Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/makingofman00leej THE MAKING OF A MAN by REV. J. W. LEE, D. D. New York Cassell Publishing Company 104 & 106 Fourth Avenue Copyright, 1892, by Cassell Publishing Company. All rights reserved. The Mershon Company Press, Rahway, N. J. CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION, 3 I. BREAD. THE PROVISION FOR THE PHYSICAL NATURE OF MAN, 39 II. POWER. THE PROVISION FOR THE SOCIAL NATURE OF MAN, 83 III. TRUTH. THE PROVISION FOR THE INTELLECTUAL NATURE OF MAN, 137 IV. RIGHTEOUSNESS. THE PROVISION FOR THE MORAL NATURE OF MAN, 203 V. BEAUTY. THE PROVISION FOR THE ÆSTHETIC NATURE OF MAN, 253 VI. LOVE. THE PROVISION FOR THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF MAN, 293 VII. IMMORTALITY. THE PERMANENCE OF THE COMPLETED LIFE OF MAN, 335 _INTRODUCTION._ “My God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately habitation But he that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man? to whose creation All things are in decay. “Man is all symmetry Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides; Each part may call the farthest brother, For head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides. “For us the winds do blow, The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow: Nothing we see but means our good As our delight or as our treasure, The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. “Since then, my God, thou hast So brave a palace built. Oh, dwell in it, That it may dwell with thee at last! Till then afford us so much wit That as the world serves us, we may serve thee And both thy servants be.” NATURE AND MAN. The meaning of creation is not understood till dust stands erect in a living man. That a great purpose was present from the beginning, directing and controlling, there can be no doubt. It presided over the first nebulous mist that floated out to take form in the foundations of the earth. It measured and weighed the matter and force necessary to form the globe. It determined the elements required to do the work lying through the years before it. It assigned to them their laws, specific gravities and affinities, and appointed, beforehand, the combinations and collocations they were capable of making.