The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-12-04
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gem. Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Denominations.
Alcohol and God cannot live in the
same body.-Rev. DR. G.. B. Strouse,
Salem. w. Va.
Religion Is Life.
Religion is life. 1t is life in and with
Sod through Christ the Saviour.-Rev.
Morgan NJ. Sheedy, Pittsburg.
Patience Gives Superiority.
Patience in man makes him inf
nitely superior to his fellow men,
Rev. DR.. Barbour, Baptist, Rochester,
n. Y.
All God Asks.
All God asks IS that with no pro-
found wisdom about him we will try to
do his will.-Rev. Frederick e. Hop
kins. Congregationalist, Chicago.
A Blessed Character.
What God would give man is a bless
ed character not blcssedness without
character, which is impossible.-Rev
DR.. Raymond, Schenectady, n. Y.
An Awful ResponsibiIity.
Sad indeed is the moral condition Of
those parents WHO do not feel the pres
sure Of awful responsibility every time
they look upon their children.-Rev. V.
w. Tevis, Methodist indianapolis, Ind.
Impulse From High Purpose.
Conduct ever must get it's impulse
from the highest purpose in which we
live. We must manage present con-
Germs in consistency with the better
things we hope to attain.-Rev. Pearse
Pinch, Congregatonalist, Chicago
Self Invited Piety.
VIII worship and self invited piety
will fail in death. In the judgment it
will not be asked how much we prayed,
but whether it was in the spirit and in
truth.-Rev. DR.. William j. HOltzclaw,
Baptist, Atlanta, Ga.
God Working In Nature.
God is spirit. Man also is spirit. Ma
ture In q certain sense is to Gods spir-
it what the body is to mans spirit
namely, the vehicle through which he
puts forth his material activities. Be
cause man is spirit he is godlike. Spir-
itualty is the first and essential divine
likencss.-Rev. DR.. w. w. Landrum,
Baptist, Atlanta, Ga.
Supplies the Worlds Needs.
The world needs precisely the things
that the church was organized to sup
ply. 1t needs strength to resist tempta-
ton, 1t needs rules for the guidance Of
life, it needs support under affiictiOn,
sOlace In bereavement and q hope Of
heaven after death. All these blessings
come by Christianity.-Rev.D DR.. Frank
De Witt Talmage, Presbyterian, Chi
cago.
The Gifts of God.
Our physical traits, our mental en-
dowments, are gifts of God, and the
same thing is true Of the moral virtue
we may possess. The excellences Of
natural disposition are bestowed by
the grace of God, and in these as well
as in character itself we see colors as
diverse as the tints of rainbow
Rev. DR.. Stevenson, Presbyterian, New
York.
Practical RELIGION.
The next great movement Of the
church is to be in the direction of prac-
teal religion, of n regenerated society,
and the freeing of the word of God Is
a ESeparation for it. And then the
world is open to the Christian religion.
The unrestricted word can capture pa
ganism rs the restricted word never
could.-Rev. +. NJ. Smith, Methodist,
Bloomington. ILL.,
Too Big For Human Language.
To,
Client TO convey to the spiritual under
standing of man the gracious revela-
ton of the infinite God. At best human
language is Il very finite and very linn
tied instrument even for the intellect
of man TO work with. Much less is it
sufficient to convey or express all truth
to the spiritual nature of man. Truth
Is too big for human language.-Rev.
DR.. George +. Pentecost, New York.
Affinity With God.
Just as the fragment of n shattered
mirror is also Il mirror itself. just as
the smallest drop of water possesses
all the qualities and is subject to the
same laws as the oceans floods so the
atom of spirit we call human SOUL is
most truly fragment, a drop. of the
Great Soul. Must it, then, not have af-
Unity with its origin; affinity, therefore
intercourse. therefore intiuence?-Re
+. De Sofa MendeS. Hebrew. New
York
Love to God and Love to Man.
Love to God and love to man are the
corresponding halves of the same per-
feet and beautiful whole. Love of God
Is only pious sentimentality that does
not include love of our neighbor. Love
of our neighbor misses the breadth
and glory OF truest friendship and fell
iowship when it does not reach up into
the love of God. No friendship has
done its full work for us until it has
reached the supreme satisfaction of
spiritual communication. No religion
mas done its full work for us until it
has brOadcned out into Il social force
Rev Clarence Abel Methodist Chi
cage.
THE KIDNEYS are strengthened
and toned nv Hon1'S S,rco,,,;Ir.