Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-12
HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS.
DIR. TALMAGE SAYS 1T Is A SACRED
AND DIVINE ART.
Friendship an Altogether Different Thing
from C;.niality-Thr"wing the Mantle OF
Charity Over the Defects iBAs1thcrs-T The
Value Of Noble Friends-A t;cOursc De-
livered i'll the Brooklyn Tabernacle.

About the sacred and divine art of
making and keeping friends l speak-a
subject OH which never neard of any
one preaching-and yet God thought it
of enough Importance to put it in the
middle of the Bible, these writings of
popular Psalms of David, and on the
other by the writings of Isaiah the great
est of the prophets. 1t seems all mat
ter of haphazard how many friends we
have, or whether We have any friends at
all, but there is nothing accidental about
it. There is a law which governs the
accretion and dispersion of friendships.
They did not just happen so" any more
than the tides just happen to rise or
fall, or the sun Just happens to rise or
set. 1t is science. al art, q God given
regulation. Tell me how friendly you
are to others and l will tell you how
friendly others are to you. do not say
you will not have enemies; indeed the
best way to get ardent friends is to have
ardent enemies, if you got their enmity
in doing the right thing. Good men and
women will always have enemies, be-
| cause their goodness is a perpetual re-
! Duke to evil; but this antagonism of foes
adherents. Your friends will gather
closer around you because of the attacks
of your assailants. The more your enc
mics abuse you the better your coadju-
tors will think of yor. The best friends
we ever had appeared at some juncture
where we We're especially bombarded.
There have been times in my life when
unjust assault multiplied my friends, as
near as l could calculate, about fifty a
minute. You are bound to some people
by many cords that neither time nor
eternity can break, and will warrant
that many of those cords were twisted
by hands mAlevolelt. Human nature
was shipwrecked about tifty-nine cen.
turtles ago, the captain of that craft, one
Adam, and his first mate, running the
famous cargo aground on snag in the
River Hiddekel; but there was ut least
one good trait of human nature that
waded safely ashore from that ship
take the part of those unfairly dealt
with When it is thoroughly demon
strated that some one is being prose-
cuted, although at thu start slanderous
tongues We're busy enough, defenders
finally gathered around as thick as
honey bees on trellis of bruised honey
suckle. If, when set upon by the furies,
you can have grace enough to keep your
mouth shut, and preserve your equipoise,
and let others fight your battles, you
will find yourself after awhile with a
whole Gordon of allies. Had not the
world given to Christ on His arrival at
Palestine very COLI shoulder there
would not have been one-half as many
angels chanting glory out of the hymn
books of the sky bound in black lids of
midnight. Had it not been for the heavy
and jagged and terturols cross, Christ
would not have been the admired and
loved of more people than any being
eastern or western hemisphere. In
stead, therefore, of givingup in despair
| because you have enemies, rejoice in the
fact that they rally for you the most
helpful and enthusiastic admirers. In
other words, there is no virnlence, hui
man OF diabolic, that can hinder my text
from coming true: "A man that hath
friends must show himself friendly"
1t is my ambition to project especially
upon the young a thought which may
| benignly shape their destiny for the
here and hereafter. Before you show
yourself friendly, you must be friendly.
DO not recommend dramatized
geniality. There is such thing as pre-
tending to be en- rapport with others
when We are their dire destructants, and
talk against them and wish them calam-
ity. Judas covered up his treachery by
demoniacal. Better the NEUROLOGICAL
Cerberus, the three headed dog of hell,
barking at US, than the wolf in sleeps
clothing, its brindled hide covered up
by deceptive wool, and it's beautiful howl
cadenced into an innocent bleatine.
Dlsraeli writes of Lord Manfred, who,
after committing many outrages upon
the people, seemed suddenly to become
friendly, and invited them to banquet.
After most of the courses of food had
been served he blew horn, which was
in those times signal for the servants
to bring on the dessert, but in this case
1t was the signal for assassins to enter
and Stay the guests. His pretended
frlendllness was cruel fraud; and
there are now people whose smile is a
falsehood: Before you begin to show
, yourself friendly you must be friendly.
Get your heart right with God and man,
and this grace will become easy. You
may by your own resolution get your
nature into semblance of this virtue,
but the grace Of God can suDlimely lift
you into it. Sailing on the River
Thames two vessels ran aground. The
owners OF one got one hundred horses
and pulled on the grounded ship and
pulled it to pieces. The owners of the
other grounded vessel waited till the
tides came in and easily fioated the shin
out OF all trouble. SO, we may pull and
haul at our grounded human nature,
and try to get it into better condition;
but there is nothing like the oceanic
tides OF Gods up lifting grace to hoist
us into this kindness am eulogizing.
II when under the fash of the Holy
Ghost We see our own foibles and de-
fects and depravities, We will be very
lenlent and very easy with others. We
Will look into the character for things
commendatory and not damnatory. II
you would rub your own eye a little
more vigorously you would find q mote
IN 1t, the extraction of which would
keep you SO busy you would not have
much time to shoulder your broadax and
go. forth to split up the beam in your
helghbor's eye. In a Christian spirit
keep on exploring the Characters Of
those you meet and am sure YOU will
lind something in them delightful and
mt for foundation of friendliness.
You invite me to come to yonr country
seat and spend few days. Thank YOU!
l arrive about noon of beautiful sum-
'mer day. What do you do? AS soon az