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-<p class="noindent pfirst">This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
-almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
-re-use it under the terms of the <a class="reference internal" href="#project-gutenberg-license">Project Gutenberg License</a>
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-<p class="noindent pfirst white-space-pre-line"><span class="white-space-pre-line">Title: The First True Gentleman<br />
- A Study of the Human Nature of Our Lord<br />
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-<p class="noindent pfirst" id="pg-produced-by"><span>Produced by Al Haines.</span></p>
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-<p class="pfirst white-space-pre-line x-large">THE FIRST<br />
-TRUE GENTLEMAN</p>
-<div class="vspace white-space-pre-line" style="height: 2em">
-</div>
-<p class="medium pfirst white-space-pre-line"><em class="italics white-space-pre-line">A Study in the Human<br />
-Nature of Our Lord</em></p>
-<div class="vspace white-space-pre-line" style="height: 3em">
-</div>
-<p class="medium pfirst white-space-pre-line"><em class="italics white-space-pre-line">With a Foreword by</em><br />
-EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D.D.</p>
-<div class="vspace white-space-pre-line" style="height: 3em">
-</div>
-<p class="medium pfirst white-space-pre-line">BOSTON<br />
-JOHN W. LUCE &amp; COMPANY<br />
-1907</p>
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-<p class="pfirst small white-space-pre-line"><em class="italics white-space-pre-line">Copyright</em>, 1907, <em class="italics white-space-pre-line">by</em><br />
-JOHN W. LUCE &amp; COMPANY<br />
-<em class="italics white-space-pre-line">Boston, Mass., U.S.A.</em></p>
-<div class="vspace white-space-pre-line" style="height: 3em">
-</div>
-<p class="pfirst small white-space-pre-line"><em class="italics white-space-pre-line">The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass.</em></p>
-</div>
-<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em">
-</div>
-<p class="center large pfirst">A FOREWORD</p>
-<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
-</div>
-<p class="pfirst">The dictionaries and the
-students of words have a great
-deal to say,--perhaps more than
-is worth while,--of the origin of
-the word Gentleman,--whether
-a gentleman in England and a
-<em class="italics">gentilhomme</em> in France mean
-the same thing, and so on. The
-really interesting thing is that in
-a republic where a man's a man,
-the gentleman is not created by
-dictionaries or by laws. You
-cannot make him by parchment.</p>
-<p class="pnext">As matter of philology, the
-original gentleman was <em class="italics">gentilis</em>.
-That is, he belonged to a <em class="italics">gens</em>
-or clan or family, which was
-established in Roman history.
-He was somebody. If he had
-been nobody he would have
-had no name. Indeed, it is
-worth observing that this was
-the condition found among the
-islanders of the South Sea.
-Exactly as on a great farm the
-distinguished sheep, when they
-were sent to a cattle fair might
-have specific names, while for
-the great flock nobody pretends
-to name the individuals, so
-certain people, even in feudal times,
-were <em class="italics">gentilis</em>, or belonged to a
-<em class="italics">gens</em>, while the great body of
-men were dignified by no such
-privilege.</p>
-<p class="pnext">The word gentleman, however,
-has bravely won for itself,
-as Christian civilisation has gone
-on, a much nobler meaning.</p>
-<p class="pnext">The reader of this little book
-will see that the poet Dekker,
-surrounded by the gentlemen
-of Queen Elizabeth's Court,
-already comprehended the larger
-sense of this great word. The
-writer of this essay, taking the
-familiar language of the
-Established Church of England,
-follows out in some of the great
-crises of the Saviour's life some
-of the noblest illustrations of the
-poet's phrase.</p>
-<p class="pnext">It is well worth remembering
-that the Received Version of the
-New Testament, which belongs
-to Dekker's own generation,
-accepts his noble use of
-language in one of the great
-central passages. In the very little
-which we know of the early
-arrangements of apostleship, we
-are given to understand that the
-Apostle James lived at Jerusalem,
-and that in what he wrote
-he addressed the Christians
-of every race and habit in all
-parts of that world of which
-Jerusalem is the centre. The
-Epistle of James may be called
-the first encyclical addressed to
-all sorts and conditions of men
-who accepted Jesus of Nazareth
-as the leader of their lives.
