Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-06-29
CHOICE EXCERPTS.


CHOICE EXCERPTS.
MANY are great workers in the Church
so long as they can have their own way
but the moment they are crossed they
stop.
BEFORE the gold can go into the coin
and have the image stamped upon ii
that will give it value. it must go into
the fire and have the dross purged out.
WISDOM may be compared to water,
as water leaves the heights and gathers
in the depths; so is wisdom received
from on high and preserved by lowly
soul.
HOWEVER many friends you have,
do not neglect yourself; though you
have a thousand, not one of them cares
for you so much as you ought to care
for yourself.
THE human mind is always inexora-
BILE in demanding a motive for all hu
man actions. 1t is only himself that
each man permits to act without one,
and avails himself of the privilege with
astonishing frequency.
KINDS words are the bright flowers of
earthly existence; use them, and espe-
cially around the fireside circle. They
are the jewels beyond price, and power
full to heal the wounded heart, and make
the weighed down spirit glad.
THERE are many simple and graceful
ways in which we may show honor to a
guest without overtaxing our means or
strength, and these are always in place;
but the strenuous effort to make show
must ever be a signal failure.
WE always find thousand excellent
excuses for our gravest faults; but if
any one wrongs us in the least, the of
tense is objectionable. We have a thous
and reasons wherewith to condemn our
neighbor, but not one wherewith to ex-
cuse him.
CAST an eye into the gay world; what
see we, for the most part, but set of
querulous, annotated, f1uttering, fan
tastical beings, wornout in the keen pur
suit of pleasure; creatures that know.
own, condemn, deplore, yet still pursue
their own infelicity.
WE are born in hope; we pass our
childhood in hope; we are governed by
hope through the whole course of our
lives, and in our last moments hope is
f1attering to us; and not until the beat
ing of our heart shall cease will its be-
nign influence leave US.
WE cannot afford to waste or ignore
or despise anything; for, however USE
less it may appear to our short-sighted
vision, we know not what treasures of
future growth and advancement may be
embodied within it. or how readily it may
respond to wise culture.
IT is not the variegated colors, the
cheerful sounds, and the warm breezes
which enlivcn us SO much in spring; it
is the quiet prophetic spirit of endless
hopes, a presentiment of many joyful
days, the anticipation of higher, ever
lasting blossoms and fruit.
SOME look upon successes and failures
as lucky accidents or calamitous mis-
chances, and wonder what the next turn
of fortunes wheel is to bring" them.
Others profit by both, and, by studying
their causes and the laws which govern
them, become wiser and more able to in
sure permanent and steady success in
the future.
A CULTIVATED mind may be said to
have infinite stores of innocent gratiica
tion. Everything may be made inter
esting to it by becoming subject of
thought or inquiry. Books, regarded
merely as qualification, are worth more
than all the luxuries on earth. A taste
for literature secures cheerful Occupa-
tion for the unemployed and languid
hours of life.
SUSPENSION of judgment at certain
times should be sedulOusly cultivated.
When we remember how frequently COM
plex conditions are involved, and how
difficult it is to understand and appre-
ciate those conditions, and to accord to
each its proportionate value, we may
well pause and reflect before commit
ting ourselves to judgments which may
prove to be wrong.
THOSE who are striving merely for
approval may be cast down, those who
care only for the prizes of life may be
disappointed; but the delight which is
taken in the effort for excellence can
never be shaken while the effort contin-
ues. The consciousness of earnest en-
deavor, the knowledge that we are doing
our best, is joy which no envious
tongues, no bitter criticism can Danish.
THE men or women who exercise
their energies as household dictators are
altogether disgagreeable specimens of
humanity but unhappily are not uncom-
mon. The dictator is often the last per-
son in the house who realizes the dis
comfort that his system of nagging pro-
duces, as such person, in the necessi-
ties of the case, is prominently selfish
individual, whose horizon is limited to
himself. and who takes in the rest of the
world only as they are his and form a
mart in that Way Of his selfish interests