The great want of this age is men. Men who are not
for sale. Men who are honest, sound from center to circumference,
true to the heart's core. Men who will condemn wrong in friend
or foe, in themselves as well as others. Men whose consciences
are as steady as the needle to the pole. Men who will stand for
the right if the heavens totter and the earth reels. Men who can
tell the truth and look the world and the devil right in the eye.
Men that neither brag nor run. Men that neither flag nor flinch.
Men who can have courage without shouting to it. Men in whom the
courage of everlasting life runs still, deep, and strong. Men
too large for sectarian bonds. Men who do not cry nor cause their
voices to be heard on the streets, but who will not fail nor be
discouraged till judgment be set in the earth. Men who know their
message and tell it. Men who know their places and fill them.
Men who mind their own business. Men who will not lie. Men who
are not too lazy to work, nor too proud to be poor. Men who are
willing to eat what they have earned, and wear what they have
paid for.