Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-11-23
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOlCE EXCERPTS.
WHEN God would educate q man, b,
compels him to learn bitter lessons. II,
sends him to school to the necessitie,
rather than the graces, that, by knowing
suffering, he may know also the eterna
consolation.
In cases of doubtful morality it il
usual to say, "Is there any harm il
doing thisf" This question may some
times be best answered by asking our
selves another, " Is there any harm il
letting it alone?"
WEAK arguments are often thrust be
fore my path; but although they are
most unsubstantial, it is not easy to de
stroy them. There is not a more diff
ficult feat known than to cut through q
cushion with a sword.
If you love others, they will love you
If v'us 8 eak kindly to them, they will
speak XII IDLY to YOU. Love is repaid
".tu love and hatred with hatred. Would
you hear sweet and pleasant echoes
speak sweetly and pleasantly yourself.
AGE, when it does not harden the
heart and sour the temper, naturally re,
turns to the milky disposition of infan-
cy. Time has the same effect upon the
mind as on the face. The predominant
passion, the strongest feature, becomes
more conspicuous from the others Ie.
ir og.
1T is an old proverb that "there ID
many true word spoken in jest" and
it is equally true that many stinging
and embittering word is spoken in jest
In fact, jesting is dangerous business,
Ind one into which NO man should too
freely enter, lest he should become a
bankrupt in friendship.
EVERY morning we enter upon a new
day, carrying still an unknown future
in its bosom. Thoughts may be born
to-day, which may never be extinguish.
ed. Hopes may be excited to day which
may never expire. Acts may be per
formed to day. the consequence of which
may not be realized till eternity.
To live happily with others we must
first learn to live happily with ourselves
for he who rules his own spirit well, ca
30 adapt himself to the shifting phases
in the life of his friends, as never to be
drawn into harshness, never to do vic.
lence to the feelings or tastes of those
who are bound to him by the sacred ties
of friendship or love.
EVERY intelligent man and woman
can teach something to others and learn
from them, and we make 8
fatal mistake when we ignore those
whose literary att in uents have beer
less than our own. A broad culture in
its true sense is always conscious Of its
own ignorance and anxious to repair it
while it is to generous to refrain from
giving of its own stores to those who
need.
THAT parent loves well but not wisely
and is doing wrong who gives unearned
rewards to the idle and selfish boy OF
the fretting girl II the boy fails te
prove half spoiled on becoming a man
it is in spite of his early training The
chances are that he will be willful, be.
sides idle and selfish. But an early
of industry, obedience
thought. and faithful religious training
can train the will in such way as to
modify natural bad qualities, and lead
to the acquiring of new good ones.
THE difference between the ordinary
and the extraordinary man-when it does
not arise from extraordinary gifts-lies
generally In the superior mental train
ing of the latter. The former may have
intellect as quick and bright, but, un-
less it has been trained to act, he is like
a man with all the craftsman's to lis
but, without the craftsman's skill. Tne
hand does the better work always the
better schooled the thought behind it is
and this applies not less to the ordinary
workman of the anvil, saw, or loom tha I
to the man of affairs. The carpenter OF
mason whose mind has been trained az
well as his head is likely to put aside the
plane and the trowel and to become the
master builder or architect.
1T is the most sentime ntal view oi
Memory that appeals to most of US the
moment the word Is uttered. "FonC
memories bring the light Of other day.
around me-" sang Tom Moore; and We
all love to live again in that light. II
pleases US to daily with the years that
have woven the web of our lives. The
workings of memory are associated with
subjects of tenderest interest. Memory
is the great palliative of absence, tht
embalmer of the dead, the preserver OF
the love of home, the mainstay of friend
ship. What wonder, then, that we 81
naturally take the sentimental view OF
the subject What Longfellow has
called 1.-THE memories of the heart,
sway us most easily. Let US not forge
either that, if memory is a priceless ser
want and gracious companion, Obliv
ion also is a mercy. Who would remem
Der the greater part of what he has for
gotten? Peace be with the buried past
Let it rest. 1t is one of the most blessed
gifts of Heaven that, while our sorrows
fade with the years, the recollection Of
our pleasures and triumphs remains witt
us, and gives the past brightness il
which we love to sun OurNelyes