Arizona republican., 1908-11-30
SHOW HIMSELF A MAN
 REV. DR. CAMPBELL'S TEXT
The Necessity That Men Should Be
 Manly and Godly.

| tyn Campbell preached on "Manliness and Godliness," using as a text a part i of the secend verse of the second chap | ter of First Kings. Show myself a
 m; h." Following is an outline of the
 discourse:
 This week OF which we have enter ed. has been set aside as week of 1 prayer by men for men. One of the
 most significant facts relative to the church within the last decade has been
 the fact of the increased interest of men in the church of Jesus Christ. i That interest has increased with or gani.ation. One movement that has been inaugurated over the United Stat les. Canada and Great Britain is this week of prayer. In harmony with this movement we have a half hour set
 aside each day, this coming week for 1 prayer Appropriately, therefore, we shall consider for little time the sub | jet of "Manliness and Godliness." "Our teyt is one that is altogether Inappropriate These words were spoken ! by navid. that man after Gods own heart. to his son Solomon on his as ccnding to the throne of Israel The ] injunction is not that he be a great warrior, statesman on king, but that
 he be nan. All that is necessary to
 our showing ourselves manly before God-tC please hin1-is to show our selves men after the fashion of the man Christ Jesus. If we all were men after the fashion of the Christ, the world would soon be won for God. The thoughts of manliness and godliness are not separated in David's mind for
 in the same breath in which he spoke
 the words of OUT text he says, And keep the charge of the Lord"
 What are the characteristics of a man? First, in negative way. Blood and birth cannot make a man. It is doubtless an advantage to have good
 blood in ones veins, but Caesar had royal blood, vet was far from manly; Nero came almost as near being a
 brute as a human being could. Intel
 Iect can't make man. Lord Byron had an exceedingly brilliant intellect,
 but he was not q truly manly man.
 Money can't make a man. There is apparently common misapprehension. abroad that it can. but it is most cer-
 tainly a misapprehension. Mohammed.
 the founder of Islam, on finding him
 self beginning to be surrounded with luxuries, exclaimed If this continues, shall be ruined"
 What then makes a man? From
 the very meaning of the word man we know a man must have convictions. We
 may set down then as one of the first characteristics of manliness the re- quirement He must have conviction" The man who is manly is the indivi- dual who has his eye fixed upon the
 pole star cf duty, who knows the meaning of should" and ought who compTehends responsibility in the true sense of the work. Manliness means that we will do our very best. It means loftiness of ideas. We often fail because we allow ourselves to fail. we growl because we want to growl. A manly man aims higher than the mark he intends to hit. A true man must have the courage of his conyic- tions. Elijah on Mount Carmel had the courage of his convictions when he stood out alone against the four hun dred prophets of Baal. That mission ary who stood before the ambassador of the czar os Russia and declared, The Lord Jesus Christ will never ask the czar of all the Russias where He may set His feet" had the courage of his convictions.
 There -s no conflict between true manliness and godliness. David did not think there was any for he charged Solomon to be manly and to obey God So brighter minds can be pointed out in all history than those followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. Michael Angelo is unsurpassed in art: Sir Isaac New ton, in science; Locke, in phslOiOphy
 Among present day statesmen, Folk and Hughes and Bryan we know as de- voVt followers of the man of Gallilee James A. Garfield, William Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt all are spoken of as men of God
 "The three great words in the word of God are God" impossible" and achievement" Those last two words are as truly important as the first Men. backed by God, must undertake the seemingly impossible and the re- suit will be the achievement of the aim ! don't believe that Phoenix is aS far along in achieving the purposes of God as if should be. Too many men have only Ioo"e hold on God. Let us as men take hold of God: then we may be filled with his mighty power so that we may do for him and we shall live with him throughout the ceaseIess ages of ctcrrit."