MANHOOD.
Power in its measure and degree is the measure of manhood.
Give us an age in which Christian manhood shall assert itself as the highest earthly thing and the noblest earthly estate. Give us an age that, instead of whining and groaning under the truth, shall rejoice in the truth. Give us an age which, lifted into identity with its highest possessions, shall be made by those possessions patient, pure, heroic, and honorable.
Obedience, submission, discipline, courage—these are among the characteristics which make a man.
The man, whom I call deserving the name, is one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than himself.
The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.
A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.
There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.
