Loyalty
Some one, in an hour of despondency, said not long ago, 'The age of true, deep friendships has passed; men meet, and they am &b ships that pass in the night.' I doubt the truth of the assertion. And yet ib startles one when he thicks how few people he knows to whom he could open his heart with absolute confidence, and when he reflect too, how he has not stood by hia friends — how many peraons he has known and loved, apparently, who have simply passed ont of his life. The power of Christianity lies in the absolute confidence it oreates between man and God, and this confidence cannob endure unless it is reflected in our relationship with each other. Loyalty ! It has a magnificent ring .' We like it when it relates to patriotism. We like ib when it makes us remember the heroes who dared, for a cause they esteemed just, 'to resist, fight and die.' But oh, when it binds brothers and sisters together while living; when it makes one eager bo stand up for and defend the weak ; when ib leads us instinctively to take the side of the poor.the oppressed, the needy, then it is divine. — Floyd Tompkins.
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Southland Times, Issue 14800, 17 November 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)
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204Loyalty Southland Times, Issue 14800, 17 November 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)
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