Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18

There are never too many flowers in
this world, and not one kind word too
many has ever yet been spoken.
All men ought to maintain peace and
the common offices of humanity and
friendship in diversity of opinions.
Being a mortal, you have stumbled;
in this mortal life it is a wonder when
man has been happy throughout his
life.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
You will find the mere resolve not to
be useless, and the honest desire to help
other people will, in the quickest and
most delicate ways, improve yourself.
THERE is no action of man in this life
which is not the beginning of so long
chain of consequence as that no human
providence is high enough to give us
prospect to the end.
ALL honest men are working for 9th
er men; all love of industry, all love of
integrity, all love of kindred, all love of
neighbor, all love of country, all love of
humanity are expressed in labor for 9th
ers.
o, IF the deeds of human creatures
could be traced to their source, how
beautiful would even death appear; for
how much charity, mercy and purified
affection would be seen to have their
growth in dusty gravesl
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PRIDE is as loud beggar as want,
and great deal more saucy. When you
have bought one fine thing you want ten
more, that your appearance may be all
of piece; but it is easier to suppress
the first desire than to satisfy all that
follow it.
To BE earnest yet kind, enthusiastic
yet patient, bold yet moderate, to have
strong desires yet strength also to con-
troll them, to be courageous in word and
deed yet able at proper times to be ST
lent and still-this is moral heroism of
which few are possessors.
THE day of our decease will be that
of our coming of age; and with our last
breath we shall become free of the uni
verse. And in some region of infnity,
and from among its splendors, this earth
will be looked back on like a loWly home,
and this life of ours be remembered like
short apprenticeship to duty.
NEVER lose an opportunity of seeing
anything beautiful. Beauty is Gods
hand -writing-a wayside sacrament; |
welcome it in every face, every fair sky,
every fair flower, and thank Him for it, |
the fountain of loveliness and drink it |
in, simply and earnestly, with your eyes;
it is charmed draught, cup of bless
ing.
THERE is great mistake in suppos-
ing that giving is concerned only with |
material benefits. These form indeed |
but small part of its mission. Who
ever creates happiness, whether by |
kindly greeting, or tender sympathy, |
or inspiring presence, or stimulating
thoughts, is as true a giver as he who |
empties his purse to feed the hungry.
LET dissolution come when it will, it |
can do the Christian no harm, for it will
be but passage out of a prison into a
palace; out of sea of troubles into a
haven of rest; out of crowd of enc
mics into an innumerable company of
true, loving and faithful friends; out of
shame. reproach and contempt, into ex-
ceeding great and eternal glory.
No WRONG-DOING ever springs up at
once full-fedged. 1t is usually the grad
ual growth of certain habits which in
their earlier stages were not regarded as
of much Importance, were not checked
as actual sins, and which have thus
crept insiduously into character and
life, to develop at last into something
which is fully recognized and censured
as iniquity.
OCCUPATION and industry are so oft
en- recommended merely for the materi-
al gains they bring that their moral force
is not always recognized as it should be.
Yet occupation that brings no material
reward, and is, by comparison with work,
the merest trifing, may be, if innocent
in itself, a moral force simply because
it keeps the individual out of tempta-
tions and gives employment to his ener-
gies.
HOPEl Who is insensible to the mu-
sic of that word? What bosom has not
kindled under its uttterance? Poetry
has sung of it; music has warbled it; or
atory has lavished on it its bewitching
strains. Pagan mythology, in her vain
but beautiful dreams, said that when
all other divinities fled from the world,
Hope, with her elastic step and radiant
countenance and lustrous attire, linger-
ed behind
FRIENDSHIP and society are precious
boons to mankind. 1t is impossible to
Overestimate the benefit and happiness
which are drawn from this source. Char
acter and congeniality, respect and SYM
pathy should be their foundation stones
Yet how often are these treated like tri-
f1es in comparison with the dress, the
manners, the house, the equipage, the
wealth, or the social standing of those
who are chosen or rejected What depths
of affection and what joy are thus vast
ed in mistaking tri1es for realitiesl
No FEVER of the body is more conta-
gious than that fever of the mind which
breaks out in vain repinings and COM
plants baniShes the smile from
the lip, the light from the eye, and the
Joy from the life. No one is able to re-
sist its unwholesome atmosphere; it
casts gloom over every social circle,
affiicts near and dear friends, and repels
every chance acquaintance. He who is
its victim must expect to live in isola-
ton; for no one will willingly remain un- i
der the cold shadow which forever sur e
rounds him.