Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-02-09

THERE are peonle who are afraid to
give their hearts altogether to the Lord
for fear. they will never again be allow
ed to have anything they want.
THHRE is no exception to the rule OF
three, AS your income is TO your ex-
penditure, so will the amount of your
debts be to your cash in pocket.
CULTIVATE couretsy and good breed
ing in the family circle. 1t is foolish
to expect that child who is rude at
home viii be polite away from home.
MEN sometimes affect to deny the
depravity of our race; but it is as clear
ly taught in the lawyers office and IN
the court of Justice as in the Bible itself.
WE all have trials, but it is certain
that good temper and cheerfulness Will
make us bear them more easily than
ANYTHING else. "Good temper" sa! one
of cur bishops,is mine tenths OF Christi
anity."
WHEN YOU make mistake don't look
lack on it long Take the reason of the
hing into your own mind. and then look
forward. Mistakes are lessons of wis
Ion. The past cannot be changed, but
he future is yet in your power.
ONE of the most agreeable conSe
tuences of knowledge is the respect and
Importance which it communicates TO
Jld age. Men rise in character often as
they increase in years; they are venera-
ole from what they have acquired, al
pleasing from what they can impart.
If ultimate results could always be
taken accurately into account, we should
perhaps find that, for the building up OF
character, the developing of all the man
lier virtues, and the promotion of the
worlds best welfare, failure has, in the
long run, succeeded infinitely better than
success.
VANITY can exist only on a narrow
basis; broaden the foundation, and i;
will fall to the ground. The great r a
man is the smaller he feels himself To
be; for he has in his mind standard
of excellence far above that which he
actually reaches, ever progressing and
reminding him of his own shortcom
ings.
A LIE is not necessarily an untruth al
all. 1t may be merely an overstate-
ment of truth, or putting an emphasis
in the wrong place. A bent mirror is
IS really mirror as if it were plane
surface, yet it lies to every man who
walks before it, making him think him
self a son of Anak. You may construct
A falsehood out any truth whatsoever
by twisting it a trifle out of shape.
No one who has looked into life with
honest ewes can have failed to discover
that it derives untold values from the
love which welcomes its dawn, attends
its growth. and advances step by step
and soothas and cheers its old age. HUI
man love is itself pearl of great price
In young hearts it is Transforming
gladness, and awakening to the responsi
bility and to the rapture OF life. lr
manhood and womanhood it is the balm
of care, refuge in temptation, and {
source of serenity.
HAPPINESS passes away, leaving hard
ly single trace behind, and can Otter
indeed scarcely be called happiness, see
lag nothing lasting has been gained b.
it. Unhappiness also passes away (anC
that is a great consolation). but leave:
deep traces behind, and if we know how
to improve them, most wholesome ONT S
purifying and strengthening, and fre
quentlv productive of the highest happl
| ness. Tnen in life it is worthy of pecu
liar mark, that when we are not too
solicitous as to happiness, or the wan
of it, but devote ourselves to the stric
and unsparing fulfillment of dut , thel
happiness comes of itself-yea, ever
arises from life of troubles and anxi
ties and piivations. This has been yer
ifed in the case of women who wer'
very unfortunate in their conjugal rela
tions, but who would rather have per
ished than dreampt of forsaking thei
duty.
A CHEERFUL man is preeminently ;
useful man. He does not cramp nj
mind, nor take half views of men AM
things. He knows that there is muc
misery, but that misery is not the rul
of life. He sees that in every state pee
pie may be cheerful; that lambs skiI
birds sing and fly joyously, puppie
play, kittens are full of joyance, tn
whole air full of careering and rejoicing
insects, that everywhere the good oui
balances the bad, and that every evi
that there is has its compensating balm
Exercise or continued employment c
some kind, will make man cheerful
but brooding and thinking, or doing lii
lie, will bring gloom. There is eve
sunshine somewhere; the brave MI
, will go on his way rejoicing, content
look forward, if under a cloud, ne
i batting one jot of heart or hope if for
i moment cast down; honoring his occJ
n patton whatever it may be; renderin
even rags respectable by the way h
wears them; and not only being happ
himself, but causing the happiness {
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