The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-09-25
RELIGIOUS.


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And II his hands the tanglei thread we
place
OF our poor. blind weaving with slammed
face.
All trust az onrs He surely win keep,
Sc, tired heart-e God knoWs-gO thou 60 work
oraleepl --HaRaah CodaiRgto1.
Divine favor is fortune.
What is eternity to you
IFpfiglltwalking 10 sure walking.
How often do you think Of Heaven ?
Follow after holiness; it win repay
yonr pursuit.
The great storehouse of true wealth
Is with God.
Purity is the letter "a" in the alpha
bet Of morality.
Exaggeration is the least or second
cousin 6f falsehood.
All that is disgraceful about poverty
Is Of our own make.
The law Of the Lord is perfect, com
forting the soul.---DdVid.
1t is a good thing to learn canton
by the misfortune Of Others.
The misfortunes Of ignorance are
the blessings of wisdom.
Opposing God is fearful under
taking. How many try it =!
None but fools have an excuse for
criticising the wisdom Of God.
God fails not to sow blessings in the
long furrows.---Jerezsy Taylor.
1t is wise to be prepared for evil,
but better to be out Of its reach.
The true way to enjoy life is by
living up to the principles that sus-
tain it.
Humble love, and not proud
science, keeps the door Of heaven
Young.
He that can feast upon another's
misery, vexation or disappointment,
has a most unhealthy soul.
Prayer is little wheel that is cog
ged in the mighty machinery that runs
the uniyerse.--E. r. CarswsEI.
God bends in loving kindness over
us waiting tillwe bend our knee before
Him, then He will bless and make us
happy.
The excellence Of Christianity con
sists in Tightening the worlds load of
care and sorrow with the least amount
of gusto.
'There is more folly in a mans
heart than in his head. Foolishness
stands first in the dark catalogue of
eyil."-Ron. 1921.
Let no man think that God put one
pain, one pang moro than was neces-
essary on Jesus. 1t took it all to pay
the dept.--,S.J. anderson.
If you have mother in heaven,
and should she feel for you as she did
while here, how her heart yearns to
speak to you, her erring child.
Christ in His temptation had to
make the fight alone. We do not
have to make it alone. He said, 40,
am with your. T. Hanks.
The only freedom ] care abont is
the freedom to do right the freedom
to do wrong ] am ready to part with
on the cheapest terms to any one who
will take it.
The Methodist denomination is said
to build church day. The Baptists
do as much. Probably not less than
live million dollars year are expended
for churches.
"What will the world sayq' What
win it says Why, probably the world
will say nothing about you, as it cares
nothing about you. What is the
world, pray 3--Hugh iSto,OeH BroWl
There is no knowledge for which SC
great price is paid as knowledge
of the world and no one ever became
an adept in it except at the expense
of hardened and wounded heart
Countess Of Blessington.
There is vast difference between
hating evil and hating an evil doer
We should love the most malicious
sinner, and at the same time abhor hi
polluting sin. For this is Just VIVA
the Savior has been doing for us.
More than Christ ] can neithe
wish, nor pray, nor desire for you.
am sure the saints are at best bu
strangers to the weight and worth o
the Incompatible excellence of Christ
We know not the half we love, whel
we love Him.-Samaet Rutherford.
If the Northern and Southern Pres
byterian Churches were united, say
the Presbyterian, there would be
church extending to every part of tn,
country, with 8,479 churches, 6,69,
ministers and sos, 55l members. TIL,
income of these Presbyterian bodie
amounts to nearly SI2,000,000.
A young missionary from the West
0 delegate to the American Home
Mission Society, writing TO his wife
from Saratoga, reports that among the
fashionable crowd be saw one young
lady whose "costume was worth Just
one meeting house, twenty.three Sab
bath-school libraries and forty cottage
organsi"
An unknown man stepped up TO
Brother Talmage and said "Well,
cir, | am an eyolutionist and / want
to discuss that question with you. II
am also an annihilaLionist. j believe
thai when | die that will be the end Of
me- 'sfhank God for thatl" devoutly
slacplated MT. Talmage, as be walked
eR ana letttheman perfectly dazed.
khe 4lsaspessasat says that since his
poEnlnatlon fpF q Governor ii New Ter
ses Aen Clinton B. Flax has received
1ssAe1A from 100 slesgyiaen md 5000
women, ~eonpimantlng him on the
brave stand he has taken Tor temper.
anee, and urging him never u piye IL
the bnttie until drink u a.;..ass ~. y