Howard University Record Vol 4

Author : Howard University
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ISBN 13 : 9781331381136
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book Howard University Record, Vol. 4 written by Howard University and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Howard University Record, Vol. 4: November, 1910 The thing that you and I are striving for is manhood, and, without manhood we are of all beings the most miserable, because the one thing God intended us to have, the one thing that God gave us the capacity for, which will differentiate us from all the rest of creation, and from the very angels in heaven, is what I have termed Manhood. And just how valuable manhood is, God has proved to us by his own example. There is a passage in one of the letters written by the great apostle Paul, which seems to me to sum up in a marvelous manner the whole teaching of Christianity. I refer to those verses which open the second chapter of the letter to the Philippians, where the apostle tells how the Son of God did not count himself to be equal with God, but humbled himself and took upon himself the form of a servant, and became a man, and lived out human life in the midst of human limitations. Now, can there be any higher proof of human capacity than this, that God was willing to take manhood into his own life; that he was willing to strip himself of everything but his selfhood and be known as a servant among men, was ready to humble himself even to the death upon the cross? That is a proof, an incontrovertible proof, that manhood is something so highly valued that God himself felt that he was incomplete until he had taken it into his very life, so that today when you and I look upward, we see what? Why, we see the most familiar thing that human eye could look upon. We see in the Godhead, manhood, and the kind of man-hood that you and I covet is that that is declared in the life of our Master, Jesus Christ. Now, there is just one way in which man can gain manhood. There is no short-cut. Doubtless when you have looked at some great hero of history, you have felt as though he had been endowed at birth with that which we can achieve only through wonderful difficulties. But if such has been your conception, believe me, you are very much astray. No man ever gained manhood, no woman ever gained womanhood, without fighting for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.