Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — Character Makes the Man. [ARTICLE]

Character Makes the Man.

The man of character is always the man of iron nerve; he may not be a great statesman or politician; he may be humble in his associations and his aspirations; but with all tliese exceptions, If he has character his heart is right, his integrity is unshaken. He looks on truth with a clear vision, acting in accordance with its glorious dictates; he does not fear nor shun the face of his fellow-man, for his heart is white with integrity, and he looks humbly and trustingly up to the source of truth, and his fellowbeings, in a lower sense, look up to him because he is trustworthy, and, in short, has character—good and .staple character. Character is the corner-Btone of individual greatness —the Doric and splendid column in the majestic structure of the true and dignified man, who is at once a subject and a king.