The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-05-11

the wigwam, the gutter that is true. In him is
something inmoctal, though we hesitate about
saying il so feely-divine. You can t get out of
him that winch sllies him to the Infinite Life.
| There it is and it inheres through cycle and
epicyce or leeternities In lowest degradation,
| in barbar1 Ignorance it must have honor in
debasemea orer wholly lost or foul something
| ever in iiH lllue by which ii may loop itself
back to ne living centre. Theology will
say terri .ngs about the nature God gave
man. but hoary falehood cannot stand for
ever aga hat Jesus said and did and the
| man in 10 witness to. Because 70 are men
| therefor, Se not wholly depra we'd because
| we came SstherefOTe are we not given over
to rep r.wil because Christ is of the
same b l,grsore shall we none Of US lose
utterly us. Faith stands firmer on the
Gospel sus than upon Augustine, Calvin,
decret egcil Something Of north in man
| becdv W, they reiterate. Jesus came not
to u to the men who had done the
he's Ives, but he calie to the
i rle. WIS Let r..
into an Il well as the d. seness OF
death, the primal diviue spark 10 the q. whom
God would rescue because OF the man capacity,
the man undeveloped, degraded, bes allied 10
them. Unworthy to be called Gods ron every
repentant prodigal might feel; worth saving
God considers every man, because, however over
inspiratioH the Almighty shall star to life
if not here, elsewhere, lift il to glory honor.
By debasng man theology hopes TO he or God,
while the higher it lifts man the NOR glorious
does the Gospeiehow that Being we cali Father.
Man is being worth speaking wei OF. We
gain nothing by putting him down iu the scale
of being, or speaking hardly Of him we find
him. Among Emersons bits OF wisdom is this
very choce--'We must be as courteous to
man as we are TO picture which we are willing
to give the advantage Of good light" AS men
would say OF their wine that has "a hue bead on
it," It's aronmi is the fragance OF vintage heav-
ems own air has hreahed upon great sonl
OF charity lies behind those words, gospel in
eptome Somebody beside says-that the real
art is TO find out The merits in man, and not
the faults Itis so easy TO 6nd the faults, so
blatant they, so coy the other; so much the
rather we prefer to feel tor the flaw than applaud
the diamond, that mems merits are the least
known things Our speech is nconsiderate and
harsh, and the charitable iignt is thrown on
grudgingly. But let alone all obligation OF
broherhcca all reciprocity of tie and entiment,
ma deserves better than that. He is worth more.
The qualities manhood shows with which it
adorns life, with which it has advanced the
world, crowning with beauty and with use, aud
making intercourse profitable aud enjoyable,
filling life with melody and gaduess, rounding
corners and angles, relieving jars and friction,
demand our recognition. A most worthy crea-
ture is that which has so filled up the world with
activities and increase reaching on 10 before Of
vitality OF character of noble quality, manly af-
fecou and heavenly faith, which shall gradual
IL clear this Lords vineyard of weed and blight,
and close up earth's history in the reality men
have tabled to have already been in Eden-a
Paradise in which the perfected man. fashioned
A. oI,an III uuolLf
with God.
And then man is worth treating t,l,-man
as man The ages have been strugglin.: against
the expressions of despots then the az :ressons
of faction and caste, trying to remove the disa-
bilities the race has staggered under ever since
mans first blow established it that there could
be enmity and superiority. Well have hey con-
tested, and we everywhere see how the gain is
made But we want more of this good feeling
between man and man, to make it more personal,
reduce it to an individual thing. The man is
worth that. Mr.. Hale writes book TO show
among cardinal necessities that man mt st lend a
hauu pr on and help men ". And
every IN is wcsth that help. If hims, f. or cir
cumstarce, or event set against him; II he have
no fair play, if the conflict of life go .rd with
him; if he be wandering, or weak, or under
meath if he be blind or halt in character or
purse he is worth heeding, worth caring for.
