Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-27

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cidents of temperament, goodness is aD
achievement of the will and a quality of
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MANY people go through the world,
hearing nothing and seeing nothing For
all valuable purposes, their ears ; re as
deaf as an ear of corn, and their eyes as
blind as the eye of potato.
ALTHOUGH men are accused for not
knowing their own weakness, per-
haps as few know their own strength
1t is in men as in soils, where sometimes
there is a vein of gold which the owner
knows not of.
ADvERsITY has often developed
strength, energy, fortitude and persist
ence that prosperity could not have pro-
duced The dignity of self-support and
self-respect often has been gained when
an external prop has been removed.
HEALTH, like success in life, is to be
gained by paying attention to details
1t is better to try to keep from catching
cold than to be always trying to avoid
infection. More can be done to check
cholera by keeping houses clean than by
using tons of disinfectants.
ONE of the most agreeable conse
quencrs of knowledge is the respect and
Importance which it communicates to
old aye. Men rise in character often as
they increase in years; they are vener-
able from what they have acquired, and
pleasing from what they can impart.
A WELL-PRESERvED nervous system
can stand an occasional attack of right
eous indignation in which considerable
strong temper may be manifested, if
time is taken to fully "cool off between
the heats.'' 1t is the continual fretting,
grumbling, and growing, without inter
vals of rest, that is wearing and injurious.
ANGER makes good servant, but a
very bad master. The question is, not
how to crush it out utterly, but how to
manage and control it so that good and
not evil may result. Certainly, If this
effort were sincerely and continuously
made, very much of the anger that now
runs riot would die peaceful and ma
tural death.
HEAVEN forbid that any process of
philosophy were capable so to sever and
indurate our feelings, that nothing should
agitate them but what arose instantly
and Immediately out of our own selfish
interestsl l would as soon wish my hand
to be as Gallons as horn, that it might
escape an occasional cut or scratch, as |
would be eambitious of the stoicism
which should render my heart like a
piece of the neither milestone.
No one likes to feel that he is being
mentally or morally dissected. Con
scious as he may be of weakness and
imperfections, he does not desire to have
them patent to another's vision. 1t
tends to embarrass and humiliate him,
and finally ALLEVIATE him from the, one
who is thus peering into his nature. He
becomes afraid of him, and unwilling to
give him his presence or his confidence,
and thus much good is prevented and
much happiness lost. Even though no
word of reproof be uttered, if the spirit
of criticism dwell in the heart. it will
come to the front and make itself felt,
and will tend to separate us from those
who might by sympathy and kindness
be drawn toward us in friendlineSs and
goodwill.
The habit of self control is but the
accumulation of continued acts of self
denial for a worthy object: it is but the
repeated authority of the reason over
the impulses, of the judgment over the
inclinations, of the sense of duty over
the desires. He who has acquired this
habit, who can govern himself intelli
gently, without painful effort, and with
out anv fear of revolt from his appetites
and passions, has within him the source
of all real power and of all true happi-
ness. The force and energy which he
has put forth day by day and hour by
hour is not exhausted, nor even dimin-
ished; on the contrary, it has increased
by use, and has become stronger and
/ keener by exercise; and, although it has
already completed its work in the past,
it is still his true and powerful weapon
for future conflicts in higher regions.
TAKE life like man. Take it inst as
though it were-as it is-an earnest, vi
tai, essential affair. Take it just as though
you personally were born to the task of
performinga merry part in it-as though
the world had waited for your coming.
Take it as though it were grand oppor-
tunity to do and to achieve, to carry for
ward great and good schemes, to help
and cheer suffering, weary, it may be
heart-broken brother. The fact is, life
is undervalued by a great majority of
mankind. 1t is not made half as much
of as should be the case. Where is the
man or woman who accmplishes one
tithe of what might be done? Who can
not look back upon opportunities lost
plans unachieved, thoughts crushed, as
pirations unfulflled, and all caused from
the lack of the necessary effort? If we
knew better how to take and make the
most of life, it would be far greater than