New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-07-10
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Brother Talmsge Agrees with the ProYerb that
a NJ an Who Hath Friends Must Show
Himself Friendly. .

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"A Ian Who Hath Friends Must Show
Himself friendly
BROOKLYN, N. y; June 3O.Att the tab
ernacle this morning, after the pastor. the
Rey. Z. De Witt Talmage, D. D., had made an
exposition of a passage of scripture the con
creation, led By cornet and organ, sang the
hymn beginning:
Now have found a friend,
Jesus is mine.
DR.. Talmage's subject was: ssHow to
Make Friends" and his text, Proverbs xviii.
"a: "a man that has friends must show him
self friendly" He said:
About the sacred and divine art of making
and keeping friends Ispeak-a subject on
which never heard of any one preaching
and yet God thought it ofimportance to put
it in the middle of the Bible, these writings
of Solomon, bounded on one side by the pop
ular Psalms of David and on the other by
the writings of Isaiah, the greatest of the
prophets. 1t seems all a matter OF haphaz-
ard how many friends we have, or whether
we have any friends at all, but there is moth
ing accidental about it, There is law
which governs the accretion and dispersion
Of friendships. They did not ssjust happen
So any more than the tides just happened
to rise or fall, or the sun It 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. I do not say you will not
have enemies; indeed the best way to get ar
dent friends is to have ardent enemies, if you
got their enmity in doing the right thing.
Good men and women will always have enc
mics, because their goodness is q perpetual
rebuke to evil; but this antagonsm Of foes
will make more intense the love of your adj
herents. Your friends will gather closer
around you because of the attacks OF your
assailants. The more your enemies abuse
you the better your coadjutors will think of
you. The best friends we ever had appeared
at some juncture when we were especially
bombarded. There have been times in my
life when unjust assault multiplied my friends.
as near as I 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 those
cords are twisted by hands malevolent. HUI
man nature was shipwrecked about fifty mine
centuries ago, the captain of that craft, one,
Adam, and his first mate, running the cargo
aground on a snag in the river Hiddekel; but
there was at least one good trait of human
nature that waded safely ashore from the
shipwreck, and that is the dis
position to take the part of
those unfairly dealt with. When it is
thoroughly demonstrated that some one is
slanderous tongues were busy enough, de-
tenders finally gather around as thick as
honey bees on a trells 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 livery cold shoulderthere would
not have been one-half as many angels chant
ing 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 tortuous
cross Christ would not have been the adj
mired and loved Of more people than any
being who ever touched foot on either the
eastern or western hemisphere. Instead,
therefore of giving upin despair becauseyo
have enemies rejoice in the fact that they
rally for you the most helpful and enthusiast
tic admirers. In other words, there is no
virulence, human ordiabo]ic, that can hinder
my text from coming true: "a man that
hath friends must show himself friendly"
1t is my ambition to project especially up.
on the young thought which may benignly
shape their destiny for the here and the
hereafter Before you show yourself friendly
you must be friendly. | do not recommend
a dramatized geniality. There is such
thing as pretending 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
Kiss, and caresses m ~ be demon
iacal. Better the NEUROLOGICAL Cerberus, the
three-headed dog of hell barking at u.s. than
the wolf in sleeps clothing, It's brindled hide
covered up oy deceptive wool and it's death
full howl cadenced into an innocent bleating
Disraell writes Of Lord Manfred, who, after
seemed suddenly to become friendly and
invited them to banquet After most of
the courses of food had been served he blew
a horn, which was in those times signal
for the servants to bring on the desert, but
in this case it was the signal for assassins to
enter and slay the guests His pretended
fricndliness was a cruel fraud; and there are
now people whose smile is falsehood. Be
fore 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 a semblance of this virtue,
but the grace Of God can sublimely lift you
intoit. Sailing on the river Thames two vessels
ran aground. The owners OF one got 100
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 1oated the ship 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 likethe ocean
ic tides of Gods uplifting grace to hoist us
into this kindness l am eulogizing. If when
under the flash of the holy ghost we see our
own foibles and defects and depravites we
will be very lenient and very easy with 9TH
ers. We will look into their characters for
things commend atory and not damnatory
If you would rub your own eye a little more
vigorously you would find a mote in it, 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 neighbours eye. In a Christian
spirit keep on exploring the characters of
those you meettand I am sure you will find
something in them delightful and fit for a
foundation Of friendlineSs You invite mo To-