-To this day its practical and
-straightforward simplicity
-challenges the admiration of all those
-believers who know that the tree
-is to be judged by its fruits,--that
-it is not enough to cry "Lord,
-Lord,"--that it is not enough to
-say, "I believe in this" or "I
-believe in that";--but rather
-that the follower of Christ must
-do what He says. And how
-does this gentle apostle of
-apostles define in word the "wisdom
-which is from above?" The
-wisdom from above is first pure,
-as the Master had said, "Blessed
-are the pure in heart." Then the
-Wisdom from above is
-peaceable, as the angels said when
-He was born. Then the wisdom
-from above is gentle. The man
-who follows Christ is a gentle
-man. The woman who follows
-Christ is a gentle woman.</p>
-<p class="pnext">And if anyone eager for
-accuracy in the use of language
-choose to hunt the Greek word
-which we find in St. James's
-Epistle through the lexicons, he
-learns that the gentleman whom
-St. James knew is he who in
-dealing with others "abates
-something from his absolute
-right." He is so large and
-unselfish that he can grant more
-than he is compelled to grant by
-rigorous justice. He is the man
-who can love his brothers better
-than himself. These are phrases
-from the old dictionaries.</p>
-<p class="pnext">"Greater love hath no man
-than this, that a man lay down
-his life for his friends."</p>
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-</div>
-<p class="left medium pfirst">EDWARD E. HALE.</p>
-<div class="vspace" style="height: 4em">
-</div>
-<p class="center large pfirst">The First True Gentleman</p>
-<div class="vspace" style="height: 2em">
-</div>
-<p class="pfirst">The Elizabethan poet
-Dekker said of our Lord that
-He was "the first true gentleman
-that ever breathed." The
-passage is worth quotation:--</p>
-<blockquote>
-<div>
-<div class="line-block outermost">
-<div class="line">"Patience! why, 'tis the soul of peace,</div>
-<div class="line">Of all the virtues nearest kin to Heaven.</div>
-<div class="line">It makes men look like gods, the best of men</div>
-<div class="line">That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer--</div>
-<div class="line">A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,</div>
-<div class="line">The first true gentleman that ever breathed."</div>
-<div class="line"> </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-</blockquote>
-<p class="pfirst">All through English literature
-the word "gentleman" has
-had two meanings, and has
-been used to describe a man
-of certain qualities as well as a
-man of a certain birth. A
-hundred and fifty years before
-Dekker wrote it was declared that
-"truth, pity, freedom, and hardiness"
-were the essential qualities
-of a gentleman. Our Lord
-in His human nature personified
-these things. Every gentleman
-in Christendom derives his
-ideal from Christ whatever
-may be his dogmatic creed. No
-virtue, perhaps, was so
-characteristic of our Lord as His
-devotion to truth. He declared
-before Pilate that it was the
-end for which He was born.
-He condemned all those who
-hindered its diffusion and tried
-to make it the monopoly of a
-caste. He tabooed all absurd
-asseverations, the occasional
-use of which was but a
-confession of habitual lying. He
-taught that lies were of the
-Devil, and that it was the Holy
-Spirit who led men into all
-truth. He said that sincerity
-was the great light of the
-Spirit, that all double-minded
-men were in the dark, and that
-their fear of the light of day was
-their own sufficient condemnation.
-The ideal gentleman all
-through the ages has conformed
-his conduct in the matter of
-truth to the Christian standard.
-He has avoided mental
-reservation, abhorred lying, and,
-though he has garnished his
-speech with oaths, his yea has
-meant yea, and his nay, nay,
-and he has regarded his word
-as his bond.</p>
-<p class="pnext">Again, courage and pity were
-combined in the character of
-Christ as they had never been
-combined before. Now the
-combination is common enough.
-We have the seed and can grow
-the flower; but every man who
-excels in both is in some sense
-a follower of Christ. The
-courage of our Lord, though it
-included physical courage, was
-not of that calibre which is
-more properly called animal,--animal
-courage implies a want
-of imagination, and is probably
-incompatible with pity. Christ
-in the garden of Gethsemane
-"tasted death for every man,"
-and held out a hand of sympathy
-to that vast majority who must
-for ever regard it with strong
-dread. Yet by His precepts,
-by His life, and by His death
-He taught men that fear can be
-mastered, though it is a form
-of suffering seldom altogether
-spared to the highest type of man.</p>
-<p class="pnext">Apart from their religious
-significance, the trial and
-crucifixion of Christ form the scene in
-the world's history of which
-humanity has most reason to
-be proud. Christ, in His
-human nature, was a Galilean
-peasant. He excused to his
-face the Roman Governor who
-stooped to threaten a prisoner
-in Whom he found no fault.
-Judge and prisoner changed
-places. The distinctions of the
-world dissolved before the
-distinctions of God. At Pilate's
-bar all gentlemen recognise
-their hero, an example for
-ever of the powerlessness of
-circumstances to humiliate.</p>
-<p class="pnext">On the Cross not only did our
-Lord maintain that composure
-which witnesses to the supreme
-power of the soul, but with still
-balanced judgment He refused
-to impute sin to the Roman
-conscripts whose orders were to
-crucify. He made a last effort
-to console the grief of His
-mother and His friend, and set
-Himself to give hope and
-encouragement to the suffering
-thief who believed he was
-receiving the due reward of his
-deeds. A genius however great,
-a gentleman however perfect,
-could imagine no story of
-courage more noble or more
-inspiring than the one set down in
-the Gospels.</p>
-<p class="pnext">A new pity came into the
-world with Christ. The lump
-is not yet leavened; even the
-white race is not yet pitiful.
