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Show IN THE FIELD OF FRIENDSHIP. There We Are in Contact with Some of the Finest Issues of Life. The field of friendship is a wide one and all our neighbors, both near and far, should be candidates for admission admis-sion there. The appearance of cold esteem, the passing salutation, empty of everything save chill formality, have larger possibilities behind them than we are wont to imagine. At any rate, to believe so, honestly and conscientiously, con-scientiously, is an indication of an active ac-tive faith, and is far wholesomer than the suspicions that do their utmost to master us. It isvinly through this belief be-lief that we shall bring ourselves in contact with some of the finest issues of life and come to understand the unities and harmonies of existence. Nevertheless, it is well to bear in nind the important fact that man is lot our only friend and neighbor. either patience nor investigation is tecessary to the discovery that all things about us are capable of invit-I invit-I ng neighborliness and dispensing it to those who are wise enough to take idvantage of the hospitality that is constantly proffered. The towering rees (though they do not seem to ower as high as they did when we vere younger), the humble creeping vines, the delicate flowers lhat spring up in a night, casual and ravishing, the whole movement and rush of na ture in her vigorous and insistent moods, belong to neighborliness in the most significant and satisfactory sense. It is something of a relief to discover that we need not depend en iirely on man for companionship though beyond all doubt the best of his kind are to be treasured in what ever relation or condition they are found. The late Joel Chandler Harris |
