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Give us an age in which Christian manhood shall assert itself as the highest earthly thing and the noblest earthly estate. Give us an age that, instead of whining and groaning under the truth, shall rejoice in the truth. Give us an age which, lifted into identity with its highest possessions, shall be made by those possessions patient, pure, heroic, and honorable.

— Josiah Gilbert Holland

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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

Life is before you,— not earthly life alone, but life— a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

Power in its measure and degree is the measure of manhood.

The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life — the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

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