Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-11-16
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

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they do not have the same chance.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
MANY of our cares are but q morbid
way of looking at our privileges. Re-
member also that contentment is more
satisfying than exhilaration.
LET every one be occupied, and cccu-
pied in the highest employment OF
which his nature is capable, and die
in the consciousness that he has done
his best.
IT is greater fault rigidly to censure
than to commit small oversight. The
one shows himself man iB mistaking;
the other, no man in not pardoning 9
light mistake.
LET every dawn of morning be to
you as the beginning of life, and let ev-
cry setting sun be to you as its CLOSE
Let every one of these short lives leave
its sure record of some kindly thing
done for others, some goodly strength
or knowledge gained for yourselves.
TRUTH will ever be unpalatable to
those who are determined not to relin-
quish error, but can never give offence
TO the honest and well meaning; for the
plain dealing remonstrances Of friend
differ as widely from the rancor Of an
enemy, as the friendly probe of physi-
clan from the dagger of an assassin.
IT is not every one that crieth out for
mercy that will be heard. The ways OF
Providence are not to be judged by men
=" Many are called but few are chosen"
1t is easier to talk of humility than to
feel it. Are you 80 humble, vile worm.
Us to wish to glorify God by your own
damnation? If not. away with you for
i publican and pharisee.
LET us all resolve, first, to attain the
grace of silence; second, to deem all
fault finding that does no good sin, and
to resolve, when we are ourselves hap
py, not to poison the atmosphere for our
neighbors by calling upon them to re-
mark every painful and disa9reeable
feature of their daily life; third. to prac-
tice the grace and virtue of praise.
AS freely as the armament embraces
the world. so mercy must encircle friend
and foe The sun pouTs forth impair
TALLY his beams through all the regions
of infnity; Heaven bestows the dew
equally on every thirsty plant. What
ever is good and comes from on high is
universal and without reserve; but il
the hearts recesses darkness dwells.
ALL lines Of business must be run
systematically in order to attain tht
best results. 1t will not do to let one
thing after another pile up until one lie
literally overwhelmed. 1t is best to 60
through with everything in asystematic
manner. Take up each item in it,
regular order and work well while you
work, Recreation that Is taken when
you are conscious that you have dont
the work of the day faithfully is always
| sweetest.
Go where we will, we find men who
commenced life in the most favorable
circumstances, but who are such com
plete financial wrecks that there is but
little hope for their reformation. They
may be honest and temperate-they may
even possess natural ability of high
order; but, lacking In steadiness of pur-
pose, they have not succeeded. Had
they had sufficient will force to stick to
one thing. no matter how disagreeable
it might have been at first. had they
been content to advance slowly, they
would have no reason now to talk of the
"luck of those who have pushed for
ward into the front rank.
DIR. JOHNSON wisely said, HE who
waits to do a great deal of good at once
will never do anything" Life is made
up of little things. 1t is but once in an
age that occasion is offered for a great
deed. True greatness consists in being
great in little things. We should be
willing to do little good at time, asG
never wait to do great deal of good at
once. If we would do much good in
the world, we must be willing to do
good In little things. little acts one after
another, speaking word here, giving
help there, and setting good example
at all times; we must do the first good
that we can, and then the next, and 30
keep doing.
LIFE is not entirely made up of great
evils or heavy trials, but the perpetual
recurrence of petty evils and small trials
in the ordinary and appointed exercise
on the Christian graces. To bear with
the failings of those about us--with
the;r infirmities, their bad judgment,
theH ill-breeding. their perverse tenn
pers; to endure neglect when we feel we
deserved attention, and ingratitude
when we expected thanks; to bear with
the company of disagreeable people
whom Providence has placed in our
: way, and whom He has perhaps pro-
vided or proposed for the trial Of our vir-
tue-these are the best exercises Of pa.
tience and self-denial, and the better be.
cause not chosen by ourselves. To bear
with vexation In business, with disap-
= pointment in our expectations, with in
terruptions in our retirement, with folly
intrusion, disturbance-in short, with
whatever opposes our will, contradIcts
our humor-this habitual acquiescence
appears to be more of the essence OF
self-denial than any little rigors or in.
nictions Of our own imposing.