Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-09
COLLEGE CADETS DAY
Service AT First Methodist Church
Yesterday For St. Johns Boys.
SERMON BY THE PASTOR.
Rev. DR.. McNeal Talks To Students On
Subject OF Character Building.

The annual service for the students
of st. Johns College was held in the
First Methodist Episcopal Church YES
terday and was largely attended by
the young cadets from the College, to
whom the pastor, the Rev. DR.. Nc
| Neal addressed a sermon on the sub
Ivject of character building.
| The subject of the sermon was 1.-THE
Architecture of Man." and the text
was taken from Revelation, chapter
Fl verse 1.-THE measure of a man.
that is, of an angel" The new Je-
rusalem is typical of the perfect man.
and here is found Gods plan for the
making of manhood.
The making of manhood must be
in accordance with exact, invariable
principles. The laws of the universe
are the perpendicular, the horizontal
and the angle made by the two,
and the correctives by which these
are determined are the plumb line,
the level and the square. Character
cannot create its own standards. The
principles upon which it must be built
are as old as the race, as eternal as
God himself. These principles are
invariable; they are the same that
have been taught US from childhood.
The success of life is in proportion
to the observ ance of these laws.
All the materials that enter into the
making of character, all the circum-
stances must be made to yield to the
same laws. Sometimes circumstances
readily yield to the plumbline and the
square; sometimes they are unyield-
ing as adamant and cumbersome as
mountain ranges. Everything must
be kept up to the level of mans true
dignity, and every experience must be
made to square with the Holy Bible.
The architecture of manhood makes
truth a vital thing. Ruskin pleads
Tor an honest architecture, SAYING
that there is naught but "scorn for
the meanness of deception. Integ-
rity is fundamental to manhood, not
supplemental. There is no such
thing as a white lie, or a little lie.
Truth is an absolute-neither more
nor less, neither little nor great. 1t
is always an entirety in itself. Not
only truthfulness of word is re-
CURED, but integrity of character in
all its parts.
The architecture of a man must
also include the adornment of the
character.
Architecture as fine art embraces
the identifying of our buildings.
There are graces which are becoming
to woman, and there are also rugged
graces which make mans life re-
splendent. Such adornments are not
external to the man, but are from
within and have to do with charac-
ter. The possibility of grace and no
bilitylies in mans power to see the
beautiful. A dog never turns his eyes
upon the flowers that grow by the
road, horse never sees the stars.
Man sees the beautiful, and the meas
ure in which he sees it is the measure
of the glory of his manhood. If the
image of Christ be hidden away in
the secret of the heart, the divine
glorv will shine more and more in the
face, and beautiful ministries of help
fulness will fall from the finger tips
among ones fellows.
Here is the meaure of a mantle
man Christ Jesus. Have Him within
the soul, and the structure that is
built will be all glorious and sublime:
30 God, make of US what Thou wilt
Guide Thou the labor of our hand;
Let all our work be surely built
AS Thou, the architect, hast planned;
But whatsoe'er Thy power shall make
Of these frail lives, do not forsake
Thy dwelling. Let thy presence res
For ever in the temple of our breast"