Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-06-01
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

the wicked, Out no real peace ever coDes
to the soul that hates the law of God.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THEY err widely who propose to turn
men to the thoughts of better world
by making them think very meanly OF
this.
WHEN we fall upon rock. we know
how hard it is. When we are thrown
upon our own resources, we learn how
great they are.
LET the memory of those oversights
by which we have suffered, instruct us;
for though past moments cannot be re-
called, past errors may be repeated.
IT is the vain endeayor to make our
selves what we are not that has strewn
history with so many broken purposes
and lives left in the rough.
AS well might planet, revolving
round the sun, expect to have perpetual
daylight in both hemispheres as man
to expect in this life to enjoy happiness
throughout unmixed with sorrow or pain.
THAT man is the most successful who
best and most fully puts to useful SER
vice all his powers and faculties, who
finds and utilizes the opportunity for
their employment; or, in other words,
gets into the place which he is best fit
ted to fill.
Few people are dull while they are
diligently employed none who take an
interest in their work and try to do ii
well. 1t is when they lay it aside, and
with it all sense of responsibility, that
things sometimes take on a somber and
colorless aspect.
THE wonders Of life are not in deeds,
but in characters. Let me look into the
martyrs soul and see the perfect conse-
Grafton which is burning there, and then
there is no wonder in my spirit when l
see him walking next day to the stake
as to festival.
KEEP the tongue from unkindness.
Words are sometimes wOunds-not very
deep wounds always, and yet they irri-
tate. Speech is unkind sometimes when
there is no unkindness in the heart; so
much the worse that needless wounds
ae inflicted, so much the worse that un-
pain is caused.
OPPORTUNITIES for doing greatly sell
dom occur, for life is made up of infin-
itesimals. If you compute the happi-
ness in any given day, you will find that
it was composed of small attentions,
kind looks which made the heart swell
and stirred into health that rancid film
of misanthropy which is apt to coagu-
late on the stream of our inward life.
THE will is the highest force in ma
ture, the last consummate blossom of
all her marvellous efforts, a gathering
together and concentration of different
forces into one definite mode of action.
BY the power of we'll fashioned will
man reacts with intelligent success
upon the external world, brings himself
into complete harmony with his sur
roundings, assimilates and Incorporates
nature, and thus carries forward its or
ganic evolution.
THERE is perhaps no single virtue
that, if taken by its counterpart. may
not sink into foible, if not vice. Thus,
in any path, however good in itself, we
must be on the watch as to how far t.
follow it, or rather where to begin to
tread another road which has hitherto
been neglected. Yet in this elf-culture
there are no sudden turns or sharp an
giles. AS the beautiful colors of the
rainbow melt and merge into one an
other while each retains its own individ
uality, so the rich qualities of noble
character blend harmoniously together
while each one stands out in its own
special radiance.
THERE is something lying back of
the grog-shop, and the gambling den,
and all other haunts of vice, which must
be remedied in order to thorough and
permanent cure. Not only do the hearts
of men need to be renewed, but there is
a vacuum in the social life of very many
which must be filled in some wholesome
way, if we would keep out that which is
unwholesome. Honest employment and
innocent recreation and the love of
study, in this connection, may be regard
ed as means of grace. Let the sentiment
of philanthropy take practical turn
and provide a good substitute for the
liquor saloon and ether similar institu-
tions, and the number of drunkards and
profligates will abate throughout the
land.
IT may be said that the power of ex-
tracting happiness from life is at best
a self-regarding characteristic, and can
not take Its place among the ennobling
virtues. But this is not so. 1t has no
selfish motive at the back of it; it is
Iever gained at another's expense. On
the contrary. it enables its owner to diff
fuse happiness around him in a plenti-
full degree. Every one who comes with
in his sphere is cheered, refreshed, glad
dened. Unlike the pleasures of luxury
or excitement, which perish in the using
and never extend beyond the user, this
happiness is ever multiplying itself and
spreading its benign influence over the
whole community. The more of it we
have the more we give, and the more
we give the more will return again to
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