Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-12-25

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out of your sins before God will forgive
you.
1t is seldom that we find out how grea
our resources are until we are thrown
upon them.
Gaze into the looking glass, when you
want to see the person most to blame
for your misfortunes.-
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE path of duty is near, yet people
seek it afar off. The way is wide; it il
not hard to find.
MAN builds only for time, and can al,
ford to be careless; but God builds fol-
eternity, and must be sure of his mate
rial.
NEVER fear to bring the sublimest
motive to the smallest duty, and the
most infinite comfort to the smallest
trouble.
THE pleasantest things in the world
are pleasant thoughts, and the great art
in life is to have as many of them as
possible.
LET our reson, not our senses, be our
rule of our conduct; for reason will teach
us to think wisely, to speak prudently,
to act worthily.
To be a sinner is to be what the devil
wants you to be. To be a Christian is
to be what Christ died to help you to be.
Which are y9d?
To remove small faults with undue
venemence is as absurd as to seek to re-
move hy from friends forehead with
sledge-hammer.
BOYS may be governed a great deal
by kindness and gentle methods, and ap-
pealing TO their better feelings. But
deeds must second words when needful,
or words will be laughed at.
EVERY beautiful, pure and good
thought which the heart entertains, is
an angel of mercy, purifying and guard
ing the soul. Give them room in your
heart; they will crowd out bad thoughts.
INFORMATION got up by galloping
through a multitude of books is about
as nourishing as the mustard scraped of
a sandwich. 1t may make your tongue
'smart," but it won't make you strong
AT the first entrance into thine es-
tate, keep low sail. Thou must rise
with honor; thou canst not fall without
shame. He who begins where his faith
er ended often ends where his father be-
gan.
EVERY passion gives peculiar cast
to the countenance, and is apt to discov-
er itself in some feature or other. l have
seen an eye curse for half an hour to-
gether, and an eyebrow call man
scoundrel.
ALL men who are worth calling men
like to wrestle with difficulty. If it does
not lie in their way, they go out of their
way to find it. There is no excitement
in ease and safety, and without excite
ment of some kind we should all rust,
body and soul.
To be earnest yet kind, enthusiastic
yet patient, bold yet moderate, to have
strong desires yet strength also to con-
troll them, to be courageous in word and
deed yet able at proper times to be 81
lent and still-this is moral heroism of
which few are possessors.
GOD never runs short of D. DIS who
are willing to shine and get big pay for
doing, but there is difficulty about getting
enough workers who are willing to go
anywhere, suffer anything, and be faith
full in all things, without anybody this
side of the throne knowing anything
about it.
THE good are befriended even by
weakness and defect. Every man in his
lifetime needs to thank his faults. As
no man thoroughly understands truth
until he has contended. against it, so no
man has thorough acquaintance with
the hindrances or talents of men until
he has suffered from the one and seen
the triumph of the other over his own
want of the same.
THERE is a plagiarism in life that is
contemplate. Some men and women
spend their time chiefly in copying their
neighbors. They duplicate their dress,
their furniture, their manners, their way
of living. They profess the same views,
utter the same ideas, attempt the same
actions. But they never succeed in
their poor aim, for the spirit that ami
mates can never be copied-the soul is
left out.
How small portion of our life is
that which we really enjoy. In youth,
we are looking forward to things that
are to come; in old age, we are looking
backward to things which are passed; in
manhood, though we appear to be occu
pied in things that are present, yet even
that is too often absorbed in vague de-
Examinations to be vastly happy on some
future day-when we have time.
ALWAYS finish what you begin. One
thing finished is worth hundred half |
done. The completion of an undertak-
ing yields more pleasure and profit than
dozens of plans. The man who is always
planning or scheming is rarely, if ever,
successful He often furnishes ideas
for Others, who go persistently TO work
and finish what his ideas suggested.
THAT was my idea-my plan," we fre-
quently hear some one say; but the man
who carried it out was the one who ben
Gifted himself and others. Do not begin
what you cannot finish. What You un-
dertake do. do, and reap the reward of
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