. The culture of Christian manhood; Sunday mornings in Battell chapel, Yale university . a messenger from another world!No wonder that African tribes believed thathe was a superior being! All who forgetthemselves in the service of God and manhelp to make grand, sweet music in the midstof the storm and shipwreck of this mortallife. Personality is the prerogative of no loftiest spirit may inhabit the frailestbody and the whitest soul dwell in the deep-est poverty. All who trust God and in thespirit of Christ serve their fellow-men enterinto the secret places of abiding t
. The culture of Christian manhood; Sunday mornings in Battell chapel, Yale university . a messenger from another world!No wonder that African tribes believed thathe was a superior being! All who forgetthemselves in the service of God and manhelp to make grand, sweet music in the midstof the storm and shipwreck of this mortallife. Personality is the prerogative of no loftiest spirit may inhabit the frailestbody and the whitest soul dwell in the deep-est poverty. All who trust God and in thespirit of Christ serve their fellow-men enterinto the secret places of abiding to the divine, the culture of everygift and faculty, body and mind accordingwell and kept pure and clean, loss of self in 6i Personality the consciousness of the privilege of servinghumanity—these are the characteristics ofthat lofty and beneficent manhood so finelydesignated in our time by the word per-sonality, and perfectly illustrated for all timein the example of Him who came not to beministered unto but to minister, and who bylosing His life became the Saviour of theworld. 62. The Evolution of a Thinker By George A. Gordon, Pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, Mass. I thought on my wajys,And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.* Ps. cxix. 5p. THE thinker is always an interestingbeing; but sometimes he is a sophist,and, although interesting, he is even when he is not a sophist he is fre-quently abstract, remote, vague, and there-fore unprofitable. Here in the text we havea man who is a thinker and yet no sophist,no dreamer, but one who brings the full powerof an inspired intelligence to bear upon themost urgent and the most momentous issuesof life. In the evolution of this typical vitalthinker as he comes before us in the words, 63 The Evolution of a Thinker I thought on my ways,And turned my feet unto thy testimonies. there are four things to be noted. I. In the first place, his words are remark-able for the clear recognition which they con-tain of
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