Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-10-10
CHOICE EXCERPTS.


pays the best interest.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
No indulgence of passion destroys tn
spirital nature so much as respectabl
selfshness.
IT is necessary to try to surpass one
self always; this occupation ought to las
so long as life.
WHEN any one has offended me, tr,
to raise my soul so high that the offenc
cannot reach it.
THE reformer becomes fanatic wher
he begins to use his emotions as substi
tute for his reasoning faculty.
WHAT an absurd thing it is to pas
over all the valuable parts of man an(
fix our attention on his infrmities!
THE wisest man must in a thousand
times be once mistaken; the most fool
ish in thousand times must be once
right.
READ not to contradict and eonfute
nor to believe and take for granted, no
to find talk and discourse, but to weigh
and consider.
WE must not speak all that we know
that were folly; but what a man say:
should be what he thinks otherwise il
is knavery.
LEISURE will always be found by per-
sons who know how to employ their time
those who want time are the people who
do nothing.
THE love of posterity is the conse-
quence of the necessity of death. If a
man were sure of living forever here,
he would not care about his offspring.
MANY a wretch has rid on a hurdle
who has done less mischief in the world
than utterers of forged tales, coiners of
scandals and clippers of regulations.
THE law of the harvest is to reap more
than we SOW. Sow act, and we reap a
habit; SOW habit, and we reap charac-
ter; SOW character, and reap destiny.
DISTINGUISH between idleness, ignor-
ance, want of attention and malice
Words do sometimes slip from the tongue
which the heart did neither hatch nor
harbor.
WIEN paths are constantly trodden
they are kept clean, but when abandon
ed the weeds choke them up; so weeds
choke the mind in the absence of en-
ployment.
THERE is, there can be, no shelter,
safety, nor security in the cobweb of
self righteousness. If not stripped off
in this world, it will most surely be swept
away by the first breath of eternity.
THE metaphysical version Of the gold
en- rule is a most explicit teaching. 1t
leads to just living through just feeling
and just thinking, If in our spirit we
feel only love, your mind cannot gener-
ate hatred.
GoD is love; man and the spiritual
universe is an expression of it. What
does love need of law, with restrictions
and penalties, to keep it on the line of
right where it never seeks its own, but
always another's welfare?
PEOPLE are always talking of origi-
nality; but what do they mean? As
soon as we are born the world begins to
work upon us, and this goes on to the
end. After all what can we call our
own except energy, strength and will?
PATIENCE and fear are the fences of
hope. They are like the cork in the
isherman's net, which keeps it from
and the lead, which prevents it
from floating. Hope without fear is in
danger of being too sanguine; fear with
out hope would soon become despond-
ing.
PRAYER pulls the rope below, and the
great bell rings in the ears of Cod
Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray
so languidly;. others give but an oc-
casional pluck at the rope; but he who
wins with heaven is the man who grasps
the rope bodily and pulls continuously
with all his might.
CHARITY is the crowning grace of faith
and hope, and queen-like sheds its sweet
ness over the whole soul making it to be
and acceptable to Divine Good
ness; so that if the soul be kingdom of
which the Holy Spirit is King, charity
is there to be found as "queen in vest
ure of gold wrought about with divers
colors" If the soul be the regal con-
sort of our Heavenly King, charity is
as the royal crown upon her head; or if
the soul and body together are as little
word, charity is the sun which warns,
vivilies and embellishes the whole.