Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-01-05
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

faculties in doing good.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
THE power of the mind over the body
is immense Let that power be called
forth; let it be trained and exercised,a
vigor both of mind and body will be the
result.
LOVE one human being purely and
warmly, and you will love all. The heart
in this heaven. like the wandering sun,
sees nothing, from the dew-drop to the
ocean, but mirror, which it warns and
fills.
A FIRM trust in the assistance of an
Almighty Power naturally produces pa
tience, hope, cheerfulness, and all other
dispositions of mind which alleviate
those calamities that we ourselves are
not able to remove.
To johnson, life was a prison. to be
endured with heroic faith; to Hume it
was little more than foolish Bartholo-
new Fair show booth, with the foolish
crowdings and elbowings of which it is
not worth while to quarrel-the whole
would break up and be at liberty soon.
TIE future is always wonderland to
the young. Life is like beautiful and
winding lane-on either side bright
flowers, and beautiful butterflies, and
tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause
o admire and to taste, so eager are We
10 hasten to an opening which we imag
ne will be more beautiful still.
He that sees ever so accurately, ever
so finely into the motives OF other peo-
pIe's acting. may possibly be entlrely y lg
norant as to his own. 1t is with the
N ntal as with the corporeal eye; the
object may be placed too near the sight
to be seen truly, as well as too far OIL;
nay, too near to be seen at all.
WE lose in depth of expression when
we go to inferior animals for compari-
sons with human beauty. Homer calls
Juno eyed; and the epithet suits well
the eyes of that goddess, because she
may be supposed, with her beauty, to
want certain humanity. Her large
eyes look at you with a royal indiffer-
ence.
THERE is no man but, for his own in
terest, hath an obligation to be honest.
There may be sometimes temptations to
be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he
shall find it the greatest ease, the high
est profit, the best pleasure, the most
safety, to hold the horns of this altar,
which, in all essays, can in itself protect
him.
If men or women commit wrong
they should do all in their power to
atone for the injury done. and having
done this the world should be willing to
condone the offense, and not endeaver
to remind them of that wrong doing.
''To err is human; to forgive divine" Is
An aphorism which all should bear in
mind.
IT is not the beginnings that are
made for US, and over which truly we
have no control, that are so important,
but those that we make for ourselves.
Honor and shame from no condition
rise; act well your part, there all the
honor lies" is distitch of Pope's which
should be quoted by every parent and
known by every child.
Dew falls but little upon the smooth
and brilliant surface of polished steel or
Furnished gold, while coarser and less
costly objects are freely wet. The gentle
dew of heavenly grace often takes effect
upon the rude and uncultivated, while
the refined, the tasteful, and critical are
left. like frost-work, brilliant and beau
tiful, but cold and dead.
Is there, in truth, any blessing OF
| Heaven which is more beautiful, more
worthy of our warmest gratitude, than
the possession of home where good
ness, kindness, ,and Joy, are daily inmates;
where friends, not merely by words but
by actions, say to each other, "Thy good
ness, thy sorrow, thy hope, thy prayer.
are also miner"
No mater in what form the cultiva
ton of taste may manifest itself-in
paintings and sculptures, in the analysis
of scenery, in the grouping of flowers,
in the imbellishment of the window OF
the mantel, in the cultivation of criti
cism, and the appreciation of the true
and beautiful in art generally-refine
ment of manners, kindliness of feelings,
and deeper devotion of religion viii.
be its sure attendants.
SELF-PossEssIoN is something apart
from ability. 1t is more in one direc
tion and less in another. Many persons
of great abilities are painfully lacking il
self possession, and others of very small
powers are rarely at a loss. 1t comes
rather through a fair degree of self
knowledge and a practical exercise O.
those abilities, great or small, which W.
do possess. Our own experience show
us this. Most of us are self-possessed il
at least one direction, and that we shal
find to be the one in which we have hat
the most constant practice anu the best
opportunities of testing ourselves. II
mechanic or busiI eSs man, or artist,
philosopher, may be undecided, vacill;
ting, constrained, and i'll at ease in ge'
eral society, or in political circles, or
hundred other situations; but in tn, !
respective employmeDts, or in matte {
closely connected with them, they Ia
once assume calm and assured manner
that tells of their repained self Dossps