The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-09-26


on the Mount, your religious influence
is not much.
If Won are with Christ, in Him and
for Him, your family cannot long stay
away from Him.
Pure living is a light even turning
the eyes of the wicked to a Holy God.
Christian, shine
Are you christian =? Then as all the
streams flow to the sea, so all your
ways centre in Christ.
Asa charged battery you cannot come
in contact with lover of God without
feeling his influence.
To be without God is to be without
rest for the present and without hope
for the future.-iSpugyeoa.
The sands of life are passing from
beneath your feet; where will You stand
when these are gone?
1t is the wing that carries the bird
over. Christian, practice on the wing
Of faith, ifyou would soar
''Few there be that find it," are
words worth more. than millions of
money to him that is of the few.
Let men say of you, HE says but
little, but he lives as a christian. "
There is n silence that thunders.
The converted man always has the
courage of his convictions; or his con-
version may well be questioned.
OF this one thing be sure: The more
good one is doing the less that one
cares for what others say of him.
Men will hear you eagerly when your
business life and daily living preach the
same thing with your professions.
The higher You can leap, the higher
the trial is set. But when the exercise
is done you are trained for heaven.
Because you have seen the stars in
the cloudless heavens, you know the
stars are beyond when there is rayless
night.
I know by myself how Incompetent
sible God is, seeing [ cannotseompre-
bend the parts of my own being St.
Bernard
That religion that is left off when
you are making lumber, cotton, rice,
or other sale, stinks throughout the
community.
If we would bring a holy life to
Christ, we must mind our freside du-
sties as we'll as the duties of the sanctu-
ary.-iSpnygeOn.
1t will take all your time and all Of
your life to go all the way to heaven
Half-heartedBess is no good coin at
heavens gate.
When David fed from Saul and
Elijah from Jezebel, they were forming
dark grounds to the brightest pictures
in Divine history.
The best part of life is when you arc
doing all the good you can, and truly
wanting none but God and the benefit
ted ones to know it.
III you only could know how intense
the darkness when it shall be said,
"Our lamps have gone out, i" you would
provide oil in time.
| Unless with hundred fold more in.
terest than man counts his money
you have counted all things loss fol
Christ, you need be alarmed.
Ten Thousand of the greatest fault,
in our neighbors are of less consequence
to as than one of the smallest in our
selves.-Archibisb0p WhGtely.
He that delights in God delights no
only in God as He is, but in all tina
God does, and this is a higher attain
ment than many have reached.
Gods word is pure, and Christ's re
ligion is pure even the world acknowl
! edges this; and the Christians life mus
be pure to influence the world.
There is no greater enormity befor
the world than you, when you profes
to follow Christ and at the same tim
love the world and serve the Devil.
T Behind the snowy loaf is the mil
wheel; behind the mill the wheat-fieli
on the wheat-feld falls the sunlight
above the sun is Cod, s. RuSseH.
He who does a great thing must nj
: dertake to do that thing. And true /
!, Christ's holy religion, the very creates
: things disciple can do is to. becom
a the least of all.
f How high the christian may mOuI
!. above the storms Of earth, is only meal
ured by his faith in Gods promises
!, Faith is the wings, Gods promise
7 the atmosphere.
The trne christian is like the snI
which puFsues his noiseless track, an
}. everywhere leaves the effect of
Q beams in a blessing upon the Wor
n around hinl.-Lsdher.
r Simon Magus wanted Gods spirit &
is personal gains. Some men want on
5 that religion that will benefit the
II neighborhood. I'm the gall Of bite
ness and in the bonds Of iniquity."
If we make props of onr 0utwa
~ Joys, we shall fall when they are talk
ID away; bnt If we rest wholly on the fon
p dation of divine love, altogether apa
5, from eternal things, we shall never
e. moved. -SpaTge0a.
ne Who is the amt.ior of sin, but he vi
CT lives in it and loves it2 Who can
B. the author of righteousness but o.
/. higher than man? Why will man !
II leet that righteousness Because, al
II only because, he loves sin.
Il That religion only is gannine Il
4 works In the multiplication table, shiI
X in all your figures. is at the bottom,
"a the way up, and on the top 81 VI
re- bushel measure; goes the fun length
ag your yard stick, is IN every psnnd, ga
is. your trades, seals your promises. p
forms in your CONTRACT, * seen Mt yc
dinniDg table, is with y0n while va
boots are blacking, and the chiIdr
% see il while you are driving ont
p hogs Bee 10 Il that yours is gennil
~ Christ always sails IN the ship
X prayer; he steers safely be sees
nd hidden rocks and secret shelves. 4
Is needs no star nor compass. He
the sails Of the chnreh's ship with pr
porous gales 10 bring her into safe
Is He farms ealms into storms, to obey
,sf cAnEch's cry a9d Eaisss the waves
M the sen, Ne Chat saints ara Rlal beeal
HI n storm. 70 bring tllam 10 es
y haTan. OIL happy as0rlnH, Int q
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