Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-11-13


an advantage as when it is the reply to
calumny and defamation.
People who fish for compliments do
not need long lines. They will get their
best bites in shallow water.
Every error of the mind is the more
conspicuous and palpable in proportion
to the rank of the person who commits 1t.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
CONDUCT is but a partial exhibition of
life. There is an infinite activity of life
which does not come to the surface.
No country can find eternal peace and
comfort where the vote of Judas lscarI-
ote is as good as the vote of the Saviour
of mankind.
He who, meeting pleasant tempta-
ton, stops to shake hands with it will
generally end by going with it wherever
it chooses to lead him.
LET no one suppose that by acting a
good part through life he will escape
scandal. There will be those even who
hate him for the very good qualities
that ought to procure him esteem.
In most quarrels there is fault on both
sides. Both flint and steel are necessa-
ry to the production of spark. Either
of them may hammer on wood forever
and no fire will follow.
HUMILITY is a virtue that all preach,
few practice, and yet everybody is con-
tent to hear of. The master thinks it
good doctrine for his servant, the laiety
for the clergy, and the clergy for the
laiety.
RESTRAINT and freedom are opposed,
and in our zeal for the latter we would
often like to destroy the former; yet on
ly as the former is wisely enforced can
the latter prove the nnmixed blessing
it is capable of becoming.
THE truth cannot be burned, behead-
ed, or crucifed. A lie on the throne
is lie still; and truth in dungeon is
truth still; and lie on the throne is on
the way to defeat, and a truth in the
dungeon is on the way to victory.
WHEN people talk lightly and glibly
of having ''made up their minds" about
things on which the wisdom of mankind
is still divided, we may well conclude
that they would be intellectually better
off if their minds were in less finished
condition.
WHOEVER would live his life over
again, that he might live better life,
would do well to remember that he would
do no better than he is now doing. If
you want to begin over again, begin
now, and don't think to order cradle
and begin by being baby over again.
To desire the good opinion of others
is natural, and supplies a powerful mo-
tive for conduct that shall merit that
good opinion. But if this desire be not
balanced by self-respect which desires
even more-the approval of ones OWL
conscience-it will lead its possessor in;
to the temptation of hypocrisy.
WERE a man not to marry second
time, it might be concluded that his first
wife had given him disgust to mar
riage; but by taking a second wife he
pays the highest compliment to the first
by showing that she made him so happy
as a married man that he wishes to be
so a second time.
KINDNESS, sympathy and encourage,
ment shown toward the erring will ac-
complish thousand times as much as
rigid severity. If, instead of harsh
words, that almost invariably exert the
influence of crushing, wounding and de
stroying the better impulses of the soul
the hand of love is extended, the noble
nature in the erring one will be awaken
ed, and the life redeemed
No action in our lives stands alone
Cause and consequence link the past tC
the future through the present with g
chain as strong as fate and as indissolu
BILE as death with life. All that we dc
to-day is as a seed-bed whence we gar
ner the harvest of tomorrow; and, if VT
look back, we shall find that some Of
the most important events of our live!
had their rise in some of the unimport
ant and trivial incidents
WE are apt to forget our duty toward
our immediate relatives and friends
Dean Stanley says that each one of us il
bound to make the little circle in which
he lives better and happier; each of u.
is bound to see that out of that small
circle the widest good may flow; each ot
us may have fixed in his mind tht
thought, that out of single household
may find influences that shall stimulate
the whole commonwealth and the civil
lied world.
1T is not encouraging to do favorS fo
another when we are left in uncertaint,
as to whether they are welcome or not
Many large hearted and generous ma
ture is thrust back upon itself by tht
cold or reluctant way in which its favorl
are received. If we analyZe the feeling
which prompts this ungraciousness, i
solves itself into a selfshness as pro
nOunced as that which hugs its owl
possessions with an unflinching grasp.
PEOPLE talk of ''getting over" a grea
passing it by, thrusting it int
oblivion. No one ever does that: a
least, no nature which can be touched
by the feeling of grief. The only wa,
is to pass through the ocean off affiict
ion solemnly, with humility and faith
as the Israelites passed through the sea
Then its very waves of misery will di
vide and become to us wall on tn,
right side and on the left, until the gul
narrows and narrows before us and w
land safe on the opposite shore.