The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-01-19

Cup weight" to absent customers
is down weight to a present soul,
When you get scratched by the
world, pour little Of the oil Of glad
ness furnished by the Great Physi-
can," upon your wounds.
A man who will cheat an insurance
company because it is "corporation,"
will fish up some reason to cheat any
body he gets chance at.
Some people never say a good word
about anybody except their own
household, and are down in the mouth
because they have no friends.
Men will skin the hide off of you
in business-who hold up their hands
in horror at mans breaking in a
house. They are both rogues.
If a man is faithful to truth, truth
will be faithful to him. He need have
no fears. His success is question of
time.-P,ef Phelps.
There never was found in any age
of the world either religion or law that
did 60 highly exalt the public good as
the Bible. Lord Bacon.
To give man full knowledge Of
true morality, I should need to send
him to no other book than the New
Testament.-/oha Loeke.
He will not refuse to any what they
ask since he offers himself voluntarily
to those who ask not
Culture never gets into the heart, it
stays on the outside.
Guard your tongue with as much
care as you would loose lion.
Men spend thousands on monu-
ments, hungry children look at the
useless stone every day.
Don't blame the Devil for every
thing, for it is your own meanness and
will that does the work.
These gifts in fortunes hands are found.
Her swift revolving wheel turns round.
And they are gone.-Longfellow.
God don't collect fare between
every station, but you get through
ticket, and must help in running the
train whether it be fireman or con-
ductor.
God deliver US from the church
members who try to cloak their ras-
cality by the communion table.
Men show their character in moth.
ing more clearly than by what they
think laughable.-Goethe.
Tenderness of affection toward the
most abandoned sinners IS the highest
instance OF God-ike soul.-Law.
"Jeshrum waxed fat and kicked"
contains strong lesson, for men who
have been prosperous in worldly
affairs.
By watching we employ all our
strength; by prayer we engage Gods.
South.
The greatest griefs of our lives arise
from this, that the tempest came
unexpectedly.-Carneadts.
Prayer should be the key OF the day,
and the lock of the night. At night
covering, in the morning armor.-O.
Feitham.
God wills it be SO. Wha: need l
more? While engaged in his business,
| am released from every other-De
Sales.
Remark that the two most devo-
tional men in the Old Testament
David and Daniel-were men con-
stantly engaged in the business and
cares Of this world-ForR
at is principal effect of love to
unite the wills Of those who love, so
as to make them but one and the
same will" He who gives his will to
God, gives him everything-property,
talents, heart, all.-Liguori.
Praye. moves the hand ,ha: moves
the universe. Gurn0X
1t is faiths work to claim and
challenge loving kindness out Of all
the roughest strokes Of Gods.
Rutherford.
TIA man tries to 90 two opposite
roads at the same time he is sure TO
split open and it is just SO with a poor
deluded fellow who thinks he can
serve the Lord while he belongs to the
Devil.
When you find an all round honest
man, honest toward himself, his
neighbor and his God, you can star,
dime museum by showing him, for he
is an unnatural curiosity"
Be sure that you make conscience
of the great duties that you are to
perform in your families. Teach your
children and servants the knowledge
and fear of God do it early and late,
in season and out of season. Neigh
bors, l charge you, as you will shortly
answer before the Lord. your Judge,
that you neglect not these duties -
Richard Baxter.