Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-17

LET us beware of losing our enthusi
asm. Let us ever glory in something,
and strive to retain our admiration for
all that would ennoble, and our interest
in all that would enrich and beautify
our lives.
To arrive at perfection man should
have very sincere friends or inveterate
enemies; because he would be made sens
ible of his good or i'll conduct either by
the censure of the one or the admOni
tions of the other.
MANY arts and sciences are more easi-
ly acquired late in life than good man.
ner. If people are to behave well, they
must be taught early so to behaye-a
practice that demands unceasing sacri-
fees of minute personal liking to the
general pleasure and convenience.
AN act of injustice, small in itself it
may be, but performed when the youth
full mind is most open to impression,
may exert a lasting influence. The i'm
mediate influence of the act may be
comparatively small; but in its remote
consequences it may give character to
the life.
HE who can govern himself can con-
troll others. An irritable man, whom
any one can excite, is like horse kept
at livery, ridden by every one, and spur
red by each rider. Nobody is so little
his own master as he who can be stirred
at another's will. ANYBODY can eject
him from his castle.
THE persons who pose for earnestness
and they are not few-are bores; but
they who have forgotten themselves in
true and earnest devotion to noble ideals
in humanity are our inspirers as well as
lguides. They are the men and women
who do not only interest society, but
who make society; they are the poles
around which society centers.
THOSE who would become really beau
tiful, must make the cultivation of the
mind of those intellectual and moral
powers with which the great Creator has
endowed us-their principal care. Pure
affection must be cherished; amiable
dispositions encouraged; useful knowl
edge acquired; and mild, even an
obliging temper sedulously cultivated.
EVERY man is missionary now and
forever, for good or for evil, whether he
intends or designs it or not. He may
be a blot, radiating his dark influence
outward to the very circumference of So
ciety, or he may be blessing, spreading
benediction over the length and breadth
of the world; but blank he cannot be.
We are either the sower that sows and
corrupts, or the light that splendidly il
Eliminates, or the salt that silently oper-
ates.
You have trouble, your feelings are
injured, your husband is unkind, your
wife frets, your home is not pleasant,
your friends do not treat your fairly,
and things in general move unpleasant
ly. Well, what of it? Keep it to your
self. A smouldering fire can be found
and extinguished, but when burning
Goals are scattered you cannot pick them
up. Bury your sorrow. The place for
sad things and unpleasant things is un
derground.
1T DehooVes every one to lay hold OF
every offered chance of happiness, ,wheth-
er it be in watching and tending the
growth of rose, a lily, tree, or better
still, human soul; counting ourselves
happy if we can help forward any of the
beauty and goodness in this world; hap
py while we possess the present mo-
ment's actual power to perceive an out
ward universe of consummate beauty,
if of inscrutable design; and to appre-
hend an inward world of love and rever-
ence.
IT is comparatively easy to do one i'm
portant act of benevolence, but to con-
tinue day by day, year after year, show
ing interest in others by what appear
insignificant acts demands protracted |
effort. To consider the troubles of those
around us and try to alleviate them, to
be neighborly, in the widest sense of the
word, to those among we dwell, yet not |
tn naplect Our homes or our social relA- |