Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-09-14
BOUND TO HAVE ENEMIES
Goodness a Rebuke TO Those Inclined
Toward Ungodliness.
Tho Making and Retention of Friend.
Not an Accident-Friendly Men VIII
Have Many fricnds-Scrmon
by Rev. DIR. Talmage.


TO be n matter OF intelligent selection.
Text; Proverbs xviii, -. "A man that
hath friends must show himself friend
w."
About the sacred and Divine art of
making and keeping friends l speak
a subject ON which | never heard of
anyone preaehing-and yet God
thought il OF enough Importance to
put 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.
1t seems all matter 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 mole
than the tides just happen to rise or
fall. or the sun just happens to rise or
set IL Is n science, an art, a God-given
regulation.
Tell me how friendly you are to 9th
ers, and l will tell you how friendly
others are to You. | do not say YOU
viii not have enemies; indeed, the best
way TO get ardent friends is to have
ardent enemies, il you get their en-
nifty in doing the right thing. Good
men and women will always have enc
mics, because their goodness is n per-
petual rebuke 10 evil; but this antag-
onism of foes will make more intense
the love of your adherents. Your
friends will gather closer around YOU
because of the attacks of Your assail-
ants. The more your enemies abuse
YOU the better your conductors 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 un
Just assault multiplied my friends, as
near as / could calculate, about fifty n
minute. You are bound TO some peo-
pie 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 sShippedwrecked
about fifty-ninc centuries apo. the
| captain of that craft, one Adam, and
his first mate running the famous car
| so aground on snag in the river Hid
dekcl; but there was at least one GOOD
| trait OF human nature that waded
| safely ashore from that shipwrecl<.
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 rs thick rs honey bees
ON trellis of bruised honesuckle.
II, when set upon 10y the furies. YOU
can have grace enough TO keep your
mouth shut, and preserve your cqui-
! poise, and let others fight your battles.
! You Will find yourself after awhile
with whole Gordon of allies. Had
not the world given TO Christ on his
arrival ut Palestine a very cold shout
der. 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
II not been for the heavy and Jagged
and tortuous cross, Christ would not
| have been the admired and loved of
more people than any being who ever
touched loot on either the Eastern or
Western hemisphere. Instead. there
fore, of giving up in despair because
YOU have enemies, rejoice in the fact
that they rally for YOU the most help
full and enthusiastic admirers. In 9th
or words. there is no virulence that
can hinder my text from coming true:
/ "A man that hath friends must show
himself friendly"
IL is my ambition to project csre-
cially upon the younra thought which
may oeuignly shape their destiny Tor
the here and the hereafter. Before
you show yourself friendly YOU must
be friendly. | do not recommend n
dramauzcd -en.ality. There is such
thing as pretending 20 bc Tn ram
port with others, when we are their
dire cestruciants, and talk against
them. and wish them calamity. Judas
covered no his trcacherv bv "a rcsound-
ing kiss, and caresscs may b, demon
lcai. Better the NEUROLOGICAL Gerber
us. The three-hcadcd dog of he'll
barking a. us than the wolf in sheen's
clothing it's briudied hide covered
NO uy deceptive wool. and its dcathful
howl cadenccd into au innocent bleat-
ing Dl>raeli writes OF Lord Manfred.
who. after committing many outrapcs
upon the people -anfued suddenly To-
become friendly. ana invited them TO
q banquet After most OF tn, courses
oi food had been served hc blow n
horn. which was in those times sir-
nal for the servants 20 bring ON the
dessert. but in this ease 10 was the size
mai for as,n.sius 90 enter and siav the
guests TIL, pretended friend.incss
was cruel fraud; and fhcrc arc now
people who's. smile is falschood
Before you begin Co show Yourself
friendly SOU must be friendly. Get
your heart RIGHT with tod and man.
and this grace will become easy. You
may ov your own resolution
get your nature into % s.m-
p.ouec ~ thi- virtue but the grace
OF poi can ,uuimeiy iIftitintoil S,i-
inr on thc Thames two vessels ran
aground. Tine owners Of one go, 100
horses and pulled cn tbc grounded
snip. and pu .ed tito pieces Th. ogyn-
ers az trc other grounded vessel yait-
I'D unti 'hc sides came in and easily
hoatct the ship ont of trouble So vve
may pull and ban. nt our grounded
human nature and try % petit into
better condition; uut there o. nothing
like The oceanic t.des oi Gods
uplifting grace. If when undcr
the flash % Oh, Ho.F Ghost ,ye see
our oHu foitlss and defect. and ae.
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