The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-09-12
ART OF FRIENDSHIP.
OR. TALMAoE's SERMON ON MAKING
AND KEEPING FRIENDS.

OR. TALMAoE's SERMON ON MAKING
AND KEEPING FRIENDS.
A God Given Regulation-Ardent Frlsndl
end A1dsss Eaamtes - Cover Up the
Eaults and Eztol tho Virtues - The
Hearty Handmade and Its Great Value.
copyright. 1893. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE obtaining
Of good friends, which most LOOK upon as a
matter Of happy accident, Dr.. Talmage in
this sermon shows to be matter Of intel
ligant selection text, Proverbs xviii, "a,
"A man that hath friends must show him
self friendly"
About the sacred and divine art of max
ing and keeping friends speak-a sub
ject on which I never heard Of any one
preaching--and yet God thought 1t of
enough Importance to put 1t In the middle
Of the Bible, these writings Of Solomon,
bounded on one side by the popular psalm
Of David, and on the other by the writings
Of Isaiah, the greatest of the prophets. 1t
seems all matter Of haphazard how many
friends we have or whether We have any
friends at all, but there is nothing acci-
dental about It, There is q law which
governs the aoosstiou and dispersion Of
friendships. They did not "just happen
60" any more than the tides just happen
to rise or fall or the sun just happens to
rise or set. 1t Is science, an art, 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 to get ar
dent friends 10 to have ardent enemies, II
you get their enmity In doing the right
thing. Good men and women will always
have enemies, because their goodness Is q
perpetual rebuke to evil, but this antago-
nism Of foes will make more intense the
love Of your adherents. Yonr friends will
gather closer around you because Of the at
taoks Of your assailants The more your
enemies abuse yOn the better your ooad-
tutors will think Of you.
Our BEST Friends.
The best friends We have ever had ap-
peared at some juncture when We were
Obk104dAy UOuUQxuGus AhOKO u0NO UCoA
times In my life when unjust assault null
tlplied my friends, as near as l cou' cal
culate, about so 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 malevolent. Human ma
ture was shipwreoked about 80 centuries
ago, the captain Of that craft, one Adam,
and his first mate running the famous
cargo aground on 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 1t is thorough
ly demonstrated that some one Is being
prosecuted, although at the start SANDER
GUS tongues were busy enough, defenders
finally gather around as thick as honey
bees on q trellis Of bruised honeysuckle.
II 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 q whole Gordon
Of allies Had not the world given to
Christ on his arrival at Palestine a very
cold shoulder there would not havc been
one-half as many angels chanting glory
out of the hymnbooks Of the sky, bound
in black lids of midnight. Had 1t not been
for the heavy and Jagged and tortuous
cross Christ would not have been the ad-
mired and loved Of more people than any
being who ever touched foot on either the
eastern or western hemisphere. Instead
Of giving up in despair because
you have enemies rejoice In the fact that
they rally for you the most helpful and
admirers. In other words,
there is no virulence that Gun 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, q thought which may be-
nignly shape their destiny for the here and
The hereafter. Before you show yourself
friendly you must be friendly. I do not
dramatized geniality. There
Is such thing as pretending to be en-
rapport with others when we are their dire
and talk against them and
wish them calamity. Judas covered up
his treachery by resembling kiss, and
Psychological Cerberus, the three headed
log Of hell, barking at as, than the wolf
n sleeps clothing, it's brindled hide GOV.
red up by deceptive wool and It's beautiful
,owl cadenced into an innocent bleating.
)isracN writes of Lord Manfred, who,
fter committing many outrages upon the
,eople, seemed suddenly to become friend
y and invited them to banquet After
most OF the courses of food had been served
10 blew horn, which was in those times
signal for the servants to bring on the
ossert, but In this case it was the signal
Or assassins to enter and slay the guests
lis pretended friendliness was cruel
raud, and there are now people whose
mile Is a falsehood.
Oceanic Tides of Gods Grace.
Before you begin to show yourself
riendly you must DO friendly. Get your
cart right with God and man, and this
race will become easy. You may by
our own resolution get your nature into
semblanco of this virtue, but the grace
I God can sublimely lift you into 1t.
ailing on the river Thames two vessels
an aground. The owners Of one got 100
orses and pulled on tho grounded ship
nd pulled IL to pieces. The owners of
10 other grounded vessel waited till the
des came In and easily foated the ship
ut of oil trouble. So we may pull and
aul at our grounded human nature and
y to get 1t into better condition, but
,ere Is nothing like the oceanic tides Of
DDS uplifting grace II, when under
10 flash of the Holy Ghost, We see our
xn foibles and defects and depravities.
0 will be very lenient and very easy with
hers. We will look into their characters
# things commendatory and not damna-
ny. IT. you would rub your own eye o
tile moro vigorously, you would find a
ote In it, the extraction Of which would
Yep you so busy you would not have
uoh time to shoulder your broadax and
, forth to split up the beam in your
,ighbor's eye. In a Christian spirit keep
exploring the characters of those you
Get, and an sure you will find some
ing in them fit for foundation Of
lendliness.
You invite mo to come to your country
at and spend few days Thank you'll
arrive about noon of beautiful sum- I
CT day. What do you dor AS soon as |
rive you take mo out under the shadow I
the great elms. You take me down to 0
o artificial lake, the spotted trout float
q in and out among the white pillars Of |