The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-03-23
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings
of All Demon ma tionn.

Gems Cleaned From the Teachlnga
of All Denominations.
II we give up our faith or yield to
the demands Of the world, just so lcns
do we defeat the purpose Of God in his
church. The purpose of God in this
age is witnessing for him.-Rev. E. f.
Knapp, Baptist, Brooklyn.
Dissolution and Evolution.
The law Of dissolution co-operates
with the law Of growth. The rock dies
that the vegetable may live; the plant
body decays that the spirit may ex-
pnnd cternally.-Rev. l.. II. Caswell,
Methodist, GreenpOint, n. Y.
For the Sake of Service.
Why should ! be Christian? For
the worlds sake. You anu I are our
brothers keepers. Our talents are given
us for use in the Masters kingdom
and every true life is developed under
the claim, not only of its own soul and
its Lord and Master, but the needs, the
crying needs, Of the great world-Rev.
DIR. NJ. Burnham. Congregationalist,
st. Louis
The Internal World
Kant pointed out that every man
builds up his own mind, his own world
of pleasure and pain. Of motive and
will. Ii so, it is assuredly q great func-
ton Of education to build up the right
Kind OF world i'm the mind of every
child, so that he shall love what il
beautiful and what is good, SO that
worthy motives shall influence his will
TO action. SO that he shall construct
life on Fundamentals and not on shams
and shadows.-Dr, Joseph Holz, He
brew. Chicago.
Not EVIL by Nature.
Jesus did not assume that men were
naturally bad, but that they were in
various ways cheated out Of being as
good as they meant to be- Some are
light minded, meaning well, but not
much in earnest, allow little things to
distract them from moment to mo-
ment, till the days run into years with
out their ever accomplishing their
higher and better aims. The birds Of
the air gather up the seeds that fall by
the wayside.-Rev. Dr. David Utter,
Unitarian. Denver
The Highest Heroism.
The Bible tells of the shepherd, the
faithful shepherd. ready to give his
life for his sheep. l doubt if that is
the highest form Of heroism. In most
Of the houses of this great city you will
find Instances of heroic lives. 1t seems
TO me that the sensitive man who
lives all his life with scolding wife
or wife of refinement who puts up
with drunken husband exhibits high
er heroism than the man who throws
himself before n train to save the life
of child.-Bishop Henry c. Potter.
EpiscOpalian, New York.
Dream and Deed.
Who, though he can talk well of high
and holy deeds. has not often been con-
sc!ous of petrified inability toward
translating the dreaming of holy deeds
into veritable doing them? Not yet
has the plant of the ancient Roman
poet ceased, II know the better, but
the worse follow" That man sitting
there by the fountain, with clear head
and urging heart, but with stone legs
must not our own experience declare
that he is too frequently most true
symbol of ourselves?- REV. Wayland
Hoyt, Baptist, Philadelphia
True Religion Eternal
When the condition of true religion
the world over is compared with it's
state century age, we are justified in
claiming the growth Of the loving
power of religion; not religion in the
orthodox sense. but in the modern |
meaning-the religion that compre-
hends culture rs we'll as creed, that |
embraces whatever is true and beauti- |
full and good. True religion can never |
disappear, for the mind Of man will I
ever follow the insoluble mystery Of |
life. ponder upon the problems of good |
and evil and feel the higher purpose of |
things.-Rabbi Alfred G. Moses, He
brew. Mobile. Ala.