The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-02-06
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He who Is engagel Tor Gods truth
SHALL never want Gods help
Pray not to the Savior, hut to tla,
Father, in the Sayior's name.
The Holy Spirit willnat GlwellIi ia The
heart where selfishnass reigns.
A life Of conservation TO the service
of God viii dignity your being
Scatterseedsof kindness If Won, would
reap a harvest Of trne friendship and
love.
10 CRAFTY the flesh, is to destroy the
spirits comfort, if not the souls saliva
tion.
Christ has a service for all his mem
beers. ''Ye are many members, but one
body"
There is work for gou; God has
something for gou 10 do and nobody
else can do ii.
You have nothing to boast of. If yen
are sayed, you are simply sinner
saved by grace.
Prompt decision islthe only safety
when solicited TO do wrong; to parley
is to surrender"
THE christian religion is both perfect
and progressive; perfect in its work and
progressive in its fruits.
The fear of man will make as hide
sin, but the fear of the Lord will make
us hate it.-Rsr. ". H. Gro4t.
"a christian is the highest style of
man because he alone has utilized ali
his powers in the best direction"
'tfoodness is needfll TO trne great
ness, Just as it is necessary for true
greatness to be allied to goodness. <
sfTrue goodness reiines and e1alts
wherever it secures obedience, infia-
ences the mind, or controls the life"
A man there was, though some did
count him mad The more he cast
away, the more he had.-Jodn BNnyaa.
Shall we llnoWeeach other there, has
been asked. DO we know each other
here Is q far more important eonsidera-
tlon,
Though am emptied Of all, yeti
have an ine1ha4stile fitness In Jesus,
to supply me with ALL want and all /
hope.
"a sound christian is not afraid 10 be
examined, and sifted to the bottom !: for
he can give a reason for the hope that
is in him
To have your name registered on the
church book Will be of little service
unless it is first written In the Lambs
Book Of Life,
Let us begin our heaven on earth,
and being ourselves tempted, let us be
pitiful and considerable and generous in
Judging others"
The poor man, Of all men, should be
8 christian. To have no comforts here
and no hope of any hereafter, is to be
miserable, indeed
-sSelf-will ever accompanies ignor-
sDce of ourselves, and of truth and is
generally attended with hcentioas prin-
eiples and practices.
's(Hod has more than one way of de-
liveFance from trouble; he may save rs
from Ill /, or he may use the Ill to work
Tor us q greater good.
The fact that a small proportion of
inns generation are accepting Chrast,
Is no eyldence that the plans and efforts
'oi 1ehtlshans are not we'll directed and
'zea1ously made.
From the beginning of its Foreign
missionary work, fifty-three years ago,
the American Methodist Episcopal
I1arell ms expended m that cause
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The aro,,5l man hail, M Col. fl,e ..,,.
Yions man hath no neiehbor: the angry
man hath not himself. What good,
then. in being a man, AZ one has neither
himself. nor neighbor, nor God 3isAop
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