Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-05-29
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

selves in the little daily occurrences O
life.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
OUR sweetest experiences of affection
and love are meant to be suggestions Of
that realm which is the home of the heart
THE bread of sorrow is leayened witt
error, mixed with imprudence, kneade(
with perversity, and baked in the over
of dissipation.
He that is taught to live upon little
owes more to his fathers wisdom THAI
he that has great deal left him does tC
his fathers care.
NATURE is a book of sweet and glow
ing purity, and on every illuminated
page the excellence and goodness OF
God are divinely portrayed.
THEY who are most weary of life and
yet are unwilling to die, are such who
have lived to no purpose-who have
rather breathed than lived.
IF we would preserve our mental eff
cheney amid the changing pressure OF
we must by occasional
withdraw the mind from toe
continuous application.
THERE is more virtue in one sunbeam
than in whole hemisphere of clouds
and gloom. What though things look
a little dark, the lane will turn, and night
will end in broad day.
No man can safely govern who would
not cheerfully become subject; no man
can safely command who has not truly
learned to obey; and no man can safely
rejoice but he that has the testimony OF
a good conscience.
THE joy of well doing is pre6minently
an individual possession, to be disturbed
by no one. Neither the mistaken kind
ness of friends nor the malicious efforts
of enemies can touch it. 1t is joy that
lives in the deep recesses of the heart.
LET a woman have every virtue un-
der the sun, if she is slatternly, or even
negligent in her dress, her merits will
be more than half obscured. If, being
young, she is untidy, or. being old, fan
tastic or slovenly, her mental qualifica-
tions stand chance of being passed
over with indifference.
THERE are moroSe, hard natures into
which cheerfulness cannot be planted
or engrafted. 1t finds neither natural
nor artificial means for life and growth;
it is cast out with a growl if rejected, or
left to die if retained. Such natures are
like shadows of life-the clouds that
blot out from our view the beautiful sun.
WHOEVER wishes to abolish any
thing wrong or unseemly will best sue
ceed, not by dwelling upon it in his
own mind and giving it prominence in
his conversation, but rather by treating
it with silence, and laying his stress
upon the opposite virtue or good, which
by its very presence will quietly dispel
the evil.
BY the emotions we cherish, by the
desires we indulge, and by the actions
which respond to them, we are steady
building up our characters. Every hour
we are adding stone upon stone, either
for strength and beauty or for weakness
and deformity; and, willingly or not, we
thus help to form the characters of those
around MS.
WHERE want of confidence or only
half confidence rule the home, happiness
and trust are exiles. A man is not oblig-
ed to tell his business affairs day by day
to his wife, nor a woman to lay before
her husband the full diary of her domes-
tic events. But there should be implicit
trust born of complete confidence in all
larger matters; and events should never
be half told, to be wholly sprung una
wares.
A MAN must before he attempts to do
good, turn the matter well about. 1t is
a hard thing to be wisely good; it is hard
to believe faithfully; it is hard to pro-
luce anything beautiful, lasting and
true. 1t will not do to cast money
expend ones own energy in
The effort, and to die in despair at the
sad result. What we must do, is to work
well, pray well, and act with caution,
when we set about that pious, necessary,
but really hard work of doing good.
WE need to consider the old elements
and the new in every question. There
IS danger of that too cautious spirit
which resists all change because "the
past has been good enough" The past
has held many errors which modern
thought is bringing to light, and, as
higher aims and better methods are
coming to the front, they rightly claim
our assistance and influence. AT the
same time we may err as much in rash
Iy following the element of newness as
that of age.
RESPECT is essential in married life.
liking without respect lasts on
y its allotted time. That time may be
different with different temperaments,
but it has its end with all. Only esteem
of habits and nature-can
Keep it ever unrolling like an endless
1and, ever moving the great mechanism
If emotional life. 1t is too much to ex-
1ect from even the most loving, the
most united, that there shall be no hitch
lnyWhere- there must be bitches. Rut
yiven mutual respect and the difficulty
S removed as soon as it appears.