Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-05


their religion.
Old friends are best. King james
was wont to call for his old shoes; the.
were easier on his feet.
No lady in the true of the word viii
ever do anything fast, or allow a word
of slang to pass her lips.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
ONE who has learned to be hospitablt
in the best sense has also learned tht
secret of good fellowship with all man
kind.
THE Providence which watches ovel
the affairs of men works out of their mis-
takes, at times, healthier issue than
could have been accomplished by theil
wisest forethought.
OPPoRTUNIITES are not like railroad
trains; it would be well to remember
that if you miss one, you cannot con,
sole yourself with the thought that you
can take the next one.
FAITH is the root, and hope the bios.
som; hope the daughter, whose mother
is faith. Hope is faith in its prospective
attitude-faith shading her eyes with
her hand and gazing away into the dis
tance.
A FAITHFUL man will be content that
the seats of eminence are reserved fol
those for whom they are prepared, and
will find in his own deep and quiet con
tentment reward more valuable than
fame or gold.
WE scar our hearts by the cherishing
of sentiments we are directed TO dispel;
we become discontented, and call Our
discomfort knowledge. We forget that
all knowledge which does not increase
our happiness is spurious and not to be
trusted.
WHEN both host and guest give liber-
ally of their best selves to each other,
all meaner gifts will sink into subor-
dinate position. \ cordial welcome, and
kind and delicate attention, respectful
solicitude, generous freedom, ready sym
pathy, glad responsiveness are the very
libers of hospitality, as they are also the
chief elements in all social happiness.
EVERY individual owes obedience to
something, and there can be no obedi-
ence without authority. Indeed free
dom, rightly understood, imposes the
most solemn obligations of all. When
no human control binds man, he is
bound with the greater stress to obey
the right, to bow to the authority of
conscience,t to live up to his highest ideal.
THERE can be no shadow without
light. Yet those who remain in the one
fail to recognize the other. The calam-
ity looms up so massively and so darkly
as to hide the truer and the larger part
of life, which is bright with blessings. 1t
is a wholesome discipline, though often a
hard one, to turn the mind from its sor-
row to its many sources of JOY; and he
who can help one to do this is a true
friend.
THERE are some whose enthusiasm is
all centered in one thing, outside of which
they are comparatively uninterested;
hers, again, are by nature enthusiastic,
and everything they touch bears its mark.
This latter class are usually attractive,
and often possess the power of inspiring
Others. If they are not too diffuse, and
if thought and reason maintain right
full sway over them, they are happy and
valuable members of the community.
IT is not intellectual work that Injuries
the brain, says a medical journal, but
emotional excitement. Most men can
stand the severest thought and study OF
which their brains are capable, and be
none the worse for it;for neither thought
nor study interferes with the recupera-
tive influence of sleep. 1t is ambition,
anxiety, and disappointment, the hopes
and fears, the loves and hates of our
lives, that wear out our nervous system
and endanger the balance of the brain.
GOOD works are more visible and con-
spicuous than faith. Faith is more oc-
cult grace; it may lie hid in the heart and
not be seen; but when works are Joined
with it, now it shines forth in its native
beauty; though a garden he never so
decked with flowers, vet they are not seen
till the light comes; so the heart of a
Christiou may be enriched with faith,
but it is like flower in the night, it is
not seen till works come; when this light
shines before men, then faith appears in
its orient colors.
TAKE an hour of exercise to every
pound of food. We are not nourished
by what we eat but by what we digest.
Every hour you steal from digestion will
be reclaimed by indigestion. Beware OF
the wrath of a patient stomach! He
who controls his appetite with regard to
the quality of his food may safely in
dnlge it with regard to quantity. The
oftener you eat the oftener you will re-
pent it. Dyspepsia is poor pedestrian;
walk at the rate of four miles an hour
and you will soon leave her hehind.
LIKE flakes of snow that fall unper-
ceived upon the earth, the seemingly un-
important events of life succeed one an
other. As the snow gathers together
so are our habits formed. No single
flake that is added to the pile produces
a sensible change; no single action Gre
ates, however it may exhibit, a mans
character, but as the tempest hurls the
avalanche down the mountains, and
overwhelms the inhabitant and his habi-
tation, so passion, acting upon the ele
ments of mischief, which perniciou'
habits have brought together by imper
ceptible accumulation, may overthrow
ths sdihcs Of truth and virtue.