Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-02-11

TRUE sympathy is putting ourselves
in another's place; and we are moved in
proportion to the reality of our imagina-
ton.
THE person who has a firm trust in
the Supreme Being is powerful in his
power, wise by his wisdom, happy by
his happiness.
NOTHING is so narrowing, contracting
and hardening as always to be moving
in the same groove, with NO thought be-
yond what we immediately see and hear
close around us.
WITHOUT self sacrifice there can be
no blessedness, neither on earth nor in
heaven. He that loveth his life shall
lose it. He that hateth his life shall
keep it to life eternal.
WHEN you get into tight place, and
everything goes against you, till it
seems as if you could not hold on min
ute longer, never give up then, for that's
just the place and time that the tide IL
turn.
A FALSE mind is false in everything,
Just as cross eye always looks askant.
But one may err once, nay hundred
times, without being double minded.
There can never be mental duplicity
where there is sincerity.
DO not seek easy ways, for easy ways
lead to rust Do not seek to get rid OF
responsibilities, but be anxious to as
;sume them. See 600 it that, as you draw
near to the later years of life, you draw
near fully equipped.
ONE of the plainest of human rights
is the right to be let alone, and to be al
lowed the privilege of exercising our be-
nevolent faculties and extending our
sympathies in whatever direction we
prefer-a right which cannot be invad
ed without tyranny.
A LOVE of good may be cultivated to
almost any extent where the original
foundation of an unselfish nature ex
lists. A passionate ideal of excellence
can so fill the mind that no pleasure is
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efforts to realize it.
GREAT men stand like solitary towers
in the city of God, and secret passages
running deep beneath external nature
give their thoughts intercourse with
higher intelligence, which strengthens
and consoles them, and of which the la
borers on the suface do not even dream.
WHAT sort of tree is there which
will not, if neglected, grow crooked and
unfruitful; what but will, if rightly or
dered, prove productive and bring its
fruit to maturity? What strength of
body is there which will not lose lis Wig
or and fall to decay by laziness, nice
usage and debauchery?
WORRY retards rather than forwards
work. 1t tries the mind before the work
is begun. 1t makes one fretful, sours
the temper and disturbs the peace of the
household. One who worries is never
free from care. There are certain evils
which cannot be overcome. We should
make the best of them, and not add the
burden of worry.
EVERY failure is step to success;
every detection of what is false directs
MS toward what is true; every trial ex-
hausts some tempting form of error.
Not only so, but scarcely any attempt is
entirely failure; scarcely any theory,
the result of steady thought, is altogeth-
er false; no tempting form of error is
without some latent chain derived from
truth.
1T is singular that it is always the
friend of your soul who discovers all
you defects of appearance and manner.
Vanity will never take great hold upon
your soul as long as you possess a crony.
She will keep you well informed of ev-
erything you would rather not know.
She discovers those gray hairs that you
fondly dreampt no one ever saw, and is
kind enough to tell you that you looked
your worst at that last party.
THE little | have seen of the world
teaches me to look upon the errors OF
others in sorrow, not in anger. When
take the history of one poor heart that
has sinned and suffered, and represent
TO myself the struggles and temptations
il has passed through, the brief pulsa,
ton of Joy. the feverish inquietude OF
hope and fear. the pressure of want, the
desertion of friends, l would fain leave
the erring soul of my fellow man with
Him from whose hand it came.
To LIVE with purpose is to live as tht
Creator plainly intended his creatures
should live. Man was not called intC
existence and cast amid the forces of th'
universe to be tossed like a cork on thu
stream, or to form the plaything of ad
verse and contending moral influences
He was fashioned and furnished to taxi
part in the struggle, and contribute b,
his activity to the result. When mem