The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-08-03


signifies in the community.
Suppose that millionaire turn his
fortune into gold. Suppose Mr.. Gould
had liquidated all his possessions IN
business, placed the result, $75 1000, 600,
in his yacht and started around the
world on a pleasure tour. Suppose he
had been cast on a desert island, his
vessel wrecked, he alone surviving, hav-
ing saved his money. He piles it up in
the sand; there it lies. He sits down on
it and proceeds to starve to death. How
much is he worth as he sits on that pile
OF yellow mold? He is worth nothing:
He is pauper; he is beggar. Thegold
is all there. The coin is OF due weight.
1t is not short, has not been injured in
the transit; it does not tarnish in the
water And yet he is worth nothing.
Suppose a passing vessel takes him
aboard, transports him to New York
with his money and again lands him in
Wall street. He has his money in the
vaults of the Safe Deposit company.
How much now is he worth? He is worth
the face value OF his coin-$75 600, 900.
Why? Because the community gives to
this metal the supposed value. Wealth
is power over men. Money is wealth as
it is power over men.
The true value of money is a colnmu-
nal value. 1t is one that is bound up
with the heart blood of the whole COM
munity. 1t is one that comes i'll and
through the community. No man there
fore has a right to do what he pleases with
what he may possess. A mans money
is not simply his own. 1t belongs in one
sense-and a high sense-to the commu-
nifty. No man has right to do what he
pleases with what he may passess. A
man only has the right to do not what
he pleases, but what he ought to do.
Money is power. All over power is a
trust.
JAY GOULD OR MRS. BOOTH?
Sixth-As a matter of fact, money is
so weak that it does not touch the heart
range of real life. A millionaire died the
other day and was buried, and no.
body cared as to where he was buried,
1t was q matter of no Importance. AS
to the incidents of his death, they did
not touch the heart of the r aople. He
owned money enough to shake the fl
nancial world from ocean to ocean.
A woman died in London recently who
had no money, but thousands thronged
to her bier and begged the privilege Of
looking on her dead face. For days and
weeks the procession filed by the body.
Day and night, an increasing stream,
thousands and hundreds Of thousands
of eager faces, looked into her face with
love and with infinite tenderness. Men
who had BEEN lifted from the ditch and
the gutter and clothed aid in their right
minds stood over the coffin and cried
like children. Women who had been
abandoned to all hope and life and who
had.been snatched as brand from the
burning stood with tear stained faces
and kissed the cold lips with passionate
love.
A mother passed by the bier and looked
with longing eyes into the face of the
dead. Those who were standing in line,
impatient to see, fearful lest the body
would be removed before they could have
their longed for look, cried to her that
she must move on. She lifted her stream
ing eyes to them and replied: "Let
others move on. l have the right to
stay. | have the rig hit to look into her
dead face. She saved my child.' Kings
and princes and mobiles, emperOrs and
chiefs of the race, have been buried in
pomp. Nations have done honor to
their honored dead. But this earth
never saw such funeral as that which
was spontaneously, was resistlessly given
to Mrs. Booth, the mother of the Saliva.
ton Army. Wealth has been defined to
be power over men. Money does not
touch the highest realm of this power.
MANHOOD OR MONEY.
Seventh-A word from the lips of man
backed by manhood, can do what all the
gold Of earth can not accomplish.
Money is mighty power, but manhood
is q mightier one.
Wealth is power over men. Let us SEE
what can be done with money. When
Napoleon was engaged in one of his great
wars, you remember that the town Of
Ratisbon was taken. He deputed his
chief marshal to do this work. Ratisbon
was walled town, practically impreg
nable. Napoleon saw that it was the
key to the situation. The marshal com
missioned his officer to do the work. He
drew up his soldiers before the town and
called for volunteers. Immediately the
number of men called for stepped forward
They were ordered to the charge and gal
lantly made the assault. Every soldier
fell back from the walls dead. Not a man
returned to tell the story of their gallant
assault. -
Again the officer called for volunteers
and again they stepped forward, more
slowly than at first, but still sufficient
number, all that had been called for.
Again they rushed to the walls, again
they made the assault, and again every
man fell back dead. Not a living sou
returned to tell the story of the struggle
Again the officer called for volunteers
Not man stirred. They looked upon
the pile of the dead that lay beneath thu
walls, and no man would venture tt
make the charge. Now you may bring
before that line of men all the money on
this earth, and you may offer it to then
if they will make the charge, and there
could not be piled before them money
enough to induce those soldiers to charg,
over that pyramid of the dead, ovel
| those walls.
But you remember what happened
The marshal himself, seeing these two
fruitless charges and seeing the failure O
the officer to enlist for the third assault
| rushed himself bofore the line, and snatch
| ing the standard from the STANDARD
bearer, turning to the men, he said tt
| them with his face flashing with the cleo.
| trio fire of his great personality, "Sol
diers, will show you that a marshal o
france was once q grenadler Snatch
ing scaling ladder in the other hand
| he rushed toward the walls. Instantl,
a hundred brave men had leaped iron
the ranks, snathed the ladder from hi
hands and the standard, and hurryin.
the marshal to the rear with a shou
they rushed to the walls, scaled then
successfully and took the town Will
scarcely the loss OF a single life!
| Wealth is power over men-power t,
command men. Money may or may no
signify this power. There are hours il
the lives of MEN that it has no power tc
command.
THE CHRISTIAN AND BRUTE WAR.
| Let us be sure that no Christian cal
engage in the modern brute war of none,
for money in itself. That struggle an,
all that it signifies l would arraign ant
impeach in the name of the widow an,
the orphan; in the name of the hungry
and the homeless, and the despairint
in the name OF the weak, and the down
trodden, and the oppressed; in the nam
of your potter's field and its clusterin,
institutions. Christianity means weak
ness ruling strength. The work of tn
| Christian is not to seek money for itself