Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-06-18

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that which consists in putting a good
serman into good practice.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
LEISURE is sweet to those who have
earned it, but burdensOme to those who
get it for nothing.
THERE are two kinds of pity; one is
, balm, the other poison. The first is
realized by our friends, the last by our
enemies.
CHEERFULNEss throws sunlight on all
the paths of life. Peevishness covers
with its dark fog even the most distant
horizon.
LAUGHTER, merriment, cheerfulness,
and everything that conduces to cheer
fulness, are absolutely essential to ena-
bic us to live our best.
IT is easy in the world to live after
the worlds opinion; it is easy in soli-
tude to live after our own; but the great
man is he who in the midst of the crowd
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pendencs of solitude.
WE can never sustain permanently
that which we do not hold in respect,
and only when the value and dignity of
the affections are fully realized can their
culture maintain the place it really de-
serves.
THE eye of the understanding is like
the eye of the sense; for, as you may
see great objects through small crannies
or holes, so you may see great axioms
of nature through small and contempti-
BILE instances.
THE time of sickness or affiiction is
like the cool of the day to Adam, sea-
son of peculiar propriety for the voice of
God to be heard; and may be improved
into very advantageous opportunity of
begetting or increasing spiritual life.
LIVE for something. Do good and
leave behind you monument of virtue
that the storms of time can never de-
stroy. Write your name in kindness,
in love, and in mercy on the hearts of
the thousands you come in contact with
year by year.
1t is not the variegated colors, the
cheerful sounds, and the warm breezes
which enliven us so much in spring; it is
the quiet prophetic spirit of endless
hopes, a presentiment of many joyful
days, the anticipation of higher, ever
lasting blossoms and fruits.
WE will never know until we get to
heaven what glorious meaning there
may be in life on this earth. We will
find that the continual life of need which
we have lived here has made it possible
for US to step into the eternities and
spend ages in teaching the angels glori-
&ls things about God.
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.
WHILE we rightly rejoice in all the
processes of civilization which tend to
remove present difficulties and to make
life and work simpler and easier, let us
ever remember that they can be valuable
to us only by enabling us to climb high
er, to pursue nobler objects, to occupy
fresh fields of activity, and produce
finer results.
EACH one of us is bound to make the
little circle in which he lives better and
happier; each one of us is bound to see
that out of that small circle the widest
good may flow; each of us may have
fixed in his mind the thought that out of
single household may flow influences
that shall stimulate the whole common
wealth and the whole civilized world.
HOPE is based upon faith, desire upon
caprice. The former is almost always
calm and steady, moderate and reason
able; the latter is often impulsive and
unsettled, extravagant and unreasonable
for desire, with its present longings,
anticipates only momentary gratifica-
tion, while hope, with its moral bearings,
looks forward to some permanent good
The world is a great public school.
and it soon teaches new pupil his prop
er place. If he has the attributes that be-
long to a leader, he will be installed in
the position of a leader; if not, whatever
his own opinion of his abilities may be,
he will be compelled to fall in with the
rank and file. If not destined to great
ness, the next best thing to which he
can aspire is respectability But no
man can be either truly great or truly
respectable who is vain, pompous, and
oyerbearing.
THAT which man sees or hears NAV
drop away from him as easily a. it
dropped upon him; but that which he
has learned to know, the ideas he has
cherished, the truths he has assimiIated,
the principles he has espoused, the the
ories he has worked out and tested
these may be truthfully called his very
own. No enemy can take them from
him, no stroke of adversity can rob him
of them. Just as our food, when proper
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