The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1898-06-06
of the stature Of the lllness OF
Christ" This il the Christ III stand
ard for manhood.

Christ" This Is the Chris N stand
ard for manhood.
There are many ways u Khieh II
might be shown that rs fitted
to be such a STANDARD MQp of US ac-
cept Him as the STANDARD our lives
without asking why. We siaye been
educated in the Christian faith. We
have never known anythiA else. Il
we have considered any es4er stand
ard it hasbeen as something wholly
apart from ourselves. Al far away
as the prophet OF some ia 7giOn long
dead. But If we were really put to
the test what answer coha We give
for the hope that is IA M Ii the
attempt to reach the per ;on Of our
being, why are we FOLLOW Christ
rather than Confueius 81 Ina or
Mohammed9 1T is WORTH -. ene-
times to ask ourselves this question
seriously and honestly Blind faith
is better than no faith but 5ntelli-
gent faith il better ilI.6 1|.lsl faith.
The question thersfole Il pertinent
and important. Why % We a.
cert Christ p % our
lives ilsre afa mas i. sWers.
Within The limits II the Bur / can
name only two Or three
First, bscause Of a.e pengtt and
beauty Of HIS character. le perfect
ion Of art ii reached MI ID strength
and beauty are combined The Doric
Column, with its plain capital, marks
the early history of Grecisn art. It
has strength but no beauty. After
the Doric column came the Ionic with
its single curve to relieve the hard
lines of the capital. But il was only
when the column lowered out into
glorious Corinthian, that Grecian
architecture reached its perfection.
Perhaps the highest words Of praise
ever spoken for the CaIhpanile of
Giotto in Florence was when Mr.
Ruskin, standing before II, said, 1t
is the best combination Of strength
and beauty ever produced u mortal. !"
In the development Of character as
we'll as of art the highest tnot reach
ed until strength and beau are COM
bined. In fact it may aln ST be said
that there is no beautI without
strength. The order is tlraa strength
and then beauty. No higher compli-
ment can be paid to b gleat leader
than to say that withyhis strength he
has humility; with bis courage he has
self restraint He is q mar 81 great
daring, yet discreet and careful in all
he does. He has faith IN himself and
in his cause, and faith in God It
needs no argument to prove that the
most perfect mbination os strength
andtbeauty to be found IA character
is to be seen in Jesus Of Eareth.
We are accustomed Otter sniy to
think Of the beautiful N of His
character, and talk Of His q aud
gentleness and purity. III vas an
this ii Him. NO woman ever had
greater heart Of sympathy han He.
Sensitive to every sorrow aid suffer
ing Of His fellows. His it'd marked
by a gentleness that made Hin great.
His conduct a constant expression Of
the love which passeth know ledge.
But If there was IN Him perfection Of
beauty, there was also perfection Of
strength. No one could ei6N such
fortitude without strength He could
be turned from his great pnkp1se no
more by the fiattery 81 his friends
than by the Kisses Of the e1raged
mob. He had the strenatt Shich
could reproye wrong without niger,
and hate sin without hati1e tli sin
ner. Hecould walk brensI fo1nard
through persecution and ira hIough
thorns and mock purple and tr the
hard path of Golgotha re could
pray with a Divine agony dat the
cup might be taken from Hin but
when it was His to drink Il Sc sonld
show a strength Of purposs 1t raI-
leIed in human history tnse
there vas in Christ this e6ntIrilion
Of strength and beauty HS pre-
eminently fitted to be The 1tdArd
for manhood. The manh0o3 rllich
the world needs to-day is ti1hood
with these charaete Not
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