The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-03
'TH:E SUNDAY SERMON
Rsli d. Edward Everett Hale's Mastery Dis.
4 course on GGnulne and True Manhood.
nan IA LIS IA LIVING SOUL, He EXPLAINS
The Body fIas BECOME Too Strong for
IS. the seuI-Hcep Control of the Mind
and Only Het II Think of Those
ME Things Which Are Pure Control
sSt the Rody to DO Your Commands.

Let us make men."-Genesis T., &c.
sIn any board of education l should be
told that the great object of education
ttss to carry out this purpose of the good
I'm any adequate treatise on gov
$srnment should be told the same
N1hthg 81, &
What constitutes q State?
{ ASenS who their duties know;
SsNno Know their rights, and, knowing,
dare maintain.
SsAnd certainly IL l turned to the direc-
Hon OF the various churches, to the
speoPle who say they are the church and
i lnat other people must obey and fol-
LOW, them, they would add what this
lode. legend of Genesis adds: 1--WE
sstSWant TO make men in Gods image. nfter
Ibis. likeness"
is It not. then. rather pathetic. that.
al their endeavors. the people
SEwhose business 1t is to make men, turn
~ ~ SO fcWl specimens of successful
sihanufacture?
S:gls NJ ny are there SO few men? And when
S9ne changes the sex, and for the work
IsEg5iiftWomen makes the same inquiry the
SS{g ,9N come out no better. You find a
I 2 ias OF people fussins over detail,
VINO. as somebody says. cannot tell a
small thing from great one. But YOU
!, asK eagerly, and onbody tells you.
5sIhere are the women? Where Is our
nstsndy supply, not exceptional. not a
i miracle which shall give
"A perfect woman, nobly planned9
Il is worth while to ask what our 500
:sSGo1neges propose to do themselves.
~ nav 40 they say is their best achieve
mem AT their annual commence
1laents, from Labrador to San Diego.
s{hey say, we present to You these
youths, who have acquired skill in
Greek OF Latin or mathematics, or in
5hne. study of nature, or in the study
~ IN, history" Possibly they will saw.
s,,hot, present. to you this or that hero
ssS Su mas successfully led his crew in a
s Ssgoat race or in ball match" But
I there will not be one of them. from
one end of the country to another
Nnich will say I'VE present to YOU
sI .ii youth. who can control his appe-
Tues .aSts and can govern his mind" That
!, ,si 80 say, tnere Is not one OF them which
3! WI! venture to say on commencement
gay. We present to you q man." All
fthat my own college says, in present.
: y the bachelors degree, is this:
So we present to you these youths,
whom we know to be At for speaking
IN public as often as anybody shall
scall them to that duty"
This is the best that has been
achieved In course of study cover
anS four years and prepared for in
many more.
II. We are thrown back, then, to the
snennftion of manhood. man is not
~ hnely formed or well-trained phy-
saieal machine. Physical strength and
sAeaAShf come from manhood, but they
are not manhood. A man is not a we'll
ADJUSTED, northumberland I say well
oiled ?-intellectual machine. Reason
.ang, imagination, memory, are good
TOOLS or manhood, but no one Of these,
nor al OF them, can make man.
;a a man is q child Of God. No Ian
gauge Is fine enough to make the fun
statesman, but this is the best that has
been tried. He is born from God and
he goes back to God. Spark from the
divine fire. the poets are fond of saw
!1ing. Light from the divine light" that
tsN one OF the Bible expressions. Dew
tgfop from the divine ocean," that is an
,1mege limited at in the Bible Man is
i!lYing soul. Per haps shall not do
peter than to take this phrase. This
living soul has the business of con-
.froEinE this body, making it strong and
quick; active and pure. This living soul
mas also the business of controlling this
mind, making that to be strong and
quick, active and pure And II is only
sasss iiYing soul asserts itself, Will not be
SSs.rWayed by the body or by the mind-tt
as only thus thatyo have a man.
W. " is only thus that you have a wo-
man. ThcHe who have to do with ma
;schsneryE know instances upon Instances
lWhere. in familiar language, the ma
:Gcnime! runs away" The locomotive
sTlns 30 fast on q down grade that for
sa3 moment It escapes from the hand
~; ;pita ne driver. The steam which IS called
q ttEpa power ~ not the power, for It is
Rded back on itself by the impet-
,g sA5lsss given I,reeiseiy In the same way
ggtate Ssees tnt ellectuai action, where the
zssxtsoe cf q s1atn,s 4 ha bit OF reasoning