The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-09-30
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FRIENDSHIP


= The word Friendship IA Of
= ten used today, and about a.
y often abused
= Love is rare and beautiful
= thing, friendship Is even more
rare and more beautiful.
= There Is such thing as love
= apart from friendship, but
= there Is no such thing as
. friendship apart from love.
= Love Is the cause friend
y ship Is the result"
= Friendship is born, Graded
and matured only where love
= actuates and love dominates.
. Much Of the so-called friend.
= ships about which men yell
= themselves hoarse is cheap
= parody, an insult TO every holy
and beautiful emdtion which
> friendship begets.
= Real friendships are never
found in the marts Of trade
= where men haggle over issues
that involve dollars and dimes,
= and the alleged friendships that
= center there are as FAR from
the real passions and ideals OF
= love-begot'en friendship, as
one pole is distant from the
= other
= Friendship is never advertis-
= de, never paraded and never
= placed on exhibition.
= Friendship is never found
= apart from truth-living, truth
= telling. truth-dealing manhood:
= Look beneath the boosted
= friendships" Of the average
= street. and you will find mar
. row. avaricious, parasitic,
, slander-your-mother, so-called
= loyalty. that follows the crowd
> wherever the crowd may lead.
> Friendship is incapable OF
> crookedness, littlcness or pelf.
= Friendship never seeks posi-
> ton. power or place.
= Friendship IL above passion,
: hate and partizan appeal.
= Friendship never asks loyal
= ~ az the expense Of personal
= conviction.
> Friendship never demands
= that others agree with H. what
= ever the price.
= Friendship always urges 9th
: efs to be true to their highest
= light, whatever the sacrifice
= and whatever the cost.
. Men who often talk much
= about Friendship" never had
= friend. and in the nature Of the
= case. can never have a friend.
= To have a friend. one must
= be a friend until all mean and
= low and vicious and dishonest
= things are put out OF the
= heart
= Men who have power to com
. mand men are often the most
= lonely and unhappy men in the
= world. for they know their
= following is not the following
= Of friendship. but the follow
= ing Of those who seek the
. 'loaves and fishes"
= Jonathan and David were
= friends Of whom the world has
= read.
= The friendship OF Jonathan
= for David caused him 70 break
= his fathers house. and practi-
. cally to raise his hand IN re
= beIion against the throne Of hrs
= father.
> BIZ the courtiers and flunkies
= Of King Saul's court Jonathan
= was probably denounced as a
= traitor. and his acts Of friend
= ship toward David were brand
= ed as troacherous and the
y farthest reaches Of perfidy
= David was not alone true to
= God, but was King Saul's best
= friend. and Jonathan had sense
= enough TO realize that fact, and
= manhood enough TO rush to the
= defense Of his Incorporating.
= unselfish. unconquerable friend.
= The friendship Of Jonathan
= and David was cemented IN the
= white fires Of persecution and
y threatening death.
> Again it was the separation
Of the upper-chamber that our
. Lord announced TO his faithful
followers that they were 70 be
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