Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-19
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

in different ways, as good life, without
the final remunerations good life has
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
In evils which ad NIT remedy, impa
tience should be avoided, because i
wastes that time and attention in com
plants, which, if properly applied, nigh
remove the cause.
GonD retail your troubles to YOU
nei. hbJr, for most likely he has more
and worse troubles than you have, but
has the good sense to keep still about
them and bear them with resignation.
In troubled water you can scarce see
your face, or see it little till the water
be quiet and stands still; so in troubled
times you can see little truth; when
times are quiet and settled truth appears
THERE may be furlough from our
customary work; there can never be any
lawful vacation from doing good. There
may be change of place, scene, fellow
ship; there must be none in the spirit of
self sacrificing benefcence.
SELF-MADE men are more certain
than others of success in life for the rea
son that, so to speak, they are more
thoroughly made. That is to say, with
them the formation of character is more
solid because it is the result of severe
discipline, of determined will, of a set
tied purpose.
IMAGINATION and sympathy bring the
most opposite people near together,
whereas the narrow minded, the cold,
the conventional, the self-absorbed, the
superciIious cannot brook the company
of those whom they do not understand,
or whom they are pleased to consider
their in feriors.
HAPPY is the man whose life has YER
flied, as so many lives have verified, the
words of the apostle Paul" Tribula-
tion worketh patience; and patience, ex-
perience; and experience, hope" This
is TO have the soul take root in the
midst of earthly trial and trouble. and
blossom forth in the beauty and strength
of an immortal hope.
A PURE child, like ray of sunshine,
can 60 anywhere without contracting
taint. Though choice of association
is essential to wholesome development,
yet a normal and healthful child may
come in contact with great deal of
roughness and vice without being in
jured by it. This can only be however
when the child carries with it continu-
ally the atmosphere of pure, elevated,
Christian home. The intuitions of
child thus nurtured will make it shrink
from the taint of vice and keep it pure.
No one has right to trifle even with
the slightest opportunity of being use
full. Few can work out splendid achieve
ments; but that individual who unob-
trusively pursues his way, and feels
quiet joy in dropping an appropriate
word of rational instruction, who judi
ciously expresses sympathy, or utters
his convictions in tones of virtuous per-
suasion, may do more in the course of
mis- humble life than another who en-
dows hospitals, patronizes popular insti
tutions, and blaZes out into sudden acts
of brilliant munificence
THE self knowledge of a fault or
weakness is great thing to gain. Try
to form habit of self control by keep
ing steady and continuous watch on
the temper; believe that those around
you do not mean to irritate. The state
of mind in which perpetual expectan-
cy of offense is maintained is neither
dignified nor conducive to respect. The
fretful porcupine is not pleasant com
panion. Irritability is not proof of
strength, nor in any sense to be excused
on the ground of sensitive tempera-
ment. 1t is a grave element of evil in
character, and needs to be unhesitating-
ly subdued.
THE highest human culture is the |
greatest possible health of the whole |
man. All our powers must be braced
by exercise if they are to be healthy and
vigorous; while the activity of such pow
ers is at once stimulus and check to |
the rest From the very constitution of
human nature, each power must be
curbed to make room for the action of |
others; and self denial instead of being
a special duty to be exercised toward a
special portion of our nature under
religious sanction. is universal neces-
sity of our life, if we are to approach
toward the ideal of health. Health is
maintained only through the control of
our powers by the joiIt action of all the
rest. A curb must be laid upon certain
appetites. Restraint must be laid upon
his animal nature. We must deny our
selves the exclusive pursuit of knowl-
edge as much as the unrestrained pur-
suit of mere physical perfection. We
must check the outflow of our feelings
by our reason; our moral perfection
must 60 hand in hand with the culture
Of our imagination. We must allow no
part to encroach upon the rights of an
other. Many man is tolerably we'll
disciplined as religious being who is
signally defective as thinker, as stu
dent of nature, and of humanity, or as
a member of society. The ideal of an
educated life involves the possession of
the amplest knowledge that is possible
in alliance with the largest feelings, the
widest range of sympathy in alliance
with the most vigorous, energetic action.