The Regenerate Man is a composite, many in one. He absorbs into himself not the weakness, not the follies, but the strength and the virtues of other types of men. The Regenerate Man is a perfect vessel of God so far as he has gone and is advancing to become complete. The Regenerate Man is a man raised to the highest power. His sensibility will not be deadened or blunted by violation of nature's laws. His whole character will be impressible, and will respond to the most delicate touches of nature.
The Regenerate Man is a man who jealously guards his intellectual rights and powers. He calls no man master and does not content himself with a passive or hereditary faith. He is one who opens himself to light (truth) however it may come. He is able to receive new truths as an angel from heaven. While he might consult others, he uses their advice not to supersede, but to quicken and exalt his own energies since he inquires still more from the oracle within himself.
The Regenerate Man is wise enough to know the right thing to do, is good enough to wish to do only the right thing and is able and strong enough to do the right thing. The Regenerate Man is a man that is not passively framed by outward circumstances and is not swept by the torrent of events. He is not the creature of accidental impulse or circumstance, but bends events to his own improvement and acts from an inward spring, from immutable principles which he has deliberately espoused.
The Regenerate Man is the one who keeps himself under strict discipline, who never once allows the lower to usurp the place of the higher in him; who makes his passions his servants and never allows them to be his master; who is led by his mind and not by his inclinations. He drills and disciplines his desires and keeps the roots of his life under ground, and never allows them to interfere with his character. He is never the slave of his inclinations, or the sport of impulse. He is the commander of himself and heads his ship due north even in the wildest tempests of passion. He is never the slave of his strongest desire. He is self-centered, equipoise, and even master of himself. The Regenerate Man never loses the mastery of himself in any emergency, and in 'ruling his spirit' shows himself greater than in 'taking a city'.
The Regenerate Man protects himself form usurpations of society, and does not cower to human opinion. The Regenerate Man is accountable to a higher tribunal than man’s and he respects a higher law than what is fashionable. The Regenerate Man respects himself too much to be a slave or tool of the many or the few.
The Regenerate Man is one who through confidence in God and in the power of virtue has cast off all fear but that of wrong-doing. He is one who no menace or peril can enthrall, is calm in the midst of tumults and possesses himself though all else be lost. The Regenerate Man is he who has triumphed over obstacles, disadvantages and discouragements. He is the man who is immovably centered.
The Regenerate Man resists the bondage of habit and does not mechanically repeat himself and copy the past. He does not live on his old virtues and does not enslave himself to precise rules. He forgets what is behind, listens for new and higher monitions of conscience and rejoices to pour himself forth in fresh and higher exertions.
The Regenerate Man is one who is jealous of his own freedom and guards himself from being merged in others. He guards his empire over himself as nobler than the empire of the world.
The Regenerate Man is one who will not lose his individuality in a crowd. He is unequivocal and has the courage of his convictions. He is not afraid to say “NO,” though the entire world says “Yes.” He is determined that every statement he makes shall be the exact truth; that every promise he makes shall be redeemed to the letter; that every appointment shall be kept with the strictest faithfulness
The Regenerate Man is a good animal. In order to endure the strain of our concentrated civilization, the Regenerate Man must have an excess of animal spirits. He must have a robustness of health. The Regenerate Man knows that mere absence of disease is not health. His very life is a luxury; He feels a bounding pulse throughout his body; and he feels life in every limb. The Regenerate Man has the body of an athlete and the soul of a sage.
The Regenerate man is so much larger than his calling, so broad and symmetrical in his culture, that he would not talk business in society, that no one should suspect how he gets his living. The Regenerate Man considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living. The Regenerate Man sees self-development, education and culture, discipline and drill, character and manhood, in his occupation.
The Regenerate Man is the man who can raise his fellow beings out of the world of stuff and money, who makes them forget their bank account by interesting them in their higher selves; who can raise mere money-getters into the intellectual realm, where they will cease to measure greatness and happiness by dollars and cents; who can make men forget their stomachs and feast on being's banquet.
The Regenerate Man is one who has the nerve and the grit to work and wait, whether the world applaud or hiss. He will make stepping-stones out of his stumbling-blocks, and lift himself to success.
The Regenerate Man is Industrious, Self-Active and Self Conquering. His life is ruled by Love, Wisdom, Temperance, Integrity, Knowledge, Faith, Purpose, and Courage and possesses an Iron-Will. He believes in Economy, Health and Hard Work.
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The Regenerate Man
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