Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1889 [PAGE 20]

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The Nobility of Man.

I G N I T Y of mind and character is the nobility of man. It is this high elevation that determines him a superior being. Men who have come into the posse on of a sense of goodness, which prompts them to the abhor ence of sin and vice, have gained a strength of character that is true nobleness Men, who are able to look upon all low and unworthy things, and yet believe and feel and do what is higher and better, have become the best and most powerful of their race. An intelligent performance of all that is just and good and true is perfect nobility. Those whose lives are permeated by the pollutions of earthly lowness, who have not come to believe that truth and virtue are the very highest qualities of a good life, have not the elevation of mind and spirit which is true human greatness. They have not risen up to harmonize with the will of the Creator and be a little lower than the angels. Man, by cultivating a lofty and noble character, by resolutely performing all duties, fulfills his worldly mission. The highest nobleness is the perfection of man. The finest feelings of heart, combined with the divinity of the soul, ever prompting man to the improvement of his kind, and as man to feel for man, is all that is positively noble in his nature. To place truth in the way of man, to leave foot prints for him to follow, to advance freedom and independence, to work for the eternal cause of man, is truly noble. Who are the true noblemen of earth? They are the men who propagate truth, who farther the interests of civilization, and who strive to make the * Id etter. 1 here are ever some who are doing good and some who are doing wrong. There are ever some who in the semblance of \ II-d< ; are plotting and working evil among their felloe The noblemen ire th who are straight-forward in all their dealing and not those who are re the pocrite order to carry oir their pi In nation* the kings and the rich h e been 1 th nobili Hut are these always the noblest men ol a nat n? N >\ at the example th >ry of • atl( -, where those who have had the nan !>ilit\. 1 i. been an injury to their country and sometimes the ruin ol I Bui it nnot 1 »at the r >les of a c ry a vet d< >g of their high nam fr« ly they are the preserve n I the benefi f their crowm «.( gold and gr< ttl high

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