The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-26

nav inwardly be such as outwsrdly be
seeneth to men.
And rightly there ought to be much
more within, than lis perceived without.
For God beholdeth US; whom we are
hound most highly to reverence where
.sogver we are, and to walk in purity like
angels in Els sight.
Daily ought we to renew our purposes,
snd to stir up ourselves to greater ervor,
Sc though this were the first day Of our
conversion, and TO say:
Il Help ne, my God in this my good
purpose, and in Thy holy service; and
rrsut that I may now this day begin
Perfectly; for that which 1 have done
aitherboi Is as nothing"
According to our purpose shall be the
success of spiritual profting and much
diligence is necessary TO h'm thar will
profit much. And if be that firmly pur-
poseIh often failefh, what shall he do
that seldom or but weakly purposeth
anything.
Yet in various ways it happens that
we forsake our purpose, and slight
omission Of our spiritual exercise is not
without Loss TO our souls.
The purpose of Just men depends not
upon their own wisdom, but upon Gods
grace; on whom they always rely for
whatsoever they take in hand.
For rnan proposes but God disooses
neither il the way of man in himself.
If an accustomed exercise be some
3ines omitted, either or some act of
piety or profit to our brother, it may
easily afterwards be recovered again.
But if, out of WEAKNESS or carelessness,
we lightly omit it, it ii very blsmewor-
thy: and will be felt to be burtfuL Do
the best we Gun, we shall still too easily
fail In many things.
Yet must we always have some fixed
purpose, and especially against those
sins which do most Of all hinder us.
We must diligently search into, and
set in order both our outward and in
ward things, because both of them are of
importance to our progress in godliness.
If thou canst not continually collect
4hysef, yet do it sometimes, at the least
twice day, namely, in the morning and
at night.
In the morning fix thy good purpose
and at night examine thyself what thou
hast dore, how thou hast behaved thy
self in word, deed and thought for il
these perhaps thou hast oftentimes
offended both God and thy neighbor.
Those deyotions which belong not tc
she community ought not TO be exposed
80 public view, for private deyotions are
oractieed most safely in secret.
Nevertheless thou must beware thou
neglect not those which are public
being more ready for what ia private
But having fully and faith tully accom-
golished all which thou at bound and
enioined to do, if thou hast any SPAR
time betake thee to thyself as thy deyo
tion calleth thee,-IThomas a. Kempis
As it is of great importance to hay.
the exact meaning of the divine reveal
zion to man, it IL not strange that til.
lives Of many learned men are mainl,
devoted to the elucidation of the tru,
text of the original scriptures and it
exact equivalent in English.
Whilst our authorized version is, upot
the whole, remarkably accurate ant
beautiful, the learned men who mad.
and compiled it had not the same adyan
tages for q full and minute e0mpfehen
sion OF the original that ia enjoyed now
py com parison of q number of manu-
scripts Of greater antiquity than any IL
which they had access; and Us the two
earliest of these omit some small passages
chiefly parenthetiesI, which are found il
aater manuscripts, il 10 supposed thai
such passages were explana
which through the course of ages beesm,
incorporated with the text by transeri
hers.
La Dean Alyond's very reconcile ant
neliable translation of the new Testament
these are carefully pointed out, and IA
some cases they give Q slight shade 0
difference to the meaning The follow
ing are passages in Matthews gospel:
Tn Chap. VIZ, tie words without ,
.causen are left cut of . number of tn
ola versions, and the translation OF th'
word aoreh knebel) by the word tool
considered doubtful. The Lords Prsye
In the sixth chapter Lacks the caneludiDI
aseription OF praise In all the nost 40
Gent manuscripts. In Matt, AVE-, tn
words " dssweth Nigh unto Me witt
their mouth and" are mot found i'm tn
Oldest manuscripts. The twanty-6fs
verse of the seventeenth chapter, whie
reads, e Hewbeit this kind goeth not oui
bat by prsyer and fasting are omitte
in sone old MSS, whilst others whic
retain the verse leave ont fasting
The eleventh verse of the eighteenth
chapter is not found In the nost aneien
manuscripts, sad IL seems to hsye a
connection with the context. None 4
these omissions or additions affect III
sense of the Scripture, but there il one i
Chap. xviii. l5 which does 90 to s0na
extent. The words NagaSnst thee" ~
not found in the two Oldest manuscripts