The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-02-13
RELIGIOUS.
Tho good are better made BY III,
AS oaors crushed sre sweeter still.


Are words Of cheer;
/ Life has its bhalle. Us valleys deep,
4 Bat round our feet the shadows creep,
10 prove the sunlightnear
ss1he way Of the TransgressOrs is
hard"
i Only short sentence Help one
another.
4 You can never be alone, God is al
ways there
4 The eldest, reliable history is thai
given by Moses.
Jndgaaart IA abused in use, when
used 10 judge others.
Please look for the words Ora titudt
and Trinity in the Bible.
ssThan all other things failus, hope
stands by us to The last.
seTry to live mp hight Escape, il you
oan, the malarious danlps ofthe low
lands"
/ God fashioned the world in beauty,
when there was no eye to-behold them
but his own.
ssBaation has been termed the parent
Of safety, but has often been baffted by
u j7dAA KISS
MANY lose the opportunity of say
ing a kind thing by waiting toweigh
the matter too long.
always havea good stock patience
laid by, and be sure you put 1t where
lyon can easily find it.
.rTaa Bible is adapted to every pos
sible variety of taste, temperament,
culture and condition.
sgTlae wcrIl in general, bows down
to age, gives il precedence and listens
with difference TO its opinions"
Painters have presented us with
forms Of beauty and grace, bnt can
they give ms q correct embodiment OF
Truth?
| Mr.. Moody's Motto. DO all the good
Won ean; 10 all the people You can; In
all the ways lyon can; as long as ever
you can.
| ss5orr0w comes soon enough with
ont dependency; it does man no
good TO carry around a lightning rod
TO attract trouble"
Though I walk through the dark
valley of the shadow of death. j will
fear no eYil," were among the last
words spoken by Webster.
ssWithout trial Won cannot guess at
your own strength. Men do not learn
to swim OH table; they must go into
deep water and buffet the surges"
MEN are frequently like tea, the
real strength and goodness is not prop
erly drawn ont of them till they have
been a short time in hot water" +
THE snow of winter comes and sheds
its white blessings upon the valley and
| the mountains, but soon the sweet
spring comes and smiles it all away"
"A German philosopher has POLITICALLY
and trnthfully said: 1.-THE two most
beautiful things IN the universe are the
starry heavens above our heads and the
sentiment OF duty in the human soul. =
Gods ability is not to be considered
so much In relation to His omuipo-
tence as to His wisdom. The question
/ is not .sWhat can God do?" bnt
"What can he wisely do?n-ELrclaags
ttOnly a few years do we journey
here and we come to that bridge
Death, which transports us as the road
we have travelled, either virtue, happi-
ness and JOY to a happy paradise Of
love, or the road of passion, lust and
vice TO destructive Indebtedness.
II have always fonnd, " said a patron
of. the National Institute at Washing
ton: aIn my scientific Studies, that
when I could get the Bible TO say any
thing on the subject, it afforded me a
firm platform to stand upon, and an
other round in the ladder, by which
could safely ascend"
a good man said: ri expect TO pass
through this world bnt once. Any
good thing, therefore, that j can do,
or any kindness can show to any fel-
low human being, let me do 1t now.
Let me not defer or neglect it., for j
shall net pass this way again"
+ The shortness and uncertainty oil
/ life, taken in connection with the i'm
mense intervals depending tthereupon
I | in the life TO come, constitute q con-
elusive reason why every one should
improve each passing moment and
! 1--we as he will wish he had lived when
I he stands at the bar of God. No one
;. can afford 10 feol away any portion Of
snch life.--N X, Independent.
To abide in Christ is the secret d
perseverance, in well-doing. Work
I. once taken up earnestly and entered
upon with hopes which experience
shows TO have been too sanguiDe, pals
I by degrees upon the taste, becomes
irksome, and at last is discontinued
; So it will be, so it must be, where it il
; either taken mp from lower motives, o.
where we do not habitaally realize tina
5 1t is Gods work we are d0ing--Rev
!, DR. Pi9ou.
There are certain religious Influences
I which are necessary to Christian pro
r eress aud even to life itself. No MAJ
can sfford TO do without them. Ont
side of them it is barreness and death
Q And it is not hard to get outside. lie
every one give mp Bible study, regnla
! attendance on the ordinances Of wQr
!, ship, Christian association and othe
duties and enioyments that religion
properly entertained, furnishes. and b
! viii no longer be within the spher
! thatiEill ensure him safety ClstcGg
\ Standard.
Q Tomorrow is, like the lrainboN
I which, in our childhood, we though
q we could touch by simply running
Z short distance, bnt which, toaour dis
(. may, we found TO reeede as rapidly q
+ we advanced; or, like the horizon
I which we imagined onr steps coul
= easily reach, and we be able to touc
. the sunset glory gliding it. To-mOrrol
: we never see. To-day we hold in
strong grasp. Use it ere it passt
:, away. Time Whirls rapidly on. A
Z the to-morrows will be to-daSs, the
yesterdays, and pass quickly far ava
2 into the past till centuries hide thel
e from all the living. Time is for i
b to nFe. III we waste il, anticipatin
= lfatnre good or future i'll, we lose to-ds
y and all the days rs they go. on, itillou
y Last day will find us barren and ri
4 lovely. Louise Hsyasooa Rsyaolois.
NJ As certain persons were retnrniu
N from the burialscf their dead, the n
mark WAS made. sfWhat sad life "a