The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-24

gether. We don't value friendship enough. l am very much like mule
 You know they are very friendly, in fact. they are clanish--1et one of them get out. and it will take a mighty strong door to hold the rest of them How many friends have you got that you can rely upon--that you can count
 upon by day or night-principally in the night?
 FRIENDSHIPS COST Have you got just one friend ot | this character? Friends cost some thing and we don't want to pay for them-2but they are worth something
 more than they cost. In fact, the more a friend costs, the more he is worth When you are in trouble or lonely they come in mighty handy. How many of you here have a dozen good friends that you can depend upon whom you love, and who love youI Oh, they are worth something, young man, young woman, hear me, make
 some good~ friends that are sound and helpful, for friends will pull you one way, right or wrong. and 1t behooves you to make the right kind. Love these friends just like you love your self and stand together-that is the principle.
 The essence of friendship is love The gospel of Jesus Christ is the art and the sociology of Jesus is the prin- ciple.
 T don't like to see married people have too many intimate friends oi the opposite sex, so don't think I have indorsed free love" naid Dr. Stuart, in humorous manner, and a ripple or amusement went over the audience DET TVERy WACnNC
 Service is the next element of friend- ship. for that is the way you mako friends. You make them by Christian service. Christ said, I am going to tell you things you don't know Fraternal orders are based upon secrets. The Ma sons have a goat in their lodge rooms and that is a secret, but all you get is a few grips, few signs and few sentences of history in any fraternal or der, for they are all built and live on secrots. They get every principle out of this book. They are just delivery wagons from this storehouse, but, how ever, they deliver the goods. Put your church first, don't let your delivery wag- on get larger than your storehouse.
 "The most marvellous secret of the ages is in the mystic realm of regen- eracy, through which the secrets of the church are unfolded. There are no signs, iiu SItpS, Just your WOfu IS all want I am a Christian.
 "But you can't have a real friendship without some eating. That's the greatest thing on earth to promote a friendship An old Kentuckian once said, You have to mess. a plate and muss a bed to be real friends and I don't know but what he was absolutely right, for friends eat together and enjoy each other, and in celebrating the Lords Supper Christian r.s1 1t... 4t.x-- est things in the world. It is the table and the feast Not only is it here, but when we get over there we are going to get together somehow.
 .TRYST OF FRIENDS
 "ch, place to meet-the tryst of friends, of lovers, and the tryst of the church. the house of God for Christians Make the old First church here your tryst, the place to meet your friends; what wonderful place 1t is to meet them. In Europe there is your church. and when you come back, here is your church, and they sing, Jesus. Lover of My Soul, Let Me to Thy Bosom Fly, over there, just as you do here. So let us enter into this Christian friend- shin and make your church your Chris tian friendship first.
 When all of your orders fail you your friends and the church will not fail you. When I learned that I was to come to Birmingham will admit that I did not want to come, for had to leave friends and associates that I had made in tho Holston conference that I held very dear, and 1t was hard for me to leave. But now I am glad that I came, for believe that I have made friends here that are the sweetest friends that T have ever known, for 1t is, not temporary tent that we have here, it is made of gold and win last.
 Protect your friends. If you don't know anything against them. don't say anything against them. Just shut up. If you don't know thing don't say it. A man who picks up heard SO or think SO is not worthy of a brother. Look ing aftcr one's friends helps one. thank God for this Christian world and for Christian friendships. May GBod bring us into this sweetest, highest friendship of the world