The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29
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cat. 1.-The love and admiratio saws
Kingsley, which that truly brave and low
Ing man, Sir Sydney Smith. won from every
one, rich and poor, with whom he came into
contact seems to have arisen from the fact
that without, perhaps, having any such
conscious Intention he treated rich and
poor, his own servants and the poblemen
MS guests, alike; and alike cOurteOusly,
CONSIDERABLY cheerfully, affectionately. so
leaving a blessing and reaping a blessing
man In this way respects the image of God
In every man, and treats all his interiors
as well as all his equals and superiors, as
he himself would like TO be treated. When
Pope Clement XIV (GanganellD assembled
the papal chair the ambassadors of the sew
erai states represented at his court waited
on him with their congratulations. When
they were introduced and bowed he returned
the compliment by bowling also; on which
the master of the ceremonies told his Holt
ness that he should not have returned their
salute: oh, beg your PARDON" said the
PontiH. Il have not been Pope long enough
to forget good manners
THE TRUE GENTLEMAN.
Having seen what a gentleman is not let
US now ask ourselves what he is He is a
man who is gentle in thought, word and
deed He is good son, husband father,
friend. and Is generally true and just in
all his dealings. HE back-biteth not with
his tongue" as the fifteenth Psalm says,
much of them that fear the Lord" What
good description of true gentleman is
that which ST. Paul gives in the thirteenth
chapter of his First Epistle to the Corinth-
ians, Charity or love suffereth long and
is kind" 1t has been said that the test of
good manners is to be able to put up pleas
antly with the bad manners of Others. Char
lty "envieth not; charity "vaunteth not
itself and is not puffed up Snobs unduIy
depreciate others and unduly appreciat tie
themselves. Charity doth not behave it
self unseemly, that is to say, a true
and tries not 10 give pain. Charity seek
eth not her own; only vulgarians are
grasping Charity lis not easily provoked. =
The word easily" has no place in the text
not understand. He is a foolish and vul-
gar person who is easily provoked touchy
and prone to take offense; the Christian
gentleman is not provoked at all or if he
no evil and rejoiceth not III iniquity" The
Christian gentleman turns deaf ear to
scandal, and puts the best construction
possible upon peoples actions. Sometimes
no advantages of birth. money or position
exhibiting in their manner the sympathetic
tact and deicacy of feeling that belong to
real gentlefolk. They may well be called
God Almighty's gentlemen, for ii is He
who has made them what they are We
hear much now of schemes for refining and
beautifying the lives of the dim millions
but nothing can really do this except true
religion Christianity aims at making them
all gentlemen in the proper sense of that
much-abused word. If any one says that II
is absurd to expect the masses ever to
attain TO such refinement and elevation
we reply by asking Is il absurd to expect
that they may become Christian and if
Christian can they be anything else than
true gentlemen and gentlewomen?
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