What is full-orbed manhood?  What is ideal womanhood? When are human beings at the highest possible of attainment in all that tends to make them strong  and  pure and beautiful ?
           Let us consider a man. What is he? What constitutes the best variety of genus homo?
Opinion will differ but let us get at the correct standard if we can.
     Here is a man, who may be pronounced a splendid specimen of physical manhood. He stand erect , is well proportioned, and is in the prime of health. His frame is well-knit, well-developed, symmetrical and graceful. The bunches of muscles stands out upon his arm like miniature mountains, and his power of endurance are well-nigh limitless . No other man dares to give him battle. His admirers look at him and say, there is a man.
      Here is another, whose specialty as a mental culture. He is versed in the wisdom of schools. He hold converse with old philosophers of Greece and Rome . Of science he is the master, and for the work of art he has a practiced and appreciative eye. He as indeed climbed step by step to the very pinnacle of intellectual  attainment, and multitude hang  with rapt attention upon his wise eloquent words. Many listen to such and one and say, Now there is a man.
      Here is yet another. He has not only head to think, but a heart to feel. He sympathize with other in their distresses, and rejoice with them in their joys. To his ear the word “home” is full of music, and he is deaf to the enticing word of pleasure as she chants her sweetest songs to lure him from his duty there. He thinks not of gain but of justice. He does not say will such and such project serve my purpose? But, it is right ? He is honest and brave. Comes danger in its most appealing form, it shall not deter him. The road may be rugged and mountain steep, but he will reach the summit. The world may frown upon his plans, and men opposed most bitterly, but what cares he? My object is right ,he says ,and it shall be gained. There is something majesty and noble about the character like this, and we are not surprise that many unite in pronouncing him representative of the highest form of manliness.
       But is there any standard yet nobler? These ideal are great, no mistake about that, but is there nothing more to incorporate  into life and mould into character? Let us go a step further.
       Here is a man who possibly possesses all noble quality above enumerated, a fine body, a cultured intellect and full warm heart, and he has yet more; he has developed soul.  In him the finite as been brought into touch with the infinite. He has heard the voice, “My son, give me thin heart” and has obeyed. He stand among the redeemed. Self and sin have been put under his feet. The blood of Emmanuel has made him clean. He use the word as not abusing it, while enjoying everything in it that is good.
      This man represents God. That is, he represents what God can do for man when he has a fair chance. His motives are high, his spirit is sweet, and his life is fragrant with the perfume of noble and unselfish deeds.
      This man has the best  kind of time. He is as happy as lark. He is as strong as lion. He is as gentle as dove. He is as attractive as magnet. He is as stable as sun. You can bank upon his character, and draw fund for noble service from his bank,
        This man does good not merely because it is popular or expedient to do so, but because this  sort of activity suit his spirit.;  it harmonize with his transformed nature. To him there no arbitrary rules no compulsory outside pressure. Service is privilege. Helping other is joy.
    This man take no narrow views of life , or duty or responsibility. The horizon of his vision goes beyond this life. While he stays here on Earth,  his character is having a well development, and the spiritual graces are reaching completion. A halo of coming glory is already in his soul. and beams forth upon his countenance. He is a man after God’s own heart.
    This is the highest type of man. It is not insisted that the physical perfection and peerless mental endowment are always essential to the unfolding of the type, for many manly men of God have possessed neither of this things, but when the best physical, mental and moral endowment are thoroughly fused by the spiritual and actuated by the principles of  the higher life, an ideal of truest and loftiest manhood stands forth.