The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-10-02
RELIGIOUS.


Strength can conquer circumstances
Nations decay when selfishnes.
reigns.
Honesty and trnthfulness 60 to
gether
The Enowledge Of Christ is life
eternal.
Hate selfishness, for it is a fountain
of innumerable evils.
Abont The only way to cure conceit,
If Inherited, is to die.
The man who IS left ont of heaven
viii never be left again.
The devil should have credit for one
thing He rewards all alike.
Court not the selfish, for they SOW
The seeds of disappointment.
Run from sellishness as you would
from fire; they both seoreb.
We measure God by our sentiments.
God measures Us by His love.
1.-THE hope Of France" says Bishop
Dnpanloupe, ans in its mothers"
AS man grows in wisdom be learns
how independent the world is of him.
For every family contention Satan
puts an extra pound Of fat on bis ribs.
Half Of mankind lies awake nights
thinking how to outwit the other half.
Unsparingly denonnce selfshness,
for it is the implacable enemy of good.
Have / been 80 long a time with you
and hast thou NOT known me- Christ.
He that hath my commandments
and keepeth them he it is that loveth
me.
Good actions give strength to our
selves and inspires good actions in
others.
The more devoted we are to pleas
nre the less we think of our fellow
creatures.
Love is the true revealer of secrets,
because it makes one with the object
regarded.
1t is wiser to think soborly and feel
as you think than to think as you
happen to feel.
Enormously does he calculate who
thinks he serves his country best who
serves himself most
Jesus said, Heaven Is my father
glori6ed. If ye bear much fruit, so
shall ye be my disciples"
a copy Of a sermon preached by
John Knox 32l years ago was sold the
other day in London for $2075.
zone of the greatest dangers" says
Smiles, "that beset the youth of Eng
land is laziness." Ditto for the youth
of America.
He that filches from me my good
name, robs me of that which inriches
him not and makes me poor indeed
Shakespeare.
"God loves cheerful giver" says
the Scriptures. Not that be loves a
cheerful giver more than cheerful
door, but He would teach us to give
aceeptably.
A mans wisdom appears by his &C
tions, for every man is the son of his
own works. "Good deeds" says
Richter, "ring clear through heaven
like a bell"
Nothing prevents the salvation of
the greatest sinner on earth but his
own inherent depragity and voluntary
rejection Of the gospel.---Baptist
Church Manual.
"A young man told DIR. Parr he
could believe nothing be could not
understand. "Tben, sir" said the
Doctor, "your creed would be the
shortest of any man | ever knew"
''Blcssed is the man who makelh the
Lord his trust" To trust God is to
have faith. To have faith is to pro
duce obedience Hence none are
blessed save those who obey after all.
AT the Methodist Conference re-
Gently closed in Dublin, Sir William
Macarthur gave $500 toward the
erection Of a new building on the
Methodist College grounds at Belfast,
where young women may be educated.
Sneering critics say camp-meeting
converts do not hold ont. If they
hold out long enough to go to bed
sober once the novel condition will do
them good. If they break down after
a while have them converted again.
No harm is done.--N o. PicGysine.
Our adornments in heaven will be
The most admirable traits of God gra-
cionsly bestowed upon us. In the
Christian on earth you see poor
erring creature. In the saint on high
yon will see q glorifed vessel contain
ing Christ. "We have this treasure
in earthen vessels"
How little of the Journey from the
cradle to the pearly gate one travels
who only goes that road from dying
bed to heaven. The thief who died
with Christ on the cross travelled that
road only a few moments. st. John
was on the way for nearly one hun
dred years There is q reward for
every hour we travel "the straight and
narrow way.'
Hon. William McMaster, of Toronto,
gives the Baptists Of Canada another
$250,0o0 for educational purposes.
They say up there that years ago be
loved money and chung to it, but he
was induced to make q large gift and
that put a good taste in his mouth,
and now be gives like man putting
outfire- profoundly in earnest.--Rieh-
uaond Religious Hsruld.
Ray y. r. Hammond il holding
iAesilnga n Chsiatiania, Norway, ID q
lAFas hall which il crowded night III
YER nlalst. The desire II lie people |
2 hear she tFush Is % great that they
aTe reluctant TO Leave ii tho .close of
tho services. M. Hammond consid !.
ers these the most remarkable meet
ings he has held in his long career a.