FRIENDSHIP
IT’S TRUE ESSENCE ‘‘The true friend is not the one who remains loyal on condition of our success, or amiability or good behaviour. He is one of our weaknesses and failures. Whoever loves me when I am worthy of love is not my friend. The real friend cares for me when lam at my worst. Ido not say that he likes me best when I am in that condition. To see me suffering physically would grieve him, but to see me suffering morally must grieve him even more. The real friend is the one who loves me the more I need his love. Friendship is universal. I am not suggesting that we can or ought to be on equal terms of friendship with, eveiybody. Of course we each have our own friendship with everybody. Of course we each have our own friends, to whom we have a special diuy and responsibility, and in whom we hav e a special pleasure. But the essence of Friendship is something w Inch could be extended to all the world without being thereby diminished in value. It is not exclusive; it does not consist in others being shut out. On th econtrary, it insists on otheis being brought in. -There Is no barrier or frontier to it. —From The Faith of Friendship,” by Lewis Maclachlan, M.A.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13772, 15 October 1942, Page 3
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