The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-21
ART Of FRIENDSHIP
Or. Taimage's Sermon on Making
And Keeping Friends.
4 GOD GIVEN REGULATION.
Ardent Friends and Ardent Enc
mics. Cover Up the Faults
and Extol the Virtues.
The Hearty Hand
shake and It's
Great Value.

Great Value.
The obtaining of good friends, which
most look upon as !; matter OF happy
accident, DR.. Talmage in this sermon
shows to be matter OF Intelligent
selection; text, Proverbs xviii, q, "A
man that hath friends must show HIM
self friendly"
About the sacred and divine art Of
making and keeping friends | speak
subject on which l never heard Of any
one preachiug-and yet God thought it
of enough Importance to put it in the
middle of the Bible, these writings Of
Solomon, bounded on one side by the
popular pslam of David, and on the
other by 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 isa lew which governs
the accretion and dispersion OF friend.
ships. They did not lust happen so
apy 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 9TH
ers. and I 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 get their enmlty
in doing the right thing. Good men
and women 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
attacks of your assallants. The more
your enemies abuse you the better your
coadjutors will think Of you.
The best friends we have ever had
appeared at some juncture when We
were especially bombarded. There have
been times in my life when unjust as
sault multiplied my friends, as near as
I could calculate, about 80 minute.
You are bound to some people by many
cords that neither time nor eternity
can break, and I will warrant that many
of those cords were twisted by hands
malevolent. Human nature was ship
wrecked about SO centuries ago, the
captain of that craft, one Adam, and
his first mate running the famous cargo
aground ON 3 snac in the river Hiddekel.
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 un-
fairly dealt with. When it is thorough
" demonstrated that some onels being
prosecuted, although at the start SIAN
derous tongues were busy enough, de-
tenders finally gather around as thick
as horeybees on trellis of bruised
honeysuckle.
If when set Upon by the furies you
can have grace enough to keep your
mouth shut and preserve your equlpolse
and let others fight your battles, you
will find yourself after awhile with a q
whole Gordon of allies. Had notthe world
given to Christ on his arrival at Pales.
tine very cold shoulder there would
not have been one-half as many angels
chanting glory out Of Of the hymnbooks
cf the sky, bound in black lids OF mid
night. Had it not been for the heavy
and jagged and tortuous cross Christ
would not have been the admired and
loved gilmore people than any being
who ever touched foot on either the
eastern or western hemisphere. In
stead therefore of giving up in despair
becruse you have enemies rejoice IN
the fact that they rally for you the
most helpful and enthusiastic admirers.
In other words, there is no virulence
that can hinder ny text from coming
true. "a man that hath friends must
show himself friendly"
Itmy ambition to project, especially
upon the young, thought which may
benignly shape their destiny for the
here and the hereafter. Before you
show yourself friendly you must be
friendly. I do not recommend dra'
matized geniality. There is such 9
thing as pretending to be en- rapport
with others when we are their dire de:
structants and talk against them ano
wish them calamity, Judas covered ul
his treachery by resounding kiss, anc
caresses may be demoniacal. Better
the NEUROLOGICAL Cerberus, the three
headed dog Of hell barking at US, thar
the wolf in sleeps clothing, its brind:
led hide covered up by deceptive WOO.
and its deathful howl cadenced into ar
innocent bleating. Disraeh writes Of
Lord Manfred, who, after committing
many outrages upon the people, seemed
suddenly to become friendly and IN,
vited them to banquet. After most
of the courses of food had been served
he blew horn, which was in those
times a signal for the servants to bring
on the dessert, but in this case it wa:
the signal for assassins to enter anc
slay the guests. His pretended friendli'
ness was a cruel fraud, and there are
now people whose smile is falsehood
Before you begin to show yourself
friendly you must be friendly. Gel
your heart right with God and man, anc
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 sublimely lift you int
it, Sailing on the river Thames Two
vessels ran aground. The owners o:
one 60. 100 horses and pulled on the
grounded ship and pulled it to pieces
The owners Of the other grounded vesse
waited till the tides came in and easily
hoated the ship out Of all trouble. s.
we may pull and haul at our grounded
homan nature and try to get it into bet
ter condition, but there is nothing lik
the oceanic tides es Gods upliftin!
grace. If, when under the fash OF tn
Holv Ghost yva seq o,r own foibleS ant