Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-06-09


The devil don't want any stronger hol
on man than to get him to put OFF do
ing what he knows to be right.
If a man would take as much interes
in his work as he does in his sport, ther
would be no need of abolishing poverty
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
WE should give as we would receive
cheerfully, quickly, and without hesita
ton; for there is no grace in a bench
that sticks to the fingers.
MANY things rightly claim our atten
tion; but none of them will receive i
Alright if our thoughts wander aimlessly
from one to another without guide.
WITH every exertion, the best of mel
can do but a moderate amount of good
but it seems in the power of the mos
contemplate individual to do incalcula
BILE mischief.
As our intellectual food makes oul
minds what they are, coarse or refined
barbaraic or cultured. disciplined or wild
and riotous, so our spiritual companion
ship makes our spirits what they are.
1 WISH popularity! but it is that popu-
larity which follows, not that which is
run after. 1t is that popularity which
sooner or later never fails to do justice
to the pursuit of noble ends by noble
means.
WE may satirize error, but we must
compassionate the erring; and this we
must always teach by example to chill
dren, not only in what we say OF Others
before them, but in our treatment of
themselves.
THINKING, not growth, makes man.
hood. Accustom yourself, therefore, to
thinking. Set yourself to understand
whatever you see or read. To join
thinking with reading is one of the first
maxims, and one of the easiest opera
tions.
GREAT men, said Themistocles, are
like the oaks, under the branches of
which men are happy in finding refuge
in the time of storm and rain. But
when they have to pass sunny day un-
der them, they take pleasure in cutting
the bark and breaking the branches.
AN intrepid courage is at best but a
holiday-kind of virtue, to be seldom ex-
ercised, and never but in cases of neces-
sity. Affability, mildness, tenderness,
and a word which l would fain bring
back to its original Specification of vir-
tue-I mean good nature-are of daily
use; they are the bread of mankind and
staff of life.
If there be a pleasure on earth which
angels cannot enjoy, and which they
might almost envy man the possession
of, it is the power of relieving distress.
If there is pain which devils might
pity man for enduring, it is the death
bed reflection that we have possessed
the power of doing good, but that we
have abused and perverted it to pur-
poses of i'll.
HUMILITY is the most natural cure for
anger in the world; for he that by daily
considering his own inirmities makes
the errors of his neighbors to be his own
case, and remember that he daily needs
God and his brothers charity, will not
be apt to rage at the faults of another,
and greater than those which he feels
that he is frequently and inexcusably
guilty of.
IT is not in the words that others say
to us, but in those other words which
these make us say to ourselves, that We
find our gravest lessons and our sharpest
rebukes. The hint another gives us
finds whole trains of thoughts ready to
be shaped in inwardly articulated words,
and only waited the touch of burning
syllable.
THE heavens themselves run contin-
ally round; the world is never still; the
sun travels to the east and to the west;
the moon is ever changing in its course;
the stars and planets have their constant
motions; the air we breathe is continu-
ally agitated by the wind, and the waters
never cease to ebb and flow; doubtless
for the purpose of their conversation,
and to teach us that we should ever be
in action.
MANY have talked in very exalted
language of the perpetuity of friendship
of invincible constancy and inalienate
kindness; and some examples have been
seen of men who have continued faith
full to their earliest choice, and whose af-
fections have predominated over changes
of fortune and contrariety of opinion.
But these instances are memorable be-
cause they are rare. The friendship
which is to be practiced or expected by
common mOrtals m ust take its rise from
mutual pleasure, and must end when
the power ceases of delighting each other.
OVER the plum and the apricot there
grows bloom more delicate and beau
tiful than the fruit itself-a soft delicate
flush spreads its flushing cheek. Now,
If you strike your hand over that. it is
gone. The flower that hangs in the
morning impearled with dew, aTrayed
as no queenly woman ever was arrayed
with jewels-once shake it so that the
beads roll off, and you may sprinkle
water over it as you please, yet it can
never be again what it was when the
dew fell silently on it from Heaven. On
a frosty morning you may see panes of
glass covered with landscapes, mount
aims, lakes, trees, blended in beautiful
picture. Now lay your hand upon the
glass, and by the scratch of your finger,
or by the warmth of your palm, that
delicate tracery will be Obliterated. Sc
there is in youth beauty and purity OF
character, which, when once touched
and defiled, can never be restored