The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-11-07


we must renounce temporal life fully.
When you brush away the spider
webs remember all the spiders are moi
dead.
Until the heart is eleansed we love
sin. Down with the nests and the birds
are gone.
Unless you are ready TO say it to his
face, be sure it is very wrong to say it
elsewhere.
He who gives the new heart, gives a
new power 10 rule therein. Gods own
also own God.
Some help the church that the church
help them. The christian thus helps
to glorify God.
If God give You grace to go over the
mountain, is that not better than TO re-
move the mountain
Grace in religion turns the mind to
Christ. Religion without grace t1rns
the mind to self.
A light in a dungeon is worth more
than volumes Oh the analysis of light.
Shine first, then speak.
Thirst inquiries for water, and is not
so careful as to who answers the inquiry
so that it fndeth water.
''They love darkness because their
deeds are dark, tells the whole secret
of the SINNERS heart.
Live SO that if men-hate your religion
they will hate good Do better even
than the best profession.
As We are apt to say good things of
the dead--when self dies we should say
things becoming christian.
You'add ten fold to the weight of
your troubles by yonr impotence; "Be
still, and know that am God"
Prayer hath no merit whatever.
Faith in Christ is what saves. Prayer
only expresses our sense of need.
Nothing is easier than to be deceived
in self, in religious matters-it is a
cross, suffering to follow Christ.
When aught else but Christ and His
kingdom is uppermost in the mind,
that is not the mind of a disciple.
Whether the landlord or his servant
invites us to dine, it is the feast that
concerns us-not the mere calling.
Why is not my mind more calm in
this trouble? Because you are not liv-
ing in single dependence upon God.
Do not SO much undertake to prove
Christ to the world az to IeproVe the
world by your devotion to His word.
Men look to christians as they look
to sign boards 10 be guided. And the
board that misguides, guides to hell.
Look beyond the sound of the gospel
to the things thereof. When we ans
wer the market bell is it to see the bell?
When we are beholding onr King we
think no evil of our neighbor; and when
we think evil we are not behOlding the
King.
The Bible is the plaiaest dealing
book in the world, and has more power
in the world than all other books COM
bined.
Bees dive in the flowers before the
honey is made. Christians drink deep
OF Gods word before laden with hea-
yenly fruit.
When men say you are either "a very
good man or very bad one" they ad-
NIT the genuine coin, and fear the
counterfeit.
As the deaf man is puzzled TO see
others delight in music, $50 is the sim
ner to see christians follow the voice of
the Son of God.
He that blasphemes the name of God
is preparing his soul to dwell with bias
phemers. And why should he not thus
dwell in eternity?
The cry of the genuine disciple is not
'fHoW much may I leave undone %
but, Have ], by any means, left any
thing undone ?"
He that goes near the flag in battle
is certain to stand in the thickest OF the
fight The nearer the cross the more
severe the warfare.
Feigned earnestness is satisfied when
you behold it. True earnestneas is
never satisfied until you see the object
OF its earneEtness.
The preeepts of Gods word flow as
Immediately from the love OF God as
his promises; be that despised either
precepts or promises insults the love Of
God.
The christian who lets a charitable
object pass without helping, if at all
possible, is either not a christian. or
like clock ont of order; In need of re-
pairs to keep time
THE rabbie and the thriftless may be
attracted by what the anciioneer says,
but men Of business are attracted hg
what be sells 50 with the foolish and
wise attending she gospel.
The difference between the love for
G0a's people and a lore for the fine
eguipage Of church, is the difference
between the kFoad road 10 he'll and the
marrow NAY 10 heaven.
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