The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-11-14

He is no good christian who thinks
he can be safe without God, or not safe
with him.
Coming from the warm chambers OF
his love, You will compel hearing for
your Master.
One crumb of divine grace and help
may be multiplied to feed five thousand
wants and anxIeties.
1t is bad for us when anything else is
necessary to our characters defense
more than our actions.
Let every day walks be Your pulpit,
kind actions your sermons, and thus
preach for God.
Bring in the flowers that there be
better fragrance. The wise christian
acts accordingly.
Why should not Christ be continu-
ally brought before you ? 1t is n mat
ter of life and death.
As pennies cared for amount to dol
lars, so thoughts well guarded flower
into fruit of godliness.
When the Spirit lights this home to
your heart "Christ died for all, You
will help carry the news.
Theology is more with some than
getting to heaven. The last will give
us a sufficiency of the first.
Like q home unfinished, with open
doors and windows TO let in storm and
rain, so the halfway christian.
When we work for Christ there is
glory in the church; when we work for
the church the glory departs.
Our life is to be estimated according
| to the end and business of it, not ac-
cording to the mere duration.
Better pour on oil to put out fire
than try to talk your children to heaven
while you live the way to hell.
Some vino ought to be workers, in
viting others in, would have the work
ers invite these idlers all the day.
That mans pleasing disposition is
most base which will suffer others to go
to hell, lest we lose their respect.
The church is power for good when
each member goes about doing good.
A church at anything else, is what
If you have no relish for scripture,
your heart is distempered. God is the
best teacher of his own nature and will.
To remember that tone thing is
needful, will take us off from needless
ornaments and Improbable controver-
sizes.
Put strait stick beside a crooked
stick to show crookedness. Let thy
life, christian, show what is in thy
heart.
He who spends his days to see bow
we'll he can resist Gods messengers,
will enjoy his victory in an endless
eterity.
! Lest you sink your soul by neglect;
haste, now, to search the Bible for the
way of life. Fail not, nnder Gods
penalty.
He that puts off o duty because he
cannot endure its faithful performance
will be found mot having on a wedding
garment"
4 We have trusted in men and been
disappointed; we have trusted in the
Lord and never have been disappointed
-Spuryeon.
/ Give your early life to God SO thai
when the leaves shall fade and fall, gol.
den fruit may shine. See that lifeless
barren tree
He that goes not by the way of ODE
dience. goes to hell. HE that hat.
my commandments and ksspeth them,
says the Savior.
; To stay away saying, II am unwor
thy" is self conceit. Is not God
grace greater than the sins that cans,
the unworthiness
i As he is most apt to get rich wh,
cares for the mites, 30 he is most Ger
tain to build q rich christian life wit
watches the little dangers.
God demands an account of the past
and that we must render hereafter. HI
demands an improvement of the pres
! emit, and this mnst be attended to now
The boy that put lighted match Il
3 the Ocean to consume it, was equal
as wise as the infdei who blows Iii
froth at the great deeps of Gods reye
. lation.
He that measures his christian life b
7 that of fellow mortal will get the fn
0 yalne Of his measure. Until we mea,
t nre by Christ we are not measuring 70
{ heaven.
al Rather than the world see tIlel
Il change their ways many prefer I'll
{ broad way to death. This is pride an
& acknowledgements = BLACKLIST angels Z
4 destruction.
Oh AZ some christians really desired a
! the things they pray for, their liy,
:, would be as different from what we Sc
& them as the blaze Of meridian day di
! fereth from twilight.
I The peal Of the organ, the trili OF tIl
! choir. the tinsil rhetoric Of the stilte
preacher is not Gods way OF saving tI
world from an endless he'll. Better la
an army wait for the brass band an
4 high lectures on tactics 10 win battlal
TIE world aa5s give me relieio
that clothes the naked and feeds Il
hungry; and the disciples Of Christ wi
do not These very things are not disc
q Piles indeed, however many church,
II they build loudly they praaeh. 81 n
e mirably they sing.
As they cast lots for the garments
Christ al his crusifixi0n, so MANY Eli
day would have the useful robe AZ IL
Is church and Sabbath schnoI 8o Eel
& them and theirs Ii tiiia life; but u
d sacrifice, fhe self-1aniai. tho obeaiene
y the hanahia following tlay eonsign /
+ the grave.
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