The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-05-07

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il to get a few together. distribute the pro-
cee,ls as largely as possible, and give the OPP
eratives q share in the dividends OF thelhdus-
try. |
with some OF the mill men it is to pay out |
as little as possible. so as TO let Ihe ie" reap |
the largest gains.
The club idea III woOd-lOre is best summed |
up in the shape OF woodman maui Inc
purpose OF that maui, and it's only claim to |
an existence is its use in driving wedge ana |
thus contribute to the needs OF mankind we |
reap its benefits in the wood that We burn
The club idea in society," is the exclusive Idea
organized for exclusive pleasure, tor exclusive
culture organized in an expensive way. But |
the lesson OF the maui is that we ought TO
organize to do something Tor others.
Once upon a time the ladies' OF our town |
undertook to build free library. I he under
taking failed.
Again, all the leading women asked the men
to help them to build a hospital They were
discouraged away from this.
Soon thereafter there sprang up one Oh the |
handsomest club rooms i'll the State, finely |
furnished, all the convenience OF a luxurious
home But it was for men who already have
good homes or could have them. 1t encour-
ages in men that which is going TO break up |
some home While father is playing his |
billiards and pool up there where is there tor |
his boy to play except in the saloon
While the employer is playing up there and
his boys, may be, where can the employe. go |
except to the saloon?
While the young man is playing up there, |
where can his brother go to play except III |
the saloon?
That same building as q hospital would |
distribute the club blessing to many. That |
same building free library would have |
served as an educational factor that would |
have brought infinite blessings the town. |
Think what a fine club building we have
for Just one club! And what a graded school
building we have.
Suppose the business men of the town would
add 81 800 to the school fund of the town,
would it not help our teachers and the man
agement OF the school?
Instead of this 5 800 are wrapped into a
ball to be knocked about and rolled into CT
CARS to be puffed away
And the people who need the benefits OF the
money the worst do not get 1t.
$500 would build and run for a year 30
outdoor play grounds, and would give ooo
people all the exercise they would need or
| could possibly take
$500 would give Henderson and commu-
nifty 3 good nurses and pay them $500 and
have $500 left over.
Our clubs must do something for the town.
Not that we may simply pay for existence but
| that we may obey our Lord. You are Il
| Christian in a club as in the church. You have
| the same Christian obligations upon you as
| a man of the world as you would in the church.
| The same privilege comes to you as man
| to help the weak and the less fortunate as to
| any other man.
| There is much OF the money in all our secret
orders that goes to running the machinery OF
| the orders. We need to accomplish something
| ontside of our own welfare if we would ac-
| complish anything worth the naming.
ThefSavior of mankind spent His entire life
among the needy, the sick and the worldly,
| and the sinful and the poor.
| He said: They that are whole need not IL
| physician but they that are sick.
| Let's see: Ii a member OF yOurf family is dan
| gerously ill., all your business stops until
there is a change. All your thought is bent
| toward the recovery of the sick one
| If one OF our town family is i'll should We
NOT stop everything else for the sick ones re-
| cOvery?
| Or what is better ought not to bringall
our affairs to the recovery of the sick one?
| 4 trained nurse will do as much for this as
| any thing that can be done.
| In one of the old Testament visions, is the
| rising OF the Son of Righteousness with heal
| ing in His wings.
| Wherever a sunbeam in that new world
shall fail, it will plant the seeds ofhealth, and
! life.
| 1t is your and my province to make this
| world new.
| Some of the needs of trained nurse may
| be summed up as follows:
| \ lone widow who must spend the long
! nights i'll agony and no one to even speak to
| her
| \ family OF fever stricken children with no
| one to wait on them but the mother, untilsh
herself succumbs to the scourge.
| 4 family where the father and husband is
| i'll for months and the mother is i'll and no one
| is able to give the father the needed attention.
| \ family where poor woman lies i'll and
dies because no one knows how to care for
| her. And her child dies of fever for the same
| reason.
| Think OF Il home where all the family sleep
| i'll the same room where the fever patient or
| the consumptive is, where no thought is Civ
| en- to the protection OF the survivors.
| Another family of mOtherless children two
| OF the oldest ill with fever. The father has to
stop his work for weeks to wait on them and
| nurse them.
| In another home child is i'll. Its mother
| knows nothing of the sanitary laws and the
| child is lost because of her ignorance. May
| be the disease is spread in the home because
| OF the ignorance of all.
| When the Centurion sent word to Jesus
| that his servant wis sick Jesus said: Il will
come and heal him This is the natural i'm
| pulse of every human. But what can we do?
| We do not know how to heal We can send
| some one who does know how, and who can
| aid the physician.
| A nurse or two nurses could do much in all
the homes to teach sanitary laws-in moth
| ers' meeting and young womens' meetings.
| If were going to mOralize on these miracles
OF healing, here are some of the morals:
Jesus was touched with the feeling of
|
| 2-Jesus opened the eyes of the blind |
| wish He would open your eyes.
| 3-Jesus healed the lunatics-periOdic in
sane. | wish He would cure us OF folly-fool-
| lsh nOtiOns-cure US OF the crazes that are
| rushing some of us to destruction.
| 4-Jesus healed the woman who had spent
| all her living in vain to be healed by the ply
| sicans. Think of the people who are duped
and derauded by pedders and quacks, and
are sometimes deluded by honest men who
| hope to heal them but cannot.
| 5-As Jesus healed them of their diseases
He forgave their sins. That is better than all
| heallng-the forgiveness of sins. BLESSED is
| the man whose transgression is forgiven
| whose sin Is covered.
| But we are not here to moralize today.
The purpose OF this hour is to strike at the
| heart of things.
HEAL THE SICK is the command | want
| to lay upon your hearts. He does not say
| VISIT the sick. He goes furth er, Heal II
How much of our time is spent by going and
| looking the suffering. As we look upon
| them, we are helpless to relieve them.
In the parable where He says, ''Inasmuch
| as We have done it unto one of the least of
| these, We have done it unto me, the kind of
| visiting was effective. The same spirit that
| would iced the hungry clothe the naked,
| would not only visit the sick but it would
| heal them
| People willing for Il minister to go
| among the unfortunate But they think it
| strange tor HIM to undertake to change their
| conditions They know we have bad politics
| but minister must let them alone they say
| We also have intemperance riding over the
heads OF the people. The ministry must visit
| the victims of drink, but they dare not lift a
| hand to destroy the demon. Jesus COM
| manded to CAST OUT THE DEVILS SO
our duty is not simply to visit the drunkard
| but east out the drink demons.
| Again. who is charged with the care of the
| poor save the ministry? 1t is all right they
say to visit the poor but no further is he al
| lowed. But we are to preach the gospel to
| the poor. We are to remove the conditions
| that cause the poverty. We must put down
| oppression. We must stop intemperance
| We must encourage industry. SO with the
| sick. we are not simply to visit them and look
at their wretchedness. We are to heal them.
Do | hear the plea that we do not know
| how? We must learn how. We must send
| some one to them who does know how.
| They that are sick need a physician. be-
| cause a physician can heal. As the Son of