(a). The first' answer is in terms. of character. The ideal man walks uprightly. He does not cringe or stoop, he moves through life without shyness or shame. "He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man." He is morally upright through his scorn of dishonesty and meanness. Moreover he does not live a cram life. "Pull on the upright," said Dr. Warre of Eton to his row-men, "so that a line down your backbone would come between you: heels." Every part of a man must Jcontribute to the purposes of God. -|Our natures are easily bent by fear and vanity, twisted by jealousy or vanity, and pulling on the slant will weary' us. God wants a full man, his intelligence' as well as his feel ing, his conscience as well els ry taste, his determination as well his intellect.
But this man who, walketh uprightly has not the irresponsibility of a glorified shopwalker. He worketh righteousness, he gets goodwill going without circumlocution. There is an English heresy, now passing out of date, that a gentleman is a person who does nothing, jon hearing which an American once retorted "We have that kind too, but we call them tramps." That is Jone thing that was well lost in erossing the Atlantic.
India has the same idea, however, concerning a saint that he must man of no occupation. Five and half million persons in India to-day are aiming for sainthood by becoming: unemployable and mendicto our seripture God has no delight in cloister-led piety. He Team to gain giving, eric to rule by serving and by all means getting: righteous ness to. work The Castle and the Well (ec). He speaker truth in his la cart. His character is not only in his goings and doing: it isa reality in hix thoughts, the veerer places of his heart.
In all his walk his work The st castle in Wales is Pembroke Castle, standing on its rocks half surrounded by an arm of Milford Mayen. But it was soon captured when besieged during the Civil War, for Cromwell detected that its water-supply was outside the walls, and he cut it off. In the siege "of man's soul we are all imperilled if there is no well with.
ourselves of living water. Life tests to the quick of our thoughts and motives and demands that we speak truth in our heart.
2. Next the Psalmist inscribes three pointe as to our behaviour, which directly concerns our neigh: hour. (a) The man who is able to God "backbiteth not." he forbids his tongue to tell an evil tale that would steal from his neigh-hour's reputation and subtract from his good name. Politenesg Jdisallows this talk in a man's pro-sence, but a gentleman restrains in his absence. He acts as if the man were there, and if there is a Jshow of evidence confronts him with it privately, so that the tale do its proper work or perish.
Hurt Not (b). He doth no ill, he re-}frains from the act that may ed use injury or. misunderstanding. "There is nothing in Olive Schreiner, hurting others; liza is such agony."
'A large part of our daily conduct comes under this risk and calls or & fine sense of honour, for we jcften have another at our mercy: jand by our mere clumsiness do him an injustice. And it is @ serious thing to do ill because its is often hard to forgive the man we have injured: The only way is to reverse completely one's action and one's attitude. in
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