The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-05
HELPFUL FRIENDSHIP.

chosen is familiar admonition, FIRE
quently heard in regard to the selection
OF ones friends. This is good adyic
only in part. The true idea is not cor
rectly expressed, or only partially 90
All friends sohuld be well chosen, bu1
no one can have too many of the righ1
/ KIND. For one to limit by preference
the number of friends to a restricted
few may, in the course of time and LIES
ever changing circumstances. when
friends forced asunder by inexorable
tate and no longer privileged or able to
respond to the needs or contribute to
the help of each other, bring home, in
the most forceful and unpleasant man,
ner, the fallacy of this unwise, though
well meaning it may be, advice and
preference.
But rather "there should be both quail
ity and quantity in all friendship. Meth
er one should be acquired at the expense
of the other. Both may be maintained
and neither suffer" Both are desirable,
both are aeedful, both are necessary, in
the fuller development of helpful asso-
citation and to meet more. fully it's So
cial need.
Let us not turn away carelessly from
any who would fill the place of safe
and proper friend. We may at some
friends are most needed there is a sad
lacking of the needed helpfulness-the
kind one has right to expect from
true friend.
With the evil minded and improper
friendships there can be no safe affilia-
tion. Self regard and personal safety
demand the most watchful care in the
acceptance of intimate association and
confidential friendship. With the good
and true there is alone safety. i
We cannot always keep the same
friends with us or near U.S. Time moves
swiftly ON and in the kaleidoscope
movement of human attain none are
left untouched by the rapidly changing
conditions of life. The friend you may
have had yesterday may find you beyond
his help today and he whose responsive
assistance now would be SO acceptable
might have gladly responded to the
claim of your need had you not SO cold
ly turned from him when he stood in
sore need of you. 49,
Old friends are constantly passing
away and new ones come to occupy a
new place in our life. Our paths SO Of
ten diverge, sometimes leading in oppo
site directions and into new fields of
endeavor. Yet there was no faithless- |
ness to mar the memory of the past, no
ruthless breaking of old ties, and friends |
Of bygone days are not forgotten. When !
with us they were true to- every duty
and did what they could to help us along
ife's often weary way. They conscien-
tiously fulfilled every obligation, low
ngly responded to every claim and faith
July measured up to every requirement.
We learned to love and trust them when |
n frequent association with them and |
shall ever love and believe in them
;hough onw absent and far removed
rom us Their friendship, so gener-
'usly and sweetly given, shall ever be
. bright spot in. the dark background of
'ur life.
There is scarcely a word in the Eng
ish language more precious than that
f friend. No matter what our personal
Citations may be with another we place
irst that of friends. When this ques-
ion is satisfactorily settled in our
mind, then alone we feel safe in giving
UGH a one our full confidence and en-
rusting our most sacred interest. Love,
he strongest yet the tenderest of hui
nan passions, demands faithfulness of
Is object and will often droop and die
efore the falsity of a trusted friend.
Whether husband or wife, whether child
r parent, whether sweetheart or kim
red, whether neighbor or acquaintance,
O be first a friend is the foremost re-
uirement of each one. When the real
ty of friend is established all other
onditions of human experiences will
aturally and safely adjust themselves.
When we speak of friendship it is
enerally suggestive of certain recognize
d social relations existing only between
ersons with no other obligations to
ach other than the natural force of
ttraction which draws them together in
ongenial association, but the strongest
nd dearest friendships in all the world
hould be found in the home life be-
ween members of the same family, for
here it rs often most needed and yet SO
ften, though maintained in form, lack
ng in the true spirit of deep personal
interest. In the many opportunities for