Produced by Al Haines
By HUGH BLACK
With an Introductory Note by
Chicago—New York—Toronto
London—Edinburgh
Copyright, 1898, 1903, by
To MY FRIEND
Equidem, ex omnibus rebus, quas mihi aut Fortuna aut Natura tribuit,nihil habeo quod cum amicitia Scipionis possum, comparare.
Intreat me not to leave thee,
And to return from following after thee:
For whither thou guest, I will go;
And where thou lodgest, I will lodge;
Thy people shall be my people,
And thy God my God:
Where thou diest, will I die,
And there will I be buried:
The Lord do so to me, and more also,
If aught but death part thee and me.
Mr. Hugh Black's wise and charming little book on Friendship is full ofgood things winningly expressed, and, though very simply written, isthe result of real thought and experience. Mr. Black's is the art thatconceals art. For young men, especially, this volume will be a goldenpossession, and it can hardly fail to affect their after lives. Mr.Black says well that the subject of friendship is less thought of amongus now than it was in the old world. Marriage has come to meaninfinitely more. Communion with God in Christ has become to multitudesthe primal fact of life. Nevertheless the need for friendshipremains.—"British Weekly."
Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it, not for what canbe gotten out of it. When two people appreciate each other becauseeach has found the other convenient to have around, they are notfriends, they are simply acquaintances with a business understanding.To seek friendship for its utility is as futile as to seek the end of arainbow for its bag of gold. A true friend is always useful in thehighest sense; but we should beware of thinking of our friends asbrother members of a mutual-benefit association, with its periodicaldemands and threats of suspension for non-payment of dues.
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