The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-08-22
. Friendship Of Our Day.

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Friendship Of Our Day.
Editor OrangeJury Democrat:
Twenty-Five years ago, when York
willie Female College was in it's palm
Jest days, with over an hundred stu.
dents on its roll, we selected this sub
ject for a composition, little did
We realize then, how important and
almost exhaustless it was. Time has
made many burrows on our brow
eince then, and our heart has often
bled at the unfaithfulness of those
who professed to be our friends, and
long since we have realized how un-
acquainted we were with our subject.
Gay and happy as all school girls are,
we cared not so much for true friends,
and thought all that praised, tlattcred
and joined in our pleasant recreation
were our friends, Of course. But we
will venture now, to say that no
word, is 80 greatly abused as it, and
no tie 30 deceptive; and we here ask,
what is the friendship of our day !,
and what treatment do we receive
from those that once professed to be
our friends. Lord Bacon says: cit
ia mare and miserable solitude to
want true friends, with which the
world is but q wilderness" Yet
greatly as we all esteem them, and
the need we oil at times feel for them
still we with him feel that there is
bpt little trpe friendship in the world.
Our experience has been such. Every
.one you meet has felt the deceptive
ness of a friend to-day and an enemy
tomorrow. How truly the poet sings,
"There are many friends of summer,
Who are kind while flowers bloom !;
But when " inter chills the blossom,
They depart with its perfume.
On the broad highway of action,
Friends of worth are far and few,
So when one has proved this friendship
Cling to those that cling to you.'
There is dark but true parable,
!"Eat not thy hegrt." Most assuredly
those that want friends to unbosom
themselyes, are capnibels of their
Own hearts, but one thing is most ed-
mirable, this communicating of ones
self to his friend worketh two contra
. ry effects for it "redoubles joys and
eutteth grief in half". To-day you
sssat on sndiyidpal, 6 few remarks
rs, serve TO aroGse your friend!
~ feeling ;far him, and soon, ah
too soon, perchance, yonr sympathy
or confidence has encircled your
pewly made friend, one that will not
surely prove unworthy of your friend
ly affection, and the mutual feelings
9f the heart flow freely ; but ere many
moons wax and Wane Your newly
tpqde friend has turned against you,
and you wonder What has wrought
such q change, what has turned all
that kindly feeling into hatred,
scorn and bitterness, and your friend
of short duration is now your enc
my. Perhaps he was meyer true-or
has he sought through low and pol
lated channels, even as an enemy
Ropld do, thereby to hate or despise
you, and is such eyer worthy of
pure friendly affection? How true,
""There is no union here of hearts
that finds not here an end" II is
far better if we could pass through
the world with cheerful indifference,
regardless Of the scornful lock, or
what this or that false friend has to
say concerning us. Some seek,
through every avenue that presents
itsslf, to cast reflection on pure and
honest mQtiyes, others weigh every
word they hear, and the scales always
60 down on the side of evil. Why,
because tley are 80 nlled with evil
thamselYes, and think of it continual
ly. The old lady who lives off the
road, perhaps, thinks the fashion
changes often, even as the friendship
afpur days but better far be engaged
in beautifylng ones self than nursing
ill will for friend. Dollars make
great many pretended friends the
world over, Yh9 often prove to be
nothing but smiling epemies. Is it
not those that are bound by tender
eat ties that prove untrue friends? We
Viat not. ''The family tic, the most
aacred Of all earthly tics, is often