The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-04-03

9t tfoul Weal Wqfalf 1a'nliar, up % aeai7 Z
The ffiendship IL the world i En-
ality with God
The written aerdN teaches MS the
way Of salvation.
Tho true cliFsstian Is a member Of
he household 81 Christ.
Dopot pray for cratehef. but pray
far Winas lsAiEitps Broots.
To and sum II addition 10 tie
Bible, .nrn to2 Peter 4 SO.
The church of Christ cannot be run
on worldly plans and methods.
Fin an Thy ways acknowledge Him,
aud IIe shall direct thy paths, 500
Yao5
Blessed aFa the poor in spirit: for
theirs Is the kingdom Of heaven
Christ.
The spirit Of Christ here Is the
shadow, s'so speak," of the real Christ
III Heaven.
One cannot worship money, or
pleasure, or selfish ease, and be trne
worahiper Of God.
Ifyon wish 10 live the life Of a trae
ehrislian, yon mnst leave behind you
al Christless company.
Thanksgiving makes onr prayers
bold and stFong and sweet; feeds and
enSindles them as with Goals Of fire.
LattAer.
u go to prepare a place for yon,
that where ] am there ye may be
also" Christ Is there, aud Heaven is
real place.
Lot your light SO shine before men,
that they may sec your good words,
and glorify your Father, which is in
heaven. Christ
The religions system Of the Bible
is a system of great truths, and arc
i1separably connected with the char
acter and destiny Of men.
II costs something to follow Christ,
and he who takes up the cross and
undertakes to walk ID the footsteps Of
bis Master mnst deny himself
In The cross may be seen the con
ceHtration Of eternal thought, the fo-
Gus Of infinite purpose, the outcome
of illinQitablc wisdom. iSpargson.
Enter ye IN at the strait gait: for
wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth 10 destruction, ,and many
there be which go in thereat. Christ.
Go at once and test the value Of
real christian sympathy, love, mutual
labor, thought and prayer Then you
can bear witness Of the worth of
christian fellowship.
Religious sense is not merely mat
ter Of intellect, bnt largely composed
Of heart purity, which produces q
steady flow Of devotion to God. It ia
the child Of prayer and humble and
deyont meditation.
Tho proud man hath no God; the
enyious man hath no neighbor: the
angry man hath not himself What
good, then, IN being q man, If one
hath neither himself, nor neighbor,
nor GodY Bishop Hall.
"A diligent study Of Gods word,
connected with patient prayer, is
the great developer of reli-
gious sense. Religious sense is God
given, in answer TO prayer aud is very
necessary il Gods work.
In the world there is much TO charm
the ege.and delight the ear, but the
christian when he sets ont on aflifc Of
conservation 10 Christ, leayes ell these
pleasures and associations behind, and
sets bis face toward the home OF
Gods people.
When our christian relation Is such
that we can say Zone Lord, one faith,
one God and Father of ALL VIC have
common faith In Him and it may be
said, we are cemented bysa common
love 10 Christ. How beautiful the
poet has expressed il:
s'alest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in christian love;
The fellowship Of kindred minds
r. like 70 that above"
THE thorn il The 1esl ii Gods best
gift 10 the sonl. Christian reader,
yon have thanked God for roses, fol
rich blessings bestowed aponyon; bnt
have yon ever Thanked God for the
thorn 10 the fiesn III not, try IT,;
may have no beauty or fragrance. buI
II brings ont the sweet uaes Of nd
FeFsity and reminds one that lie |,
only human.
A writer in The New York Observer
says, '.ihere is however, constant
danger present of making the Nor
mon church strong by persecution.
This y equivalent 10 saying be be-
lieyes The Mormon church 10 be a
plant 0f God, and of course, God will
suatain il against persecution. Were
our belief like the writer, we wonld
say hands off, and LET Mormonism
alene; Ills useless TO fight against God.
A little girl not long ago, nor very
far from this, heard her mamma read
the account IN Genesis 0f Gods max
Ing Tie world and resting On the
seventh day, She thought little
while, and then, looking up asked:
sALamma, wasn't that long agos7 Yes,
dssr" HWelI, mamma, I'se goin' 10
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