Arizona republican., 1912-11-28
Friendship Choicest Gift of Life
Manchester Gu2rdian)

Manchester Guardian)
 For boys and young friendship a prime necessity of existence. When man has estab- l8hed himself in life and tac interests of home and wife. and family have absorbed him, he may, perhaps dispense with friendship But long as he is young, unmarried and unsettled he is de- pendent upon friendship upon air food
 Too often friendship, rather the worlds base substitute for it, simply alliance for mutual degradation. But friendship high and only true sense is the supreme grace and choicest gift of human life. There frnedshps in which Satan is transformed into angel of light" The friend may be brilliant, sympathetic. amusing, de- Iightful model of all the accomplishments qualities which young admire in their fellows; and yet his influence may be polluting and debas- ing. Can two walk together except they be agreed% This question was asked eight hundred years before the Christian era, but the lapse time has not blunted it's point
 A man who is earnest about his moral being will find it impossible to keep company with drunkards or blasphemers; with men who are scrupulous about their ways of getting money. are unchivalrous towards Perhaps he cannot help being thrown with them in business society, but he help making friends with them. While he is courteous everybody carefully avoids all consciousness and priggishness, he serves his friendship for men like minded with himself
 An intimate friendship is at once d safeguard and stimulus. It is d safeguard in recreation and social enjoyment. for man thinks twice before he plunges into surroundings which he knows his best friend must condemn II is a stimulus. because in work or business play, a does willingly lag behind while the friend is forging
 
 gious social and political friendship is powerful inducement to self forgetting activity
 In friendship, in every other department of life, it is wise to erect d high ideal. If would trust more generously. should more abundantly; and the stronger the demand made on q genuine friendship the finer the response. To lay down life itesef for friendship, Sydney Carton in "A Tale Of Two Cities laid it down. is q heroic achievement; and yet day by day it happens in real life almost without recognition-in fires, in shpWrecks, in boating accidents, battle fields
 If cannot life often character a The word fitly spoken of counsel Warning-evcn the look of bent on some manifest wrong doing-has often averted a fatal fall and recalled wandering steps into the right path. No could wish for himself a nobler fate than that. when he is dead, someone should stand by his grave and say: There lies the best friend had. He yielding base temptation He warned of my danger and he saved my soul
 A quotation must be permitted if only because the genius the author Louis McQuiland is to me a new discovery. and the haunting music his has fairly obsessed
 When l sail to the Fortunate Islands,
 over the violet
 May one friend my hearts friend.
 Be there, sail with me
 the breast of the deep waters.
 In the of tthe white spray
 Sailing sailing sailing,
 Till Haven Bay
 In the peace of the Fortunate Islands.
 By wood. and hill and shore.
 May friend. my souls friend,
 Abide with