The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-05-02
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Sunday is the golden clarp that bind
together tho voiameof the week Long
.fsli0lr.
Gratitude to covenant God make
even d temporal blessing taste 0
heaven Ro1laisls.
The Rev. James White, brother o
the unfortunate Nottingham poet
Henry Kirlre White, died recently neal
Norwich. England at theage Of ninety
seven.
There Is a sort OF economy IN the
ways Of providence that one shall excel
where another is defective, in order to
make men useful To each other and mix
them ia society Addison.
The Church Of the Holy Ghost, at
Heidelberg, is divided by partition
running through il. On one side the
service Is protestant and on the other
Roman Catholic. Exchange.
A man that all men honor, and the model
That all should follow /; one who works and
prays,
For work is PRAYER. and consecrates his life
TO the sublime ideal Of his art,
TIL art and life are one.
-.HieEael Agtgslo.
After reading the doctrines of Plato,
Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the
specific difference between their words
and Christ'e is the difference between
an inquiry and n revelation. DR.. Joseph
Parker.
The area OF human need, alas, is wide,
Yet wider far than all our need is grace
divine,
And what though countless woes do human
hearts betide:
Since more in number than our woes Gods
mereies shine.
The love of Christ is like the blue
sky, into which yon may see clearly,
but the real Yastness of which you can
not measure. 1t is like the sea, into
whose bosom you can look little way,
but its depths are unfathomable.
After all, the Bible must be its own
argument and defence. The power of
it can never be proved unless it is felt.
The authority of il can never be sup
ported unless it is manifest. The light
of it can never be demonstrated unless
it shines DIR. Il. j. Van Dyke
The popes, as the paroehial clergy OF
the Bulgarian Church are called, have
struck for back pay, due them since
1888. They have closed all the
churches and refuse to perform any
religious ceremony. The government
cannot pay them because the people
have refused to pay the special tax out
of which their stipends are usually
paid.-Erchauge.
0ur true knowledge is to know our
own ignorance. Oar true strength is
30 know our own weakness. Our true
dignity is to confess that we have no
dignity and are nobody and nothing in
ourselves and to cast ourselves down
before the dignity of God, under the
shadow Of whose wings and in the smile
Of whose countenance alone is any ere.
ated being safe. Let us cling to our
Father in heaven, as a child, walking
in the night, clings to his fathers hand.
Charles Kingsley.
A statistician has figured ont the ex-
penditures for various purposes in the
United States approximately as follows:
Drink, 5000, 900, 900; missions (home
and foreign So, $50, 900; bread, $685.
100000; meat, $203, 600, 900; iron and
steel, $500, 900, 600; wooden goods, S237,-
100000; sawed timber, 1928, 900, 900;
cotton goods, S210, 900, 600; boots and
shoes, $780, 900, 900; sugar and molases,
$155, 000, 600; for educational purposes,
$S5 ,0O0,0 600. According to these fig
ures drink costs more than bread and
meat, and but little less than food and
raiment.
A writer in the Congreg0ti0ndlist says
that when some one asked Rev. Dr.
Meredith how he would deal with Chris
tians who refuse to join the church, the
eminent divine made this characteristic
reply 81 would talk with them I
wonld not tell them they could not go
TO heaven unless they Joined the church,
but that they had better do so. think
] would talk to them in this way. If i
were going to Europe / would go down
to the Cunard wharf and take passage
with others on a large vessel made on
purpose for such q voyage. But if
were fool / would take an eighteen
foot dory p
Itcannot be that earth is mans only
abiding place. 1t cannot be that our
life is q bubble east mp by the ocean OF
eternity, TO float moment upon its
waves and sink into nothingness. Else
why is it that the high and glorious as
pirations, which leap like angels from
out the temple of our hearts, are for
ever wandering about unRatisfied
Why 10 it that the rainbow and the
cloud come over us with beauty that
is not OF earth, and then pass off and
leave MS to muse upon their faded love-
Illness Why is it that the stars which |
hold their festival around the midnight
throne, are set above the grasp Of our
limited faculties. forever mocking us
with their unapproachable glory? And |
finally, why is it that bright forms of |
human beauty are presented to our
view and then taken from us, leaving the |
thousand streams OF our affections to |
flow back in Alpine torrents upon onr
hearts ? We are born for higher des-
tiny than that Of earth There is
realm where the rainbow never fades,
where the stars will be spread out be-
fore MS like islands that slnmber on the
ocean, and where the beautiful beings,
whom here pass before us like shadows,
will stay forever. ANONYMOUS.
BILOXI, Miss, April Ie, 1886. The
eighth annual session Of the Gulf Coast
Baptist Association, composed of the
Baptist Churches of New Orleans and
the Mississippi Gull Coast, met here
yesterday afternoon, as already an
nonneed, concluding the meeting this
evening.
Elders M. C.sCole, O. r.. Gregory
a,,d A N (irasr 10 Natu n rIaayao. Il III a.