The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-08-08

t4FetAQNNNA IfNAl ~ y NAAeA fAt ~
Philosophy is good horse IN the
stable; batan arrant la6a ON a journey.
To ccrreetnn avil which already ex-
lists IL not SO wilson's 10 foresee and pre-
ventit
The bell never rings of itself unless
some one handles or moves It, it is
dnmb.
a life spent wofthily shonid be mcas-
nred by nobler line. by deeas--not
words.
Where love exists not, even though
it be in palace, happiness can never
come.
Those sentiments Of love which flow
from the heart cannot be frozen by adj
veFsity.
He who prays without confidence,
cannot hope that his prayer viii be
granted
Envy is blind, and knows nothing
except how to depreeiate experiences
OF others.
The best heads can bnt misiudge IN
causes belonging TO the Jurisdiction OF
the heart
Very nice scruples are sometimes the
effect of a great mind but oftener of q
little one.
1t is excellent to nave a giants
strength :hRt it is tyrannous to use it
like a giant
People seldom improve when they
have no better model than themselves
to copy after.
Nurture your mind with great
thoughts 10 believe in the heroic
makes heroes, f
Christian simplicity is a simplicity in
doing right and a like simplicity in re-
sisting evil Free MethOdiS.
Where there is shallow, there is also
shelter the roof that shnts ont thesun
may shFt ont the Storm MS well.
Every man has some peculiar train OF
Thought which he falls back upon when
alone. This, tO,R great degree, monlds
the man Dsgdid Ste,oa1t.
No man for any considerable period
can wear one face to himself, and an
other 10 the multitude, without finally
getting bewildered as to which may be
trne. -Hdtntls0JHe
A firm faith is the best divinity a
good life the best philosophy q clear
conscience the best law honesty the
best policy and temperance the best
physic.- ChaT7'Oa.
The sorrows Of a noble soul are as
May frosts, which preoede the milder
seasons but the SORROWS of q hardened,
lost soul are ms the Rutumn frOsts
which fOretelI but the coming OF winter
The New York Herald has been in
vestigating and finds that in 1900 there
were in the United States twelve reli-
gi0us and eight secular colleges, the
latter mostly infdel 1t adds that there
is not NOW an atheistic college or nui-
Versity in the whole world.
An army, is the true idea OF the
Church 1t is neither an hospital, asy-
lum, nor nursery In it men are trained
in the manifest manliness fortitude,
courage, strength aud faith are its vir-
tues. Holiness and heaven are the
fruit OF its discipline and victories. -
s. LouiS Christian Aa1Ocdte.
The faith Of the head
Is the faith that is dead
The faith of the heart
Is better in part
But the faith of the hand
Is the faith that will stand
For the faith that will do
Must include the first two.
Many would be in Canaan as soon as
they are ont of Egypt they would be
at the highest pitch presently. Bot
God will lead us through the wilderness
of temptations and Affections, till we
come 10 heaven I; and j. is a part Of our
Christian meekness to submit to God,
and not to murmur because we are not
as we would be.
DR. Payson says, IF at any time l
am favored with clearer discoveries of
my natural and acquired deprayity and
hatefulness in the sight of God, and am
enabled to mourn over it, in comes
spiritual pride with, Aye, this is some
thing like. This is holy mourning for
sin. This is true humility.
What God cares for riches is best
seen in the fact that some of the vilest
men can obtain them. The only things
of intrinsic worth are the things no bad
man can get. The most deprayed man
can get wealth and henors and reputa-
ton aud the like, bat lac lacks the main
thing, that which lasts where eternity
reigns. Rer. D. E. MerS, ID. d.
Thomas Fnller, oneof the most quaint
and graphic OF the old English writer's
strictly defined ''poliey to consist in
serving God In such q manner as not to
offend the devil" IL was he who said,
''Iet him who expects one class in 30
ciety to prosper TO the highest degree
while others are in distress, try whether
one side of his face can smile while the
other is piBched.
The very eommonest, or most iami-
liar, truths Of the Scripture are those
that exert upon us the most powerful
influence. Something new stimulates
and produces temporary excitement,
bat that which sobers, because il goes
down deep into the soul is the gospel
in lis old familiar antl unchanged state
ments. The preacher who aims at the
deepest impressions makes the central
subjects Of the Bible the staple of his
Instructions. Dditecl lPres1yteriQa.
/ set ont Through the problems Of life
ON Il search for God, and Il did not find
God II found only problems that made
Of old, Verify. thon art a God that
ll4AeAb lii3 he'll ny hFb titpl ~ AL
from helping me?H And while II yet
gpakn. ii Ycico made answer: "Why
Iiitlst thon not meet me at the door?
Thou hast been in search Of me through
tile lallyrinths Of the world why lidst
thou rot come FIRST to me 10 lead thee
through the lahyriDths Tnon hast
been seeking to see me 10y tue light of
the world why didst thon not rather
seek " sec the world hy my light2 j
wanIl have made all things clear to thee
ii thon hadst met me mt the door. -
GeoJge ALxLlesoa, % ID.
Seta golden statne by Phidias before
"a child aud il seesA mass Of brSlliant
color before M aYarieiens eye, and it
glnats over the staiely embodiment of
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