The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-04-23
THE ideal MAN
President Harris, Of BuCknell, Fills Rev.
PaTtrld6G'S Pulpit.
He PREACHED AN Able DISCOURSE
Mentally Jesus Is the Highest Type of
Manhood and Morally He Is the
Ideal Man-Courage, an Element of
Manliness, Was Perfectly Embodied
in the Character of the Divine Son
Of God-All Should Learn It.

in the Character of the Divine Son
of God-All Should Learn It..
Rev. John H. Harris, DID,, president
Of Buckuell university, occupied the
pulpit Of the Penn Avsnue Baptist
church at both services yesterday. His
text in the morning was, what Think
Yeu of Christ? Whose Son Is Hs2 They
Say Unto Him, the Son of David" The
speaker said:
Jesus is in character the ideal man. Be.
ing must be the true ground Of seeming,
else seeming is unreal. Life must be the
spring OF activity, or activity is merely
mechanism. Love must be the root OF
morality or morality ia mere Journalism.
Reality, life, love--these are the substance
Of manhood. Before, then, we inquire h
n man ID IN his relations, we must inquire
what he Is in himself.
Mentally Jesus is the highest type Of
manhood. He has a firm grasp on reality.
He secs thingB az they are. Men are liable
to Observation-Disclosures from reverence for
great names, or from disregard OF all
authority; illusions from respect for the
past or from contempt for it; Illusions
from Identification with party, or from
isolation. Jesus rises above all Illusions
and grasps reality. He faces toward the
future, yet does not break with the past.
He indentifies himself even with the Jews
1--WE know not what we worship, for saliva
tion Ia Of the jews; yet heals the daughter
Of the Syro-phenician, converses with the
Greeks, breaches 10 the SamRtariAns. His
mind seizes the universal. The precepts Of
the sermon on the mount are for all
times, all places. There Ia scarcely any
local c%oloring In IL. Peoples Of all lands
can understand It's allusioEe. The power
Of Jesus mental grasp is shown in the
impid simplicity OF his utterances. We
fail TO recognize the drift OF His teachings,
because they are so clear. Yet there Is no
utterancs on practical morality that can
be placed beside His. This IS true also OF
His other discourses. Compare with any
other composition, the discourse to the
disciples on the night before the crucif1-
ion, IN It's profound reach OF thought, its
sim plicity and grandeur o. expression; or
the microscopy prayer IN which, II any
where In human speech, divinity "a mani
fest, and you will BE- constrained to Join
IN the verdict Of the oficers.
TIE APPREHENSION OF TRUTH
Never man spoke like this man. His
was tue lAFulllou VI n pure soul lLlb an
Illustration Of the fact that the appreheu-
sion OF the truth Is ethical. No truth has
been discovered by a man morally Impure.
Men who love the truth and DO the truth,
will know the truth. A man cannot one
day accept and utter a fAlsehoOd, and the
next day Ind bis apprehension OF truth "A
clear as before. II n mau hopes 20 have
NashingtOn's lucid, almost Iutalllble ludg-
mrut, be must, ike Washington. from
childhood on, seek aul 10 the truth. For
the Impure soul becomes the blind soul.
Purity Of heart sincerity Of purpose,
uuselAshuess, make men such rs was Lin.
coin. d flight and leader Of the age; spltsh.
ness, fRlseh0od, ambition, vii, obscure aud
dull the brightest intellect, as IN the case
4 B0naparte, to such q degree that men
~unarquAiut-d with the ultimate relation
u the intellectual aud ethical. stand
amazed at the folly into which q man Of
30 high mental powers can plunge. Bus
auy-the clesnest soul among men lis but
the rush light TO the Sun light compared
with the pure heart and clear vision OF the
NAZatiue.
Morally, Jesus IL the ideal man. To a
clear apprehension OF right was added IN
Him an iniAliibie judgment himself in the
light OF the righteous law. lilo knew him
self. lie made no mistake In the Judg-
ment Of Himself HIS conformity TO law
was not a mere tension Of Will
holding Him ~ the lines Of recti-
lude. but a loving, heSlthfuL manly de.
light In doing the will OF a
loving father. Il delight TO do Thy will,
o my God. was the utterance VI His lips,
the inspiration o. His ltte. s. His obeGi.
cuce was a moral obedience, His courage
a moral courage.
COURAGE ~ ELTNEST OF M~ANLISEss.
Courage Is an essential element Of man
! illness But the courage which lies at the
r basis OF moral character must be sharply
Disseminated from courage merely ami.
|. NAL. Jesus courage was the courage Of
principle. 10 was not an occasional i'm.
, pulse, but q settled condition Of the soul.
! a life with no fear Of those who could XII.
the body aud after that had nothing that
2 they could do, with no dread Of the up.
rising Of kings or the gathering Of values
against him, because secure in the hand
g and counsel Of God This was the cour-
age. consequently, that could stand alone,
Worthy Of honor to be sure. "a the courage
that goes IN battalions and brigadss aud
> divisions across Waterloo plains or up
Lookout mountains, worthy Of higher
honor is the courage that stands befor,
6 assembled princes with only q handful
Of supporters near aud but few and
feeble anywhere and firmly declares
Unless | am convinced by the testimony
Of Scripture, or by the dearest reasoning,
and unless they thus render my cousci encC
a bound by the word Of God, | cannot ant
will not retract. for II Is unsafe for d
4 Christian 10 speak against his conscience
T, worthy Of The highest honor, was his cour
age who. entirely alone, answered still e
the question, Art thou a king thenl Thor
I sayest that ] am a king; 10 this end have
I been born, and 10 this eud came | into tn,
K world that ! might bear witness TO tn
, truth. lt MS George OF Freudsberg, who
!, with his l%anciers, broke the left OF th,
French army at Pawn, who said to Lu.
n Their, Thou art now going to make a no
bier stand than or any other captain
4 have ever made In the bloodiest Of our bal
. ties That stand Luther made. Blu.
Luther wSs protected by powerful princes
encouraged by a host OF friends. upborn
, by the sympathy Of Germany in the pal
ace Of the priest aud in the hall OF b,
, governor, trod the winepress OF wratl
' alone. That was the highest reach o
! manly courage and the severcst self-cou
d troll this world has ever seen, aud has bee,
d the copious fountain OF moral heroisI
since. AT that fountain drink not stinteC
d|raughts. There learn the courage thai
can wait. Through tho thirty years al
Nazareth he waitsth, and thought an,
grew in favor with God and man, until hi
hour came
Professor Harris continued his dis
| course at some length, advising hi
l hearers to learn the courage tina
hghts, retreats, acts, waits, obeys, No.
/ knowledge, not tvnOeity Of purpos
alone. he said, but these with obedienc
; are among the regnant forces OF tn
wsrld.
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