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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 30, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 5.

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C. M. SHELDON

By C. M. Sheldon

Friendships

C. M. SHELDON

The purchase price of a friend is to be one.
A friendship that does not cost anything is not worth anything.
The reason we do not have more friends is that we do not want any more or do not know how to make them.
You can spoil a possible friendship by demanding too much for yourself, but not by demanding too much of yourself.
A friend who can not bear kindly criticism can not bear any of friendship's real responsibilities and privileges.
Do you want to retain old friends? Here are a few ways to do so:—
Keep your promises to them.
Share a few real troubles with them.
Do not expect them to be perfect any more than yourself.
If they belong to other political parties, kindly pity their mistaken ideas, and ask them to do the same for you.
Write them a good letter every once in a while.
Keep a list of their birthdays and remember them.
Lend them money if they need it. It is a false idea that true friends can not borrow money of one another and retain friendship. They can borrow anything that can be returned.
Friendship can bear anything except insincerity. In that blighting atmosphere it withers and dies.
We need friends in adversity to comfort us; we need them in prosperity to show us how little prosperity is worth without them; we need them in every-day life to lighten its drudgery; we need them in our religion to prove to us the nearness of the brotherhood.
“Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.”—The Christian Century.