Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-16
"MANHOOD."
An Entertaining Lecture ut tho jackson
Street M. E. Church Last Night.

Jackson street church was crowded last
evening with an audience that listened with
much more than ordinary interest, to an able
discourse or lecture on "Manhood," by the
Rev. Mr.. Marshall, who took his text from
I'd Kings, I'd chap. and I'd verse: "Show thy.
self man. The following is an abstract oil
| the sermon:
Once at midnight Diagones went through
the streets, lantern in hand, as if search.
ing for something. A citizen asked him fol
what he was seeking, and he replied ''aman.'
he said he had found children in Sparta and
women in Athens. but man he had never
SEEM
| At a certain time in the history of Jerusa.
lem men seemed as rare as in the days of Diog.
enes, for God directs his prophet to make q
search in these words: Run ye to and fro
through the streets of Jerusalem, and see
now and know, and seek in the broad
places thereof, If We can find a man, if there be
any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the
| truth. Jer., 5: 1. 1t is to be hoped that true
men are more numerous IN these modern times.
Indeed, may say that there are not few who,
| by heroic devotement to duty, by purity of
life by self sacrifice for the good of others, by
| imitation of the divine man, are an honor to
the face of any one of these the eccentric phi
losopher of Athens might flash the light of
his lantern and cry to the world "Behold a
man!'
And yet true manhood is now, as it always
has been, the one urgent want of the tunes.
There are SO many opportunities for doing
good, so many open and opening fields of re-.
form, so many appeals for instruction and up
building in judgment and truth, there are also
pfofi nd oil 10 owl
that nothing but the highest type of manhood
| can meet the demands that are upon us. It
| will be my object this evening to define true
manhood, and to show how true men are
built.
1t will be necessary first to seperate from
the genuine manhood some things that do not
belong to 1t, though according to the views
of some, they are regarded as important ele-
| ments in manly character. When the Jews
| rebuilt the temple they removed the debris
| that had accumulated over the original foun-
dalton. So must we remove the debris that
has been piled upon that perfect type of man
| hood, as it came from the creator and was re-
allied in the life of the man Christ Jesus.
| Doubtless the creator designed that the
| highest possible physical culture shall be at
tanned. But mere muscular development does
not imply manhood. once saw a man from
| the Island of Borneo that weighed sixty
pounds lift another man that weighed two
hundred and fifty pounds and yet neither were
true man because Of his weight. Neither
| Hyer, the pugilist, nor Weston, the walkest,
are model men. DR.. Winship may lift his
| 1000 pounds and DR.. Tanner may fast his forty
days but neither the lifting power of the one
| nor the fasting power of the other proves
them to be men. An OK can lift more than
Wlnship and a toad can fast longer than Tan
ner. All such exhibitions of muscular power
should classed with the feats of well trained
animals.
In these days of extreme devotion to secular
pursuits, of gold and silver mines, of oil
speculation and exchange gambling, of sud-
den fortunes and sudden falls, there has grown
up the idea that somehow money
makes the man, no matter how
lit is secure or what may be the character of
| its possessor. Doubtless many men of large
possessions have large and benevolent hearts
and make good use of them. But they were
men before they had money. The love of
money has done more to wreck and ruined
| manhood than all other causes combined.
The love of money is the root of all evil. Many
rich men are ministers of corruption and de-
ceit destitute of every element of manhood.
Nor does it follow that poverty makes the
man. Wealth or poverty are mere incidents
in the life of man. They may help or hinder
just as they are used, both as to character and
success. Generally poverty is more helpful
than money. It excites to greater effort.
Washington GLADDEN. addressed letter to 100
leading business men in Springfield, Mass,
enquiring concerning their early training.
Their answers revealed the fact that eighty
five of them we're the sons of poverty and hard
toll. So the wheel turns. Rich mems sons
up to day down tomorrow, but poverty in
itself does not make the man.
There is another fallacy, deep seated in
many minds, which is that true manhood con
sists in the possession of large brain power,
and in the superior cultivation of the intellect.
Brains are always in demand, and anyone hav-
ing good share of them should congratulate
himself. Happy is that man whose head is
| full of them, but it is not the quantity SO
| much as the use of brain power, that makes
man to differ from the lower order of ami
mails. Nena Sahib, the hero of the Gavin
pore massacre, was man of natural brain
force, which was highly cultivated, and yet he
| was moral monster. If he could have been
| captured it was contemplated to imprison him
| in cage and exhibit him as monstrosity of
| wickedness and savagery. Lord Byron, Keats
Shelley, were all bright cultured. brilliant
men, but they have been fifty described as
| weary, worn and wretched things; scorched,
| desolate and blasted souls; gloomy wilder
ness of dying thought.
Lord Bacon, who had but few peers in men,
stal power and extensive knowledge, and who
opened all the gates of modern science, is des-
cribed by single line in Pope as the great
est, wisest, meanest of mankind.
| Perhaps the silliest and the most offensive of
popular errors, is that birth and blood neces-
| sarily give character to a man. Mark the
qualifcations-sn Unnecessarily" The advantage
of these is conceded, as in the case of wealth.
But it is not always best to trace ones pedi-
| gree too far back, since it might reveal some
thing unpleasant about the beginning of the
line. Many lords, counts, eacls, princes,
robbers and banditti So many of the So
called aristocrats of this country are the chill
drsn of soap and candle makers, of hod
carriers and street scavengers, upon whom
| they look with contemptuous scorn forgetting
the rock out of which they were hewn. No;
royal blood may be the poorest kind of blood.
Louis the XVIII of France .revelled in the
blood of Professionals. Nero fred Rome and
| fiddled while the city was burning, and then
charged the crime upon the Christians. Many
young man, born in either the higher or
lower circles, may be but little more Of man
than Plato's definition implied ga man,"
| said this philosopher, sis two-legged animal
| without feathers" Diogenes, having stripped
| male fowl of its plumage, threw it among
| the pupils of the great philosopher, crying,
Behold Plato's mani"
Circumstances do not make men. Circum-
stances are opportunities. We should control
them rather than be controlled by them. Ali
men who have been brought to the front by
| unexpected emergencies and put into places of
trust, have been previously trained.
| The question of manhood lies behind all
these accidents and incidents of muscle, wealth,
poverty, brain, culture, birth, circumstances,