Do Not Forget Old Friends

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 25, 1875

Do Not Forget Old Friends

Never give up old friends for new ones. Make new ones if you like, and when you have learned that you can trust them, love them if you will, but remember the old ones still. Do not forget they have been tried and found true; they have been merry with you in times of pleasure, and when sorrow came to you they sorrowed also. No matter if they have gone down in the social scale and you up; no matter if poverty and misfortune have come to them, while prosperity came to you; are they any the less true for that? Are not their hearts as warm and tender if they do beat beneath homespun instead of velvet? Yes, kind reader, they are as true, loving and tender. Don't forget old friends.