The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-01-16
RELIGIOUS.

Down with the ambition avsriee, pride,
Jealousy, down chi Oh from the mind
The bitter springs Of anger and fear;
Down, too, down al your own iresfde,
With the evil tongue and the sviIye
For each Is at war with mankind. /"
There is noreligion without prayer.
Virtue is the sonrs grandest orna-
ment.
Those vino have no time to think,
mnstifiHd time TO die.
In order to die comfortably we
should live righteoasly.
Earthly wisdom is. perislIable, spirit
nal knowledge is life eternal.
There are some Christians who ae-
tnally make sacrifices for Christ.
Cana church expect to be blessed
that neglccts the ordinances of Gods
house?
May / be endowed with courage to
come out and be separate frem a ain
ful world.
Every Christian heart has melodies
within, If we only knew the keys that
make them ring.
Hunbleness OF mind, meekness of
Spirit and charity shonld be theresnlt
of all onr thoughts.
5el6shness is one Of the most sub
tile Influences with which the Chris
tian has TO contend.
The transition from .'All of self and
none Of thee" to .None of self and
all of thee" is sublime.
Watch against formality in your
devotions. tits heartfelt prayers that
are alone acceptable to God.
Resolve to strive always to make
Others happy, and you will be sure. to
have a happy year.-Baptist Record.
What more eonsoling thought can
the wayworn Christian have, than to
remember that he has an advocate
with the Father.
Christian If your chief aim in life
be not to serve the Master, you had
better examine yourself to see whether
you are in the faith or not.
Christianity is Christ in teaching,
in Spirit and in practice Therefore,
Christianity is pre-eminently the re
ligion Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Record.
The mists that hang over the Chris
tian5s way seem more dense at dis
tance. Courage to enter them, and
grace to scatter them comes alone
from God.
1t requires courage for the Christian
to let 90 work that is tempting to
the natural mind, to engage in the
work for the Master when all seems
dark and dreary.
When we are most filed with
heavenly love, and only then, are we
best fitted to bear with human in
trinity, to live above it and forget its
burden.-Maria Hare.
The welfare of onr souls should be
our first consideration. "What shall
it profit.a man If he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul, or what
will a man give in exchange for his
SOUP
The best of a book is not the
thought which it contains, but the
thought which it suggests, just as the
charm Of music dwells not in the
tones, but intthe echoes of our hearts.
Star.
viii not the moralists of cur day
be among those, who at the last day
shall claim an entrance into the celes
tial city upon the plea of "good
works" and who shall receive the
fearful sentence "depart."
The first knowledge that man
should endeayor to obtain is the
knowledge of himself. Know myself,
said the philosopher, aud by those
words gained immortal fame. Reader,
II you would know myself, study the
Bible.
Never be overcome with outward
difficulty; all of us have our troubles
and cares, and more than half of them
are Of our own making. To despond
is childish; to despair is faitbless; to
abandon all hope of Gods help is
wicked.
l had the liberty this day to ask
the Lord TO show me the shortest and
surest way to holiness. Many things
were shown me, which i hope to put
10 practice, but, above all, it was inn
pressed on my mind, to live by faith.
Life of Mrs. Fletcher.
Sincerity is the soal Of an effeetual
and when good and pious
man lneels down in HBfeigned hu-
mility to ask the blessings of Heaven,
10 bis chamber, Or in the
God will not be- extreme TO
mark either his error or his ignor-
snee IN asking.
"a criminal loses none Of has faeul-
ties at condemnation. The picture Of
freedom, as seen from his barred win
dow, has new charms; the misery Of a
prison is increased by experience. So
heaven will be dearer, and hell more
terrible TO the lost, than the heart had
conceiyed.--Sermons for Silent Sab
baths.
1t isnot the ''desh" NOR the tseye,"
nor the life which are forbidden,
but it is tho Lust of the flesh and the
lust Of the eyes and the pride of life
II issnot this earth, nor the men who
il, nor thesphere of legitimate
activity that we do NOT love, but the
way IN which the love is given
which constitutes worldliness. "a. w.
Robertson.
Itais,gsry easy to fofebesr stealing
other mems goods, batlhard MOTTO 90
mnehas eeYet or desire them; very
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