Typical Christian leaders Author:John Clifford Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "article" of all others most in demand. There is no lack of weak, soft, infinitely elastic, namby-pamby creatures, plastic as the clay, unstable as water, lookin... more »g with keenest eye for personal favours and waiting to be lifted up to fortune by the hands of others. You know them, and you know their fate. Be not like them, but aim, in every book you read, by every stroke of work you do, every lesson you learn and every pleasure you enjoy, to nourish within you a right royal manhood, inspired by the spirit, and conformed to the image of God's Son. Never lose sight of the moral effect of your work. The Christian Patriot Leaving the student and tracing the developing manhood of the man, we see it stamping with its own clear impress every sphere he fills, and every duty he performs. First of all, he is urged by gratitude for the good that has been wrought in him as a pupil to serve the " Institute" and the " Church " that have been his foremost helpers, and therefore goes to the post of teacher of languages and literature at Hiram College. The next year he is its principal; the year following, and when only aged twenty-nine—for to the prepared man work comes with swiftest foot—he is a member of the Ohio Senate; thenceforward, to the end of his career he is before us as the modest, manly, self- knowing, self-oblivious, Christian patriot, now fightingfor his country's unity and the freedom of the slaves, and now serving that united country as a gifted statesman in the highest councils of the State. But wherever we find him, we recognise at once the manly ring of his voice, his inflexibility in defence of right, a conscience void of offence towards men, a glowing love of humanity, and a great and holy fear of God. When he was proposed as United States Senator, it was suggested to h...« less