The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-31

Is ouE 1--we W ulu ASdIG}s supreme duC
abiding.
God ladies' the wings of private prayer
with the sweetest, choicest and chiefesi
blessings.
Nothing SO foods our way with sun.
light as to be active to light up the way
for others.
Says Watts: 81 belive the promises
of God enough TO venture an eternity
upon them.
Every day we may see some new
thing in Christ His love hath neither
brim nor bottom.
Faith is letting down our nets into
the untransparent depths, not knowing
what we shall take.
Mystery is but another name for our
Ignorance; if We were omniscent, all
would be perfectly plain.
Not the number of notes, but the &C.
cord and melody thereof, move with
Joy, and thus profit others.
If you are bound for heaven you are
never weary of the name of Jesus.
How unlike the sinful man
You may know that You are in the
heavenly way, if the name of Jesus is
your solace, subject and song.
To Judge religion we must have it
not stare at it from the bottom of n
seemingly interminable ladder.
We who are but of yesterday, who
know nothing, should not presume to
SIT in Judgment on Gods doings.
You know not what is in your way,
therefore walk humbly; glory is at the
end, therefore press on cheerfully.
Never seek admiration, but conform
ity to Jesus; and if you obtain that, YOU
will have all that is truly valuable.
The embellished organ may please
the eye, but it is the sweet toned instru-
ment that gets the ear of the soul.
Surely the church is the place where
one days truth ought to be allowed to
the discussions and animosities of man.
kind.
God will stand by his laws. 1t is no
use to violate Gods laws and run. Sin
brings guilt and God will find the guilty
man.
Pride, like the magnet, points to one
object, itself but unlike the magnet, it
has no attractive pole but at all points
repels.
A holy life has a voice. 1t speaks
when the tongue is silent, and Is either
constant attraction or q continual
reproof.
1t is good for us to keep some account
of our prayers, that We may not unsay
in our practices anything said in our
prayers.
There must be no reserve, NO half
heartedness, no cowardice, no seeking
to please men at Gods expense, or we
do not follow fully.
Efforts, 10 be permanently useful
must be uniformly loyous-a spirit all
sunshine, graceful from very eladness,
beautiful because bright.
The anatomy of former mereies puts
an argument in the mouth OF PRAYER, a
glass in the eye of faith, and q harp in
the hands Of thankfulness.
Our faith is the centre of the target
at which God doth shoot when he tries
us; and if any other grace shall escape
untried, certainly faith shall not.
Christ is in heaven to answer all OBJ
lections which may be brought against
your justification, and to supply you
with all grace for your sanctifeation.
Says Mcdonald Nothing else is
to be called the business of life-I am
extreme, You may think; but this is lib
erty and life to me-but to know Christ.
If sin be INDUCED it will soon tyran-
ize, and lead him who induIged it
whittier he would not; therefore let the
serpent be constantly starved by morti-
heation.
Our heavenly father looks upon chris
tians as the members of his son; he
loves them as he loves his son; and will
place them in his heavenly kingdom
with his son.
Every christian has his peculiar in
firmities; these are not tn be narsed,
but 10 be taken to the Great Physician
for healing. He that nurses infirmities
shall be infrm enough.
II mercies humble you, and an in
ereasing knowledge OF the truth makes
You Jealous aud active, yOur Soul Is in
~. ,,e a. - ue anu ihaeeVity
arc sue us :, uiseAses.
Humility is the most beautiful gar
ment in which a sinner on earth can be
dressed: even GOD himself admir-; rs.,i 4
and takes M his abode with the a. ,, ~
who wears II. Sea- Tsa;ab 5z TX go"
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True goodness Is true and eternal
riehes, Tor It has the ''promise Of the
lie that now ls, and Of that winch is TO
come. !" Seek TO be truly godly, and
The stranger your enemies, or the
more Inyeterate your evil habits. the