The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-10-05

and worth no more than trick horse
or educated hog.
To be man even, his body must
. be cultivated. his mind must be trained
and his spiritual nature developed. A
gentleman. from worldly standpoint
as well as from a religious point Of
! view. must be more than a man or else
! they are identical and the former means
nothing. As, speaking as the world,
| to be gentleman is to be more than
ones fellows in a sense, in the true
sense a man must strive to attain to
to the highest possible manhood; if he
would be true gentleman. He must
| keep his body under subsection and let
his mind and spirit dictate as to what
fleshly appetites he may indulge. Some
men advocate the tolerance Of certain
evils arguing that men must indulge
themselves to some extent. Such men
possibly may be gentlemen in some
sense; but they have no idea Of true
gentility. Any father who does not
teach his son, that the satisfactions of
the body is a low ambition, will be a
| poor help to that son in making of
himself gentleman. If a man, WELD
ing influence over the young, shold not
teach them that being ruled by his
passions and appetites puts him on an
equality with the brute, he tails of his
calling.
\ father does his boy great injustice
if he should not impress him with the
truth, that he is independent of society
nrC ncia1 nljnorS tnr
manhood or happiness is concerned.
Any true man can, by practised effort,
control his thoughts and hence his de-
sires and actual life. Many young
men look on this as physical impos-
sibility-their fathers never giving
them any better teaching: and they
grow up like father like son. An inn
pure, ignorant man, does not bring up
his son lin the nurture and admoni-
ton of the Lord,' but lets him come
up impure, ignorant Of his own nature
and often thinking that his precious
body is the main thing, when really
hog meat is worth more. The man
tells the boy how to dress, how to ride,
how to walk, what to eat, how to be
polite in company, how to appear well,
and never teaches that old motto mot
to seem but to be- They have never
heard Of their possibilities-they are
utterly surprised at your folly, when
you tell them it is their duty to society,
to themselves and to God to keep their
bodies under subsection, fully believing
it an impossible task and so weak, so
low are they, as rule, they think a
man a liar or an invalid who processes
a small degree Of purity. But suppose
we take the English meaning, they
call man born Of the nobility, gen
tleman. But ours is a higher nobility;
our gentleman must be born Of the
spirit. Then we have Entertainments to
be proud Of. we become sons Of God
and as such, we are kings; ruling our
own appetites and passions and desires.
We are no longer under bondage; but
are free men indeed. We no longer
fear the taunts Of society around us;
but are utterly independent of them.
That church member, who fears to
talk before his fellows, who will not
publicly claim any interest in the great
salvation that cost so much. who is
afraid to say he knows his sins for
given; Or that other man knowing his
own contemplate failures, will sheer
at his betters, may have been born of
the spirit; but it seems to me they were
still born; and some great day in the
great wreck Of the coming years the
wrath Of an indignant judge shall burn
into their faces ''Ichabod" in letters
that will last forever. What an awful
failure to a man Of immortal spirit and
high ambition-to make no character
here, to have no claim when the great
day Of retribution and distribution
shall come. to be no joint heir with
Christ. What must it be then, to hear
the dreadful sentence against us, the
terrible denunciations that we pre-
ferred slavery to freedom, that we ig-
nOred our manhood, to become serfs.
And yet how much of our lives and
our teachings, are against the high
morality. Our very nursery rhymes
TEEN with intidelity and paganism. A
woman tries to teach her little girl to
be clearly in her habits. The father
sings to her
"What care l, how black be,
Twenty pounds will marry me,
If twenty don't why forty shall,
For | am fathers darling GAL
Now that is heathenish and low;
and yet nearly every child in America
hears that miserable stuff. A gentle
man telling his child to marry is the
main thing; and that money is the
main thing, to achieve the main thing.
Money! Money has dominated the
American people until it is used as
a symbol of greed and selfshness and
this whole nation is racked with fear
and tortured with despair on account
Of the great money god; and we feel
like we are gentlemen when some
human distress is presented to us if
we drop nickle in the basket. AS
small as the contribution is, | am
sorry it does not represent in some
cases mans love for man but simply
misdirects the minds Of onlookers to
others, a thousand times more liberal
but less unfortunate. What will be-
come Of that hypocrite, who when COL
lection was to be taken. took all the
money out Of his purse except 3 cents
and then when the basket was passed
to him, inverted his purse and gave it
a consequential tap to get all of that
immense sum of cents into the basket.
II he be a true gentleman l would
rather be something else; if that was
a truth could not recognize it. 1t
was base selfishness; and selfshness is
no part Of true gentleman. He
wanted his associates to think he gave
all he had; he had no regard for what
God thought. That man thinks he is
Eentleman; but Anannias was killed
less. Some men pass the low and
fallen, and the upper ten would
!: to be contaminated by their awful