Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-25


for its foundation.
Tears are the softening showers which
cause the seed of heaven to spring up
in the human heart.
1t is difficult to divest ones self of
vanity, because impossible to diveSt
ones self of self-love.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
IF we say that we have no sin, we de-
ceive ourselves, and the truth is not in
US.
INGRATITUDE is, of all crimes, what in
ourselves we account the most yenial, in
others the most objectionable.
MELANCHOLY sees the worst of things;
things as they may be, and not as they
are. 1t looks upon a beautiful face and
sees but grinning skull.
THE star l was born under tells me
to look up. If we didn't come into this
world to better ourselves, we might as
well have stayed where we were.
TRUE religious instinct never deprived
man of one single joy; mOurnful faces
and a somber aspect are the convention
al affectationS of the weak-minded.
THERE is one way of attaining what
we may term, if not utter, at lesat NOR
tai happiness; it is this, a sincere and
unlaxing activity for the happiness of
others.
SUSPICION is no less an enemy to vir-
tue than to happiness. He that is al
ready corrupt is naturally suspicious,
and he that becomes suspicious will
quickly be corrupt.
In those who are deemed, and Justly
deemed, the most virtuous, and in whom
there is no tendency to morbid self-de-
probation, there are deep feelings of
penitence.
THE faith that does not throw a
warmth as of summer around the SYM
pathies and charities of the heart, and
drop invigorations like showers upon the
conscience and the will, is as false as it
is unsatisfying.
CHILDREN are the hands by which we
take hold of heaven. By these tendrils
we clasp it and climb thitherward. And
why do we think that we are separated
from them? We never half knew them,
nor in this world could.
PLEASURE and pain spring not so
much from the nature of things as from
our manner of considering them. Pleas
ure, especially, is never an invariable eff
feet of particular circumstances. Large
ly that is pleasure which is thought to
be so.
NEVER put much confidence in such
as put no confidence in others. A man
prone to suspect evil is mostly looking
in his neighbor for what he sees in him
self. AS to the pure all things are pure,
even so to the impure all things are i'm
pure.
HAPPINESS is sunbeam which may
pass through thousand boSOms with
out losing a particle of its original ray;
nav, when it strikes a kindred heart,
like the converged light on mirror, it
reflects with redoubled brightness. Hap
piness is not perfected until it is shared
SELFIsHNEss, by its own law, not only
moves in simple circles, but is short
lived. What men do for themselves is
soon expended, and is soon forgotten.
Only that part of a mans life which in
cludeS other mems good, and especially
the public good, is likely to be felt after
he himself is dead.
THOSE who have resources within
who can dare to live alone,
want friends the least, but, at the same
time, best know how to prize them most.
But no company is far preferable to bad,
because we are more apt to catch the
vices of others than their virtues, as dis
ease is far more contagious than health.
A child'S eyes, those clear wells of un-
defiled thought-what on earth can be
more beautiful? Full of hope, love and
they meet your own. In pray
er, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling;
in sympathy, how tender! The man
who never tried the cOmpaniOnship of a
little child has carelessly passed by one
Of the great pleasures of life, as one
passes rare flower without plucking it
Or knowing its value.
"IT is not safe for man to be alone"
nor can all which the cold-hearted pc
1ant stuns our ears with upon the sub
iect ever give one answer of satisfac-
ion to the mind. In the midst of the |
Oudest vauntings of philosophy, Nature
will have her yearnings for society and |
A good heart wants some
hing to be kind to; and the best parts
If our blood, and the purest of our spirits
must suffer most under the destitution.
THE same Being that fashioned the
insect whose existence is only discerned
1y miscroscope, and gave that invisi-
Die speck a system of ducts and other
organs to perform its vital functions,
,reated the enormous mass of the planet
thirteen hundred times larger than our
,arth, and launched it in its course
ound the sun, and the comet, wheeling
With a velocity that would carry it
ound our globe in less than two min
ties of time, and revolving through so
'rodigious a space that it takes nearly
tx centuries to encircle the sun!