Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-05-11
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

practice of what Is good, are the tWI
most important objects of life.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE sweetest music is not in the ora
torio, but in the human voice when i
speaks in tones of tenderness, truth, ol
courage.
A MANS true wealth is the good hi
does in the world. Men may ask wha
he leaves behind, but God will ask wha
he sends before.
TIE mind of childhood is the tender
est, holiest thing on earth. Let parent;
stand as watchers at the temple, lest an.
unclean thing should enter.
TIE biting sarcasm and the cutting
ridicule that give amusement to the un
thinking and ill-disposed, by their keeI
edge cut at the root of many an inno
cent PERSONS happiness.
ALL the good things of this world arr
no further good to us than as they ar
of use; and whatever we may heap up tt
give to others, we enjoy only as muci
as we can use, and no more.
To know how bad you are, become
poor; to know how bad other people are
become rich. Many man thinks it il
virtue that keeps him free from turning
rr cal, when it is only full stomach.
THE greatest obstacle to being heroi
is the doubt whether one may not b
.oing to prove ones self a fool. Th
ruest heroism is to resist the doubt ;an(
the profoundest wisdom to know wheI
it ought to be resisted, and when to b.
obeyed.
ESTIMATE actions not by the over
results merely. but by the real though
latent power that is implied in them
and the most brilliant deeds of outward
neroism will sometimes fall far short o
those quiet victories over self, to whlcl
the Omniscient eye alone is witness.
CHILDHOOD has little retrospection
its heart and soul are in the future
which is glorified dream. Memory
with all its pleasures and pains, is TO
the old, and chiefly for the prematurel.
old; but youth is a vision of the island
Of the blest; it tells its own fairy tale t
itself, and is at once the inventor AM
hero.
HONEST acknowledgment of speci
fic offense is never exaggerated or over
done. 1t carries with it pledge o
truth and sincerity, and betokens tn
regret and desire for improvement of tn
one who utters it. If received in tn
same spirit, it will be one of the bes
safeguards of social peace and stead
fast promoter of social happiness.
STEADFASTLY set your face agains
needless delays in doing any work TO
the good of your fellow men. or for you
own edification. A dilatory spirit is on
of the most delusive of all the tempta
tions of the great destroyer. 1t puI
poses merely to postpone, perhaps fo
an hour or a day. 1t would shudder a
the thought of final and utter neglect
what it thus defers. Do this very da
and hour the duties which this hour an
day demand.
LITTLE words are the sweetest to heal
little charities fly farthest, and sta
Ion yast on the wing; little lakes ar
still .st, and little hearts the fullest, an
little farms the best titled. Little book
are the most read, and little songs tn
mo It loved. And, when Nature woul
ma e anything especially rare and beau
tifdl, she makes it little-little pearls
little diamonds, little dews. Much i
little is the great beauty of all that W
love best, hope for most and remembe
the longest.
SOCIETY is not only as we make i
but as we see it. 1t is not necessary
enter society and leave sincerity behint
There may be falseness and extravi
gance in social circles, but these are pa
and parcel of mans inherent weakness
and to be met everywhere, in the Churcl
at the Bar, and in the teachers spher
But there is vast array of brave, stu
DIV, intellectual men, of virtuOus an
graceful women, who hate deceits of a
kind, and whose atmosphere is as swe'
as crushed violets after rain.
GOD has laid upon us many seyel
trials in this world; but he has create
labor for us, and all is compensate
Thanks to labor, the bitterest tears a.
dried; a serious consoler, it always prom
ises less than it bestows; pleasure III
paralleled, it is still the salt of 9th,
pleasures. Everything abandons you
gaiety, wit, love-labor alone is alwa,
present, and the profound enjoyment
produces. Have l said anough? n
for to these privileges of labor we mu
add a greater yet; that it is like the ST
God has made it for the whole worl
AS industry is habitual activity
some useful pursuit, so not only inaetl
ity, but also all efforts without the d
sign of usefulness are of the nature
idleness. The supine sluggard is
more indolent than the bustling d
nothing Men may walk much and re-
much and talk much, and pass the d.
II without an unoccupied moment, and y
i be substantially idle, because indust
n requires at least the intention of usefl
ness. But gadding, gazing, loungin
mere pleasure -mOngerinp, reading