The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09

and hope of the religious faith without
 lifting hand for Christ. without doing
 one stroke of work in the Masters ser l vice" Oh, my brother, such q statement
 as that Is mean and desplcable 1 do
 not believe you have ever fully realized
 what your gospel shirking has signined. l Come man, and be a true man In the
 spiritual as well as in the temporal way. l Come and take off your coat in holy en- 1 thusiasm, Do not compel the women
 folks of your families to longer bear the
 brunt of the gospel struggle. At 1t in
 the name of the Lord Jesusl At 1t now!
 At 1t all the time Hear the plea of the
 manifest Christian man who ever lived.
 This plea he made to men: Help those
 womenl Help those women!' Help them
 now.
 strong robust, manly man compes
 the admiration of other There Is
 a popular theory abroad that a manly
 man can never fascinate the masculine 1 world as a beautiful woman can. But I
 do not think that that theory Is true, 1 1 know 1t Is not in my own case. I also l know 1t Is not true with many of my
 gentlemen friends Often, when walk ing through the crowded thoroughfares
 Of Chicago, l have had a pember of my l family say, Did you ever see a more l beautiful face than that?' Who? l Where2' l would ask. Why, that beau l tlful woman who was walking there with
 
 i did not see the woman, but l did see the
 man. l was watching him very closely. l My! He was strong man. There was
 a something in the look of his eye, in
 the set of his mouth In the strength of
 his shoulders and in his well poised, self l confident walk that proved to me he 1 was leader among men. l did not see :, the woman. but what fine specimen of Il man he Wasi" l believe that the fasc- nation which a strong man has upon me Is the same fascination which he has epon all men except those mental weak 1 lings and masculine nonentles who think that the chief purpose for which man
 was created was to eat and sleep, to 1 dress and undress
 If manly man is to have such a great influence upon other men, who will l be able to do your Christian work unless you are willing to do it? There are per- l sons and spheres which you and only you can reach. The women who laboref
 with Paul in the gospel cannot do it. l our mother wife, sister, or daugh- l ter canot 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 If you will
 Would you not be Christian merchant like William E. Dodge. or a Christian statesman like Governor George N Briggs or Christian soldier like Gen eral o. o. Howard or A. w Reilly. or a Christian physician like Charles Jewett or a Christian lay president of a college like Mark Hopkins? 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 eonsecrated Christian leaders they stood before the young men of this world as living examples of faith in Jesus Christ 1 " TDn n1t-f In marts appealing to men.
 True Courage.
 Would you not like to be a Christian scientist like Henry Drummond? Some people are foolish enough to suppose that his greatest work was in the lectures on natural history. which he first delivered before his classes In the Free Church college of Glasgow. But l tell you that the greatest of all the work Henry brummond did in his life was done when he stood before the young university men of Edinburgh. gathered Sunday af- ter Sunday within a large hall of Edin- burgh, and testified to them of Jesus Christ At that time he molded mems hearts as well their brains. He mold ed them as l believe no modern Chris tan minister was ever able to mold them. For there, as an unordained Christian scientist he stood simply as a manly Christian man, appealing to men, IT l had my own way In the world and had the intellect to do it. believe could give my Saviour better service outside of the pulpit than inside. l believe I could have a wider influence upon the Christian world, if as a successful law yer, could testify for Christ as a noted lawyer Thomas McDougal. used to tes- tify, week by week in his Bible class: if as Christian statesman l could testify for Christ as William E. Gladstone in the Church chancel of Hawarden often tes- tiled; If a Christian merchant I could testify for Christ as Lucna M. Sargent testified.
 o man sitting before me today, do not cherish the idea that physical courage is the only or the greatest element of man. liness. l tell you that the manifest men that the world has ever seen have been men who never saw a battlefield, who never raised a hand to strike another man. l 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 the cannon's mouth? Are you ready by the example of your own | life, to teach a sinful world that the mo- blest heroes of every generation are the moral heroes-those heroes who if necessary, are ready to die for Christ ule TOT the rlRht, d1e as Paul died, who urged his yokefeows to be bold testi- flers and workers for the cross?
 The Duty of Man.
 Every true man knows that his wife | Is not as useful and active a member of the Christian church when she goes to | church alone as she would be if her hus- band were ready to go by her side and 1 help her in her Christian endeavor to | spread the gospel The marital ties are | very sacred. They unify in more ways | than one the twain who once stood at | the nuptlal altar. After a husband and | a wife have been living together for | many, many years they not only begin | to think alike, but also to grow to look alike. I have again and again noticed i tho similarity of looks which are seen | Epon the faces of aged husbands and | wives who have lived side by side They | have unconsciously absorbed parts of | each others physical as well as mental | personalities. So when a husband is an irreligious man, nonchurchgoer, a | scoffer, a ridiculer his sneers and short | comngs have a marked evil effect upon | the life of the Christian woman who at | the marriage altar has pledged to him | her dove and her life. She may fight | against deterioration as she will, but in | spite of herself she cannot be as good a | woman as if she had married a good Christian man, who has been consecrated to the service of the Lord Jesus Christ |