The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-03
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is n sin.
Suffering Should always be preferred
before shining.
Love to God always makes its pos
SCISSOR cautions.
In the days OF calm we must build
against the storm.
God makes the failures of the faith
full stepping stones to success.
Private prayer is your chief preserva-
ton from sin, temptation and error.
The appreciation of men, if God dis
approves, is vanity tossed to and fro.
Leisure, liberty and will to enjoy
spiritual things, are three great fay0rs.
The moro humility, the moreromfort;
and the more viii you liveto the Lords
glory.
He that drives ont'every evil thought,
prays in secret, and looks ever to Jesus,
will shine.
One of the greatest blessings Won can
enjoy is a tender, honest enlightened
conscience
A soul that is truly humble ascribes
all that is good to free grace all that IS
evil to itself.
Keep good conscience on your side
and Won need not fear the malice or
rage of man.
You can learn how to be saved from
the sixteenth verse OF the third chapter
of St. John.
Death is a conquered enemy only
when it finds you clothed in Christ's
righteousness.
Guilt will turn palace into a prison,
but the favor of God will turn prison
into paradise.
If you give back to God in gratitude
what he gives you in mercy, you are
sure to enjoy it.
You will never trust Christ to pur
pose but as you distrust yourself, and
all created things.
Live by the day, you viii have daily
trials and strength accordingly. Leave
tomorrow TO the Lord.
A christian to call his own, save
Christ and his salvation; all the rest is
surrendered to God.
Thinking of Christ often leads ont
the heart to Christ; and going to Christ
inhames our love to him.
Believer, yon have enough in God
and in his Christ, why then are you so
anxious about other things
Of all the Affections the most merci-
full is that stroke taking the child to
win the parents for heaven.
When God af1icts, you are allowed
to groan, confess and pray, but not to
repine, murmur OF complain.
Every circumstance calls for prayer,
self-examination caution CT praise, and
will either do you good or harm.
Patience grows and gathers strength
by meditation on the sorrows and suf-
ferings of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Think of the lost opportunities, and
yet you may be lost when the last OPP
portunity might have saved you.
Grace thrives by frequent meditation
on portions of Gods word: "Let the
word of Christ dwell in you richly"
Do you hate sin impartially and obey
God universally? Then you are dis
tinguished as one of Christ's disciples.
Your own weakness and sinfulness
call upon you to be humble, even when
your duty commands you to be faithful.
Pride is your great enemy, self-seek-
ing the worst employment, and a
naughty spirit the forerunner of fall.
Beware of detraction, and cultivate
spirit of christian kindness. Guilt,
darkness and pain always attend scan
dial. .
Humility is either diminished or in
creased by every trial, and as true hu-
mility increases and reigns, peace is en-
ioyed.
If God command you have no right
to ask for reason, all you have to do
is to obey. He says, 81 will be glo-
rifed."
Men see righteousness and love wick
edness. You will read here and then
die in your sins, unless amazing mercy
arrest you.
They who are Christ's are praying
and seeking to be Christ-like. "If any
man have not the spirit of Christ he is
none of His"
There is nothing in all human ply
losophy equal TO this: ''All things
work together for good to them that
love the Lord" Al things!
The christian must expect opposition
from the world, because he is going
just contrary from the multitude, and
has to pass through them.
Difficulties and improbabilities give
us opportunities of hOnOring God by
our confidence and reliance. If God
has promised, difficulties must vanish.
If you are ever saved that will be
Gods work. This fact should alarm
you. You are dead. Unless God
awake yon in Christ, You are forever
lost
Never let your mind dwell too much
on present things they are at best but
temporal. only for a little while. Look
therefore at things TO come; they are
eternal
Believer, if you and the world are
upon good terms it may be well to in
quire; if you are not, come down from
your eminence. Do yon live godly in
Christ Jesus.
Ii you renounce all for Christ you
must expect to be counted a fool; and
If You do not you cannot be called a
christian. Except a man deny him
self he cannot be my disciple"
Looking to Jesus, and fellowship
with him, will make hard things easy,
bitter things sweet, and painful things
pleasant therefore look always To
Jesus, aud walk with him
] There is no religion in making your
self miserable God loves TO make poor
sinners happy. In the Old Testament
he bids you delight yourself in the
Lord, and promises the desires Of yonr
heart. In the New, he says. Rejoice
in the Lord always"
A eensorions spirit is generally at
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