Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-05-06
Ghuife asaisffllanu.

Ch1lff a1SfRllahg.
Vice stirgs Us even in our pleasure,
hut virtue consoles US even III our pains.
You and L, dear reader, are brother
to the worm, and corruption is our SIS
When a rich man has made his for
tune, he wins six foot of earth and
nothing more. A pauper hath as mucll.9
Carefully avoid those vices which
most resemble virtue; they are a thou
sand times the most eIsnaring of all
vices. ,-s salsEssi2 - > ~
There are two things which ought to
teach as to think meanly of human
glory: the very best have had their ca
1umniators, the very worst their pane
gyrists. afs Ei EaE
With regard to manner, be careful to
speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving
way. Even when you have occasion to
rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest
kindness. The effect will be incaieula-
bly, better. aeiua $50
Ifthere is q man who can eat his
bread in peace with God and man, ii is
the man who has brought that bread
out of the earth. It is cankered by. no
fraud, it is wet by no tears, it is stained
by no blood. 80. -.
A good man being observed to be as
cheerful in adversely as he had been in
prosperity, assigned as a reason-When
/ had everything about me, Il enjoyed
God in ell; and now have nothing, i
enjoy all in God. asa assrsse s-.o5
Life is short; and books are often
long, and always multitudinous. Some
books are merely to be tasted of, others
TO be wholly rejected, while only a
moderate number are to be thoroughly
read and carefully digested-
There is nothing purer than honesty,
nothing sweeter than charity. nothing
warmer than love, nothing brighter
than virtue, and nothing more steadfast
than faith. These united in one mind,
form the purest, the sweetest, the rich
est, the brightest, the holiest and the
most steadfast happiness. y.i...
ASSEMBLING into one view all things
in the world that are important, and
should be dear to mankind, II distinguish
the Christian cause as the celestial soul
of the assemblage, ,eYincing the same
and dchailenging the same
emphasize passion, which, in any other
case, nilsd does beyond the Inferior ele
ments; and have no wish of eqsef en-
ergy with that which aspires to the most
intimate possible connection with Him
who is the life of this cause, and the life
Of the world.p .s ~
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I'VE have, in ordinary life, plenty of
common-sense philosophy, and very lit
tie poetry. The man who squares every
action of his life with the laws. of com
nonsense, is bigger fool than he whose
actions are frequently inexplicable Oh
any ground of self-interest or prudential
reason.er Common sense, ,saswe really dc
fiud itsin the world, is the translation OF
meanness into. aaxins-is the aIm0r
which the eeemmon-place put on to de-
fend themselves against the assaults OF
enthusiasm, generosity. and impulse. F"
1.-THE duty of man as man, is thought.
This is his distinctive regal duty Pity
and love may aid and cheer him, but as
sovereign worker in this world, his duty
is goverance, guidance-in one word,
thought. And in order to this, he must,
with valiant calmness, knew in all
cases the worst
To bear all naked truths
And to unvisage circumstance all calm
That II the the top of sovereignty
No man is qualified to be public
guide, or instructor of men, whs can not
more or less do this; and a man gener-
ally is mighty in proportion as he can.do
it, and has q love strong enough to dare
it.n :s =. - 20
1.-THE sternest task ever attempted by
q nation is that of inaugurating and sup
porting freedom. The man who governs
his own spirit has been, on supreme au-
thority, pronounced greater than he who
takes city; this man has attained per-
sonal freedom. National freedom is
simply the government of his own spirit
by q nation. It is the attempt on the
part of q man, to have will chain
less as that of the widest lib-rtine,
and yet live and work with united
energy under wisdem'se law. To
attain true freedom seems to us to de-
mand the very last agony national
effort, the severe and final endeavor by
which a free people at length reaches its
throne"
A Christian is one whe is positive A
moral man is vine that does not bear
fruit. But then it bears everything
else-goed Ieayes, a good strong stem, a
healthy root,-everything that is good
and nice in it, except the fruit. A
Christian man is one that develops
eraces into positivity. He acts out OF
himself and upon others. A moral man
is like .anssempty bottle, well corked
SO that no defilement can get into it-so
that it may be kept pure within. Pure?
II. se.f H. <>f 1<.ff 4. 81.
pure, if it is empty and corked up? "A
moral man. / repeat, is a negative He
does not swear, he does not steal, and
he does not murder, and he does not get
drunk, and his whole life is not. His
language is "Thou shalt not" and
Thou shalt not" and "Thou shall
not" He is not all over, and nothing
more! He is not positive. :
1T has. in all ages, been prerogatire
Of Christianity TO plant and foster do
mestic feelings and felicities. We would
figure the religion of Jesus, as waikirp
among men and offering them two gresI
boons; in one hand she holds the treas
ures of Immortality, in the other are the
mild blessings oflfome. Philosophy has
even been high, remote, and unpartici
pating; in her giittering robes, she treads
in maje sty along the highplaces of tire
wsrld, amid light that scarce mingles
with earth's atmosphere, but falls on the
eternal snow, acoid, Intellectual light,
which has never yet brighi ened The
cloud of u1ispeakable sadness resting Oh
her brow. "a high task is hers, and we
shall pay her all honor; but let us dwell
rather with Christianity in the valleys
and in the clefts of the rock, where sid
spreads thenuptial couch, and lights the
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