The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-17

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Thrills with hope and sets the 10.
. bells ringing when the hours are
dragging along in Wearisome mo
notony, the act that lifts q burden
from tired shoulders bringing respite
to Tagging strength. may all be ad
ded linkso love-offered and love
accepted friendship in which may
he found much Of eafth,s richest
Toys and sweetest pleasures. when
heart speaks to heart in rhJt lmie
cadence of the souls sweetest. mel
|ody.
i These heart manifestations spring.
ling from deep recesses OF the soul
bringing glad messages of good will
and warm sympathy we receive
and appropriate till they hold us
within their welcomed and enrap-
ltured embrace. We may not real
ize at the time the strength OF the
attachment or how dear our friend
has become to us. but deep ia our
heart, uncoE .ious though we be OF
the mysterious power of attraction,
draWingyedch to the other in purify
of common affection" and helpful
comradeship, there lives and CLOVIS
a. feeling of sweet and conscious con-
lteutment, inyigoraing in the faith
of its sin. Ell Y and cOHstancy OF
its faithfuinesS. So
Friendship may fail Of its great
est measure Of helpfulness for the
help given or .offeiei falls so far.
short Of its real need and is so pain
fully lacking in all that is riehtfuily
expectedI of il. often selfish in
characters and prompted by selfish
motives there can never please or
satisfy when its. true character is
Enthusiastically revealed. Impnlsive-
ly sincere it may be sometimes,
spasmedic and possessing no sta
bility of endurance it is. short Lived,
cannot meet any deep-felt need and
there is but little comfort to be de-
rived from it. \,
i Selfish pleasures live only for the /
bright days. never for the dark days !
With pleasant mien and. quick |
response TO the friendly budding of
sunny companionship. selfishness
letters in sunshine of its presence.
hut quickly fees before the shadows !
of sorrow and the cry of distress.
However much the effort may be
at the time under. the
faith of It's sincerely, there must
inevitably follow a feeling Of unsat-
isfied longing for a. companionship
that is still withheld some need
thar has been only awakened into
still greater desire.
Friendship often fails of its ulti-
mate good and its most benign in
duence through the absence of its
required thoughtfuines. There are
many people whose souls seem |
filled with deep concern and whose IA
are governed by sinceri- I,
ty Of purpose, but who cannot ever
the right thing to do or
the opporture time to act. We. call
them just absent minded. Their
thoughts are occupied with nearer
and more personal interest, their
time given over to the claims of /;
more cOngenial pleasure. and the +:
propitious moment is allowed TO [
slip by without avail and the need
I'd word is forever lost in unspoken .
expression. Sf ID
In all true friendship born Of the (
higher soul qualities of good will
and a sincere 10 be of helpful SER
vice there is felt an active living in
:erest manifested in SO many little
ways, by each in all that affects the
welfare and happiness of the other. :
There is felt, in their mutual reIa-
ions, a singlehess of purpose. how. {
ever different its incentive in the |
interchange of helpful in t
.erest shown in innumerable ways
and in glad, quick response demand +
ID by the. claims of sincere end
VII Iesone friendship.
There will be some, no doubt, who
will say we are playing with words,
hat our descriptives are OverdraWn
and exist only in the Imaginative
and beauty Of theory. lf4tbey are
made to include all that passes I'M
Ter the name of friendship then the
charge might be we'll sustained in
many unueniable and con1 incing
proofs of examples and personal ex
perienceS. But we love 20 think of
as something real, some
hing mole than pretty words and
definitions. something more
han beautiful picture of an i'm
passible condition in human life.
Such a Friendship of the highest
deals, rare though it may be, in the