The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-06-10
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tlniS lot!lhas e siiu W lrull tlnluueHt away
above the bloom: The tree Isl not
trunk alone, nor branch or leaf Of
blossom or fruit, butitiunk and branch
and foliage, and all the beauty and
blossom and fragrance and fruit that
grow out Of the procession Of the sea.
sons as they come and go. H
So man Is not hands and feet and
muscle and tissue and brain alone.
The ban is more than these and some.
thing different from these. II physl.
cal proportions constituted the Man,
then Daniel Lambert was one Of the
greatest men that ever lived OF whom
We have record, for he weighed nine
hundred pounds. II ayourdupoise
made the man then when the other
day John L. Sullivan and Secretary
Taft met and exchanged pleasantries
on the threshold Of the White House
John l.. Sullivan was the greater man
of the two because he weighed three
hundred and thirty pounds while Sec.
rotary Taft weighed only two hundred
and eighty seven. II mentally con.
stitnted the man then would Bacon
or Kant or a Burr be the best ex.
ponent Of manhood because they were
possessed Of the brightest intellects
Of the man of their time. Man Is yet
more than the mortal and spiritual; for
II not, examples Of the most exalted
manhood would be found among the
priests and devotees OF the Hindu
faith who by contemplation and intro
spection SO refine away all the carnal
and the material. No: II you would
have view Of the true man look
not upon the body alone nor the in.
tellect, not upon any one department
Of mans nature, but catch vision Of
the perfect soul, for 1t is the soul
which makes the man, which consti.
tutes man as man, which distinguish.
es him from all other creatures which
God has made.
An old negro had been ponderins
the opening chapters of Genesis and
said that he noticed difference be.
tween the way God made the world
and the way he made men. In making
the world he said, God used his pow.
er; In making man God used himself,
his HE, his breath. The negro was
right. 1t Is the GoilIke, the eternal
In man which makes him essentially
man. God said: LET us make man In
our Image and after our likeness
God so made him, and having made
him he touched him not with the fin.
ger OF his power, but with the breath
Of his life. lie breathed into his nos.
trils the breath Of life and man be.
came q living soul. From that hour
God and man were of common life.
Diogenes with his lighted lantern
was peering into the faces of the
passers by that he might see down
into the souls Of them II perchance
there he might find his man. He knew
and We must learn the truth, that It
Is In the soul the harmonized soul,
that the true man must he found, Any
vision of man different from this Is
essentially false and imperfect, AM.
any lives nodded on such false pal.
tern Will forever ring unture, and the
more strictly the pattern Is adhered
TO In 'chiscling and molding the far.
Their will be the departure from rea.
lizing the perfect man in practical
life.
But Your vision must comprehend
more than this abstract man of soul
ut harmony with itself. Your ideal
must include the concrete, the pracH.
cal man. The man best fitted 10 worl,
out the actual problems OF life In the
sphere and IN the conditions In which
he Is classed? Your work will be no.
only to mold men with great souls,
but with great adaptations and with
great power to work and achieve for
God and humanity and truth in a
disordered and corrupted world.
You will need, therefore. 10 think
OF man as the pattern OF your wor,;
who Is n broad man, who is neither
narrow nor partialist In his thoughts
and his sympathes or his acquire.
ments. The worlds advancement is
along the line Of the practical. and the
true man for the age. is the practical
man. The use Of prophecy and inter.
probation Is to translate the hidden
anu abstract into the present anil tho