Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-13

He who does a good deed is Instant.
ennobled; he who does mean deed, is by
the action itself contracted and self-de
graded.
The call to religion is not call to b.
better than your fellows, but to be bet
ter than yourself. Religion is relativ
to the individual.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
Do NOT believe that book is good, /
in reading it thou dost not become NOR
contented with thy existence, if it doe
not rouse up in thee more generous feel
ings.
HABIT is like rope to which we ar
constantly adding new threads ant
strands. 1t finally becomes so stron!
that it cannot be broken, except by
strand at time.
DEPEND upon it, religion is, in its es
sence, the most gentlemanly thing il
the world. 1t will alone gentilize, i
unmixed with cant; and know nothin!
else that will alone.
A MAN ought to inquire and find ou
what he really and truly has an appetit
for; what suits his constitution; ant
that, doctors tell him, is the very thing h
ought to have in general And so will
books.
THE first condition of mental growth
is that we keep our minds open to new
impressions, and the longer we retail
something of the child's susceptibilit.
to new impressions, the longer shall w
continue to grow.
IT may be proper for all to remember
that they ought not to raise expectation
which it is not in their power to satisfy
and that it is more pleasing to see smoke
Frightening into flame than flame sink
ing into smoke.
OATHs are vulgar, senseless, offensive
impious; like obscene words, they leave
a noisome trail upon the lips, and
stamp of odium upon the soul. They
are inexcusable. They gratify no sense
while they outrage taste and dignity.
WORLDLY ambition is founded OF
pride or envy, but emulation, or lauda
BILE ambition, is actually founded in hui
mility; for it evidently implies that we
have low opinion of our present at
tainments, and think it necessary to be
advanced.
THE lust of dominion innoyates so i'm
perceptibly that we become complete
despots before our wanton abuse of pow
or is perceived; the tyranny first exercis-
ed in the nursery is exhibited in various
shapes and degrees in every stage of our
existence.
THE aim in educating all must be the
same, namely, to render them virtuous
and intelligent, but as the natural en-
dowment of individuals is different, all
persons are not capable of the same i'm
provement, and every one can not be
induced by the same motives to pursue
the same end.
IT has been wisely said, "That well
may the guardian angel suffer thee to
lose thy locks, when thou darest willful-
ly to lay thy head in the lap of tempta-
tionr Was it not easier for the hero Of
Judea to avoid the touch of the fair
Philistine, than to elude her power when
held in her arms?
DELUDE not yourself with the notion
that you may be untrue and uncertain
in trifies and in important things the
contrary. Trifles make up existence,
and give the observer the measure by
which to try us; and the fearful power
of habit, after time, suffers not the
best will to ripen into action.
THERE is no virtue which is more
pleasant than gratitude. To see that
kindness is not thrown away, that some
return, however small, is made by the
renders us more ready to do a
person a service another time; while in
gratitude is one of the most frequent or
iginators of hard-heartedness and sell
ishness.
IT is to labor, and to labor only, that
man owes everything possessed of ex-
value. Labor is the talisman
that has raised him from the condition
IF the savage; that has changed the des-
srt and the forest into cultivated fields;
hat has covered the earth with cities,
and the ocean with ships; that has Civ
an us plenty, comfort and elegance, in
stead of want, misery and barbarism.
HAVE heard men talking over the
and railing at the tyranny of
hose in great power, and wondered how
,hese, who are monarchs too in their way,
govern their own dominions at home, |
where each man rules absolute. When
he annals of each little reign are shown
he Supreme Master, under whom we
lold sovereignty, histories will be laid |
)are of household tyrants cruel as ANU
ath, as savage as Nero, and reckless
md dissolute as Charles.
THE persons who in deed and in truth |
10 benefit the world by their labor, who
lere remove weed and there plant a
lower, are, and must be cheerful; and
hey must and will take happy views of
ife and its contingencies. AS Chris
ians, they see, and mourn, and admit
is evils; but every moment spent in
mere feeling, and every sigh and every
ear that does not issue in exertion, they
egard as wasted.