The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-07-17
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1have aat God always before me
Dapsd.
Hamility and not Pride enters thu
door II hoavsn.
The aoat Of salvation Is in Chris
and Christ Is ii God.
Tho Scriptures eontain thirteen let
tiers written BY Paul.
Gods power h powcr withoni
limit u apane 81 duration.
The seat If intellect is in the niinc
ard the mind i III the person.
Tho beat evidence we have Of Chris
tianity y d living, moving Christian.
"a doubleminaed man. says st
james, is unstable in al his ways
Trne religion resists the natural pro.
pansity, bat false religion falls in
withit.
God is the great intelligent being al
the head Or creation, and from whose
will 1t proceeded.
He that overcometh evil shall in.
herit al things ;and ] will be his God,
and he shall be my son"
A holy act strengthens the inward
holiness. Itisa seed of lie growing
into more life.=IeoJsyteoa.
1letns not forget our dependence
upon God to him we owe all that we
have yea, onrvery existence.
Tho burrows may seem very long to
us, bnt we should remember that God
never fails to SOW blessings in them.
Are yon spiritually blindl Come
to Jesus for lie is the light of the
world, andlh can fully restore your
sight
The sooner we learn to bowiinhum-
bic submission to Gods will, the soon
er will peace come into onr troubled
hearts.
Jesus knows onr weakness, and the
sins that beset us; then let as come
boldly unto him, and not yield to
these sins.
In speaking Of Gods Knowledge we
say it is infinite knowledge OF infinite
wisdom; we therefore use the term
0mniscent.
The acts of mind form the ex-
istenec of a mind, and in whatever a
mind resides 1t is called person.
Hence the personality Of our Saviour.
Work, onthe Sabbath day, is an
enemy to physical welfare, totally
against intellectual interests and de-
strnetiyet to domestic and social rela-
tions.
In speaking Of the power Of God we
speak Of It as omnipotent, because that
power which can create such a world
as this, must be, beyond all compar-
ison, greater than any we ever expe-
rience ourselves.
The Herdld and Presbyter says,
'oThe eause Of Sabbath observance is
making gratifying progress in quarters
unexpected. The laboring classes be-
gin to see the terrible tyranny
Of work, The week through, without a
day Of rest"
Reader, do yon believe that the
works of nature proceed from an in
telligent beingg If so, act like you
believed it. Acknowledge like a man
shonld, that this world had an anthor,
and then acknowledge that author to
be God,--AVeaeH
The great ship at sea never thinks
ofithe harbor when the sun is shining
and the waves are at rest; 1t is only
when the storm breaks that she dis
covers her need Of safe harbor. So
we,must all be shown our feebleness,
in order that we may seek and ao-
knowledge the safe harbor, Jesus
Margaret s. Tenant.
Paul in Romans says, But now
20 INTO Jerusalem to minister unto
the Saints. For it hath pleased them
of Macedonia and Achaia TO make a
certain contribution for the poor Saints
which are in Jerusalem" To the
Corinthians be said, stConcerning the
collection for the Saints, as ] have
riyen order to the churches of Galatia,
even so do ye. Upon the first day of
the week let every one of you lay by |
in store, as God hath prospered him,
that there be no gatherings when |
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