. The gate beautiful. arming[156] Ci^e ittafimg of jmen or destroying us, as the derelicts on the seaharm or wreck vessels in their course. What-ever may be the source of the hard things,they are taken into the hands of Christ anddo their part in the making of us. Nothingcan harai us if we believe on Christ and arefaithful to him. The wind that blows can never kill The tree God plants ;It bloweth east, it bloweth west;The tender leaves have little rest,But any wind that blows is best. The tree God plantsStrikes deeper root, grows higher still,Spreads ivider boughs, for Gods good wUl Meets all
. The gate beautiful. arming[156] Ci^e ittafimg of jmen or destroying us, as the derelicts on the seaharm or wreck vessels in their course. What-ever may be the source of the hard things,they are taken into the hands of Christ anddo their part in the making of us. Nothingcan harai us if we believe on Christ and arefaithful to him. The wind that blows can never kill The tree God plants ;It bloweth east, it bloweth west;The tender leaves have little rest,But any wind that blows is best. The tree God plantsStrikes deeper root, grows higher still,Spreads ivider boughs, for Gods good wUl Meets all its wants. [157] Cl^rtsitfan iWanUne)3j5 [159] Give us men! Strong and stalwart ones;Men whom highest hope inspires,Men whom purest honor fires,Men who trample self beneath them,Men who make their country wreathe them As her iwhle sons Worthy of their sires !Men who never shame their mothers,Men who never fail their brothers,True, however false are others ; Give us men—/ say again,Give us men / [ 160 CHAPTER TWELFTH. HEN St. Paul would stir upI Christians to their best, he bade them quit themselveslike men. He meant that ifthey would be manly andact manfully, they would beworthy Christians. No ideal is higher thanjust to be a man. What is manliness. Thereis no one exact model. No two men are pre-cisely alike, for every man has his own indi-viduality, which modifies the expression of hislife. Besides, no man at his best is any morethan a fragment of a man. We find some linesof beauty in almost every man, but in no onedo we find all the qualities of ideal has been suggested that if it were possibleto gather, through all the centuries, from allthe individuals of the whole human race all thefragments of manly character that throughthe ages have existed in all, and combine these[161] Cl^e (&att TBeautiful in one composite character, that would be theideal man. V^Tiile men differ in their individual lives,there are certain great qualities which are es-sential in all no
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