Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-10-13

ought TO learn, ana L0dI WHICH, NC WILL
have most need to know.
Men will never know US by our faith,
for that is within us; but they know us
by our works, which are visible to them.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE good things which belong to pros
perity are to be wished; but the good
things that belong to adversely are to be
admired.
A HARD intellect is a hammer that can
do nothing but crush. Hardness OF in
CeIlect is sometimes no less harmful than
hardness Of heart.
THE worst form of ingratitude, is tc
refuse to accept favor from the hands
of a person to whom you have had the
pleasure of rendering one.
"HAPPINEss," it has been finely OBJ
served, sis in the proportion of the
number of things we love, and the num-
Der of things that love u.s."
If the way in which men express their
thoughts is slipshod and mean, it will
be very difficult for their thoughts them
selve to escape being the same.
PASSIONATE expression and vehement
assertion are no arguments, unless 1t be
of the weakness of the cause that is de-
tended by them, or of the man that de-
tends it.
IT is curious to note the old mar
gins of human thought. Each subsiding
century reveals some new mystery; we
Iuild where monsters used to hide them
ielves.
TRY to be happy in the present mo-
nenC, and put not off being so to time
to come-as though that time should be
of another make from this, which has
already come and is ours.
In common familiar everyday inter-
course we can get the sympathy for
which we yearn only from the firm
sweet natures that are not easily fur
ried by every passing cloud or carried
away by trivial excitements.
LET your thoughts be of others rather
than of self. Introspection is like dig
ging up fl wers to see how they grow
Unconscious work is the best work.
Look out and not in. If you perpetu-
lily think of self, you and Dame Duty
will part company.
You must be sure of two things. You
must love your work, and not be always
looking over the edge of it, wanting your
play to begin; and the other is, you must
not be ashamed of your work, and think
it would be more honoroble to you to be
doing something else.
THE world is not race-course or
battlefield or prize fight. 1t is place
in which each man is given his own
sphere to occupy and his own duty to
10; and if that sphere be occupied hon
,rably and that duty be done well, ev-
cry man is undoubtedly victor and
fit survivor"
THE greatest man is he who chooses
the right with invincible resolution; who
resists the sorest temptations from with
in and without; who bears the heaviest
burdens cheerfally; who is calmest in
storms, and most fearless under menace
and frowns, and whose reliance on
truth, virtue, and and on God, is most
unfaltering
THE Chinese have proverb to the ef-
feet that if you keep aserpent in bam-
boo it remains straight, but directly you
let it out it resumes its crooked nature
So it is with many men. They are placed
in circumstances which act as restraint
upon them, and they seem to be walking
Alright; but take that restraint away, and
thew soon show by their lives that the
nature of the old serpent is in them still
TRUE humility never prompts any one
to underrate himself, or to make loose
and general confessions of weakness
and wickedness, the particulars OF which
he would Indignantly resent. 1t is as
far removed from the pride which apes
humility" as from the pride which struts
in naughty arrogance. Ii leads to low
ly estimate of self, not that we may
shrink and crouch and stoop, but that
we may aspire and strive and rise. 1t is
the beginning of higher life, the prom
ise of nobler future.
ONE fretter or despairer can destroy
the peace of family, can destroy the
harmony of neighborhoods, can unsettle
the councils of cities, and hinder the
legislation of nations. He who frets or
desponds is never the one who mends,
who repairs evil; more, he discourages,
enfeebles, and too often disables those
around him, who, but for the gloom and
depression of his company, would do
good work and keep up good cheer. The
effect upon sensitive person in the mere
presence of such being is indescribable.
It is to the soul what cold icy mist is to
the body-more chilling than the bitter
est storm.
To know how to dwell in the present
not merely contentedly, but intelligent
ly and teachably, affords the best prom
Sc for future usefulness and happiness.
v hatpver may be the condition in which
we find ourselves, it has positive life
of its own which we should willingly
embrace, positive benefits which we
should be anxious to reap, positive helps
which we should be glad to welcome. OF
course it is right to look toward higher
and better things-passive contentment
with the present would prevent all pro-
gress; but to despise and scorn the life
we are in, which is as real and full of
meaning as any other can be, to ignore
its lessons, to forget its privileges, to be
insensible to its joys, is to lose just so
much of happiness and value out of life.