The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-06-27
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Enjoy present pleasures IN sueh way
as not to iDjure- future eHes.-iSeaeoQ.
Give what Won have. Tosonae one ii
may be better than Won dare TO think.
: --LonqfellOne.
Z of all commentaries upon the Scrip
tnres, good examples are the best and
the liveliest DR.. Dome.
It was the pious Rutherford who
said s1f.yewere not strangers here,
the dogs OF the werld womb not bark at
lyou."
Have a purpose IN life, and having ii,
throw into your work such strength Of
mind and muscle as God has given You.
~ CAaJlgie.
Hon. John Naith, the new Lord Chan
cealor Of ireland, is The second Roman
Catholic who has received sucb an APP
pointment since the Reformation.
Within the past three months the
several Methodist Churches In Chicago
have received over a thousand members.
There has been a like ingathering IN
other denominations. IN. o. Christian
Adpocdie.
We can learn nothing OF the Gospel
except by feeling its truths. There are
some sciences that may be learned by
the head, but the science of Christ cru
CITED can only be learned by the heart
&C H. SpHyeoH.
Rev. Richard Hartley, of Ogden,
Utah, says it is useless to send mission
aries TO the great territories beyond the
Rocky Mountains unless we provide
means to build churches on the fields
they are to occupy.
According 10 the Baptist Heelllt some
one has found in Florida a local sect OF
Bzptistscalled ftthe Koonibes, with ono
Association, five churches and l30 mem
bers. who hold that the body of Christ
was a peculiar body unlike ours. (.
Usually the eyes of the Christian
should be directed forward it is foolish
to try to live on past experience; it rs
very dangerous, If not fatal habit, to
judge ourselves TO be safe because of
something that We felt Or did twenty
years ago.-Spayyeon.
Many man put in the seed who
never saw the harvest, just as many an
other brought home ripe sheaves on
which he bestowed no labor save that
of the sickle. The worker for Christ,
therefore, is 10 work in faith, expecting
the divine hand to secure the result
| He has abundant reason 10 believe that
good is done Of which he has no knoWl
edge, and will have none until the great
day. W. Chambers
Give your religion fair chance. Do
not put it in q corner. Do not hide it
under busheL Do not crowd it ont
with business Do not choke it with
cares, or pleasures, or money but give
it time and thought, meditation and en-
ergy, sacred to its uses 1t is the only
thing You can transfer across the river
Of death, the only thing which will
stand in the solemn hour OF Judgment
and which will endure and bless Won
through eternity.
They that love Christ, love to think
of him, love TO hear of him, and love to
read OF him. They love to speak of
him, for him, 10 him. They love his
| presence, his yoke, his name His will
is their law, his dishonor is their attic
ton, his cause is their care, his people
are their companions, his day is their
delight his word is their guide, his
glory is their end. They had rather
ten Thousand times suffer for Christ than
that he should suffer by them. Mason
| The Lord upbraideth not the child of PRAYER.
| Who pleads for lacking wisdom, and for grace
! From such he never takes his loving care,
Nor turns his face,
The prayer unwayering in the Saviour s name,
! The plea of mercy, and the earnest cry
Ascend, as erst arose the incense flame
To God on high
! o Prayer, the saints delight, the golden kew
That doth unlock the treasury Of the Lord,
| No1ld that our hearts were ever given to thee
With one accord
Il, Squire.
| Patient waiting upon God was
! special Characteristic of our Lord Jesus
/ Christ. Impotence never fingered in
| his heart, much less escaped his lips.
All through his agony in the garden,
his trial of cruel moekings before Herod
and PLATE, and his passion on the cross,
| he waited in omnipotenee of patience.
! No glance OF wrath, NO word Of muir
muring, no deed OF vengeance came
| from Gods patient Lamb he waited
and waited on, was patient and patient
to perfection, far exeelling all others
who gloritied God in the fires The
Christ of God wears the imperial
crown among the patient. Did the
0nly-Begotten wait, and shall we be
petulant and rebellious ?-SpHr9eOa. f.
The eagerness of the Japanese for the
Scriptures the past year, writes DIR.
Nathan Brown, from Yokohama, has
been astonishing. FOHr thousand Cos
peis were disposed of and over 10000
smaller portions and tracts. DIR.
Browns principal colporieur has sold
and distributed over l2,000 books and
tracts with his own hands. He is, be-
side, an exborter, and never goes among
the people without giving them an ex-
planation Of his work and what is the
object of selling the books. All Japa-
nese Christians, Rev. Il. II Jones
writes, own Bibles and read them, al
ways turning to the passages referred
to by the preacher in his sermoD--not
a bad habit for Christians Of every race.
During the month of May all the
affairs OF the Virgin in the Roman Gath
olic churches Of Paris were gay with
bowers. The loor spaces ia front Of
those IN the more fashionable shrines
were literally covered with floral wreaths
and bouquets, in many cases with cards
attached to them, on which the fair de-
Potee who deposited it had written
some special request for the Virgins
intereession. At church much FREE
quented by rich worshippers, eonspieu-
Gus among other wreaths was enc of
orange blossoms with q card with the
following inscription 70 blessed
Of II.
and grant it may be mine to wear such
a wreath AS this, standing beside the
husband Of my choice, before the wear
is ended. IN Y. Observer.
4 How important for each one OF us,
seeing that we are utterly imp0tent in
the hands OF the STRONG man armed, y
If we oneetfall into them -how import
ant that we should be living life of
Isfaithl In other words, that the One
stronger than the strong one should