The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1897-06-03
AVOID BAD COMPANY.
REV. SAM JONES TALKS OF THE INFLU-
ENCE OF EVIL ASSOCIATIONS.

Man Is Judged by What He Does
and Not by What he Says His no.
tives are-The Difference Between
Profession and Practice.
During his recent meeting at Allan
ia, Evangelist Sam Jones preached
from the text: 40 God, my hear,
is fixed" Among other things he
said:
Somebody has said that nothing is
fixed until it is fixed right nothing
is settled until i, is settled right.
Never was there truly religious
man who did not rally and concen-
tra,e all of his powers and say, will
be religious.
Speaking Of the power of the human
will, Mr.. Jones said:
The word heart in the text from the
Psalmist means will. Oh, God my
will is fixed!
1t is marvellous what a man can &C
complish who says, | will do this.
How grand were the words Of the
Christian hero when he said: This is
one thing can do.
The man with single eye-wlth a
single purpose in life-with every TO
Called element of his nature turned to
one thing, that is the man who sue
ceeds. Such man will succeed any
where, everywhere. The Psalmist said,
"Oh, God, my will is fixed
God has made the supreme power,
the will power, and the won't power
Il will! or | won't! these are the
graneest powers of the man. Go
ahead if you're right. Stop if you are
wrong.
| was sitting on an engine once.
We were running at great speed. Sud
denly while rounding a curve said to
the engineer: Do you see those cattle
ahead? He said, Yes, and then in
a ,winkling he reversed the throttle
and turned on the brakes. The speed
was killed-.he swiftly moving train
was stopped. Oh, what blessing
were those brakes! The engineer said
that it would have been impossible to
stop the train at that great speed in
that short space without those air
brakes He just could not do without
them.
The highest type of Christian is
he who goes ahead when he is right
but stops when he is wrong.
If a man is walking by saloon and
is tempted to go in, all he has to
say is won't 60 in! All he has to
do is to put his foot on the brakes and
he stops!
If the thing is right, I'm going to
do ii! If the thing is wrong, I'm
not going to do it, That's the posi-
ton, and the only position, for you tc
take
Oh, but some man says, I'll lose
friends by doing right-I'll make enc
mics!
| don't care if YOU do. The best
and only thing TO do is the right
thing!
Some fell ,ws try hard 10 find some
thing that would beat dung the right
thing. They thought once that they
had found it. b, il developed later
they were sad! mistaken and those
fellows busted.
Blu, mans Will power must he in
the right shape. There must be nc
dallying and man must not say,
didn't 20 TO do it! He must say
went not to do it! Nothing i:
weaker and further from the purpose
than these little didn't 60 to do il
fellows.
Wake up in your minds your will
and won't power-and be sure &c
keep it oiled and in perfect working
order. If your brake power is fixed
you will be saved trouble. If you
don't turn on your brake power at The
right time, young men, you will &c
down. Turn on your brake power
young men, or you will roll on to dealt
and hell!
If there is community to which
people ought to tip their hats it IS At
lanta. Her saloons cost 81 900 piece
and part of it comes out of the peck
cts of the poor deluded fellows wht
ruin themselves in paying TO keep then
up.
Saloons and churches don't pros
per in the same town. Dead Churche
mean live saloons in town, as
rule, and live churches mean deat
saloons. There may be one or ,w'
live churches in live saloon town
but if 50 they are the exception to tn
rule.
There is no place on this cart
where the saloons are liver and tn
churches deader than righl here in a,
lanta.
Here is boy bitten by dog wit
the hydrophobia. He is dying. TIL
wife and mother is crying. Somebod
says, Dry your eyes-don't cry-you
, boy has been bitten by high llcens
? dog.
had rather be as poor as dirt an
have my child come home sober heade
. than to own the millions Of the Roths
chllds and have my child come HON
drunk.
The saloon is worse than the ma
. dog. I'd rather my boy were bite
0 by dog with the dydrophobia TIA
e by saloon. the bite of mad dc
would not hurt boys character, bl
5 the bite of a saloon will no: only rui
? his character-no, only bring hi
. down to disgrace and dea,h-but sen