A Perfect Gentleman. 99

the title “Gentleman,” and to aim at ful-
filling the model I hold up, as any of the
higher born, even to the extent of being
perfect Gentlemen; and by this I mean not
only people whose fine natural characters
are cultivated into habits of right thought
and action, but those whose daily life is
actuated by the fear of God, and love to
Christ ; and who themselves, being one with
Christ, grow daily more like Him, until they
attain unto the perfect stature of men in
Christ Jesus. One is often grieved to see
the meannesses, want of truthfulness, and
of straightforward, honest dealing, not to
speak of the lack of high honour and strict
integrity of purpose, which prevail to so
lamentable an extent even among professing
Christians,—so much so, indeed, that right-
minded men of the world look with scorn
upon their acts. “Would that the men of
the next generation may be extraordinary
Christian men in all that goes to make high
worth in the Christian character, and not
merely ordinary Christians! We want a
touch of the chivalry of the knights of old,
who regarded honour as dearer than life, and