Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-06-15
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

CHOICE EXCERPTS. $
WHY is it that when money is want
ed for the Church, most of the mem
bers think that somebody else ought tt
give il?
OUR sins, like our shadaws, when oul
day is its glory, scarce appear. Toward
our evening how great and monstrous
they are.
The man who undertakes to get rich
at the expense of his conscience, will
not be be long in finding out that he
can't do it.
DON'T hang around and wait for some
body else to go ahead. Break your OWL
path. Don't put off to days work until
tomorrow, in hope that it will be done
for you.
Do to days duty; fight to- days tempt
alton. Do not weaken and distract your.
self looking forward to things you can
not see, and could not understand if
you saw.
LAzINEss grows on people;it begins in
cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The
more business a man has to do the more
he is able to accomplish. for he learns to
economize his time.
SOME people have no perspective in
their conscience. Their more moral
convictioni are the same On all subjects.
They are like a reader who speaks every
word with equal emphasis.
How many a man, by throwing him
self to the ground in despair, crushes
and destroys forever thousand flowers
of hope that were ready to spring up
and gladden. all his pathway.
NOTHING so much increases ones rev.
erence for others as a great sorrow to
ones self 1t teaches one the great
depths of human nature. In happiness
we are shallow, and deem others so.
He who is sympathetic has his en-
trance into all hearts. and is the solver
of all human problems. To him is given
dominion where he thinks to serve; and
the love which he gives without stint, as
without calculation, he receives back
without measure, as without conditions.
THERE is no labor so productive as
that which we give TO an object for its
own sake. The more we forget ourselves
in our doings the greater the returns
they will yield. The more we are willing
to lose our life in our pursuit the more
surely we shall find in it the fruit of our
work.
IT is not sufficient to expound to the
rising generation principles of integrity,
and enforce them by weighty arguments;
we must also nourish the germs of be-
nevolence in their hearts. and cultivate
the aptitude for reading and interpret
ing the feelings of others, and the pow
er of participating in their pleasures and
pains.
If a man finds that he is everywhere
esteemed, considered honorable and
trustwsrthy. he will be stimulated to be-
come still more so. If he finds every
one suspecting him, he will much more
easily succumb to temptation. And so
with all other merits and dement's, show
ing how powerful factor in human life
is the emphasis we use.
THE unsuccessful often forget the in
termediary steps that lie between the
base and pinnacle of glory; they storm
the tempting heights at once. and sink
exhausted at the base. They that toll
with the same means at the right time,
in the right spirit. for a reasonable and
possible success, generally attain tiff
not in one form, then in another, even
if in no form than in the satisfaction of
having nobly striven and nobly failed.
MANY a man who fails from slack of
perseverance," as it is called, is simply
a creature of emotiOn-intellectua it
may be-who is stirred to action by the
fascination of prospect of success. AS
soon this becomes clouded over, or is
shut out of his view by turn in the
path he treads, he loses heart and faith.
| 1t is a radical fault in character, and one
which the young should strive to amend,
this work by impulse. Enterprise and
effort and should be potent in themselves
to stir the pulse of youth and to call out
its utmost energy.
WORRY is the most dangerous penal
ty of modern progress. One of the COM
monest expressions used by doctors,
when their patients seek remedy for
the nervous wear and tear and exhaust
ion which our over-busy life entails, is
that "worry kills, not work" If all our
duties were taken one by one with isola-
tion and concentration, worry would be
unknown, or could come only through
too prolonged effort. But, however well
we may negotiate work, there are always
times when we must get away from II
if we would escape its crippling effect
though it be only to slip, like Arnold
into the quiet gardens amid "the grid.
ling city's hum" and there to reach that
sense of the .calm soul of all things
and to feel how Natures quiet minister:
move on doing their glorious tasks in
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