-All the same, the emotion of
-pity is a power, and does,
-broadly speaking, distinguish
-Christendom from the heathen
-world. It is part of the ideal of
-all those who are conscious of
-having an ideal at all. Gusts
-of anger, both national and
-individual, sweep it out of sight;
-it is paralysed by fear, rendered
-blind by use and wont; again
-and again its scope is narrowed
-by the reaction which follows
-upon affectations and exaggerations;
-but it is never killed. It
-has been part of the moral
-equipment of a gentleman since
-Christ "went about doing good,"
-revealing to men the secret
-Nature could not teach
-them--breaking, as it seemed to them,
-the uniformity of her relentlessness--the
-secret of the divine
-compassion.</p>
-<p class="pnext">The independence of mind
-and manner inculcated by our
-Lord still marks a gentleman
-to-day. Did He not teach that
-a man's conduct must at all
-times be ruled by his code and
-not regulated by his company?
-He must maintain the same
-attitude towards life whether
-he find himself among just or
-unjust, friends or enemies. He
-must not salute his brethren
-only, nor be only kind to those
-that love him. He must remain
-an honest man among thieves,
-ready to rebuke an offender to
-his face, but still a gentleman,
-who does not "revile again" or
-suffer the passion of revenge
-to destroy his judgment. This
-moral independence is the rock
-on which character is built.
-The man whose actions depend
-upon his environment has but
-a sandy foundation to his moral
-nature. Upon this strong rock
-of moral independence rest also
-the best manners. Self-assertion
-and self-distrust are singularly
-allied. It is the ill-assured
-who push in their ardent desire
-to be like somebody else. It is
-dignity rather than humility
-which is recommended to us
-in the parable of those who
-chose the chief seats at feasts.
-It is a common thing to hear it
-said by simple people in praise
-of some one they regard as
-pre-eminently a gentleman that "he
-is always the same." No doubt
-the publicans and sinners whose
-friendly advances Christ
-accepted without apparent
-condescension said this of Him.
-He was so entirely Himself
-among them that the vulgar-minded
-Pharisees whispered to
-one another that He must be
-ignorant of the sort of company
-He was in, or surely He would
-make plain the gulf fixed
-between Himself and them. By
-conventionality our Lord seems
-never to have been bound. On
-the other hand, He did not
-wantonly overthrow the conventions
-of His day. When a
-social custom struck Him as
-injurious, He told those who
-gave in to it that it stood in the
-way of better things, substituting
-custom for conscience. On
-the other hand, He fell in with
-the usual ways of respectable
-people in a great many particulars,
-praying in a village place
-of worship beside Pharisees
-who stood up to bless themselves
-and publicans who dared
-not so much as lift their eyes to
-heaven, taking part in a service
-which was far enough removed
-from the sincere, spiritual, and
-wholly unsuperstitious worship
-to which He looked forward as
-He talked beside the well.</p>
-<p class="pnext">Christ had a horror of
-tyranny in every form, and He
-seems to have regarded it as a
-peculiarly heathen vice. "The
-kings of the Gentiles exercise
-lordship over them," He said.
-Some bold translators
-emphasise His meaning by saying
-"lord it" over them. Dekker
-was right. A true gentleman
-is not harsh, implacable, or
-capricious. The breaking of
-other men's wills gives him no
-pleasure. Christ's followers, He
-said, must avoid all selfish wish
-for ascendency. A ruler, He
-said, should regard himself as
-the servant of all. Where
-ruling is concerned the counsels
-of Christ seem, like all His most
-characteristic utterances, to be
-calculated rather to inspire
-aspiration in the minds of good
-men than definitely to regulate
-their action, for in more than
-one of the parables His words
-imply that an ambition to rule
-is a lawful ambition, and that
-increased responsibility may be
-looked to as a reward.</p>
-<p class="pnext">Theoretically the Christian
-attitude towards power has
-always been the gentlemanlike
-attitude. Hall, the chronicler,
-writing in 1548, says in the
-"Chronicles of Henry VI.":
-"In this matter Lord Clyfford
-was accounted a tyrant, and
-no gentleman."</p>
-<p class="pnext">It is commonly said to-day
-that Christianity has never been
-tried. Such a judgment is
-superficial in the extreme. The moral
-teaching of Christ has never
-been entirely carried out by any
-community nor perhaps by any
-man, but to speak as though it
-had no great influence is sheer
-affectation. The white people
-have wasted, it is true, their time
-and their blood in quarrelling
-about dogma; but every
-Christian sect has recognised in the
-divine character of the
-Nazarene Carpenter who suffered
-upon the Cross the
-perfectibility of the human race,
-and in their highest moments
-of aspiration and repentance
-peoples and rulers alike have
-pleaded His merits before God.
-Nothing but this recognition
-could have curbed the cruel
-pride of the ancient world,
-have undermined the barriers
-of race and caste with a sense
-of human brotherhood, have
-cast at least a suspicion upon
-the theory that might is right,
-and made respect for women a
-necessary part of every good
-man's creed. Entirely apart
-from what is usually called
-religion in England to-day,
-"truth, pity, freedom, and
-hardiness" are the ideals of the race
-because nineteen hundred years
-ago Christ was born in the
-stable of a Jewish inn.</p>
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