live by Him. There is the symmetry of manhood
perfect. There, in redeemed and glorified human nature,
is the true heavenly Jerusalem.

I hope that we are all striving and praying now that
we may come to some such symmetrical completeness.
This is the glory of a young man's life. Do not dare to
live without some clear intention toward which your
living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all
your might. Do not add act to act and day to day in
perfect thoughtlessness, never asking yourself whither
the growing line is leading. But at the same time do
not dare to be so absorbed in your own life, so wrapped
up in listening to the sound of your own hurrying
wheels, that all this vast pathetic music, made up of the
mingled joy and sorrow of your fellow-
men, shall not
find out your heart and claim it and make you rejoice
to give yourself for them. And yet, all the while, keep
the upward windows open. Do not dare to think that
a child of God can worthily work out his career or
worthily serve God's other children unless he does both
in the love and fear of God their Father. Be sure that
ambition and charity will both grow mean unless they
are both inspired and exalted by religion. Energy,
love, and faith, those make the perfect man. And
Christ, who is the perfectness of all of them, gives them
all three to any young man who, at the very outset of
his life, gives up himself to Him. If this morning there
is any young man here who generously wants to live a
whole life, wants to complete himself on every side, to
him Christ, the Lord, stands ready to give these three,
energy, love, and faith, and to train them in him all
together, till they make in him the perfect man.

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