Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-01-26


If guilt makes such towards of be-
stand before God?
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE world will be nearer right when
1 man has learned to laugh little less
1t his neighbor's troubles, and little
more at his own.
DIFFERENCE often shrinks and with
ers as much upon the approach of init
macy as tue sensitive plant does upon
the touch of ones finger.
He that would make real progress in
knowledge must dedicate his age as
we'll as yonth-the latter grown as well
Is first fruits--at the altar Of truth.
THE good things of life are not only
thsoe that delight the eye or ear, OF
commend themselves to the palate, but
also those that cause joyfulness of the
leart.
BY luxury we csndemn ourseles to
greater torments than have yet been in
vented by anger or revenge. or inflicted
~ the greatest tyrants upon the worst
If men.
AT the end of life we discover that we
nave passed nearly onehalf of it in be-
ng happy without realizing it, and the
,ther half in imagining that We were
miserable.
AN innocent natrue could hate moth
ng that was innocent, in a word, so
great is the Communication that the soul
iheR hates only that which now only it
uves-namely, sin.
Born wit and understanding are tri-
les without integrity. The ignorant
,easant without fault is greater than the
philosopher with many. VIII is genius
)r courage without hearth
THERE are but three kinds of wrongs
in our lives: The wrongs man does to
his own soul or body, or suffers in either
the wrongs of man against his broth
or man; the wrongs between man and
woman.
1T is the glorious prerogative of the
empire of knowledge, that what it gains
1t never loses. On the contrary, it in
ereases by the multiple of its own pow
.r; all its ends become means; all its at
tainments help to new eonquests.
1T has been well said, that the thing
most likely to make the angels wondT,
is to see proud man. But pride of
birth is the most ridiculous of all vani-
ties; it is like boasting of the root of
the tree, instead of the fruit it bears.
PROPERTY is consistent with intense
Sorldiness, intense selishness, intense
hardness of heart, while the grander
features of human charaeter-self-sacri-
ice, disregard of pleasure, patriotism,
.ove of knowledge, devotion to any great
ind good cause--theSe have no ten
iencies to bring men to what is called
fortune.
IT is very evident that only as we do
right will our ideals of right become ele-
gated, only as we follow what We know
will real knowledge be increased, only
IS our lives are faithful and kind will
our affections expand and the spirit of
love and trust fill our hearts. 1n truth.
it is only as the heart and the hand work
together that the man himself can tru-
ly be said to improve.
EVERY breach Of faith, every broken
promise. every moan advantage taken,
however small and trifling Zach may ap-
pear, helps to build up the dishonesty
which at some time, and by some one,
wrecks the happiness of multitudes and
drags down the SHINING one to degrade
tion ane sin. the honor of the country
and the integrity of the milton are in
the hands of every citizen; each is re-
sponsible for his share in making or in
marring them.
The workings of Conscience begin at
a very early period. As soon as Reason
shows itself, the silent monitor is at
work. Somo little children are full OF
this self-reproach, and are so tender
that to those hardened in tae world theiI
poignant regret and grief seem almost
u. Il
does not measure the wrong inflicted
in the same way as does the person who
suffers it, 1t will be well if this tender
ness is not checked,rudely, for if it con
tinue through life its owner will be a
very valuable creature. working his full
time, making others happy, creating a
very pure atmosphere about him.
THERE is habit which is seldom cul
tivated, and which it may seem almost
contradictory to call by that name-the
habit of variety. Generally habit is ex
elusive. If We act, or think, or feel IL
special directions time after time, We
naturally leave other paths untrodden
Thus we are apt to become narrow, one
sided, uninterested in other lines Of
thought and action, perhaps infexible
and dogmatic. The literary man scorn'
business; the merchant cares nothing
for science; the artist has no thy
with the mechanic. Or men will 60 OF
doing their work in one way to which
they have become accustomed, although
another and better way has been dis
covered. Thought and even feeling ge'
into grooves; conscience is satisfied will
obeying prevalent code of morals. ant
seeks for no new duties. All this is {
foe to progress, and should be guarded
! against both in education and in self
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