The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-07-24
II Saturday
Serl11oflette

+ Eye are my friends.-John Is 1
IA. 4
+ l trust you are not weary of /
+ the talk touching "My Friend, the 4
= Master" For there are several 4
+ things that should yet be said 1
= Last week We looked at the mo- Z
+ tive that moved the Master to (
make me-and you-His friends. {
= We saw it was abiding affection. I
+ His is love beyond a brothers +
: Costly, free and knows no end" /
And it is at the measure of this /
= motive that we want to look to- 4
+ day. "My Friend-the Master" +
= hints at this measurement on our +
T part. Among the many things He 1.
= has to say of love in this friend 1.
+ ship passage from which our text =.
+ is taken, none is more arresting 1.
+ than this Greater love hath no I.
+ man than this, that a man Law 1.
+ down his life for his friends" {.
+ That surely is the supreme meas I.
+ ure of friendship. {.
= An English nobleman travelling !.
: IN winter in Russia suddenly saw =
+ the horses drawing his sledge in +
+ crease their speed. The driver +
+ frightened his hold on the reins z
+ and urged the steeds to swifter +
+ speed. The practised Oars of +
= both beasts and man had heard ..
= what the nobleman had not heard +
+-the cry of a pack of savage +
+ wolves; and they were flying for +
+ the nearest station for safety. =.
+ But 1t was in vain. On came +
= the pack, and the sledge was yet f
= far from the station. The dri- 1.
+ yer asked the nobleman if he coulds.
+ handle the lines over the horses i.
+ and being assured on this point, 1.
= he passed the lines to his masy- !.
= ter, of whom he was very fond. +
= And then, ere the master could 1.
! divine what he was dong. the {.
+ faithful fellow flung himself ou5 1.
- the sledge. By his trar,c -
+ death he saved his friend. Re- 1.
: turning at the first moment pos +
+ sible, the nobleman buried the +
= bones of the nobler man; then he 1.
= built noble monument on which +
= was sketched the splendid story I.
! of sacrifice. And below it were 1.
+ the words: Greater love hath no I.
! man than this, that man lay +
! down his life for his friends" +
! But better yet did "Our Friend-+
I the Master" for us. He laid down I.
: His life. And He did it ere we +
7 were His friends. =
7 Paul caught a deeper meaning +
: IN the Masters speech than the +
7 Master here makes manifest. And +
I this is the way he puts it: +
: Scarcely for a righteous man +
! will one die; yet peradventure for
: good man some would even dare +
! to die. But God commended +
! His love toward US, in that while +
! we were yet sinners"-not friends, +
! but hostile sinners-"Christ died +
! for u.s." Surely this is the su- I.
! preme measure of friendship. =
! Surely when He who did this calls =
! us His friends" He means it. Z
! He has proved it. Can we, dare =
! we, decline His friendship? That z
! anyone should refuse His out 4
! stretched hands, His measure +
less sacrifice to make US friends. =
His gentle Come" passes ordi- +
nary comprehension. Z
"The Son of God! o yes, It's Z
, He, >
With garments dyed on Calva- .
~" who seeks our friendship. =
Will you let Him be your Friend? =
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