Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-07-26

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CHOICE EXCERPTS.
Our ewes when gazing on sinful oh
jects are out of their calling and God:
keeping.
THERE is no man who is not better ol
worse to-day by means of what he
thought, designed or did yesterday.
IF all men knew as much as most men
think they know, the encyclopedia peO-
pie would be driven out of the business
By doing good with his money, man
stamps, as it were, the image of God
upon it, and makes it pass current for
the merchandise of heaven.
A MANS reputation for wisdom does
not depend one-half so much upon his
knowledge as it does upon the skill he
has acquired in cOncealing his ignor-
ance.
WATCH over yourself. Be your own
accuser, then your Judge. Ask yourself
grace sometimes, and, if there is need,
impose upon yourself some pain.
MEEK young men grow up in libraries,
believing it their duty to accept the
views which Cicero, which Locke, which
Bacon have given; forgetful that Cicero,
Locke and Bacon were young men in
libraries when they wrote these books.
WHILE man is stringing harp, he
tries the strings. not for music, but for
construction. When it is finished it
shall be played for melodies. God is
fashioning the human heart for future
joy. He only sounds string here and
there to see how far his work has pro-
greSsed.
THERE is no more important factor in
individual success than good manners,
for it is not in human nature not to pre-
fer pleasant to an unpleasant person.
But for manners to be truly good they
must be habitual, the expression of
courteous mind, and must be universal
not kept for company" but for home
use every hour in the day.
WHAT honesty is in deeds sincerity is
in words-the best policy. 1t is poll
cy, however, to which the artificial hab-
its of society are not very favorable.
The forms of politeness, with all their
utility, have this disadvantage, that, in
teaching to restrain the real sentiments
and ideas which cannot conveniently be
they are apt to lead to the
sistent with truth.
IT is to labor, and to labor only, that
man owes everything possessed of ex-
value. Labor is the tails
man that has raised him from the cOndi- !
ton of the savage; that has changed the !
desert and the forest into cultivated |
fields; that has covered the earth with |
cities, and the ocean with ships; that |
has given us plenty, comfort and ele- !
gance, instead of want, misery and bar
bariSm.
difficult for industry to attain to; it is
the gift of tongues, and makes man |
and valued in all countries, |
and by all nations. 1t is the philOSO- |
piers stone, that turns al metals, and .
even stones, into gold, and suffers no
want to break into its dwelling. 1t is
-he northwest passage, that brings the
ships as soon to him as he can
desire. In word, it conquers all enc
mics, and makes fortune itself pay con-
.ributiOn.
OUR brains are seventy-year clocks.
The angel of life winds them up at once
ior all, then closes the cases, and gives
he key into the hand of the angel of
"Tic-tac, tic-tacr' go the
wheels of thought; our will cannot stop
hem; madness only makes them go
,aSter. Death alone can break into the
,aSe, and seIZing the ever-swinging pen
lulum which we call the heart, silence
It last the clicking of the terrible escape
nent we have carried so long beneath
,ur aching foreheads.
THOSE who worship gold in a world
% corrupt as this we live in have at least (
me thing to plead in defence of their
power of their idol. 1t is
rue that, like other idols, it can neither
move, see, hear, feel nor understand; but,
mike other idols, it has often cOmmu-
heated all these powers to those who
lad them not, and annihilated them in /;
hose who had. This idol can boast of
wo peculiarities; it is wOrshipped in all
Inmates, without a single temple, and
" all classes, without single hypO- !
rite.
HAPPINESS is more than an effect even ,
f character and conduct-it is an art !
t is not enough to possess the materi- I
lS-we must be able to work them up ;
ffectively. 1t cannot be denied that
here are good people who have not yet
earned this lesson; but they are by so
luch deficient in goodness. They per- ;
Orm many duties conScientiously, and ,
eny themselves often for worthy pur- a
oses; but they yeild to melancholy feel q
lgs, brood over their real and supposed v
,Oubles, and drive from them the young | Il
nd cheerful by their heavineSs and S
loom. With all their allegiance to du- /
:, they have never become convinced |
the duty of happiness. Z
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*, says, "Was down with abscess of n
ngs, and friends and physicians pro +
Ounced me an incurabie cOnSumptive; +
egan taking DR.. Kings New Discovery q
IT Consumption; am now on my thiry "
lttle, and able to oversee the work ON o
" farm. 1t is the finest medicine ever y
ade." Jesse AIiddlewart, Decatur, Ohio, q
lys: 'Had it not been for DR.. Kings New T
discovery for Consumption would have
ed of lung trouble; was given up by
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