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Show I. fe ; ; FUIEXDSIIII', ' I ' riuEXPsititobo IasUngf-rhntt' not:;le f ,. ofsr-ttrnittCdxlliinomcuttlin'titossumQS j tW.pdidns.ronu,- of (Obligation, it, is lost, 1 and is 110 longer, fricntlsliip, bu interest. 1 Whea tljocliotds arotop tightly clrawti . wkn'tbcy.bindu-thnl vc flro powerless, rid wo ore" ilrawrt-'tdgethcr with" A Ticw to' tentporal advontoges, tltcy lire likely iVburst and often overwhelm man io:their rniu.- . . Tbat fricinlshipis the most lasting which Wrings fconi a similarity, of feelings, ami tastci: for when hound Ijy intcUcctual cords, mankind "are wore closely drawn together. Difference in station and Beii-iiiucnts, Beii-iiiucnts, , will coalesce no sooner than oil an'dwateri d'hc benefit derived must be utunb,and alike; nnd the moment one , riicsio be superior to the other, usually tejls .Uic doonrof friendship. Man is jealous, not to say cnvlons. A person becoming more exalted than his companion, naturally looks upon him as though ho were, disappointed, in his expectations; ex-pectations; and both being held, back by the conycutianaliiies of fashion and custom, cus-tom, are diffident in examining their former for-mer feeling, and it dies out by a lack of confidence. The rich man generally looks down upon up-on the, poor man .us 'a sort of dependent, ond)(hi riches servo us a bur to tho interchange inter-change of thought. "When wo look upon another, as one to whom wc aye indebted for past favors, wc arc apt to think him our tupcrioK and' that wo should treat I him with' a corresponding amount of re- erve nnd diffidence, and thus wo destroy j what friendship we might formerly havoi had'for each other j for without a perfect equality there can be no true friendship. ThU.is notaayiugwe would bo migrate-1 ful for kind nc?s conferred ttpon us. Wcj cau cherish gratitude, arid repay oor obli-i gallon, and bear no-friendship for him who ' relieved us, Wo can ndntiro the generous j actions of ihen, yet admiration is but a I raomcntarx Pion while friendship enters I into our very being, nnd absorbs all our Utent.energics. We may admire a great man and acknowledge ourselves his inferior, infe-rior, but friendship is no part of its composition, compo-sition, pur friend must bo our equal; wc wr oe upon an crpiul rooting; for, witn the obstructions presented by difference of station, no real friendship pan or over did exist; Some? $cem to liavc a wrong impression F friendship.. According to their views it is an insane passion, causing tt person ' to'rush- headlong iuto danger without a wrrespqnding amount of good. I would ; eobsidar ahat man my best friend who would sliow me how to avoid trouble, nnd ! fiot hlra' who would dt'ng me into it, in or-: I . totirove lis friendship by cxtricaUng I me.'TFrlendshlp' is1 flot a frenzy, it is a I cahnj-Btill feeling of anxious rectitude, j nd tho' zealous desiro 'to promote the hPp!ncss of ahothcr. Like the love of which we hear so much, it can by its inten- tity rjnrn itBetf out, leaving us nothing ot decayed hopes and disappointments tdiiic'rishwhcre' happiness jand content erer; should he. "It' is, true5, there are tnhny iiistnnccs chtdniclcd.ih thej.history' of pasticrchts,1. .where inch willingly met death iri 'the ser-tite ser-tite of a friend, Jjttt thi friendship -Was based iipon cotwclijus rcctttude,'nuda7.c,aK ous desire'ito'avcrtevH from anotiicri It was not founded upon nit Imaginary feeling; feel-ing; but upon a real' and substantial basis which liaditbod the test of years, and the' storms of life. We may sity that 'a dependent de-pendent will'mcet death In, tho service of his master, doso williiijxly, joyfully at his bidding; ,bnt is it fricndsltip7. Bomctimc's' it may be, ami at other times it may not. .bc.f-i That dependent may look upon it . ns a moral ,dutyi .which " ho owes liii. master for his liindncs's; Ho, mny look upon it n hundred different ways, and yet 11 the end itmny not bo fricudshij). Without perfect eburidence; thcfe,:cnh be no chuuriiigv. friendship, . liViendship is alilghiy moral obligation, in which, wc pledge ourselves lo'.be.tendfast in our cii-gagcmcntsrso cii-gagcmcntsrso lonig as our, friend is-lriio io the priiicipleslof ititegrity;; liawlcss rnen can have no friendship, libwcy.cr miich they may ' bandtogcthef . It is purely inter; est which bhids. ttlient; and Wherf ho longer; necessary to jlielr cprtvenicncc, js thrown aside as a cast-off garment,, to he agairi, assumed when needed. Wc are told there is honor among thieves;, rather doubtful, I think. At'least nogood man WPuld wisli to be called au hofiorabJe one. If it, is io. Ilogues have no, friendship, for " each other;; "for, let ,tu'a-W ,tu'a-W ever so nieanoufseIy'6sJ.v.6 cannot n dorse meanness in Jothcrs. , 'fhey may.be true to ench other, and are; it is their, interest in-terest to.be so.. 'I'hcy are. Well aVvarothatj should they not JCind: a;helping.ha'iiil to a fellow craftsman in distress, when cyif befalls be-falls themselves, they would bo left to their fate. We see that It is interest which biuds" idem together, nnd When that fails, they have nothing to auhuaip them" in each other's behalf. Some may say that it is interest which bindt.raen together, e.vcu in tho best society. so-ciety. So it is; hut Interest of a less sel-fish sel-fish nnd sordid kind. We wish to have reciprocal feellug?; nnd to give as well as receive good. It is friendship founded upon principle, without idnc:, thought "of . aetractlngrQ.ni4"aiiglit' bclorigiiig to Uh6 t tli'qr. 'lt is'vishlljc tft ;nrfi . t happiness; together yrtU the lmppuiess pi those with whom we associate. 1 ,0mo5. |