The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-08-24
A new DAY TO DAWN.
COOPERATION IN BUSINESS TO
TAKE THE PLACE OF COMPE-
Triton.

Rev. InOmaS DIXON says IL is Tie III
carnatiOn of the Dream of the Old
PrOphet---It Is Christianity---Mr.
Bellamy's Book Praised-An ElO-
quent Sermon.
The seventh sermon of the series on
money and the Money Problem" by
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., is based on the
text: Bear We one another's burdens
and so fulfill the law OF Christ" Gala
tians vi, 2.
We have seen in our studies on the sub
ject of money that the result of competi-
ton and war with one another is the
negation OF competition in commercial
crises and ruin Black Friday is q neces-
sary accompaniment to such condition
OF affairs Competition may have had
work to do in the development OF the
history of humanity. War has doubt
less had a work to accomplish in the des-
tiny OF the race. War is perhaps morally
| and commercially necessary evil incl
dent to our history. None the less are
| the horrors Of war real horrors. None
| the less should we hate war in itself and
| seek the day of peace as a dream that
can be realized and never rest until it is
realized. None the less should we realize
the awful waste of war; that it is destruc-
ton of that which man loves and needs
most; that it's good is remote, and that
the good comes only in the overriding OF
Providence. 1t is the duty of the Chris
tan to mitigate all horrors that haunt
the earth, to stop the waste, to make
the desert blossom, to bring about a new
heaven and new earth.
| THINGS TO FIGHT.
! We may we'll ask ourselves the question:
Is it not time to cease fighting against
each other and begin to fight for one an
| other? Is it not time that France and
Germany and Austria and Italy and
Russia and England should cease their
terrific preparations to kill one another
and ioin hands against their common
enemy-famine, hunger, cold, poverty
and wretchedness? What a grand alli-
ance it would be for nation thus to join
nation; for the sorrow OF Russia to be the
sorrow of the world; for the despair of
Ireland to be the despair Of the race! Ii
the energies of the nations OF Europe,
that are now developed in the process Of
preparing to kill one another and in kill
ing one another, were turned to the in
dustries of peace and the fraternal work
of helping one another produce helargest
harvests and exchange them with. great
est freedom and profit to one another,
in!
FAILURES.
SO the industrial problem presses its
mighty burden now upon us. SO 1T has
been passing through the past. Our
great minds have pondered it deeply, and
pioneer spirits have gone forth into the
| u-;lI oftnn,nfo1 fo
upon a new basis of society. Most OF
these exeriments have been failures. The
Brooke Farm Experiment was one that
attracted the most brilliant minds OF
the age, and it failed. But all the ex-
periments of pioneer minds that are fail
ures are so many index fingers thatpoint
to the success that is yet to come. They
have simply exploded one hypothesis.
But as Keppler worked nine years-to
find nine suppositions failures-to find
the law OF the planets, but in the tenth
year, on his tenth suppOsitiOn, found
the truth in the orbit of the ellipse, sc
after our nine failures the tenth may lead
us to the truth that shall save society.
THE PRESS.
The signs of the times indicate a pro-
found awakening upon this question
The press is pouring forth from day to
day a stream of brilliant literature upon
this problem of social amelioration
and especially upon the fact that man
can cease now to fight his brother man
and begin to cooperate with him both
nationally and commercially. Some OF
the greatest successes in the realm of litter.
allure in the past decade have dealt with
this theme. Two years ago Mr.. Bellamy'f
remarkable book, ':Looking Backward, >
reached 800, 900 copies and lis still march
ing on it's way of triumph. The theme
of this book is the dream of cooperation
instead OF competition in society. 1t il
a dream, yes, but it is an evangel and 6
, prophecy. 1t is the vision of a prophet
whose souls climbed the sleeps and crie6
to the sleeping world, "The day dawns!
The feeling of every man who has 6
soul who reads such q book is, "May
) God speed the day ofsuch social order. ,
We may disagree as to details. We may
disagree as to some of the fundamental
estimates. But the idea, the fundamen.
tai idea, of cooperation is one that
thrills the heart of the Christian with in
expressible Joy and hope. The trend o
Of all this literature is Christward. Some
of it is written by men who do not pro
Tess Christianity, but it is the litera
translation into current literature OF thu
? religion of Jesus Christ. The message
of Christianity to the world is emphati
cally fraternal.
Cooperation must gradually but surely
and completely take the place of compe
t titiOn and war.
BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.
First-God reveals it.
He has taught us in Christ the sublime
/ truth of fot fhy;c+ 70, hi,
: disciples to pray, "Our Father" HI
taught the universal fatherhood of Goo
and the universal brotherhood of man
,, AS this truth takes possession OF hui
mainly it becomes more and more i'm
' possible for us to fight one another
: When the day comes that we are Chris
, | tlans, war must cease-martial wal
and commercial war. 1t is impossible
for two brothers to join as brothers into
7 gOuging each others eyes and destroy
. ing each others lives. The moment they
, engage in that pastime the word brother
: hood becomes a negation. They are nt
longer brethren. When the brotherhood
S OF man becomes living reality, and i
Is becoming so every day, we must, from
the very necessities of the case, cease t.
fight each other.
God reveals it to US in Christ, ou1
/ Saviour and teacher and exemplar. HI
r was the great burden bearer. His disci
pies told their sorrows. Their burdens
were his burdens. His work was tn
7 ministry of burden bearing, of healing
: OF helping the sick, the lame, the blind
, the leper, the dead. His teachings bor'
the same relation to society as his life
"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
I sell. \ new commandments give unto
you, that ye love one another" "Nt
man liveth to himself or dieth to him
, SELF All We are brethren" "God haiti
made OF one blood all the nations
FLOWER NOT DIRT.
Second-Nature proclaims it. TIL,
finger of nature points forward, not back