Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-04

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abilities, and in every assertion keeps
doubt in reserve.
Every community is crowded with
people who want the best in everything,
except in religion.
Covetousness is sort of mental glut-
tony not confined to money, but craving
honor, and feeding on selfishness.
There are three things which ought to
be considered before some things are
spoken-the manner, the time, the place.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THERE is many thing that the world
calls disappointment; but there is no
such word in the dictionary of faith
What to others are disappointments are
Ito believers intimations of the will of
God.
THE value of labor as a tonic is not
theoretical. Work to do and the will to
do it well are as certain to induce cheer
fulness and cOntentment as idleneSs or
mere desultOry occupation is likely to
bring languor, irritability and .fancied
ailments.
MAN is not man till he is free, but the
nobility of man who is free is tested by
the way in which he uses his freedom.
He shows himself worthy of his freed
ON when he resolves to love, to serve 9th
ers and to consecrate his liberty to the
good of the community.
IF you cannot be happy in one way,
be in another, and this faculty of dispo
sition wants but little aid from philOso
ply, for health and good humor are al
most the whole affair. Many run about
after happiness like an absent-minded
man hunting for his hat while it is in his
hand or on his head.
NEVER forget that the free use of the
faculties is the source of the nobleSt
power and the purest joy in life; the
pelf which they can win is but as dust
or dirt in comparison, while the range
and force of cultivated and developed
faculty constitute the true wealth which
is alone worth reckoning in time and
eternity.
WHAT a grand thing it is to feel that
we can live if we will 1t wants only
the wish to be morally great-the wish
tranSlating itself into moral endeavor.
We can all attain that supremacy; land to
the weakest and poorest debarred by ma
ture and society from personal pros peri
ty is opened the noble path of moral
grandeur-th royal road of virtue.
LIFE is periodic-it is made up of cy
cles, of grand currents that sweep all
around and then come back again. If
angels go out, it is only that archangels
may come in. There are transit, back
ward eddies in the stream, but the gen.
eral current is onward, if only we our
selves will keep true, and prove stead
fast. All who live know life is con-
flict; it may also be victory.
IT is in youth that the spirit of truth
fulness may be best cultivated. Few
realize how strong are the impressions
made upon the heart. of childhood by
the examples which are given to it. Let
no one imagine that to teach child not
to tell a lie is sufficient to make him
really truthful He must be imbued with
the love of positive truth; and that can
be infused only by those who are them
selves inspired by it.
As soon as the girls are capable of
learning it, "a place for everything, and
everything in its place" should be strict
ly enforced, to be followed up by the
analogous one, "a time for everything,
and everything at its time" Sir Wal
ter Scott puts this teaching into the
mouth of one of his most sympathetic
creations, leal Jennie Deans, when he
makes her answer the old Highlander's
praise of her housekeeping with GA
great deal can be done by minding ones
turns"
THERE are two ways to dispose of a
suspicion, one of these should always be
accepted. 1t may either be sifted
to the bottom, and its truth or error be
established once for all, or it may be
abandoned as unworthy of place in the
thoughts. Which of these two methods
to adopt must depend upon many cir
cumstances. If there are grave inter
ests in Justice involved, as in the case of
supposed dishonesty, if the fault we
fear is one with which we have personal
concern, and if the suspicion appears to
be well-founded then undoubtedly il. is
our duty to examine it.
In all moral progress there are two
distinct elements habits and motives.
While these require simultaneous train |
ing and exercise, they lie on different
lines, and need to be Disseminated in |
any system of training or self discipline.
Much confusion and wasted labor some |
times result from not keeping this clear
ly in mind. 1t is one thing to induce
person to do certain thing; it is quite |
another to get him to desire to do it |
from some noble motive. There is |
no question about the latter being far |
the more difficult; and many persons,
finding their influence in this respect |
unavailing, discontinue all effort in de-
spair.
UNLESS there be some sympathy with |
suffering, there will be nothing done for
its relief, and the ties of human broth |
erhood will be quickly sundered. If it is a
blessing that we are unable to feel the
full force of another's sorrow,it is no less
blessing that we have the capacity of
feeling part of it. And this capacity
usually needs development rather than
restraint For few who may grieve
unwarrantably for their fancied insensi-
bility there are multitudes who are sad
ly deficient in sympathy and never
grieve at all about it. 1t should never
be forgotten that all social happiness,
all mutual benefactions, and all true be-
nevolence are founded on the presence
of sympathy. Were it not for this, we
should all be miserable and misery Civ
ing egotiStS,