Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-11-28

OoS SlO Va oShs
WE are all apt to Judge of ourselve:
and others by the standard which i:
highest in our own estimation, whether
it be reason OF revelation.
BETWEEN the possession of things and
the proper use of them there is differ
ence, which our minds are commonly
too much contracted by selfishness tc
discern.
PRAISE has so often proved an impos
ter that it would be well, wherever we
met with it, to treat it as vagrant, and
oblige it to undergo strict trial in the
court of conscience.
THERE is, in the breast of a godly
man, a most trustful, confding loVe-a
most gentle, quiet, childlike hopefulness
in God. 1t is this, indeed, which con-
stitutes the very essence of godliness.
IT is mere pride that makes US pre-
tend to despise those who offend US
For, if they did not veI US, we should
be unmoved by their attacks and pity
them for being so i'll at ease with them
selves.
If thou be necessarily connected and
must thus live with an envious person
never let him discover that he can Of
fend thee; he will make the chagrin he
excites a pretense for repeating provo
cation.
A sTUDENT-and we are all students,
in our way, as long as we live-should
labor by all proper methods to attain a
fixation of thought. Attention is a very
necessary thing in order to improve our
minds.
In our endeavors to correct each 9TH
er's faults we should not forget that they
are like sores of the body, which no one
can well bear roughly handled. In either
case hard friction irritates and often
makes bad worse.
The tender words and loving deeds
which we scatter for the hearts which
are nearest to US, are immortal seeds
that will spring up in everlasting beauty
not only in our own life but in the lives
of those born after US.
WHEN most eager to be possessed of
secrets we are least fit to be trusted with
them; minds worthy of confidence have
generally too clear an idea of the nature
of such deposits as to be importunate
for the possession of them.
SOME persons are so fond of knowing
great deal at once, and talking of things
with freedom and boldness before they
understand them, that they scarcely ev-
er allow themselves attention enough to
search the matter through and through.
CAUTION in the use of positive ex-
preston is a great preservative against
rudeness of manners. Children, partic-
ularly, should be discouraged from say
ing 81 will" and 81 WON'T" which most
ly spring from an impatient and unsub-
jected temper.
REVERENCE without affection, fear
without love, devoutness without trust,
solemnity without submission, is not pi-
ETY.. But these combined and mingled
in their Just proportion constitute that
holy state of mind which in apostolic
language is called godliness.
Ir is probable that in proportion as we
are envious and censorious we are self
conceited, and entertain so exalted an
opinion of ourselves that we cannot bear
to think we are exceeded by others, es-
pecially by those who rank below us in
worldly advantages.
SUCH is the extreme duplicity of the
human heart that a person may repre-
sent the beauties of virtue and religion
in an engaging manner, value himself,
and be in high reputation with others on
that account, and yet bear little or no
resemblance to the picture he has drawn.
DIAGRAMS greatly assist the mind in
astronomy and philosophy, SO the en-
blems of virtues and vices may happily
teach us in many respects, and pleas
ingly impress those useful moral ideas
which perhaps might be conveyed with
much more difficulty by mere moral and
distracted discourses.
HE who does nothing himself that he
would disapprove in the conduct of an
other, is SO far an exemplary character;
but to indulge in liberties with others
which would offend US if the like should
be taken with ourselves, shows the con-
sequence which we hold ourselves in re-
gard to them to be above par.
CENsoRIoUs structures on the foibles
and inadvertencies of others are often an
insidius way of the censor's insinuating
that he is free from them himself; but
a little reflection may convince US that
it is much easier to make pertinent re-
marks on an impropriety in the conduct
of another than to avoid it in our own.
AS in passing along we see each other
more plainly than we see ourselves, it is
very common for one man to be expos
ing the faults of another, while his own
conduct is quite as much the subject of
concern and disapprobation; so true is
The saying of Solomon, "He that is first
IN his own cause seemeth just, but his
1eighbor cometh and searcheth him."