Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-03
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

once unfortunate and unfair.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
LABOR is life; from the inmost heart
of the worker rises his God given force,
the sacred celestial life essence breathed
into him by Almighty God!
THE intellectual faculty is a goodly
field, capable of great improvement; and
it is the worst husbandry in the world to
SOW it with trifles and impertinences.
FLOWERS never emit so sweet and
strong fragrance as before storm.
Beauteous SOUL when a storm approach
es thee, be as fragrant as sweet-smell
ing flower.
EVEN the wisdom Of God hath not
suggested more pressing motives, more
powerful incentives to charity than
these, that we shall be judged by it at
the last dreadful day.
THERE is no Christian duty that is
not to be seasoned and set off with
cheerishness, which in a thousand out
ward and intermitting crosses may yet
be done well as in this vale of tears.
A FLIPPANT, frivolous man may ri6i-
cule others, may controvert them, scorn
them, but he who has any respect for
himself seems to have renounced the
right of thinking meanly Of others.
If you call a man ungrateful, you
cannot impute to him anything more de-
testable. One ungrateful man does an
injury to all who stand in need of aid.
Tne animal with long ears seldom leaves
his trough without kicking it.
ABSOLUTE ugliness is admitted as
rarely as perfect; but degrees of it, more
or less distinct, are associated with
whatever has the nature of death and
sin, just as beauty is associated with
what has the nature of virtue and of life.
THOUGH an inheritance of acres may
be bequeathed. an inheritance of knowl-
edge cannot. The wealthy man may
pay others for doing his work for him;
but it is impossible to get his thinking
done for him by another, or to purchase
any kind of self culture.
If time be of all things the most pre-
cious, wasting time must be the great
est prodigality, since lost time is never
found again; and what we call time
enough always proves little enough. Let
as then be up and doing, and doing to
the purpose; so by diligence shall we do
more with less perplexity.
You can tell more about man from
his smile than from his promises or his
A crooked smile shows that |
there is something wrong behind it,
just as sarcastic or cynical smile
shows a warp in the nature of the per-
son who wears it. But, when the heart |
is right, the smile will be of the right |
kind.
EVERY man has his own vocation. |
There is one direction in which all
space is open to him. He has faculties |
silently inviting him thither to endless
exertion. He is like ship in river;
he runs against distractions on every |
side, but one; on that side all okstruc- |
tions is taken away, and he sweeps Sc
renely over deepening channel into an
infinite sea.
AcoUAINTANcEs are but casual to |
whom We can claim amenities. Some
come and 60 like April showers, but
those whom we esteem as friends and |
upon whom we rely are linked to us insep-
arably in spirit and purpose. Friendship
is plant of slow growth, which needs
culture and nurture to strengthen and
ripen it. Friendship, when true and
sincere, shou Id be like fountain from
which emanates what is pure and clear.
The only. way to deserve friend is to be
one The essence of friendship is sin
cerity and trust.
A GREAT deal of discomfort arises
from over-sensitiveness about what peo
pie may say of you or your actions. This
requires to be blunted. Consider wheth-
er anything you can do will have much
with what they will say.
And, besides, it may be doubted wheth
er they will say anything at all about
you. Many unhappy persons seem TO
that they are always in an am
phitheater, with the assembled world
as spectators; whereas all the while they
are playing to empty benches. They
fancy, too, they form the particular
theme of ever passer by. If, however,
they must listen to imaginary conversa-
tions about themselves, they might, at
defy the proverb, and insist
upon hearing themselves well spoken Of
EVERY drop of rain that falls, bears
unto the bosom of the earth quality of
beautiful fertility. The glorious tree,
the herb, and shrub, and flower, owe to
those drops their life, their freshness,
and their beauty. Take but single
drop of rain cloistered in the green fold
of blade of grass and pour upon it one
ray of the morning sun, where will you
get lapidary, with his utmost skill, to
cut diamond that shall shine like thatf
Blessed forever be the beautiful drops |
of the sky, the refreshing soothers of the
scared earth-the nourishers of the flow
ers-that calm pellucid particle, though
but drop yet contains the ingredients
which produce light and heat. They
are all loveliness and tranquility, with
out passion, or pain, or desire, or disap- |
pointment-whose life is beauty, and
whose breath is perfume.