West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-02-21
NO.24.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

sp0"NS injury cioqucntly than ability la
the pulpit.
Man has to go out and seek his path;
woman's path usually lies close undor
her feet.
When peoples feelings have got A
deadly wound they can't be cured by
! faVors.
Pleasure Is the mere accident of our
being, and work It's most natural and
| molly necessity.
Men seldom improve when they have
no other models than themselves to
copy.
You cannot dream yourself into a
character; you must hammer and forge
| yourself one.
TO be comfortable and contented.
| spend less than you earn, an art which
! few have learned.
lhe hrst time man deceives you, the
fault is his; IL he deceives you the sec
ond time, tho fault Is your own.
People are apt To fall i'm love with
/ those who aro beautiful at sight. But
| TO retain love, one must have truth.
| tenderness and coustancy.
we appreciate no pleasures unless we
are occasionally deprived OF them.
Restraint Is the golden rule of enjoy
| mont.
Civility Is In itself fortune. for 4,
! courteous man always succeeds In life.
even when persons OF greater ability
| sometimes fail.
Good temper Is like n sunny day: It
she 8 brightness over everything; IL
Is the sweetoner of toll and the soother
of disquietude.
lnasmuch as laughter is faculty be-
slowed exclusively upon man, we seem
| 10 De guilty of "A sort of ingratitude In
not exercising NJ as often as we can.
Care Is the lot of life, and he who as
pires TO greatness In hopes to yet rii of
IL, Is one who throws himself into fur
nac0 To avoid the shivering of an ague.
Every man carries about with him A
touchstone, If he will make use of IL. to
distinguish substantial gold from super
hciai glittering, truth from appearance.
There Is pleasure I'm contemplating
good; there Is n great pleasure In re-
ceiving good bat the greatest pleasure
is doing good, which comprehends the
rest.
Tho surest method against scandal,
Is To live IL down by perseverance In
weil-doing, and by prayer to God, that
ne would cure tho distempered mind Of
those who traducc and injure us.
Some persons move through life as a
band OF music moves down the street.
llinging out pleasure on every side
through the air To every one, far and
near, thaC cares To listen.
IL all were as willing to be pleasant
ana as anxious to please I'm their own
homes as they are in the company or
their neighbors they would have tho
happiest homes In the world.
Times OF tho greatest calamity and
confusion have ever been productive OF
n l..1a
comes from the hottest furnace; the
brightest fash from the darkest cloud.
Our eycsight Is the most exquisite OF
our senses, yet IL ioes not serve US to
discern wisdom; If 1t did what glow
OF love would she kIndle within us and
our lives would be beautiflcd.
Good words do more than hard
speeches; as the sunteams without any
noise Will make the traveller cast of his
cloak, which all the clustering winds
could not do, but only max, him draw
Ii closer TO him.
1t Is always safe TO learn from enc
mics; seldom safeto ventare to Instruct
friends.
The industrious bee does not stop TO
complain that thereare 30 many poison
Gus howers and thorny branches in the
road, but buzzes on, selecting the
honey where she can find it anu pass
ing by the place where il Is not.
Conscience is your magnetic needle.
Reason Is your chart. But [ would
raIhe[ have "a crew willing to follow
the indications OF the needle, and Civ
ing themselves no great trouble as TO
the chart, than crew that had ever SO
good u chart and no needle at all.
Weare living In mn atmosphere which
rather blinds US 10 certain old time
truths. But how must it look to the
angels TO see a man earnestly PRAYING
for the conversion Of the heather, who
pends yearly OH himself what would
support fifty ministers.
The men who succeed without Il o
aid Of education are the exceptions.
Common men need all the help that
education can give, 10 put themselves
ON a level and even Of the exceptional
men IL may be SAID that they would
have succeeded still better with the ad-
vautages OF educltiOn.
BY prayer We do not mean the bow
ing of the head and saying over few
appropriate word5, but the yearning
desire, The uplifted heart, the cOntrite
spirit; such condition Of life is Chris
tan. a mau who answers TO this de-
ecrip.iOn Is a Christian, wherever you
find him.
Praying, reading the Bible and going
70 meeting Is not religion, any more
than carpenters tools are dwelling
house. These Christian duties are the
instruments ia the use Of which a man
underpius his life with Christian prin-
cipies, 20 bui.d thereon a character Of
righteousness.
Sin Is a bad thing, not alone that IL
dishOnOrs God; that Is enough--but IL
debases the God In man. Not alone
that IL Injuries society; that Is enough,
but a man loses his sensitiveness TO
virtue. Sin lies In ambush in the mind
and heart, ready to spring upon the
life in It's dangerous moments. II must
be destroyed or 1t will destroy.
IL requires a great deal Of resolution
to break away from the apathy OF deep
sorrow or a heavy trouble, and reso-
lutely put ones hand TO the new or dis
used plow; but the effort once made, II
there is anything In the individual. no
or she will never turn back. And after
work, real wOrk-work with the hands,
head and heart--after this will come
trust, and trust will bring peace.
To the Christian the little events Of
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