The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-02-09
GOLDEN LEAFLETS.
Grains Of Wisdom Cleaned Hero
and There from Various
Sources.

what you are.
Beware of an enemy bearing flag
of truce.
Mans salvation is comet, God S
an eternal sun.
You can't pass at Heavens gate
upon your face.
God don't save man with his
hands in his pockets.
Christianity is keeping all God S
commands, not just what you please.
Heavens gate is not wide enough to
received drunkards and liars.
Don't try to measure the Bible with
your small store of knowledge.
Hired men are not worked in God S
fields His children do the work.
Don't follow any man in religion.
Gods word should be your leader.
If you ask God for daily bread, you
won't cheat some poor widow to get
| it.
1t is not where must l go, how must
feel, but "what must l do to be
saved.
The seekers after the dollar have
little use for the motto "ln God we
trust"
We are in need of men-men of
opinions and convictions put into
effect.
God never offers salvation to a man
who is too stingy to help a poor
widow.
Don't worry yourself hunting for a
big candle stick to put your little
light on.
A bundle of brass, conceit and
finery called dude is poor showing
for man.
Churches were not built for dormi
tories, nor pulpits erected SO say
speeches in.
Charity means giving what you can,
whether it be of kind words or food to
the poor
Many a cushioned pew in the amen
corner will get left when His jewels
are made up.
A self made man may spoil his job
by putting in too much of the cement
OF conceit.
A s'Suuday Christian" can't claim
any room in the "Mansion not made
with hands,"
Rich food to thy dogs and cold
bread to the poor is compress to
tiny soul.
You may sing 81 want to be an
angel all your life and then never
get to Heaven.
Church members quarrel, 60 to law,
and are tried by unbelievers. Paul
says do otherwise.
Loud amens on Sunday and "calling
figures" on Monday night is not the
shining light.
The whole world is one big asylum
full of lunatics over the question of
making money.
Gods railroad starts at conviction
and ends at glory, carrying only
through passengers.
Some preachers fume and puff over
little evils like they were killing flies
with sledge hammers.
Some men are born rascals, some
achieve rascality, but none have ras-
cality thrust upon them.
Don't imagine that the whole road
is lined with rotten bridges, for with
God, as a support for them they'll
hold up the universe.
Many man will wade knee deep
in snow to get to his grocery store in
the morning by sunrise, but the weather
is too bad to 60 to church.
The wonders of religion as man.
ifested upon the hearts and lives OF
men speak volumes, fuller and grander
than all the works of men throughout
the ages.
Gods vessel is lying alongside,
telling you that you are overloaded
and begs you to cast it all upon the
eternal steamer that's bound for the
port of glory.
No man can be truly brave who is
not seeking to be truly good.
For every fault we can point out in
others we have two of our own.
1t never helps small man any to
lift him up.
Christ for US is all our righteousness
before holy God; Christ in us is all
our strength in an unholy world.
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and in its going-most beautiful and
blessed because it is alwa, the Year of
Our Lord.
The seeming shipwrecks we meet
with in the voyage of life often prove
the very things which bes, speed our
course to the haven where we would
be.-New York Observer.
A noble heart will disdain to subsist
like drone upon the honey gathered
BY others labor; like leech to filch
its food out OF the public granary or
like shark, to prey on the lesser fry );
but will one day or other earn his own
subistence.-.SeleekeG