Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-05-05

! N'N "DNose'S "e'eI lOst, Dut, ike bread
upon tne wafer may return to you after
many days.
How often a kindly-spoken word oe a.,
couragement has been the means ~ ,ov;r-
ing the dropping energies Of one. who d;e.
heartened by reverses, has become recklese
and careless OF the course he was pursuing.
but few words Of encouragement. snoker
kindly, has aroused him to new energy, aud
1 brnly ne would press on, surmountinp and
mastering the difficulties which lie in bis
pathway.
! Speak kindly to the aged; their sands Of
life are almost run then let not harsh or
unkind word mar the brightness of their
declining sun.
Speak kindly to those who are lust start.
ing on life's course they have many diff
culties to contend with, and kind words are
very cheering to them.
Speak in kindntss to the young; they are
now in the sunny hours OF youth, their
habits are easily nodded TO surrounding
circumstances, and word spoken in kind
ness or harshness may change the whole
tenor Of their after life. Give them kind
words. striving TO point them up the high
road to honor and integrity; for q harsh,
unkind word may turn their. course down
ward, making them a shame to their family
duu uisnUHuT 10 society.
1t you are parent speak kindly to your
child; Il 1t be little one. tenderly care fer
i'll sympatbize with its little sorrows: tbey
are Just as hard for il to bear now as will
be the trials which must beset its pathway
in later years. Make its journey as bright
as you can; it viii NEE, with enough cf
! rebuff, enough Of cold words and scornful
looks, when it shall have passed from the
hallowed sunlight Of its parents home in
later years.
Remember that the impressions stamped
upon your ehild's mind are taken from your
1 own character; and time or circumstances
can never erase them. Though contact
with the vicious and wicked may even sully
/ their brightness and even cover them with
the drop Of sin, in the hours of silent medi.
tation tho remembrance Of our childhood S
home and the uubroken circle will ever rise
to view as plainly as when the head was
pillowed on mothers breast, or we climb
ed to seat ourselves on the knee of an afec-
tionate father. ....
/ We remember our mothers warm kiss
when we knelt by her side to lisp forth our
evening prayer, aud the tender stroke of
our fathers hand as he brushed back from
our temples the waves Of faxen hair: and,
1 gathering US to his warm heart, would tell
US of the angels in their far off home, and
of the Savior, who dwells beyond the sky.
All! yes we remember when few years
later the dark-winged angel of death spread
her pail over the form Of our noble father,
and, ere the shock was passed, we laid our
darling mother by his side.
We remember the last evening we spent
at home together, ere we separated for new
homes, and other associations; we remem-
ber how like healing balm upon our souls
fell every kind word we received, even
I though it came from a stranger'slips
Speak kindly to your parents; let not
your lips be sullied by speaking one harsh
or unkiRd word to yeur father or mother. -
Think of the hours of toll and care they
have endured for your sake; how in sick
ness fond mother hung ever your pillow,
watching to catch your faintest moan Of pain,
striving to alleviate your sufferings by all
the tender arts of mothers love; mol did
she weary of watching until she saw youin
health and strength again.
Think of the scanned and furrowca brow
of that father who toiled so hard that he
might gain something with which to endow
yeu when in later years you should leave
his protection to mark out your own course
on the highway of life. Then can you. will
you taint your lips by the utteranco of an
unkind word to those to whom you owe ex-
istence.
Are you husband ? IF so speak tender
ly, kindly to her who shares your life who
for your sake. Think how dearly she prizes
kindness. Mark with what care she ar
ranges everything to please your taste
Willingly she resigns the luxuries of wealth,
endures toll, poverty and privation without
one murmur at the change which. perhaps,
your reckless speculations have thrown over
your household.
When you are lain upon bed of sickness
with what untiring care she watches by
: your side; what hand so cool and soft as
hers is pressed upon your burning brow;
whose hand SO tepderly chafes your dry and
fevered palm; who can so nicely prepare the
bitter draught for you to swallow, or who so
lovingly moistens your parched and burning
lips? and, gentle as she is, if necessary her
hand can firmly clasp the lance, or hold the
shattered, broken limb for amputation.
Will you then bring coarse, harsh words
into the precincts ofthat home. for her who
lives for your happiness alonef De you for
get when first you wooed and won heI
young heart? Would you have spoken
harshly to her then? No! worlds would no,
nave tempted you 10 sucn an act. IOC
gained her affections by kind, tender, loving
, words; and is her love OF loss worth in thu
possession than when you sought so hare
to gain it? If it is not, practice the ss,n'
means to keep it by which you gained it
nor think because she is your wife you arr
privileged to pourupon her head the bitter
: ness of your own wrath which you, from mo
tives of self interest, dare not speak to those
with whom your business calls you daily to
associate with. Remember when yoHr Wife
shah have passed away that every unkind
! word spoken to her will haunt your inemsry,
and rise up in acquisition against you.
If you are q wife. kind reader have you
Z ever so far even forgotten your own position
, as to have given your husband an angry
word, that has not been the cause of bittel
:; regret to you in after hours? Then closely
guard your words. Surprising he does com'
o with sullsn tongue and dark and lowering
J, brow; what ii he docs meet your sweet vel
Q come with careless inattsntion, or, per
0 chance, fretfulness; there are no reason
= why you should get angry. No! force bacl
2 the angry retort that rises to your lips; yo1
l l do not know what perplexities he may hav
o had IN ieonfend with during hia businas