The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-04-18
Your Object in Life.
For What Are You Living, and for
What Are You Working?-The
Material Things of Life Not Alone
Worth Striving For.

Copywright, 1907 by American ] Journal
Examiner.
For what are you living?
For what are you working?
To make u home, and gain the CON-
forts of life for those dear to you?
Perhaps you are q husband, or a
vile. or a parent.
Ii you are not one OF these, you are
ii son or daughter or brother or sis
ter; then, what are you doing to
make those about you happy and
contented?
do not mean to ask what mater
aial things you are bestowing upon
I hem
Material things give no happiness
unless they supplement other bless
ings
Is yonr presence in your home II
+ benedlctlOn and Joy?
Do those nearest you look for your
coming, and regret your going?
Ii not, why not?
HEAVEN BEGINS ON EARTH.
Home is the earthly expression of
what we will find waiting for Us after
death.
inst as We fashion our home here,
toy our mental attitude, SO we will
find them ready for US when we pass
| on. And heaven must begin on
earth. Here must the foundation be
laid. All the hard work and money
you may be putting into your home
will never give happiness unless you
are loving the inhabitants of that
home, and showing your love in
words and acts, in self-control and
patience.
If you are letting the fretful tone
and the irritable and the nervous
habit destroy the comfort of your
household, you are wasting the whole
Effort Of your life, the effort to bestow
happiness.
Ii you sit down to a gloom table,
where dependency and i'll temper
prevent sociability, you might better
stand in the bread line now, and take
your repast in the park. There, at
least, you would not depress others
by your presence.
| THE UNHAPPY HOME.
If man prepared bower of beau
ty for his family and then introduced
d swarm of mosquitoes and carefully
bred the insect so that bower was
never free from them, you would think
aim fool or lunatic.
Yet many a man and many q wo-
man do Il similar act by building and
furnishing a beautiful residence and
filling it with irritabley, petty tenn
pers and selfshness.
Irritating trifles present themselves
to every life. They await us at every
corner along the Journey
They should be treated as trifes,
and brushed aside; not dignified to
the position of tragedies, and permit
ted to destroy the peace of house.
hold, to shadow feasts, and darken
the hours of repose with bitter men,
cries.
When we allow the small worries
and annoyances of daily life, the mis-
takes of Others and the jarring of do
lnestic machinery to ruin the pleas
ure of n home, we insult God.
1t is like pulling down the blue can
opy of heaven, and using it as u door
mat for oiled feet
WORSE THAN USELESS.
Money, education, position, power
all are worse than useless unless
they bring helpfulness and happiness
to others
To do this they must be supple
mented by affection, good will, self
control. Though you give your own
family all the advantages wealth can
offer, you are worse than a highway
man if you deprive your household
of peace, love and contentment in
the family circle.
Take mental stock of yourself and
see what sort of q husband and faith
er your are.
F, See if you could not better life for
those you love by giving less labor
and money and more good will, pa
tience and affection.