NOT men in a physical sense does the world need. There are many poor, sick weaklings; many timid, feeble men; but there are also many strong, hardy athletes. It is not mere brute force, not mere physical strength, which the old world needs.
Not men in a mental sense are particularly wanting. There are many silly, vapid, shallow, senseless ones, whom neither riches nor poverty helps. There are also many bright, clever men in the world, many whose wisdom causes them to stumble and leads others astray. Yet the wisest and cleverest know but little.
"As the child to the child of four
Is the sage to the fool."
Notwithstanding the mental deficiencies, mentality is not the great need of the world.
The men needed by the world to-day are moral men—men who have a high moral standard, and hold to it; men who will not lie; men who would rather lose any bargain or profit than shade the truth to gain a customer; men who will not sell "cheap shoddy" for "all wool and a yard wide;" men whose business policies are founded on principle, not whose business methods are founded in policy; men while charitable according to their conception of human needs and their ability to bestow, are just to all men and straightforward in all their business dealing; men who are honest seven days in the week and twenty-four hours in a day; men whose word is as good as their bond; men who fear to do wrong more than they fear any consequences which will follow; men who fear God and do not fear their fellows. Clean men are needed—men pure in speech, pure in thought, clean and sweet in speech and person.
Such men must be God-made thru Christ, drinking in light and knowledge and growth and power from the divine fountains of everlasting life. These are the men needed; and having truly moral men, we shall have mental men, great thinking souls living God's thoughts after Him, fashioned after the similitude of Jesus Christ. Wanted—Men!