The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-12-12

The power of holy life is not to be
computed.
He that paints for the eye, must
paint in the light.
Law shows us how far we are from
Christ; grace unites us to him.
Few men are both rich and generous;
| fewer are both rich and humble.
'And whatsoever of you will be the
chiefest, shall be the servant of all. "
Never to be in places of evil is the
loudest preaching on the text, avoid.
The great gift of the New Testament
is not purer form of law, but new
life.
If a good motive is conceivable do
not attribute a bad one to Rnotherls
action.
Little sins get in at the windows and
open the front door for the big house
breakers.
He that loves the truth and is filed
with the truth, is invested with power
irresistible.
Waiting for orders often requires
more grace and patience than running
under orders.
Canned truth is not marketable,
truth must grow fresh in the heart be-
fore impaired to another.
One genuine revival converts more
than all the arguments in the world
Truly reyiyals are Gods miracles.
Thanksgiving makes our prayers
bold and strong and sweet; feeds and
enkindles them as with Goals of fire.
To consider" our relations TO God
and what We are to Him is the first
movement toward n new and betterlife.
He viii grow weaker, who seeks to
renew his strength by renewing his
exertions instead of by waiting on the
Lord.
Our Savior spoke more severely
against Journalism and hypocrisy than
against anything else. 1t is over vital
energy.
| Beware of the first evils, for as sure
as you are living the first step taken
will make the second seem TO become
necessary.
The heart of Christian is to go ont
toward men not for their righteous.
ness, but for their necessities. "LoYe
your enemies"
All the condemnation that the flower
nttereth against the ungainly shrub il
Just what beauty and fragrance there
is in the flower.
There are only two sorts of men
the one, the Just, who believe them.
selves sinners; the other, sinners who
believe themselves just.
| ALI sin is linked together in q sliny
tangle, like field of sea-weed, so that
the man once caught in its oozy fingers
is almost snre TO go down.
The infidel world does not seem 10
notice it, that in every great revival
infdels ARE converted. The Spirit of
God is power that nothing can resist
Faith is born of God with soul. The
action of faith is voluntary. Its object
is Christ. 1t cleaves to Him. But il is
Christ that saves, not the cleaving tc
Him.
i The preacher who is bent above al
else, npOn winning his hearers to love
and follow Christ, commands the at.
tention OF both illiterate and the cul
tured.
4 He that doubts whether he Is in the
right way is condemned. why Is hs
not where doubts will not dare 70
como? Because he loves the evil Was
better.
Let opinion and action accord
with what you would say and do one
hundred Thousand years after the hnal
judgment BE no time server. Serve
the right, which is eternal
| Growing in grace is as polishin.
metals, Tristan Opaque surface, theI
spark darling cont; then q etronf
light, and at length il sends back Z
perfect image of the sun shining on it
In order to the passage Of electricit,
II ie necessary that the wires be i0inec
to each other. Joined 10 wood Of sub
stance the current is broken. So faith
must not touch q Medium orany obieel
10 tauch Christ. but mllat tonch Him
personally and directly. then does the
cnrFsft vitalize the seal.
The religion Of aozae people Is con-
strained they ARE like people who uss
the cold BATH not for pleasure. but fol
necessity and their haalth; they 20 il
I wifn reluctance and are glad when thay
R@t 0ilt. but religion 10 q trne believer
IS Ike water " 0 fish. II is his element
aeanlinglg his native alemenf; Be lives
IN tt and he eauld npt live nut Of II.