Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-01
Ghaife Misfellaay.


human happiness in the world is in
debted to this one feeling,-sympath
We get cheerfulness and vigor we scarce
ly know how or when, from mere asso
citation with our fellow-men; and from
the looks reflected on US of gladness anG
employment, we catch inspiration and
power to go on, from human presence
and from cheerful looks. The workman
works with added energy from having
Others by. The full family circle has q
strength and life peculiarly its own.
The substantial good and the effectual
relief which men extend to one another
are trifiing. 1t is not by these, but by
something far less costly that the work
is done. God has insured it by much
more simple machinery. He has given
to the weakest and the poorest power to
contribute largely to the common stock
of gladness. The chfid's smile and laugh
are mighty powers in this world. When
bereavement has left 06d desolate.
what substantial benefit is there which
makes coincidence acceptable? 1t cannot
replace the loved ones you have lost. 1t
can bestow upon you nothing permanent.
But a warm hand has touched yours,
ank its thrill told you thatthere was a
living response there to your emotion.
One look, one human sigh, has done
more for you than the costliest present
could convey"
Translated into its equivalent, money
Just means food and clothing and salu-
brious dwelling. 1t means instructive
books and rational recreation. 1t
means freedom from anxiety, and leisure
for personal Improvement. 1t means the
education of ones children and the
power of doing good to others. And to
inveigh against it, as if it were intrinsi-
cally sinful, is as fanatical as it would
he to inveigh against the bread aud
the raiment, the books and the Bibles,
which the money procures. 1t would be
to stultify all those precepts which tell
US to provide things honest in the sight
of all men; to do good and to communi-
cate; to help forward destitute saints
after godly sort, to make friends of the
mammOn. And as there is
nothing in the Bible to prohibit the &C
quirement of wealth, there is much to
guide US in it's right bestowment. Using
but not abusing Gods bounties, the
Christian avoids both the wastful and
the penurious extremes, and is neither
miser nor spendthrift."
"Whosoever occupies a station of NOR
al influence, a station where his labor
lies among the most perilious materials
with which man can intermeddle, the
the dispositions, the wills of
other people, must have amazing self
or deplorable callousness, if
he is not frequently crushed down by the
;olemnity ofhis position"
"When man comes to front the ever
asting God, and look the splendor of
His judgments in the face, personal in
,egrity, the dream of spotlessness and
innocence, vanish into thin air: your
lecencies, and your church-goings, and
your regularities, and your attachment
% correct school and party, your Cos
Del formulas of sound doctrine,-whati is
III that in front of the blaze of the wrath
o come?
And scepticism, too, how philosophical
oever, and how manly it may appear,
will it rock the conscience with an ever
asting lullaby? Will it make, with all
is reasonings, the tooth of the worm
ess sharp, and the fire less fierce that
moulders inwardly? Let but the plain,
rue man speak. We ask from him no
hetoric. We require no eloquence. Let
linn but say in earnestness, Repent, or
v
idelity got to fall back upon?
There is rest nowhere in this world |
Xcept in Christ, the manifested Love |
# God. Trust in excellence and the |
,etter you become, the keener is the |
ceiling of deficiency. Wrap up all in |
loubt, and there is stern voice that |
will thunder at last out of the wilder |
less upon your dream.
A heart renewed, loving heart, a |
'entinent and humble heart, a heart |
'roken and contrite, purified by love-
hat, and only that is the rest of man.
'potlessness may do for angels,-Re-
entance unto Life is the highest that
elongs to man,
Like the Caspian Sea, which has
ONE unseen way of dispesing of its
yaters, so that whatever rains come
own, and whatever rivers flow in, its
reat gulf never fills, and never a rill
uns out from it again, so there is
reedy, all-devouring selfishness which, /
,hatever rivers of pleasure flow into it,
nd whatever mighty bursts of heaven
bounty exhaust their fulGess
yer it, always cOntrives to dispose of
ne whole in the caverns and subterra-
eous passages of its capacious egotism
the most mare internaGn1 of self-with-
ut one drop overflowing in kindness to
ian, or gratitude to God" ....
This is a great principle, and not to
e lost sight of-the weakness of oppres-
on, the terrible strength ofthe oppress-
!. L do not allude to the elasticity of
lie human heart, that is very great, and
apt, sooner or later, to heave off des-
,tisms and every sort of incubus. 1 do
ot so much allude to that; for, elastic
Tough it is, it sometimes has been .
ushed. But allude to that all-inspect- ,,
g and all-adjusting Power which con-
OILS the affairs of men; for on the side
the oppressed is Omnipotence, and the
est deathless of foes is victim" :
Much as you have heard of glutted ,
arkets and redundant population, :
u will find that there is yet no sur !
us of tradesmen, or servants. or schol- ,
S, who with exalted piety combine !
ofessional excellence. Large as is the :
emulation of people who through in i
lent mediocrity never get on, you will .
I'd no glut of talented goodness, or of :
telligence in union with principle.
,u will find that there is now enough !
: all who are really able to serve their
:
''While you always feel that when =
er there is admiration of the great and !;
cd there is the germ of principle, the n
of eminent excellence; so, be i
the homely peasant or the village 9
triarch, be it the philosopher, always n
using before he uttered Name Stt- n
ense, OF IsraePs law-giver putting his +
oes from off his feet on Horeb's holy
ound, you always feel that to realize b
aven's majesty is itself majestic, and =
at there is nothing in itself more ven :,
able than habitual veneration.n =
Most books are like the marine = =
edusa: fresh stranded, newly publish :,
, they make good show; but when q n n
v suns have shone on them, the crys- =
jelly melts, the glittering cupola has =
nished and n few meaore fibres in "