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| creeds and authorities. But we do
\ want a full blooGed, whole-hear' ed.
soulful manhood whose understand
ing of the character and sovereignty
Of God shall be comprehensive and
exact, and whose lives shall be lived.
and purposes controlled, and plans
promulgated under the conscious
ness of divine leading and of a judg-
ment day. We do not want long
speeches on what we ought to be.
we DO want long lives full of the
spirit of God and dominated by a
desire to realize in action the con
cepts of inspired minds.
Such men and such lives will be
self-sacriicing. And America de-
mands a self-sacrificing manhood.
Too long have We taught our young
men to prepare to take care OF them
selves. We need to teach them in
future to learn to take care Of 9TH
ers. Humanity needs guidance. Let
us raise up leaders. The country
needs ~saviors; let us educate them
under God. For the Joy of living
lies in giving self out in SER
vice. Se%lf-culture is attained through
self-sacrifce.
There is no Joy in solitary pro-
gress. The loneliest life is the life
that looks largest toward the salts
faction of self. We must carry 9TH
ers on with us if we would be happy.
We must labor for humanity If we
would find eternal peace. A nation
of self-sacrificing manhood is invincl-
BILE, it's history will be amaranthine,
it's glory will perdure unto the eter-
mites of eternity.
We must have the sort of man
hood that will take u text as its
motto if America is to endure. 1t
is not popular to state the evils that
aflict the American social system;
it is unwise to magnify them. But
they do exist and they must be
curbed. They cannot be cured by
avoiding them. They cannot be dag
nosed Hby eyading them. They can
only be rectifed by a patriotic man
hood; a manhood Of broad and deep
and sensitive intelligence, of superb
moral capacity, Of religious convic-
ton, of self-sacriicing loyalty to the
interests of the people and the COM
monwealths of God. 1t would be
idle to deny the need. To refrain to
declare it is re~prehensible. Already
the money-changers are in the tenn
pies; the thieves are in the treasury,
those who despoil the widows, the
orphans, and those who are without
guile, are at work. Already men are
"devising iniquity upon their beds"
Already they are carrying out in the
daylight the evil they design at night.
The wind is being sowed. The holo-
caust is being kindled. God forbid
we should await the whlrlwind and
the flames with silent tongues.
America must have a consecrated,
patriotic manhood of a larger build,
Of a wider vision, of a more diVinely
inspired energy then any she has yet
possessed. Such a manhood alone
can quench the smoldering fires and
combat with prevailing force the
gathering storm. With such a man
hood we shall be secure. We must
have it. We shall have 1t.
The church of the living Christ, as
the possessor Of the most enduring
revelation of the truth of God given
unto men to-day, will not fail to
sieze her opportunity to exercise her
| capacity for social service. In her
hands lies the solution of Americas
~perplexities, for under her dominion
are the flower of American manhood.
1t is for her to enthuse her laity
with an increased sense of civic re-
sponsibility. 1t is the duty of her
ministry to give the call to all the
hosts of God, "let US show ourselves
men for the sake of our people and
for the cities of our God"