The wayside beggar makes sure of his dole, and
the wayside spirit ought to fare as well. What
ever bears the image of man, because it bears
that image is worth, do not say saving, be-
cause saving is always mans own work, what
he must do himself, but worth helping. The
most man needs-all that we can do for him--is
to set him on bis feet. He must do his own
standing
We had better, perhap ps, carry this step
60. oil fha fsrctp eli
lar. Let it be mans word to his soul, and
let it ring clear as clarion-not what the
actor slave said 81 am man and nothing be-
longing to man is alien to me" ; but am
man because man thing of worth-even
infinite worth and by Gods grace will see
that nothing alien to that have dominion over
me. l am man. Nothing can change that
fact, nothing deprive me of my birth-right.
Because / am q man duty and destiny are
mine. l will make them one, and live just as
nobly as l can, worthy of my dover, worthy of
my God. If man really feels his worth,
almost had said, he cannot sin. Preachers
have frightened men out of faith in their worth,
and so have made more sin than they ever
mended. Make child see that you think
meanly Of him, he begins to think meanly of
himself and to do every manner of meanness.
He just becomes what you make him. He suits
himself to your measure. Make man believe
he is q sinner, depraved, born in sin and
shapened in iniquity-as David in paroxysm
of contrition said he was-he becomes sim
ner There is no help for it. He will not dis
appoint you. He will do honor to your asser-
ton. He has no hope no pride in anything.
The world so full of sinners to-day because
your creeds and your preachers have falsified
the Gospels, and falsified Christ, and insulted
God Men won't g. ow to be any higher or
more than you say they can be. But turn it
all about. Preach aoorth to man. Show him
his dignity, his capacity, make him feel that
he is worthy, in his nature, for whom God has
done all these things make him resolve that
he will be worthy in himself; that there shall
be no bar sinister upon his heraldry. no spot
upon his rment that his soul shall be white
and glistel ng as Messiah's face when he was
transfg, rJ'. and the blow is struck at the hoar
empire II, told giant, Sin, which we'll fol-
lowed, .nus nd in laying it, like Goliah. in
all its horrld bulk and mien-dead. Turn
your preaching round-and preach Christ and
common sense, and the long deferred dawn
will flus and hope descend among the sons of
men.
lido ,tthink any Of us value enough the
plain cents which enter into the plain
thing, woi eh We do not know how high
thing it iszso be worthy, or how high the honor
simple orth has. All the time we are looking
out for &zling qualities and startling effects,
prizing nenl in others. striving for them our
selves. But what is life worth except we have
worth life, except we put into its days and
deeds only all energy but all faith and
| love We are not wanted to be hewers of
| wood, awers of water, delivers in the earth,
| to sail ips, run railways, chatter about crops,
and keep the myriad hands of industry em-
ploy ed, not to be brain and courage to an outer
| worlds activities. In all that, the best of the
| man may be stagnant and rotting. Without
| character, worth what is life? Suppose you
get the most brilliant reputation; suppose you
reach the most dazzling social height; suppose
you achieve your every ambition and yet have
nothing substantial behind, in yourself? What
have you really gained Any thing to sup
| port or com fort you, make sef-respect or any
bodys respect out of? You may go on a good
while in life and not find it out, but find it out
at last you must, that no man is going to have
value or weight with men except as he has
moral worth. You may all sorts of things
that seem to contradict this you may find all
sorts of men who seem to have all that they
| can ask of man, but mark this one thing we'll,
| whatever you may think from what you see
and men say nothing succeeds has worth, but
| principle. Men have got up a saying-one Of
those specously glitterng lies that are so de-
| lusive--.that "nothing succeeds but success"
| NOTHING succeeds but ,0orth. Great advertisings
of ones self, ones calling, ones goods may
| seem to mako success, may seem to result IN
honor. You have only to go to the private talk
of men to see the honor these bring. You know
exactly their value. You know that men will
use rich man, hatter him, put him into GER
| tain places. II is not the man. it is the money
The man is tolerated because of his gold, is
second fiddle to his bank account. The rneanest
sycophant that cringes his bloodless soul before