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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 286 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=16mm, Gew.=422gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 286 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=16mm, Gew.=422gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: 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: II MINISTERIAL MANLINESS There are three sources of the quality with which this chapter is to deal. Manliness is the product of constitution?inherited traits and dispositions; of circumstances?environment which is to be conquered and used; and of choice, the result of our own volition. It is with this third source that we are now chiefly concerned. Manliness literally means possessing the attributes of a man. What then are these attributes? The answer has differed in different ages and lands. The Christian ideal is what interests us This may be found in the earthly life of Jesus. The author of " Tom Brown's School Days " has well pictured the traits of the perfect man in his little volume, " The Manliness of Jesus.1 These attributes are especially prominent in the teaching of Jesus as given in the Sermon on the Mount; in the lives of the first disciples as portrayed for us in the Acts of the Apostles; and in the letters of these same apostles as they exhorted their fellow-Christians.2 So faithfully have these attributes been pondered and followed that the Christian idea of true manliness is to-day read most widely in that " living epistle " ofwhich Professor Drummond spoke when, on returning from his journey round the world, he said to his students, " Gentlemen, since I was among you last, I have traveled round the world. Do you ask me what in all my travels was the greatest and grandest thing I saw ? I will tell you?it was a Christian man." 1 Thomas Hughes. Phil. 4: 8; 2 Peter 1: 5-8. What is ministerial manliness ? It is manliness in the work of the ministry. It is fleeing, and following, those things of which St. Paul wrote to Timothy, the young Christian minister, that he might " fight the good fight of faith." 1 This quality of manliness should run throug...<