The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-04-18
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~ ArnaAL AND TIE REgT.oRsE

TIE APPEAL AND THE RESPONSE.
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s'Thls poor nam cried, and The Lord heard
THE APPEAL.
Whea our hearts are bowed with woe,
When or bitter tears overflow,
When we mourn the lost, and dear,
Jesus Son OF Mary, hesri
Thou orr feeble flesh hath worn,
Theu our mortal gTidfs hath borne,
Thou hast shed the human tear,
Jesus, Son Of Mary, hear
THE KEEroEsE.
When the poor saan raised his cry,
When no other help was nigh,
Hare not inclined mine ear
HAve once declined TO heaFg
Yes, know your feeble frame,
Mine was once In All the same;
Hence, come your hearts TO cheer
See the Son Of Mary, here!
IN. 7. obsgssz.
Flattery is a species Of false coin
which only our vanity enables to pass
current.-La RoehefouoaHid.
Saints are not an eminent sort of
christians, but all christians are saints,
and he who is not SAINT is not a
chrisfian.-Maelaren.
There is as much need to watch
over grace as TO watch over sin; full
men win soon sleep, and sooner than
hungry men."-S. RHtaerford.
The more believers love God, the
more they love one another; as the
lines of circle, the nearer they come
to the centre the nearer they como to
each other.-ChGrROek.
EYoi:stion stands by to note calmly
the survival Of the fittest in the strug-
gle for existence Christianity goes
to work TO make something more fit
to survive.-G has. S. Stockton, n. d.
When by a good mans grave muse alone,
Methinks an angel sits upon the stone
Like those of old on that thrice hallowed
night,
Who sat and watched in raimcnt heavenly
And with voice inspiring joy, not fear,
Says, pointing upwards, that he is not here,
That be is risen. --iSaEaael Rogers.
The peace of some is rather found
cd IN wrath to the saints than love
among themselves they are united
but how? No otherwise than Sam
sons foxes, to do mischief TO others,
rather than good to themselves
GarRaY
To avenge ones self is 10 confess
that one has been wounded but it is
not the part of noble mind to be
wounded by an injury; a great mind,
and one which is conscious of its own
worth, docs not avcnge an injury, be-
cause it does not feel it.--Seneca.
"No callers on Sunday" is Presi-
dent CIeVeland's public announcement.
That needs TO be printed in every
newspaper in the land and repeated in
every pulpit. And we quite agree
with the Christian at Work that if
the busy head of 100000 of peo-
pie can transact his business six days
in the week and have Sunday to him /
self, how about the smaller heads and
little bosses? In this regard the
President has set an example worthy
of national emulation.-N. o. Chris
tiap AdVocafe.
A holy life is made up of a number
of small things little words, not elo-
qnent speeches or sermons; little
deeds, not miracles nor battles, nor
one great heroic act OF mighty mar
tyrdom, make up true Christian life.
The little, constant sunbeam, not the
lightning the waters of Sloan "that
go softly" in the meek mission of re-
freshment, not the "waters of the
river, great and many" rushing down
in NOISY torrents, are the true symbols
of q holy life. The avoidance of little
eviis. little sins, little Inconsistencies,
little weaknesses, little follies, iDdis-
cretions and imprndences, little fol.
blqs, little indulgences of the flesh
the avoidances of such little things as
these 60 far TO make MP, at least, the
negative beauty of holy Iife.--Boaar
Many persons are very fastidious
about being saved; they desire not
only salvation but to be saved in a
very genteel way; the agent must be
in every way very respectable. They
will Cypress and wear out aspopular
preacher with solicitations for his
help, and at the same time neglect
aud despise the prayers Of their next
door ncigllbor, who though poor and
without reputation is rich in faith and
T. most competent guide to souls.
They desire salvation, in way, but
confine its operations TO some popular
and pleasant agent whose ministry and
attention will confer notoriety on
them and feed the fame of their van
sily. One Of this kith came mp to DR..
J. L. Gotten, of Alabama, while wait
ing at a depot, and in half drunken
state said, doctor Gotten, ! want yon
to pray for me, don't want any Of
these one horse preachers to pray for
mc."-.St. Louis Christian Adgocate.
As a stimulus TO young men we
Gull out the following: Alexander the
Great died at -thirty-three. Napoleon
had achieved all his victories at thirty
seven. Washington was twenty-seyen
when he coVerd the retreat nf the
British army under Braddeck, and
not forty in l776 At thirty-three,
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of In
dauandanaa 1aAf fh:rf., Has..;It,,a
helped TO frame the Consultation Of
the United States. At twenty-three,
Melanethon wrote the Loci Conmaaes,
which passed through fifty editions in
hislifeiime. At thirty-three, he wrote
the Augsburg Confession. At twenty
nine. Ursinus wrote the Heidelberg
Catecliism. Zwingle wrote his chief
works before forty, and died at forty
six. At the Disputation Of Leipsic,
| Luther WAS lhirty-fve; NJ the Diet Of
| Worms, thirty-seyeB. AT twenty