McNaugher: “Quit You Like Men”
“‘Quit you like men.’ We speak not by commandment; we pray you in Christ’s stead, ‘Quit you like men.’ You are only educated possibilities when you receive your diplomas in divinity, but enough character has emerged to persuade your teachers that they shall not be put to shame in their ‘glorying in your behalf.’ There is wearing work before you, such as might well wring the cry, ‘Who is sufficient for these things?’ But let your abounding encouragement be that ‘your sufficiency is from God.’ Remember that the measure of your power is Christ’s power in you, that you have no strength apart from the ‘strong Son of God.’ If needful, may there be enough disappointment and even defeat in your experience to drain you dry of self-reliance and self-complacency and throw you back on His help. May He be your all in all.” — John McNaugher, an address to students of divinity at Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary in Quit You Like Men (1940), p. 18