Article April 7, 1928 Issue

True Friendship

ELSIE ZIMMERMAN

Have your personal friends meant so much to you that there have been times when you have been lonely and hurt because the human sense of friendship has failed you? Then those times should have afforded you opportunities to find your real Friend; for God, the greatest Friend of all, is ever present! Even now, with open arms, divine Love is ready with blessings infinite for you and for all. Let us turn away from the limited human sense of friendship, and let us love God, Truth, more. Let Love divine influence our affections until they are renewed and purified. Then, and then only, shall we begin to have the real sense of friendship. We can learn to love men with an unselfed love only as we learn to love God.

Jesus showed us through his Christliness the true meaning of friendship, in a love that was unselfish, holy, pure, and impartial. A pure affection for God and man underlay all his demonstrations. He radiated love, a tender, compassionate love that uplifted and healed. If we are listening to Christ, Truth, we are turning away from the serpent-lie that masks itself as person, as popularity, as pride, as rivalry, as envy, as "who should be the greatest." We are turning away from false material sense and finding the spiritual, joyous sense of friendship.

Did not Jesus go into the "mountain apart of pray"? Did not he go into that pure exalted spiritual consciousness which is far from the multitude, far from the personal, material sense of man? And in that sanctuary of divine Love was not the Christ revealed to him as his divine, spiritual nature, thus enabling him to understand how to be the friend of humanity? Ought we not, then, with the Master's perfect example before us, to increase our understanding of Truth and Love? If it seems hard sometimes to give of our love, and we seem to be laboring with a sense of timidity, or a lack of good will and joy, then we must go to the eternal storehouse of Truth and Love and fill our consciousness with good.

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