The True Gentleman's Portrait.
THE following sketch is called, "The Portrait of the True Gentleman." It was in an old manor house in Gloucestershire, England, written and framed, and hung over the mantle-piece of a sitting-room: "The true gentleman is God's servant, the world's master, and his own man. Virtue is his business, study his recreation, contentment his rest, and happiness his reward. God is his Father, Jesus Christ his Saviour, the saints his brethren, and all that need him his friends. Devotion is his chaplain, Chastity his chamberlain, Sobriety his butler, Temperance his cook, Hospitality his housekeeper, Providence his steward, Charity his treasurer, Piety his mistress of the house, and Discretion his porter to let in or out, as most fit. Thus is his whole family made up of virtue, and he is the true master of the house. He is necessitated to take the world on his way to Heaven, and he walks through it as fast as he can, and all his business by the way is to make himself and others happy. Take him in two words,—a man and a Christian."