools upon.
We see but dimly through these mists and vapors,
Mid these earthly damps;
What seem to us but sad funeral tapers,
May be heaven's distant lamps.
H. W. Longfellow.
Sorrow overwhelms us, yet God's goodness finds music in everything, From a bruised and broken heart God's touch causes melody to flow forth.
Thomas Armitage.
"Yesterday's error's, let yesterday cover."
"Every person has two educations, - one which he receives through others; and one, more important,which he gives himself."
If the mind, which rules the body, ever forgets itself so far as to trample upon its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. Thus has many
a monarch mind been dethroned.
Longfellow.
The tissues of the life to be
We weave with colors all our own,
And in the field of destiny
We reap as we have sown.
John G. Whittier.
It is no man's business whether he has genius or not; work he must, whatever he is, but quietly and steadily; and the natural results of such work will always be the things that God meant him to do and will be his best.
John Ruskin.
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the forbles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table or look down at me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom.
Theodore L. Guyler.
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
He takes the measure of his own small soul.
And thinks the world no larger.
Ella Wheeler.M
An aged Christian with the snow of time on his head may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.
E. H. Chapin
I think the song that's sweetest
Is the one that's never sung;
That lies at the heart of the singer,
Too grand for mortal tongue.
Anon.
"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for
extreme diseases."
Never you mind the crowd, lad,
Nor fancy your life won't tell;
The work is a work for all that,
To him that doeth it well
Fancy the world a hill, lad,
Look where the millions stop!
You'll find the crowd at the base, lad,
There's always "room at the top".
There is only one stimulant that never fails and yet never intoxicates - Duty. Duty puts a blue sky over every man - up in his heart, it may be--into which the skylark Happiness always does singing.
A virtuous deed should never be delay'd,
The impulse comes from heav'n; and he who strives
A moment to repress it, disobeys
The God within his mind.
Thomas Dowe.
Tell me how it is that in this room there are candles and but one light, and I
will explain to you the mode of the Divine existence.
John Wesley.
We shape, ourselves, the joy or fear
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our future atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade.
John G Whittier.
The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose,
an invincible determination, can accomplish almost any thing; And in this
lies the distinction between great and little men.
Andrew Fuller.
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a
little you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral
improvement; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which would have no
hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
Arthur Helps.
A life of study is not far removed from a life of piety.
Bishop Spaulding.
"If a man can make a better book, preach a
better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than
his neighbor, though he build his house in the
wood, the world will make a beaten path to his
door."
"The more we know the better we forgive;
Who'er feels deeply, feels for all who live."
A good deed is never lost; he who sows
courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants
kindness gathers love.
"A thing is never too often repeated which
is never sufficiently learned."
"Natural ability without education has oftener raised a man to glory than
education without natural ability. Much will be done if we but try. No body
knows what he can do till he has tried, and few try their best till they are
forced to it."
"Joy in one's is an important element in its success, and if we get morbid
over its little defects it actually takes away from our ability to do the grand
things that we might."
THE HIDDEN LIFE.
How different is the life within our
breast
From what we seem to those who know
us best.
"The first great prerequisite of success isgood bodily condition."
"Nothing is lost that is spent in the line of your profession."
"How shall I a habit break?
As you did that habit make.
As you gather, you may lose;
As you yielded now refuse.
Thread by thread the strand we twist;
Thread by thread the patient hand
Must untwine, ere free we stand.
As we builded stone by stone,
We must toil, unhelped, alone,
Till the wall is overthrown.
J. BoylReilly.
When you see a youth yearning for more education, for a fuller life; when
you see him devoting every spare moment to acquiring information which
may help him in his business or occupation, or enlarge his mental horizon;
when you see him cheerful and prompt, always trying to do everything he
touche to a finish, you may be very certain that boy will succeed.
Success.
Fame is what you have taken,
Character, what you give; When to this truth
you waken, Then you begin to live
Bayard Taylor.
The safest plan, and the most sure of success
for the young man starting in life, is to select the
vocation which is most congenial to his tastes
otherwise he will always have hard work.
It fortifies my soul to know
That, though I perish, Truth is so
That howsoe'er I stray and range
Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change.
I steadier step when I recall
That if I slip, Thou dost not fall.
Arthur Hugh Clough.
"Joy in one's work is important element in
its success, and if we get morbid over its little
defects it actually takes away from our ability to
do the grand things that we might."
Natural ability without education has oftener
raised a man to glory than education without natural
ability. Much will be done if we but try. Nobody
knows what he can do till he has tried, and few try
their best till they are forced to it."
If we wish to be useful, the only way is to do
what we can. Do not seek for a great thing, and do
not be afraid of a great thing if it comes. If you see
that something ought to be done, then probably you
are the person to do it. If you are, you will be
enabled to do it. The greatest deeds have not been
done by the greatest people, but by the most faithful
people; by those who are not in a hurry to find the
greatest thing, and, on the other hand, are not afraid
of it when it is sent to them.
J. F. Clarke.
"When we think we are perfect, we are perfect
fools."
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