The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-04-25
Elia1oats.

Eli9fntas.
OF at commentaries npon the Scrip
lures, good examples are the best and
the liveiiest.--Dr. Donne.
When any calamity has sheen suffered
the first thing to be remembered is
how much has been escaped.-John-
son.
To explain to him who loves not is
but to give him the more plentiful
material for misinterpretatioD.--7s os.
Wiaqfo7d.
Pope Lee XIII thinks that the evil
Of the working classes arises chiefly
from the abandonment of religious
principles.
Love is like a painter, who, in draw
ing the portrait Of friend having a
blemish il one eye, would picture only
the other side of the face.-South.
A jealous sonl without meekness is
like ship in storm, in danger of
wreck. A meek soul without zeal is
like a ship in a calm, that moves not
SO fast as it ought.-Mdson.
There's a great difference between
being in the world, and having the
world in us; LEI ship be in the water
and its all right, but let the water be
in the ship and down she goes.-D. Z.
Moody.
Conversion is no repairing of the
old building; but it takes all down
and erects new structure. The sim
cere Christian is quite new fabric,
from the foundation to the top-stone
all neW.-AlIeine
True Faith and Reason are the souls two eyes;
Faith eveEmore looks upward and desires
Objects remote but Reason can discover
Things only nesr--sees nothing that's shove
her:
They are not matches-often disagree
And sometimes both are closed, and neither
see.
Daily ought we to renew our pur-
poses, and to stir up ourselves to
greater feryor, and to say, "Help me,
my God in this my good purpose,
and in thy holy service, and grant that
] may now this day begin perfectly
Thomas n. Keml'is.
Every one blameth the devil for his
sins; but the great devil, the house
devil of every man, is that idol that |
killeth all himself. Beware of your
self; yourself is q more dangerous
enemy than any without you.-S.
Rutherford.
My silence eateth me mp, but be
hath told me that he thaaketh me no
less than if ! were preaching daily.
He seeth how gladly l would be at
it; my wages are running to account
mp in heaven, as if ] were still preach
ing Christ.-Gospel.
A joyous thought it is to each |
Christian, and he may constitute one |
little link in that golden chain which |
preserves the knowledge of the dying |
love of his Saviour from, the hour of |
cruciixion until be come to reward his
saints.-IeeV. A6el McEt0en, d. D.
The self-seeker echoing popular
opinion is speedily left behind in the
worlds progress, and soon despised
and forgotten. The man Of truth and
integrity, though for a moment he
forfeit popular applause, is sure to
command universal respect and to win
at last.--Rush r. Shipper,
DR.. Talmage in a recent sermon said: |
~ suppose that it will be found on
that day that there are hundreds of
thousands Of men who have their names
on the ehurch-books who really made
religion a second-rate or third-rate
thing, living for themselves, unmindful
of God and the salvation of the race"
Every professed follower of Christ
should dare to be singular. 1t is
small matter that they be Judged of
any mans Judgment. He who judgeth
them is the Lord. All Christians form
common brotherhood and as such
each is bound to do what he can for
the good Of the whole.-St. Louis
Christian AdUocdte.
Divine grace is the only original
source of light that makes any man a
real luminary in society and when a
man has in himself the light of Christ,
he is bound to shine as one of
the lights Of the world. None really
shine who have not this light and none
with 1t can fail to shine.-St. Louis
Christian -AdVOcate.
An estimate now before us makes
the additions in the Western States in
the first three months of this year to
the Methodist churches TO be 10000,
and to the Presbyterian %, 900. These
must be very rough calculations, but
they 60 to establish more firmly our
conviction that this is one Of the years
of the right hand of God in the
churches Of the United States.-N.
Y. Observer.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
/. God has always sure, but often
strange, ways of accomplishing our
desires for usefulness.
2. Earnest spirits are not long in
finding or slow in making up Chris
tian work.
8. Our trials, like the Apostles
chains, may be means of yet greater
success in work of Christ.
a, That some, and many, do not
profit by our labors should not sur
prise, and should never dishearten ms.
5. The fear of Judicial blindness
and hardness should make us prompt
70 heed and obey the word of saliva
ton.
6. We are told nothing Of Paul's