Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-07-07
HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS.
Or. TklMAGE SAYS IT is A SACRED
AND DIVINE ART.

Friendship an Altogether Different Thing
from Geniality-Throwing the Mantle Of
Charity over the Defects In others-The
Value Of Noble Friends.
BROOKLYN, June 3O.-At the Taber-
nacle this morning, after the pastor
the Rev. I. De Witt Talmage, d. d.,
had made an exposition of passage
of Scripture, the congregation, led
by cornet and organ, sang the hymn
beginning:
Now have found friend.
Jesus Is mine
DR.. Talmage's subject was How to
Make Friends" and his text, Proverbs
xviii, "a: "A man that hath friends
must show himself frindly." He said:
About the sacred and divine art OF
making and keeping friends | speak
a subject on which | never heard of
any one preaching-and yet God
thought il OF enough importance TO
put il in the middle Of the Bible, these
writings Of Solomon, bounded on one
side by the popular Psalms of David,
and on the other by the writings of
Isaiah, the greatest OF the prophets. II
seems all matter Of haphazard how
many friends we have, or whether we
have any friends att all, but there is
nothing accidental about it, There is
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. II Is a science, an art. a God
given regulation. Tell me how
friendly you are TO others and | will
tell you how friendly others are TO
you. ! do not say you will not have
enemies. indeed the best way 10 get
ardent friends is TO have ardent enc.
mics, if you got their cnmily in doing
the right thing. Good men and WON.
en- will always have enemies, because
their goodness is perpetual rebuke TO
evil; but this antagonism Of foes will
make more intense the love Of your
adherents. Your friends will gather
closer around you because of the at
tacks Of your assailants. The more
your enemies abuse you the better
your coadjutos will think Of you.
The best friends we ever had appeared
at some juncture when we were espe.
cially bombarded. There have been
times in my life when unjust assault
multiplied my friends, as near as
could calculate, about fifty a min.
ute. You are bound TO some peo-
pie by many cords that neither
time nor eternity can break,
and will warrant that many of those
cords were twisted by hands malevo-
lent Human nature was shipwrecked
about fifty-nine centuries ago, the cap.
tain Of that craft, one Adam, and his
first mate, running the famous cargo
aground on a snag in the River Hid
dekel; but there was at least one good
trait Of human nature that waded
safely ashore from that shipwreck,
and that is the disposition TO take the
part of those unfairly dealt with.
When il is thoroughly demonstrated
that some one is being prosecuted, al
though at the start slanderous tongues
were busy enough, defenders finally
gather around as thick as honey bees
on a trellis Of bruised honeysuckle.
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 tc
Christ on his arrival at Palestine q
very cold 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 mid
night Had it not been for the heavy
and Jagged and torturous cross, Christ
would not have been the admired and
loved of more people than any being
who ever touched foot on either the
eastern or western hemisphere. In.
stead, therefore, Of giving up in des
pair because you have enemies, re,
ioice in the fact that they rally for
you the most helpful and enthusiastic
admirers. In other words, there is nc
yirulence, human or diabolic, that
can hinder my text from coming true
"a man that hath friends must show
himself friendly"
YOUR FRIENDSHIP MUST NOT BE A PRE-.
TENSE.
II is my ambition 10 project espe
cially upon the young a thought
which may benignly shape their des
tiny for tie here and the hereafter
Before you show yourself friendly
you must be friendly. ! do not re
commend a dramatized geniality
There is such thing as pretending tC
be en- rapport with others when W,
arc their dire destructants, and tall
against them and wish them calamity
Judas covered up his treachery by Q
rcsounding kiss, and caresses may bt
demonlacal. Better the mythological
Cerbcrus. the three headed dog of hell,
barking at us, than the wolf in Sleeps
clothing, lis brindled hide covered up
by deceptive wool, and its deathful
howl cadcnccd into AN innocent bleat-
ing DisHei writes Of Lord Man
fred, who, after committing many
outragos upon the people. seemed
suddenly 10 become friendly and in.
yited them tp banquet After most
Of the courses Of food had been served
he blow a horn which was in those
times a signal for the servants TO bring
on the dessert, but in this case II was
the signal for assassins 10 enler and
slay the guests His pretended friend
illness was a cruel fraud and there are
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