West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-09-20
NO. 2.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.


To ID" the mortgage OF all who need.
Every child walks into existence
through the golden gate of love.
People must discuss somcthing-It IL
the great preventive OF insanity.
When ones heart is fun. ono is nor
apt To drop plummet line into IL.
Great souls hold tirmly To heaven and
let the earth roll on beneath them.
Low as the grave Is, only faith can
'limo high enough TO see beyond it..
IL Is not life TO live for ones self
alone. Let as help one ano,her.
Lot your word be your bond. Good
! credit Is a fortune to begin with.
Peace Is such precious jewel. that
l would give anything Tor it hut truth.
Act welt az the moment, aud Won have
performed u good deed to all eternity.
Death Is the funeral of all sorrows
anu evils, and the resurrection of all
joys.
Where one Is tagged, hungry. ana
depressed, the worst seems most proba-
bic.
IL YOU have good health YOU have
nlne-tenths OF all the Lord ever gives
to any man.
lie who has created us with n thirst
aiirr knowledge Will certainly satisfy
that thirst.
Certain sermons are more calculated
to weaken faith than to render men be.
levers.
Men show thcIr character in nothing
more clearly than by what they think
| laughablc.
The grandcst OF heroic deeds are those
"hich are performed within four walls
and in domestic privacy.
lie that does II base thing in zeal for
ms friend burns the golden thread that
Ties their hearts together.
Ihey who respect themselves will be
honored; but they who do not cnrn for
character Will be dcspiscd.
BE alwcys on your guard against th.
utN'Ccs oil wicked mon, when you hap
pen To come in contact with them.
Some people have sortening of the
brain, but the world suffers more from
those who have hardening of the heart
How great ones virtues best apnc,rs
by occasions of adverslty; for occasions
90 not maze II man frall, but show what
lac H..
Rowland Mn said, when he once saw
II boy on u rocking horse, Like some
Christians; motion enough, but no pro-
grcss.
Hard words are like hailstones m
summer beating down and DESTROYING
what, II melted into drops, they wouId
nouTish.
Those who disbelcve In virtue be-
cause man has never been found per-
rect, might as reasonably deny the sun.
because II is not always noon.
1t Is not until the Hover has fallen ol
thnI the iruit begins to ripen. So I'm
ne IL Is when The romance is past thar
the practical useful begins.
The business of liie is TO 20 forward.
he VINO seeks evil In prospect meets H.
on the way; but he who catches il bv
relroSpcctlon, turns back 10 find il.
GOD demands an account OF the past.
ana that we must render hereafter: lie
demands nh Improvement of the pre-
sent, ana this we must attend TO now
The ordinary employment of artiflce
- the mark of u petty mind; and IL al
ways happens that ho who uses IT, to
cover himself Ia one place uncoycrs
himself in another.
SO far Is it. from being true that men
are naturally equal, that no two pcnule
can be half AN hour together but one
shall acquire AN evident superiority
over thc other.
Time goes at its own gait, and YOU
cannot hasten it by using the "spuf of
The momont." You nav ask yonr
friend TO stop u minute" but neither
you nor lac has the power To do IL.
Speak wen Of the absent whenever
you have asuitablc opportunity. Never
speak i'll Of them or OF anybody. unless
you are sure they deserve 10, and unless
it is necessary for their amendment. or
for the safety and benefit Of others.
He VINO climbs above the cares of the
world and turns his face to his God has
found the funny side Of life. The
worlds side OF the hill is chill ana
freezing 10 spiritual mind. but the
Lords presence gives warmth OF ioy
which turns winter into summer.
70 live with our enemies as If they
might one day be our friends. TO be
with our friends as il they might be-
come our enemies, is neither according
to the nature OF hatred, nor i'm accor2
dance with The rules Of friendship. 10
is not % moral, but really political
maxim.
The man who has an empty Gun may
pray, aud should pray that IL NAV be
filled; but he who has q full cup ought
TO pray that he may hold 10 firmly. It
needs prayer iu prosperity that we may
have grace 20 use IL, as truly as 10 needs
prayer i'm poverty that we may nave
grace To- bear It,
Don't live iu hope with your arms
folded. Fortune smiles on those who
roll zap their sleeves and put their
shoulder 90 the wheel that pr0pcls them
on to wealth and happiness. Cut this
OUT and carry 20 about with yOuin your
vest pocket, yC VINO idle iu bar-roOms
or zoo che corner OF the streets.
a muu of genius has always some
particular reason radvcnturing upon
certain work; hc does not take "a sub
icrt by haphazard, but Is moved to it
general by circumstances over which
ho ha- uocoutrol, invariably by Circum-
-tuccs which require TO be- made known
tO thc reader before nc can thoroughly
comprehend aud enjoy thcWork iu ques-
ton
Character alone is immortal. Not
what wc have, but what we are, Us en-
during. Not thIt work in which we
engage outside ct us, but that which
wc carry Ou within as, is everlasting
A wc pass from earth wc shall leave
behind our property, our relationships,
our positions, our regulations, aud we
shall enter thc world with but our
characters that we can call our own.
Wcarc making ourselves for eternity.