Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-09-08
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS.
To relieve the oppressed is the most
glorious act man is capable of; it is in
some measure doing the work of his
Maker.
THE good things of life are not to be
had singly. but come to us with mix
ture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a
task affixed to the end of it.
If traveller does not meet with one
who is his better or his equal, let him
firmly keep to his solitary journey; there
is no companionship foI fool
ADVERSELY has ever been considered
as the state in which a man most easily
becomes acquainted with himself par
ticularly, being free from flatterers.
MEN are sowing seeds of truth or er-
ror, of dishonesty or integrity, every day
they live and everywhere they go, that
will take root in somebody's life.
1T is not by change of circumstances,
but by fitting our spirits to the circum-
stances in which God has placed us, that
we can be reconciled to life and duty.
SIR PETER LELY made it rule never
to look at bad picture, having found by
experience that whenever he did so, his
pencil took tint from it. Apply the same
rule to bad books and bad company.
THE human face never is so beautiful
as when the soul has passed through
some great struggle, when it has tri-
umphed in this unseen battle field, and
there is divine irradiation of the coun-
tenance.
ASPIRATION, worthy ambition, desires
for higher good for good ends, all these
indicate soul that recognizes the beck
oning hand of the good Father, who
would call us homeward toward himself.
If our Creator has so bountifully pro-
vided for our existence here, which is
but momentary, and for our temporal
wants, which will soon be forgotten, how
much more must he have done for our
enjoyment in the everlasting world.
GOD makes the glow-worm as certain
ly as the star; the light in both is divine.
If mine be an earth star to gladden. the
wayside, I must cultivate humbly and
rejoicingly its green earth glow, and not
seek 10 blanch it to the whiteness of the
stars that lie in the field of blue.
How many occasions of doing good,
in greater or less measure, are passed
by from irresolutionI While we are say
ing to ourselves. 'Shall /, or shall [ nOt?"
the moment flies away, and the blossom
of Joy which we might have given to it
is withered, and often cannot be revived
by any tears of repentance.
FORM the habit of early rising, and of
retiring early, which is quite as import
ant, and it will be easy to it. DO it regu-
larly, and the habit will form itself, so
that finally it will be almost the easiest
course you can take; do it irregularly,
and you will have lifelong fight against
irregular habits and bad hours.
If we work upon marble, it will per-
ish; if we work upon brass, time will
efface it; if we rear temples, they will
crumble into dust; but if we work upon
immortal minds, if we imbue them with
principles, with the just fear of God and
love of our fellow men, we engrave upon
those tablets something which will
brighten to all eternity.
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Memory that of the man. Man looks
forward with smiles, but backward with
sighs. Such is the wise providence of
Heaven. The cup of life is sweeter at
the brim, the flavor is impaired as we
drink deeper, and the dregs are made
bitter that we may not struggle when
the cup is taken from our lips.
MANY have talked in very exalted
language Of the perpetuity of friendship
of invincible cOnstancy and inallena-
bic kindness; and some examples have
been seen of men who have continued
faithful to their earliest choice, and
whose affections have predOminated
over changes of fortune and contrariety
of opinion. But these instances are mem
orable because they are rare. The
friendship which is to be practiced or
expected by common mortals must take
its rise from mutual pleasure, and must
end when the power ceases of delight
ing each other.
EVERYTHING in this world, F" said a
great philosopher, " has two handles; "
and if we take hold of the right one we
shall do well. The man who prides him
self upon the worth of his ancestors
may himself become worthy even by
that weakness. But woe to the man
who has nothing to boast of but the
position of his father, the beauty or
riches of his mother, and the virtues of
his successors. " He is" said Sir Thomas
overly, "very much like potato-the
best part of him is under the ground y
We know, hilosophically, that the mean
est beggar is as far descended as the
king, and we know that the poor have
as a rule in life been better than the rich.
and that it would be wiser to be proud
of being 1.-The son of parents passed into
the skies" than being the descendant
of Caesar, Alexander. Genghis Khan,
Napoleon Bonaparte, or any such con-