West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-01-17
NO. 10.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
\ great head has great cares.

Love Is the crowning grace OF the
Christian lifo.
The doctrine of the Atonement is full
OF the love OF God.
Peoples intentions can only be dccI-
ded from their conduct.
lie keeps his road well enough who
gets rid OF bad company.
To opcnly offend virtue Is to clandes-
timely defend immortality.
By looking into physical causes our
minds are opened and enlarged.
Happiness and unhappiness arc quail
tueS oi mind, not OF pace or position.
Now abideth faith, hope, love, these
three, but the greatest OF these is love
You should consider your adversity
rs absent when your senses are dcpar-
ted.
Those gifts are ever tho most accep-
tablew which the giver Ina, made precious.
There would not be SO many open
mouths IL there were not 20 many open
ears.
give, II thou canst, an aims; il not
anOrd, instead of that sweet aud gen
| Ito word.
Tho mind hath reason to rcmem-
Der that passions ought To be her vass,ls
nor her masters.
All virtue lies i'm power OF denying
/ our own desires when reason does not
authorize them.
\ emperor ia his night cap Will not
meet with haii tue respect OF an en-
peror win "A crown.
Expression is OF more consequence
than ShHpe-it VIII light up features
otherwise heavy.
concentrations and great self-con-
"a Tf A "a ftN .u...
! mcntablc mlshaps.
People do not reflect that they may
soon uic. II they did their uuurrei.
would quickly terminate.
iumOr, warm aud all-embraclng rs
the sunshine, bathos its objects la n
genial and abiding light.
At present let us remove what Il bad:
| winch must always be done before Rood
oi any KIND can spring mp.
ordinary apprehension, or correct
! Wow of human affairs, IL the general
| heirloom of common sense.
Never neglect to perform ;he COM
/ mission which the trend entrusted 10
you. You must not forget.
Men are often more guilty of treach-
cry from weakness OF character than
from any settled design to betray,
The universe is but one greai city
fun OF beloved Onos, divine aud human,
by nature endcurcd To each other.
PcrscYering mcdiocrity is much more
respectable, aud OF uuspeakably more
use than talented inconstanCy,
There arc many manifestations of
God's love In nature aud providence,
but the greatest Of all is Ia Christ MIA
son.
COvetOus men need money least. vet
they most ailecC 1t; but prodigals, who
need 1t most, have the least regard for
10.
Let every man sweep the snow from
I before his own door and not busy
himself about the frost on his neigh
bOl's tiles,
10 be vain or what you have learned
IL the same as TO plume yourself on "A
piece of gsme yoa have received from
hunter.
There can be no surer way to success
than by disclaiming all confidence i'm
Ourselves, and referring the events Of
thiags TO God with an implicit conf
deuce.
Some persons are chronically sour;
you to1l every time you meet them as
/ If you'd been eating lemons without
sugar; they stamp sCOwl on you in
side and out.
While IL is impossible, even after
! conversion, TO live without SHINING.
yet provision is made for the forgive
ness of our daily sins, and the washing
Of the sains.
Character alone Is immortal. Not
what we have, but what we are, IL en-
during.
Ideas. as ranked under names, are
those that, for the most part, men rea-
"a. ~ fI.fr Il
those which they commune about with
others.
We can enjoy Fellowship with Cod
only by walking where lac dwells. fl
we would have the cOmpaniOuship o.
pure friends, we must 20 iu the same
society in which they move.
When we are out Of sympathy with
the young, then we think our work In
thi, world iS over. That It's "a sign that
tuc heart has begun 10 wither-and
that is u dreadfu Kind Of old age.
Hc who spends his younger days in
dissipation is mOrtgHgiug himself to
disease and poverty, tUO iueXOrabie
creditors, who are certain 20 foreclose
at laso and take possession OF the pre-
misses.
10 is easy iu tho worlds opinion; it
is easy boo solitude 20 live sitter your
WV N1 DNi IIF kitNN NlNN Is no, VINO IN
Tho mitst OF tho crowd, keeps with per-
feet sweetness the Independence OF sol
itudc.
When You doubt between words u-s
the plainest. the cOmmcuesf, tho most
idiomdUc. Eschcw fine words as YOU
would rouge; love simple ONES as YOU
would native roses on your check.
The best rec pc for going throrgh
IIic iu au c&guieto way, with beautiful
manners. BE- 90 ieel that every body, no
matter how rich or how poor, needs all
. thc kindness they can get from others
Ion this world.
If q man wants 10 be right and TO do
some good in the world he must not be-
discouraged when he finds himself
with tHc minority a one time or
auotn Dee Who accompanies much
for fhe cause of trsth IS sure TO find the
majority against him.
when mlsfortWucs happcn % such as
dissent from us lu matters of religion,
wc call them Judgments; when to those
OF our our sect, we coll them trials;
when tO persons neither way dis,iu-
guisIcd, vo sre content so attribute
them tO tue settled course OF things.