The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-02-06
SUNDAY EVENING.

SUNDAY EVENING.
How do you spend your Sunday eve
nings? This is very pertinent ques-
ton. Why so? Because it is Gods day
and you must answer to Him as to its
use. How were you raised to spend it
young man? Will you not agree to
spend part of it with us in our meet
| ing? We begin promptly at $3.50 p. M,
and close promtly at Alb O'Clock.
Subject for next Sunday =" The
Lord provides in His own way" l
Kings, Il: 1-9. Leader-Dr. F. r.
Harris.
| Come! Bring another with you!
Il don't know what to believe or how
to believe"
Rom. Y, $40; John Xxx, 81; Gomez.
| Heb. VII, 25; Seek, Is. Nv, 6; Ore
ceived), John I, IL; CTake), Rev. XXI,
II Uook), John III, IA; Is. XIV, % ;
(CalD, Rom. X, 10; Taste), Ps. xxxIv,
8; (Acquaint, Job. XXI, 81; Follow
on), Hos. VI, 8.
I How many christians, who read this
| column this week, will make an effort
to attend the Y. NJ. G. A. meetings on
Sunday eveniug9 Have you more i'm
portant meeting to attend or do you
feel no interest in the work undertaken
in your midst especially for young men9
You can do good in coming. You can
bring some young man with you. That
young man may be led to Christ by
coming. How about your boy? Will
your neglecting such things help him
Read Romans, IA 7-l2.
Never mind you where you work,
care more how you work; never mind
who sees so God approves. If He
smiles, be content. We cannot always
| be sure when we are most useful. 1t
is not the acreage you sow. it is the
multiplication which God gives the
seed which makes up the harvest. You
have less to do with being successful
than with being faithful. Your main
comfort is that in your labor you are
not alone. For God, the Eternal one,
| who guides the marches of the stars,
is with you.-Rep. C. II. Sturgeon.
Did you attend church last Sunday ?
Why not? Were you sick? Did the
weather keep you away? Would it
have kept you from any business en-
gagement Is your engagement to
meet God any less binding than those
with your fellow men?
UNSTABLE.
The secret cause of many failures is
not want of ability but lack of stability
Many men Of talent begin well, but
obstacles present themselves they turn
aside and seek some easier enterprise
on which to expend their gifts. A
story is told of a boy who always had
hobby which he rode at fiery speed
but could only ride one hobby a very
short time. One winter he collected
rare coins with a wonderful zeal. Next
he took fancy to collect autographs.
Before he had time to make Roadway
he wearied of this and bought print
ing press. Soon the drudgery of type
setting disguised him and he turned his
fancy to pigeons. When he grew to
manhood his fickleness followed him.
He went the rounds of the political par
ties and reform associations and relig-
ious denominations. He wasted his
talents in trying everything, but doing
nothing. There are many similar.
Everything has its Objectionable feature;
every theory of usefulness has its weak
points; every society has its faults !;
every way of life has its hardships.
The man who lacks the peculiar quail
ty which holds on steady through good
report and ill must fritter away his
strength and waste his life christian
Adr0cdte.
DON'T.
Swearing is crime that is utterly
without excuse. 1t isimpiously select
ing few words out of eighty thousand
and using them to convey no ideas, to
express no meaning but simply to
make them instruments Of sin.
Example is no excuse. If others
vent blasphemy, it furnishes a higher
reason why you should protect the
honor, and reverence the name of an
outraged God.
Habit is no excuse. How did you
get the habit? The burglar, the thief,
the counterfeiter might as well say "we
have perpetrated crimes so long and SO
often that we commit them thought
lessly." 1--WE are used to it," sit is
a way we have"
You may be sure that no man will
think better of for your profanity.
AS your crime ministers to no mans
interest or pleasure. it furnishes to no
human being any obligation to approve
or commend you. Profanity sinks you
in the estimation of both God and man.
Let me ask you then. in conclusion,
to cease from habit so useless and so