Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-10-06

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ing when the sun went down is weaving
when it comes up tomorrow.
TIMES of great calamity and confu-
sion have ever been productive of the
greatest minds. The purest ore is pro
duced from the hottest furnace, and the
brightest thunderbolt is elected from the
darkest storm.
THE man who talks everlastingly and
promiscuously, who seems to have an
exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds
SO many words into his thoughts, that he
always obscures, and very frequently
conceals them.
AT all times presence of mind is val
liable. In time of repose it enables US
| to say and do whatever is most beftting
the occasion that presents itself; while
in time of trial it may protect, and in
time of danger preserve.
THERE is but one pursuit in life which
it is In the power of all to follow, and OF
all to attain. 1t is subject to no disap-
pointments, since he that perseveres
makes every difficulty an advancement
ahd every contest a victory; and this is
tue pursuit of virtue.
lie that opposes his own judgment
against the consent of the time, ought
to be backed with unanswerable truths;
and he that has truth on his side is a
fuoi as well as a coward, if he is afraid
tu o., IL it because of the currency or null
tiLude of other mems opinions.
MEN pursue riches under the idea that
their possession will set them at ease,
and above the world. But the law of
association often makes those who begin
by loving gold as servant finish by be
coming themselves its slave; and inde-
pendence without wealth is at least as
common as wealth without independ-
ence.
OF all the paths man could strike
into, there is, at any given moment, a
best path for every mana thing which,
here and now, it were of all things
wisest for him to do; which, could he
be led or driven to do, he were then do
ing like man, as we phrase it. His
success, in such case, were complete,
his felicity maximum.
THEBE is something in obstinacy
which differs from every other passion.
Whenever it fails, it never RECEIVERS, but
either breaks like iron. or crumbles sulk-
lily away, like a fractured arch. Most
other passions have their periods of fa-
ligue and rest, their sufferings and their
cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and
the first wound is mortal.
DOES a man reproach thee for being
proud or ill -natured, enviOus or concelt-
ed, ignorant or detracting? consider with
thyself whether his reproaches are true.
If they are not, consider that thou art
not the person whom he reproaches; but
that he reviles an imaginary being, and
perhaps loves what thou appearest to be.
MINDS the most congenial, and seem
ingly formed to coalesce in the sweetest
union, may sometimes, by missing the
preci moment of explanation, after a
Slight misunderstanding, separate for
ever Let us learn lesson from fact
whith b may be useful to the proudest
heart and the most delicate sensibility-
there is no price so high, nor delicacy so
refined, as to be above the aid of mutual
concession.
WHATEVER you do. do it well. The
sighting of task because it is appar
emily unimportant leads to habitual neg
lect, so that men and women degenerate
insensnsibly into bad workers. Training
the hand and eye to do work well leads
persons to form correct habits in other re-
spects; and good workman is, in most
cases, a good citizen. No one need hope
to rise above his present posltionwho suf-
fers small things to pass unimproved, or
who neglects, s,metaphorically speaking,to to
pick up penny because it is not dollar
''Seest thou man diligent in his busi-
ness, he shall stand before kings"
In his Lamentations the prophet Jer
emiah says, alt is good for man that
he bear the yoke in his youth" 81
don't like yoke for all that" may be
the observation of some young man or
maiden. No, none of US take kindly to
our limitations and restraints, until we
come to see their uses and happy effects
on character and life; nor even will that
suffice without the love of God in our
hearts. Love alone can make any yoke
easy and any burden light. 1t is the
chafing of our own spirit which causes
our pain, and that ceases when we see
that it is a pierced hand which would
bring us inio subjection. The yoke,
whatever it be, should be borne; that
with it we should harness ourselves to
the work of life, sure of this, that it is
in this way, with this very yoke, we have
to pull our load. Horses do not choose
their harness and caparisons, but take
their work with what is put upon them;
and though we are not unreflecting ami
mails, it is absolutely necessary for ev-
cry youth to learn the lesson of entire
subjection; because. the laws under
which he is placed are far stronger than
he, and he must either bend to them OF
be constantly CALLED by them. The path
of obedience is easy; the spath..of self
will is through thOrns and bIiers.