The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-04-26

April 10Th, 1883, by Rev. w. d. Cherington.1
The plain teaching of the parabl
In our scripture lesson, is that a man
character in order to stand firmly, t
stand long, and to brave the storm
Of the future, must be founded, jus
as the wise mans house is built, upol
the rock. 1t does not need that W
shall be gifted with any spirit o
prophecy, in order to predict that tn
house built upon the sand will fall, fo
we know that it is not strong enough
to brave the winds, the rains and tn
storms that are likely to come upon it
A mans character, just like hi
house, will stand through the years o.
the future, if it is only founded upor
the solid rock-even upon the Rocl
Of Ages.
But it is equally certain that any
character that is built upon sandy
foundation must sooner or later fall
into ruins.
We do not lay claim to any special
gift of prophecy, or to any high in
spiration, in anything that we may
say in this hour about the future.
We read the future largely by the
past. We discover the natural ten
denotes of certain courses of life, and
then linking these discoveries with the
teachings Of Gods word, it is an easy
thing to map out the future, and to
decide what manner of people are to
be the heroes of the world by and by.
We are here to talk about the coming
man, and by this we mean the young
man of to-day, who will rank high in
society, and will stand head and
shoulders above his fellows. both in
Gods estimation and in the best
opinion Of the world, twenty-five years
in the future-for we know that
twenty-five years Of hard testing in
this world, is very severe trial on
ones manhood; and in that time all
the froth in our natures is likely to be
taken off, and nothing but the solid
manhood will remain. so that tn y
who have the least froth, and the most
true manhood, are likely to be the
heroes Of the future.
We are addressing young men, con-
scious that the bible assigns them a
position Of no small importance We
would not forget that when Samuel
went out to select king for the peo-
pie Of Israel, according to Gods own
direction, he chose Saul, a very choice
young man concerning whom it was
said that "There was not a goodlier
person in Israel than he."
Then when God went forth the
second time to select a King for His
people, the choice fell upon David,
one more Of Gods special young men,
for God saw in that mere STRIPPING the
germ of a great manhood, that in the
future should be covered over with
glory.
We are reminded also that centuries
afterwards, the very angel who came
from heaven, to guard the empty sep
ulchre where Jesus had slept and from
which He had taken His departure,
the very angel whose high Office it was
in Gods economy to announce the first
tidings ofsthe resurrection. telling the
inouirers at the empty tomb, what had
become Of Jesus and where they would
find Him-this angel at the sepulchre
took upon himself the form and ap-
pearance of a young man, as though
there were something Of glory in
young manhood that the very angels
coveted.
God has always put high honor upon
manhood. He created man in the be-
ginning with great capacities to know
Him, to love Him, and to glorify Him.
And He who put such seal Of glory
upon manhood, and clothed it with
such wondrous possibilities of doing
good, is well pleased to see young men,
in life's morning, starting out with
their faces Godward, heavenward, and
toward high and noble ideals Of living.
that they may thus in some measure
at least, fulfil the design Of their Gre
alton. In every community many
noble and true young men are to be
found, who in the midst of idleness are
full of industry, who in the midst of
temptation are true to their principles
Of right living, who in the midst of
dissipation are free from evil habits,
and who in the midst of sin of every
kind are true to God. All honor to
them No words Of ours can pro-
nounce a just eulogy upon the noble.
true Christian young men of to-day,
who are stemming the tide of opposi-
tion and are remaining true to their
Christian principles. None but that
God who knows how great their op-
position, and how earnest their efforts
to live right, can fully do them justice,
or pronounce upon them a fitting
tribute. These are the young men of
to-day out of whom God will make
the men of the future. The young
man in society who dares to be true
when others are untrue, who dares to
do right when others do wrong, is the
coming man, who twenty-five years in
the future will hold his proud rank in
society, highest both in the favor of
men and Of God.
We come now to notice some of the
elements Of success that must belong
to the young men of to-day, in order
that they may become the men of the
future. First they must have some
appreciation of the Dalue Of time, or in
other words they must be energetic
and industrious. 1t takes work to
make favorable impression on this
world, or to win high rank in soci-
ety. We have all sympathy with
young men who are thrown out of
employment, or cannot for the time
being secure employment, but who
would gladly work with willing hands.
They are not idlers. They have no
partnership or relationship with the
oilers of whom we are about to speak,
for they have the spirit of work that
only waits the opportunity to prove