Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-06-23

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Trying to hit little sinners by shoot
ing over the heads of big ones is poor
way to carry on gospel warfare.
If you go in bad company now, how
much longer will it be before you will be
as bad as your companions are?
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE sweetest music is not in the ora
torio, but in the human voice when il
speaks in tones of tenderness, truth or
courage.
Nor only is it difficult to say the right
thing in the right place, but far more
difficult still to leave unsaid the wrong
thing at the tempting moment.
For work to be the promoter of long
and valuable life, we must know how TO
perform it and within what limits. Like
everything else, we must use without
abusing it.
No man is born into this world whose
work is not born with him; there is al
ways work, and tools to work withal, for
those who will; and blessed are the
heavy hands of toll.
VIRTUE consists in doing our duty in
the several relations we sustain, in re-
spect to ourselves, to our fellow men,
and to God, as known from reason, con-
science and revelation.
1T is utterly impossible for the best
men to please the whole world; and the
sooner this is understood, and a position
taken in view of this fact, the better.
Do right, though you have enemies.
AT all times presence of mind is val
liable. In tin~of repose it enables us
to say and t. whatever is most betit-
ting the oc ,dsion that presents itself;
while in time of trial it may protect,
and in danger preserve.
As cross word begets word that is
cross, so will kind one beget its own
likeness. If people only knew the power
they possess in being kind, how much
good would they achieve for themselves,
how much misery prevent for others!
ENVY cannot be hid. 1t accuses and
judges without proofs; it exaggerates
defects; its conversation is filled with
gall, exaggeration and injury. 1t stands
out with Obstinacy and with fury against
striking merit. 1t is hasty, insensible
and brutal.
A SINGLE snowflake-who cares for
it? But whole day of snowfiakes, oh
literating the landmarks, drifting over
the doors, gathering upon the mountains
to crash in avalanches does not
care for that? Private opinion is weak,
but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
INNOCENT faults are always pardoned
by kind parent. You may not know,
girls, just what is right, just what is
wrong, yet-you cannot be blamed for
making little mistakes; but you will
never do anything very wrong if from
the first you have no secrets from yonr
mother.
LITTLE words are the sweetest to hear;
little charities fly farthest, and stay
longest on the wing; little lakes are still
est, and little hearts the fullest, and lit
tie farms the best titled. Little books
are the most read, and little songs the
most loved. And, when Nature would
make anything especially rare and beau
tiful, she makes it little-little pearls.
little diamonds, little dews. Much in
little is the great beauty of all that we
love best, hope for most and remember
the longest.
THAT charity alone endures which
flows from a sense of duty and a hope
in God. This is the charity that treads
in secret those paths from which all but
the lowest of human wretches have fled;
this is that charity which no labor can
weary, no ingratitude detach, no horror
disgust; that tolls, that pardOns, that
suffers; that is seen by no man, and hon.
ored by no man; but, like the great laws
of Nature, does the work of God in 81
lence and looks to future and better
world for its reward.
WE ought, every one of us, to weigh
what we do, and to mean what we say,
and did we do so we should perhaps
have less controversy about truth and
truth speaking. There is a certain life
in words, soul about them, which
should not be killed out. 1t may be all
very well for a German composer to
write songs without words, but it will
not do for any one of us to utter words
without meanings; and yet too many
people babble away through life, talking
for talking's sake, limiting here, suggest
ing there, doubling this mans faith or
that mans truth, without really mean
ing what they say. or having the remot-
est idea that they are morally response
bic for a great wrong.
IT is by affiiction chiefly that the
heart of man is purified, and that the
thoughts are fixed on better state
Prosperity, alloyed and imperfect as il
is. has power to intOxicate the imagina
ton, to fix the mind upon the present
scene. to produce confidence and ella
ton, and to make him who enjoys affiu
ence and honors forget the hand by
which they were bestowed. 1t is sci
dom that we are, otherwise than by
affiiction, awakened to sense of oul
imbecility, or taught to know how little
all our acquisitions can conduce to safe
ty or to quiet; and how justly we may
ascribe to the superintendence of a
higher Power those blessings which, in
the wantonness of success, we consid
cred as the attainments of our policy oil
courage.