Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-08-07

| my VIE, my mother, my sister, my
daughter, to DO oil my praying and
working IN the church When I am In
my last sickness l want their minister
TO come and fix things all up for me
In spiritual sense. Aud when I an
dead l want their minister TO state
over my casket that have repented
at the eleventh hour aud have beer
saved all right. In other words. want
10 win every JOY and hope of the re
ligious faith without lifting hand
for Christ, without doing one stroke OF
work I'm the Masters service" oh. my
brother, such statement as that is sc
mean and despicable do not believe
you have ever fully realized what your
gospel Sinking has signified. Come
man. and be true man In the spiritu
oil as well as in the temporal way
Come and take or your coat i'm holy
enthusiasm. Do not compel the WON
en- folks CT your families TO longer
bear the brunt of the gospel struggle
At ii in the name of the Lord jesus
At il now! At ii all the timel Hear
the plea OF the manifest Christian man
who ever lived. This plea he made to
men: Help those women! Help
those women" Help them now.
| strong, robust. manly man compels
the admiration of other men. There Is
a popular theory abroad that manly
man can never fascinate the mascu.
line world as beautiful woman can.
But do not think that that theory Is
true. 1 know IL is not I'm my own case.
1 also know ii is not true with many
! of my gentlemen friends. Often, when
| walking through the crowded thor.
oughfares Of Chicago, ] have had a
member of my family say, Ibid you
ever see more beautiful face than
thaty' who? Where?" 1 would ask.
"Why, that beautiful woman who was
walking there with that man." "Ob."
l would answer, Il did not see the
woman. but did see the man. was
watching him very closely. Myi He
was a strong man. There was a some
thing in the look OF his eye, I'm the sci
OF his mouth, In the strength of bis
shoulders and IN his well poised. self
confident walk that proved 20 me he
was leader among men. did not see
| the woman, but what q fine specimen
| of man he wesr' / believe that the
fascination which a strong man has
upon me is the same fascination which
he has upon all men except those men.
tai weaklings and masculine nonenti.
ties who think that the chief purpose
for which a man was created was to
eat and sleep, to dress and undress.
| IL manly man is TO have such a
great influence upon other men, who
will be able TO do your Christian work
unless you are willing to do It? There
are persons and spheres which you, and
only you, can reach. The women who
have labored with Paul IN the gospel
cannot do ii. Your mother, wife, Oh
sister, or daughter cannot do It. You
know that there are today down In
your store some clerks whom no human
being can touch for Christ as you,
their employer, can touch, IL you will.
Would you not be Christian mer-
chant like William L. Dodge, or a
Christian statesman like Governor
George y. Briggs, or Christian soldier
like General o. o. Howard or A. w.
Reilly, or n Christian physician like
| Charles Jewett, or Christian Law
| president of a college like Mark Hop
kins? These men had great influence
in the financial, or the professional, or
the political realm. Their greatest and
most far reaching influence, however.
was when. as earnest, consecrated
Christian leaders. they stood before the
| young men Of this world as living ex-
amples of faith In Jesus Christ They
were manly Christians in the busy
marts appealing TO men.
True Courage.
Would you not like to be q Christian
scientist. like Henry Drummond? Some
people are foolish enough to suppose
that his greatest work was I'm the lee
lures on natural history, which he first
delivered before his classes I'm the Free
Church college OF Glasgow. But tell
you that the greatest OF oil the work
Henry Drummond did In his life was
done when he stood before the young
university men OF Edinburgh. gathered
Sunday after Sunday within q large
hall OF Edinburgh, and testified 10
them OF Jesus Christ. At that time he
nodded mems hearts as well as their
brains. He nodded them, as believe
no modern Christian minister was ever
able TO mold them. For there, as an
unordained Christian scientist he stood
simply as manly Christian man. an
pealing TO men. II had my own way
in the world, and had the intellect to
do 1t, believe could give my Saviour
better service outside of the pulpit than
inside. 1 believe / could have a wider
influence upon the Christian world, II.
as successful lawyer, / could testify
for Christ as noted lawyer, Thomas
McDougal, used TO testify, week by
week IN his Bible class; il as a Chris
tan statesman 1 could testify for
Christ as William Z. Gladstone I'm the
church chancel OF Hawarden often tes-
TILED; If as Christian merchant
could testify for Christ as Iucina NJ.
Sargent testified.
o man sitting before me today. dc
not cherish the idea that physical cour-
age is the only or the greatest element
or manliness. / tell you that the man
Hest men the world has ever seen
have been men who never saw n
battle field, who never raised hand to
strike another man. / appeal to YOU.
Are you ready TO be manly Christian
appealing in Christ's name to men?
Are you ready TO tell them that the
bravest heroes of life are not always
those who don the soldiers uniform
and. with unblanched cheek, walk up
TO tie lannon's mouth? Are you ready,
by the example of your own life, TO
teach sinful world that the nobIest
heroes of every generation are the
moral heroes - those heroes who, If
necessary, are ready to die for Christ, |
die for the right. die as Paul died, who |
urged his yokefel!ows to be bold ties. |
tifiers and workers for the cross?
The Duty of Man.
Every true man knows that his wife |
is not as useful and active O member |
or the Christian church when abe goes
TO church alone as she would be If her |
husband were ready to go by her side
and help her In her Christian endeavor
TO spread the gospel. The marital ties