Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-17
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

one things that nobody else could stand.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
| IT is not in our open exposed deeds
that we need the still voice of the silent
monitor, but in the small secret every
day acts of life.
To be happy at home is the ultimate
result of all ambition, the end to which
every enterprise and labor tends, and of
which every desire prompts the prosecu-
ton.
YOUTH beholds happiness cleaning
in the prospect. Age looks back on the
happiness of youth, and, instead of
hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recol-
lection of of hope.
If we must have heroes, and wars
wherein to make them, there is no war
so brilliant as war with wrong: no
hero so fit to be sung as he who has
gained the bloodless victory of truth and
mercy.
In the ordinary concerns of life moral
energy is more serviceable than brilliant
parts; while in the more important these
latter are of little weight without it,
evaporating only in brief and barren
flashes.
THE man who will not execute his res
olutions when they are fresh upon him
can have no hope from them afterward;
they will be dissipated, lost, stifled in
the hustle of the world, or swamped in
The slough of incidence.
THE best way to live is to cast away
troubles and contentious, which cannot
be cured by fretting. In justice to the re-
lnirements of the present,you should not
look back and make yourself wretched
over things that cannot be undone.
Now and then one sees face which
has kept its smile pure and undetiled.
1t isa woman's face usually; often a
face which has trace of great sorrow
all over it, till the smile breaks. Such
smile transfgures face. If the artful
but knew it, it is the greatest weapon a
face can have.
As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at
His feet, we have enough light given us
to guide our own steps; as the foot-sol-
dier, who hears nothing of the councils
that determine the course of the great
battle he is in, hears plainly enough the
word of command which he must him.
self obey.
THERR is no necessary antagonism be-
tween the education Of the home and
the education by the world. The youth
who has had good home-training, and
has the true grit in him, can hardly fall
into the barbarism of the loungers.-
Home training ought to be prepara-
tion for being wise instead of worldly
wise or knowing"
THE power to throw a stone or to
WELD an axe successfully requires GER
tain kind of self mastery, concentra
ton of forces. strict attention to the
matter in hand. When we come to the
far more complicated and varied duties
and projects of life, the power over self
necessary to pursue them effectively
must be proportionately extensive and
complete.
MANY boys and girls never learn the
full meaning of gratitude. They imag
that its chief Office is to make. if posi-
bic. some corresponding return. If they
would remember that the benefit con-
ferred consists much more in the feeling
of kindness, goodwill, or sympathy
which prompts it than in anything actu-
ally given or done, they would have a
different view of the sort of gratitude
they ought to follow.
FROM self-respect thousand other
things are derived such as the care of
a mans person, of his language, of his
manners; watchfulness over his body
and over his soul; dominion over his in
stincts and his passions; the effort to be
self lf-sufficient; the pride which will ac-
cept no favor; carefulness not to expose
himself to any humiliation or mortifica-
tion and to maintain himself independ-
ent of any human caprice; the constant
protection of his honor and of his own
good fame.
OUR speech is but fractional part of
our real influence. Without undervalu-
ing its power, it is not to be denied that
the very same words which at times in
spire emotion, infuse desires, and con-
troll the conduct will at other times
leave the heart cold and the life un-
changed. 1t is not, then, the words
themselves, but what they convey that
gives them their power. They are but
medium to carry thoughts, feelings,
desires, resolutions; and if they are not
charged with these they fall fiat and
powerless. Heart speaks to heart in
language of its own. and it understands
no other.
No worse preface to the story of
human life can be devised than the fix
ed cow iction in child's mind that he
is of no special consequence in the world
The parent who seeks to inculcate hu-
nifty by drilling this persuasion into
young heads and hearts, harms his off
spring beyond reparation. Every boy
and girl has right to have and to
hold, in full consciousness of its value
the title deed to the fathers and
mothers affections. The child should
comprehend, as soon as he can lisp the
evening prayer, that the love, the COM
passion, the never-sleeping interest of
his earthly guardians, are of type with
that which warrants him in saying "Our
Father who art in Heaven"