Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-04-03


wrestled with in secret, or they will tri-
umph over manhood; and there are even
Joys with which no stranger may inter
meddIe
STAND against idleuess. Anything
that age, aches, penury, hard trial may
inf1ict on the soul is tri1ing. IdlenesS
is the great evil which leads to all 9th
ers. Therefore work while it is day.
THE most common error of men and
women is 10 look for happiness outside
of useful work. 1t has never been found
when thus sought and never will be
while the sun revolves and the earth
stands.
WHEN the first time of love is over
there comes something better still.
Then comes that other love; that faith
full friendship which never changes, and
which will accompany you through the
whole of life.
WHEN we deplore the absence of some
single excellence in another that we
pride ouselves upon possessing, it IS well
to look at the opposite side and see if
there is not present another class of vir
tues in which we are probably lamenta-
bly, deficient.
TIE moral cement of society is virtue;
it unites and preserves, while vice sep
arates and destroys. The good may
well be termed the salt of the earth; for
where there is no integrity there can be
no confidence, and where there is no
confidence there can be no unanimity.
SELFIsHNEss assumes many forms,
and in every one OF them may be found
the desire to grasp some fancied means
of happiness, even at the expense Of
others. Many things, innocently pleas
urable in themselves when they come to
us in rightful and natural Mariner,
turn into guilty and fraudulent pos
sessions when sought and gained through
the losses or pain of others.
CCToM is a violent and treacherous
schoolmistress. She, by little and little.
slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot
of her authority; but having by this
gentle and humble beginning, with the
benefit of time, fixed and established it,
she then unmasks a furious and tyran-
mic countenance, against which we have
no more the courage or the power so
much as to lift our eyes.
THERE are few expressions we hear
more frequently than the feeble wall of
the cowardly or lazy mind, Il can'tr'
Every day we see people who permit
their progress to be stopped by tri1es
which, instead of retarding them, should
spur every faculty up to the resistive
conquering point. 81 can't" and 81 for
got'' are two fatal phrases which should
be scratched from the vocabulary of ev-
cry young man or woman who is ambi-
tious of being or doing anything in this
world that shall deserve to be recorded.
KIND words never blister the tongue
or lips; and we have never heard of one
mental trouble arising from this quar-
ter. They do not cost much, yet they
accomplish much. They help ones good
will. Soft words soften our own souls:
angry words are fuel to the fame of
wrath, and make it blaze more fiercely.
Kind words make other people good ma
tured; cold words freeze people, and hot
words scorch them, and bitter words
make them wrathful. There is such a
rush of all other kinds of words in our
days that it seems desirable to give kind
words chance among them. There are
vain words, and idle words, and hasty
words, and spiteful words, and silly
words, and empty words, and profane
words, and boisterous words, and warlike
words, and the meanest of all words,
slang words. Kind words also produce
their own image on mems souls: and a
beautiful image it is. They soothe, and
quiet, and comfort the hearer They
shame him out of his sour, morose, un-
kind feelings. We have not yet begun
TO use kind words in such abundance
as they ought to be used.
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