How to Be a Man

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1880

How to be a Man.—When Carlyle was asked by a young person to point out what course of reading he thought best to make him a man, he replied in his characteristic manner, "It is not by books alone, or by books chiefly, that a man becomes in all points a man. Study to do faithfully whatsoever thing in your actual situation, then and now, you find either expressly or tacitly laid down to your charge—that is, stand to your post; stand in it like a true soldier. Silently devour the many chagrins of it—all situations have many—and see you aim not to quit it, without doing all that is your duty."