Article December 20, 1900 Issue

A Christian Use of Friendship

Christian Intelligencer

It helps amazingly in the maintenance of one's own right conduct to resolve to better every life he influences. There is a natural affinity, arising out of similiarity of tastes, of training, and of purpose, by which certain ones are drawn to certain others. But Christian interest in others is a larger sympathy than that. It is inclusive, and not, like that of social clubs, exclusive. There is a mutual delight in one another that is not limited to a clique whose circle is kept barred against outsiders. It is the feeling of interest in the Christian character of others, which submerges all distinctions caused by education, training, and possession, as the swollen river sinks fences from sight. This rests not upon what men have or have not, but upon what they are or may become. A Christian's actions, if not his words, should convey to all he meets the idea that his greatest joy is to hear of their walking in the truth. This is the highest use of friendship.—Christian Intelligencer.

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