The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-02-20
RELIGIOUS


me Dooy IS the earthly home OF
Gods love is boundless, il cannot
be surveyed
God is able in danger, to defend
and lo.deliycr
ssDo good with what thou hast. or It
viii DO thee 10 good"
Man has an enemy that is consantly
stealing away his reason.
Let rs try to make earth like
heaven as speedily as possible.
Night and day instruct and talk of
divine truths, always with prayer.
God weighs onr character, and his
hand is writing our life every day.
wine iniiames the brain and only
fits the mind for greater deeds Of
evil
Let MS warn those we love against
presnming too far upon Gods tender
mercy"
We retain friends by ministering in
some way to their interest, or their
enjoyment
4 "When amusement becomes the
chief aim of life, many sins are sure
TO swarm around"
off God had meant man to retro
grade, BE would have placed an eye
in the back Of his hcad.''
/ Make a quarter Of an hours medi-
tation every day, says st. Teresa, and
] will promise you heaven.
Allwho trust in their own righteous
ness for salvation, will be found of
light weight at the last day.
IF you intend to do a mean thing
wait until tomorrow. If yon are to
do noble thing, do it now"
Gold may destroy forests, build cities
and railroads, but it cannot give alice
tion. "a wIfe's affection, like the
grace Of God, is given, not bought"
"a mother has an nnerring instinct.
The immense, mysterious will of Gre
alton is within her, and guides her.
Hers is an instinct superhumanly en-
lightened."
The power of music is next to ON
nipotent. Under its influence men
have answered to their countryis call,
and many have been forced to bow
down and worship.
Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not
for me, but weep for yourselves and
for your children" Words spoken by
our Savior to weeping women who
followed him to Calvary.
We seldom know it is the last op-
portunity until it is gone. Then it is
too late. Improve the present oppor-
tunity, and if you are called suddenly
to appear before God you will be
ready.
Young man don't forget that the
wheels in your life need oiling. Kind
words, loving looks, and unsellish &C.
lions cost little, but are worth more
than gold Alas, do we not too often
forget it p Watchnaan.
In India they bring children and
throw them to the crocodiIes, and it
seems very cruel; but the jaws of New
York and Brooklyn dissipation are
swallowing down more little children
to-day than all the monsters that ever
erawled upon the bank of the Ganges.
-TalBaage.
The following was handed to bns-
band by his wife on the eve of his
departure from home: ItAnd Jacob
vowed a VOW, saying, If God will be
with me, and will keep me 10 this way
that 60, and will give me bread to
eat, and raiment to put on, so that /
come again to my fathers house in
peace; then shall the Lord be my God:
And this stone, which / have set for a
pillar, shall be Gods house; and of all
that thou shalt give me ] will surely I
give the tenth unto thee
Young man, don't attempt TO live
on the past. The soul grows by feed
ing every virtue and grace is deyel-
oped by food and exercise. There
fore seek continually for new supplies.
Study regularly and diligently the BIZ
bic. You can't understand it all at
once. But take such portions as You
do understand and dwell upon snch /;
passages till you get help. Successive
reading and studying of the same pas
sages, will each lime open up new and
.precious thoughts. Continue at it.
Don't live on your past experience or
yonr strength will soon begin to fail.
HyateAmaR. Il
Do not keep alabaster boxes of your
love AID tenderness sealed up until
your friends are dead. Fill their lives
with sweetness. The things Won mean
to say when they are gone, say before
they go. The flowers you mean to
send for their collins, sand TO brighten
and sweeten their home. before they
leave them. If my friends have ala
baster boxes laid away full of per.
fumes ofsympathy and affection which
they intend to break over my dead
body | would rather they would
bring them out now, in my weary
hours, and open them that ! may be
refreshed and cheered. Baptist
Weeklg.
We may never have to be burned at
the stake for the truths sake. But z
we are called each day to show forth
in our life the Sasior's gentleness and
mildness. Let us watch and pray for
meekneas. Not forgetting that soft
words turn away anger a hundred
petty, yet vexiug occurrences arise IN
our lives constantly, and we have