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BY JAMES I. VANCE, D. D.

THE YOUNG MAN FOURSQUARE

IN BUSINESS, SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND RELIGION

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ROYAL MANHOOD

BY

REV.JAMES I. VANCE, D.D.

Author of "The Young Man Four Square," "Church Portals,"

"College of Apostles," etc.

"A glorious company, the flower of men.

To serve a model for the mighty world,

And be the fair beginning of a time."

-TENNYSON.

CHICAGO

NEW YORK

TORONTO

Fleming H. Revell Company

LONDON AND EDINBURGH

MCMIII

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Copyright, 1899,

by Fleming H.

Revell Company

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TO THE WOMAN

WHO BETTER THAN ANY MAN HAS SHOWN

ME WHAT ROYAL MANHOOD MEANS,

MY FAITHFUL AND DEVOTED WIFE

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. ROYAL MANHOOD

II.

THE MAJESTY OF STRENGTH

III.

THE CAUSE OF THE WEAK

IV.

THE GREATNESS OF GENTLENESS

V. THE RELIGION OF THE BODY

VI.

IT IS NECESSARY TO HAVE A SOUL

VII. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF CONSCIENCE

VIII. COMMON HONESTY

IX. PLAIN DEVOTEDNESS TO DUTY

X. THE GOD OF STATISTICS

XI. THE PEERAGE OF CHARACTER

XII. THE CHAMBER OF MEMORY

XIII. THE CROWN OF CONTENTMENT

XIV. THE ETHICS OF A SMILE

XV. THE PROBLEM OF DESPONDENCY

XVI.

MANHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP

XVII. THE TOMB OF HYPOCRISY

XVIII. LIFE'S LOST CAUSES

XIX. A MANLY RELIGION

XX. THE DIVINE MAN

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Royal Manhood

CHAPTER I

ROYAL MANHOOD

"Man is one world and hath another to attend him."

-George Herbert.

True manhood is imperial. It does not need

the rite of coronation, for it is crowned already.

Its majesty is supreme in all lands, all ages, all

worlds.

In institutions and organizations, in methods

and things, in material wealth and the splendors

of an ornate civilization, the world is rich

enough; but the need abides for simple, una-

dorned, unpurchasable, incorruptible, royal man-

hood.

The need is not for lawyers, doctors, mer-

chants, poets, preachers, mechanics, statesmen,

but for men. It is a pity for one to dwindle

down into nothing but the crude material with

which to fill some vocation in life. "Born a man,

died a grocer," was the epitaph which a certain

Frenchman left as the mournful lament of a life

that had failed. The bells that ring the divinest

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ROYAL MANHOOD

tones in the steeple that points to the stars, are

those that are a-tremble with the music of man-

hood.

The most beautiful building in America and the

finest library building in the world is the Congres-

sional Library Building, in Washington. The

brilliant architect, Mr. Smithmeyer, traveled all

over the world, visiting the most famous buildings

in all lands, before completing the plans for this

princely structure. The building cost between

five and six millions of dollars, and was more than

eight years in course of erection. It is a marvel-

ous combination of noble dignity and symmetric

beauty and stands as a triumph of the architect's

genius and the builder's skill.

It is a wonderful and unsurpassed memorial of

the victories of the human intellect in all the

realms of thought. At every turn one is con-

fronted with reminders of that which has made

the world great. There the visitor is greeted by

the names which represent the noblest achieve-

ments in poetry, drama, fiction, philosophy, the-

ology, oratory, science, statesmanship, history,

journalism, exploration, letters, philanthropy-

by all of which history has been enriched, civiliza-

tion effected, and the human race glorified.

As one wanders through the lofty corridors and

ample halls or waits in rooms which art and

money have done their utmost to beautify and

embellish, he may read in the mosaic pavement

beneath his feet, in the frescoed ceiling above