The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-06-01

great miracle of friendship is love
which is inexhaustible If it's estates !
be wasted, its granaries emptied, it
still cheers and enriches. Most people /
prefer to be loved than to love, but the
true glory of life is not to be loved but
to love, to give not to receive, to serve
not to be served. If we cannot respond I
with love to friendship the gain is to
the one who can the loss to us
for the lover and not the loved receives
the Joy. Happy is the house that
shelters a friend but happier he that
knows the solemnity of that relation
and honors its first law which is love.
for he who violates this law win soon
find himself destitute of that which
he seeks to gain. The cultivation of
friendship is the duty of every man
for 1t eXerts not only an ennobling in
fiuence over individuals, but it is the
ideal for the state, for by its govern
ment which is the controlling power
of nation, is made secure. There are
two elements that form the compost
| ton of friendship, each so sovereign
that no superiority can be detected in
either. One is truth. A friend is a
person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him l may think aloud, having
/ neither to weigh the thoughts nor
measure the words, but pouring them
out, chaff and grain together, certain
that a faithful hand will take and sift
them, keep what is worth the keeping
and with the breath of kindness blow
the rest away. From the cradle to the
grave comes the faint echo shall we be
false or true to our friends. Men must
take their choice between truth and re-
| /.
cept any friend, but he in whom the
love of truth abides will search the
greenest and toughest paths of earth
for the truest friends. The other
element of friendship is kindness. More
hearts pine away in secret anguish for
the want of kindness than from any
other calamity in life A word OF
kindness is a seed which when dropped
by chance springs up flower. Kind
ness makes sunshine wherever it goes
J it finds its way into hidden chamber:
= of the heart and brings forth colder
e treasures; harshness, on the contrary
= closes them up forever. Kindness
n makes the mothers lullaby sweete
d than the song of the lark; the care
n laden brow of the father and frien'
Il less severe in expression. 1t is the tru
: philosophers stone, for all it touches
: turns to virgin gold.
e Write your name by kindness an
'e love on the hearts of the people wit
whom you come in contact year b
ID year and you will never be forgotten
re In our social intercourse 1t is by littl
r acts of kindness recurring daily an
hourly, by words, by tones and by ges
lie lures that friendship is won. Kind
~ ness is stored away in the heart
IN sweeten every object around it. Lii
to tie drops of rain brighten the meadow
p and little acts of kindness make trl
e. friends.
IS. A little word in kindness spoken,
of A motion, or tear,
oy Has often healed the heart that
We broken
of And made a friend sincere.
Friendship is a flower that bloom
m in all seasons. 1t may be seen fiou
ishing on the snow-caped mountains
to northern Russia as well as in the mo
favored valleys of sunny Italy.
en- surveyed chart, no national bounda
line, no rugged mountains no ste
so declining vale puts limit to
growth. Wherever it is watered wi
ay the dews of kindness and Affect
ill there you may be sure to find
n Allied IN CLOSEST COlnpdIliohSuip W.
or its twin sister, charity, it enters
in abode of sorrow and wretchedness a
Se, causes happiness and peace. 1t knoc
zip at the lonely and disconsolate hei
as and speaks words of encourageme
The and joy.
It's all-power influence hovers o.
ing contending armies and unites
ern deadliest foes in the closest bones
IN sympathy and kindness. In vain
Id we look for this heavenly flower in
ur- cold calculating wording; the poor
but luded wretch is dead to every feel
it's of its ennobling virtue. In vain do
had look for it in the actions of the PR
be- and aristocratic votaries OF fasn
nee the love of self display and of the fl
,ess and heeting pleasures of the worla
ing banished it forever from their hea
per- In vain do we look for it in
hid thoughtless and practical throng
lpo- with loud laugh and extended o
Dad hands proclaim obedience to its
,ath while at the same time malice
nan envy is dethroned in their hearts
or active on their tongues. Friends
nose true friendship, can only be foun'
usic bloom in the soil of a noble ana
now sacrificing heart There 1t mas
no ennial summer and a never ending
wer, son of felicity and joy to its happy
had SCISSOR. casting q thousand rays OF
elled and love and peace to all around.
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