The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-04
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The Christian IS like the 1ipeninr
CORR; the ripper be grows the more loEiJ
he bends his head - Guthrie.
If thou art wise, tllon knowest thint
own Ignorance, and thou art Ignorant /
thou kuowest not thyself. -Latber.
One fire puts ont another Nothing
SO effectualiy kills the fear of man a
abundance Of the fear OF God. --iSpIo-
geoa.
d Tf thou art not born again, ttlIy
outward reformation is nonght thou
HAST shut the door, bat the thief is still
in the honse. Boston.
| Dnties not performed according to
the right anderaRe bat the half of the
service we owe 10 God, and the worsi
half too. Thomas Boston.
The sonlt chat cannot entirely trusi
God, whether man be pleased or dis
1 pleased. can never long be true 10 Him
for while yolr are cycling man yon are
losing God, and stabbing religion at the
very heart.--- laat01
Patient the wounded earth receives the plow's
sharp share,
And hastss the sweet return Of golden grain
TO Dear.
So patient under ecorn and injury abide
| Who oOnquereth all within may dare the
world outside.
How often we look upon God as our
/ last and feeblsst resource We go to
him because we have nowhere else TO
20. And then we learn that the storms
of life have driven ms, not upon the
rocks, hut into the desired haven. Geo.
Macdonald
The sanctuary is the home of God,
the living God, in which Jesus is ever
present with his Spirit, IN which he has
deposited the treasures bought with his
blood, Here the believer, unlike the
Isrnelites of old, gathers his double
portion Of Taanna on the Sabbath day.
After all, the Bible must be its own
argument and defense. The power OF
it1can never be proved unless it is felt.
The authority of it can never be sup
ported unless it is manifest. The light
Of it can never be demonstrated unless
it shines.---Dr H. u. Kdu Duke.
Praisenot thy work, but let thy work praise
thee;
For deeds, mot words, make each mans
memory stable.
If what thou doist is good its good all men
will see
Musk BY its smell is known, and not by its
label
--.Saadi.
Bacon say: HReading makes full
man. God declares, by his prophet, my
people are destroyed for lack Of knowl-
edge. Mr.. Wesley says: sit cannot
be that the people should grow in grace,
unless they give themselves to reading.
A reading people will Away bea know
ing people"
Tits good for man to be checked,
crossed, disappointed, made TO feel his
own ignorance weakness, folly made
10 feel his need of God ; 10 feel that, in
spite of all his cunning and self-confi-
denee, he is no better of in this world
than in n dark forest, unless he has a
Father in heaven who loves him with
an eternal love, and Il Holy Spirit in
heaven who will give him right judg-
ment in all things, and a Savior in
heaven who can be touched with the
feeling of his infrmities - Charles
Riagsiey.
If there had anywhere appeared in space
Another place of refuge where To fee,
Our hearts had taken refuge In that place,
And not with Thee.
For we against creatiOn's bars had beat
Like prison'd eagles through great worlds
had sought
Though but foot OF ground to plant our feet
Where Thou vert not
And only when We found in earth and air,
In heaven or hell, that such might no
That we could not fee from Thee anywhere,
| We fed to Thee
Dean 4re,toh.
Most people think, if they keep all
the best rooms in their hearts swept
AID garnished for Christ, that they may
| keepa little chamber In their hearts
wall for Belial on his occasional visits !;
or three-legged stool for him in the
! hearts counting house ; or Il corner for
him in the hearts scullery. where be
may lick the dishes. it won't do
You must cleanse the house of him as
yon would of the plague, to the last
spot. You must be resolved that as all
you have shall be Gods, 30 all you are
shall be God's.-JoLN RaSbia
God is the fountain of merey-it flows
to us through the channel Of the atone
ment, and is free for all on the same
conditions. None can enange the
course OF the stream nor alter the con
ditions on which its benefits are TO be
received. The learned and the Hitter
ate, the wise and the simple, the mil
honare and the beggar, the king and
the slave, must all come 10 the fountain
in the same way, comply with the same
conditions, or not receive its benefits /;
and when the full benefits have been
received, then all are one in Christ
Jesus.-& Louis Christian AlipOeate,
1t is not best TO undertake TO reason
upon the propriety Of n plain command
of God. First obey, both in spirit and
letter, and then in due time the reason
for IL willappear In this world or the
next il will all be made plain. The
Christian life is q life Of faith--a life of
trust live could see the end from the
beginning. there would be no, room nor
ground for faith. In worldly matters
we make Investments of various kinds
and await results. So in regard to our
holy religion, believe and obey and
await the result. both as to this and to
the world. IS. Louis Christian AtlpOcdIe.
sit is. strange and meurHful trDth,"
says Robertson, - that the qualities
which enable men 40 shine are exactly
those which minister TO the worst ruin !.
Gods highest gifts ~ talent, beauty,
feeling, Imagination, power--they carry
with them the possibility of the highest
heaven aud the lowest he'll. Be sure
that it is by that which is highest in
yon that yon may be lost. 1T is the
awful warning, aud not the excuse Of
evil, that the Light which leads astrayis
light from heaven The shallow fight
iDg-boat glides safely over the reefs
where the noble bark strands it is the
very might aud majesty of her career
that bury the sharp rock deeper in her
bosom"
There arises from all parts of the
sworldsat the m0raing and the evening,
and through the labors of the day, q