Quiet Talks by Samuel Dickey: Gordon, Samuel Dickey - Quiet Talks on Personal Problems: 22. The Brooding Need.

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Quiet Talks by Samuel Dickey: Gordon, Samuel Dickey - Quiet Talks on Personal Problems: 22. The Brooding Need.



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SUBJECT: 22. The Brooding Need.

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The Brooding Need.

The greatest need of the world is men. The spirit of organization which has seized hold of present-day life and specialized it so highly in every direction makes that need greater to-day than ever. The organization is no stronger morally than the man in control. It is no stronger in ability than the men who serve it. And one never knows upon what one man the whole intricate machinery may depend and revolve. The world needs men to-day as never before. There are movements for higher ideals in national affairs waiting for men to lead them.

There are great movements in the people's religious life waiting for the men who can embody them, and teach, and lead. And the need always finds the man. There is a law of affinity that brings them together. The need brooding over the face of the people seems to bring forth the man imbued with its own spirit, to be its champion, though the higher in the scale of life, the longer time does it take for the maturity that finds a perfect birth; man takes longest of any of the animal creation, finer grained men still longer, and leaders longest yet. The need disregards all questions of birth and blood, training of the schools and social surroundings, so dear to human hearts, and by an unerring intuition goes straight to its man, and patiently waits till he be full ready.