Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-03-31

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er know it.
Loving kindness is greater than laws;
and the charities of life are more than
all ceremonies.
Money that is given to attract applause
from men is never entered upon the
books in heaven.
There are people who pray for show
ers of blessing who want them to come
without any clouds.
The cheerful live longest in years, and
afterward in our regard. Cheerfuiness
is the offshoot of goodness.
Contentment is a good thing until 1t
reaches the point where it sits in the
shade and lets the weeds grow.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
IL perchance the cause of thine enemy
come before thee, forget the injuries,
and think only of the merits of the case.
If we could read the secret history or
our enemies, we would find in each mans
life sorrow and suffering enough to dis
arm hostility.
MAN may content himself with the
applause of the world and the homage
paid to his intellect, but woman's heart
has hol;er idols.
HAPPY are those that learn early by
the hard way of life what every man
must learn first or last, or go ashore
wreck-namely, self-restraint.
In order to discover truth, we must
be truthful ourselves, and must welcome
those who point out our errors as heart
ily as those who approve and confirm
our discoveries.
THE worst effect OF party is its ten
aency to generate narrow, false and H.
liberal prejudices, by teaching the ad-
herents of one party to regard those that
belong to an opposing party as unworthy
of confidence.
A MAN conscious of enthusiasm for
great ends is sustained amid petty hos
fIlities by the memory of great workers
who had to fight their way, and who
hover in his mind as patron saints, in
yisibly helping.
WE must learn how to think and feel
about things We must get honesty, di-
rectness. and lofty purpose wrought into
the fiber of our being. We must fix
right standards of Judgment. We must
be taught and be willing to learn the
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THE enthusiast has been compared to
a man walking in fog; everything i'm
mediately around him, or in contact
with him, appears sufficiently clear and
luminous; but beyond the little circle of
which he himself is the center, all is
mist and error and confusion.
HALLIBURTON says: There is nothing
ing like fun, is there? haven't any my
self, and do like it in others. Oh. we
need tive need all the counterwelghts
we can muster to balance the sad rela-
tions of lifel God has made sunny spots
in the heart; why should we exclude the
light from them?"
BE not anxious about TO- o-morrow. DO
to-day's duty only; fight today's teInpta-
tions, and do not weaken and distract
yourself by looking forward to those
things you cannot see, and could not un-
derstand if yon saw them. Enough for
YOU that God is Just and merciful, and
will reward every man according to his
work.
MANY men, without being hypocrites
at heart. surrounds themselves with an
atmosphere of insincerlty in the inter-
course of life of the sincerity of others.
Let us not pretend to more than we have
and are Those who have homes should
specially seek to keep them free from
everything that is false.
No good action, no good example dies
it lives forever in our race. A single
virtuous action has elevated whole vii
lage, a whole city. whole nation. 1t is
from small seeds dropped into the
ground that the finest productions grow,
and it is from the inborn dictates of con-
science and the inspired principle of
duty that the finest growths Of character
have arisen.
THOSE who wound the feelings of their
neighbors by many unkind speeches at
tempt to justify themselves by declaring
that they say alwaysswhat they think.
This is their idea of an honest man.
One should never say what he does not
think, but it does not follow that he
should always say what he happens to
think. A wise man thinks all that he
says; fool says all that he thinks.
THE best kind of hospitality is that
which regards the material conveniences
and luxuries of house as the mere ad
juncts and aids to friendly intercourse.
:, TO some degree they are of course es-
sential to this end. But, when the
means come to the end-when the dain
ties, and the fine linen. and the beds of
down, and the perfect serving come 10 be
the main objects, and especially when
they are suffered to hamper and annoy
us-wc cease to be truly hospitable.
If any one has reared children, and
indicted them safely into manhood in
the midst of dangers that multiplied
ahnut tham and the troubles that DeSet