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stead of preventing him. A great deal of evil comes from false friendship. The dan ger is doubly great because it comes under the guise of friendliness—a wolf in sheep’s clothing. How many young people are ruined by bad companionship 1 How many are kept away from Christ and heaven by fear of their friends: Beware of the Jon adab friendship, the test of which is that it is willing to lead you or join you in sin. — P e lo u b e t . Discussion Material I. T h e B l e s se d n e s s of F r ie n d s h ip “ I would rather have a good friend,” said Socrates, “than all other objects o f ambi tion put together.” “The glory of life is to love, not to be loved; to give, not to get; to serve, not to be served.” The way to get is to give. It is never given to man to be wise in the true and noble sense until he is carried out of himself in the purifying passion of love or the generosity of friendship. The self- centered cannot keep friends even when he makes them.— H u g h B l a c k . II. T h e P o w e r o f F r ie n d s h ip One great advantage of friendship is its tendency to make a person like the one he loves. Even a good book uplifts the char acter ;• how much more a good friend! Friendship strengthens every good in a man. A friend not only gives much needed counsel, but a man’s friend bringeth his own thought to light and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpen- eth the countenance of his friend” (Prov. 27:17). — S elected . III. T h e F r ie n d s h ip o f C h r is t The greatest privilege o f life is that we may be friends o f Jesus. W e must have friendship with Him as well as He with us. He loves us, whether we love Him or not; but we are not friends unless we also love Him, nor can we claim the benefits o f that friendship apart from that love. More over, love must express itself in action. “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.” W e show our love by sacrifices for him and His cause. The tendency o f friend ship with Jesus is that we become like Him. “We shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” Meditating on His char acter and goodness, loving the good shin ing in His character, we are conformed to His image. Friendship with Jesus is full of refreshment, courage, strength, and cheer; it leads us to love all for whom He died, and whom He loves. It will endure forever. “Friendship with Jesus, Fellowship divine, Oh, what blessed, sweet communion; Jesus is a Friend o f mine.” IV. B ib l e V e rses “A friend loveth at all times” (Prov. 17:17). “There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother” (Prov. 18:24). FEBRUARY 19, 1933 W H Y MARR IAGES SUCCEED OR FAIL E p h e s ia n s 5:1, 2; 25-33 Suggestions for the Meeting Hymn—“More Like the Master.”
ance to believe in the goodness of people who have been reclaimed. We suspect that their apparent improvement may be only a disguise. So, when Paul “ assayed to join himself to the disciples,” they were “all afraid of him.” They could not believe that he was a real disciple. They had known him only as a persecutor of the church, “hal ing men and women committing them to prison.” How could he have changed so? He might be a wolf in sheep’s clothing de siring deeper intimacies in order that he might better carry out his malicious de signs. They had never heard the ardent Saul tell of his conversion. They had not seen the glow o f his eye, the radiant light, a reflection of that light that shone round him on the way to Damascus; they had not heard that triumphant ring in his voice, as he recounted the heavenly vision in which Jesus appeared to him in glory. Happily for Paul and for the new church, there was a Barnabas—one who knew how to be a real Christian friend. Dr. Jowett calls Barnabas “a friend o f the suspected.” Acts 11:24 says, “He was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith.” What is said o f him is in splen did consistency with the goodness ascribed to him here, and also to his title, “ son of consolation,” given him in Acts 4:36. “Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles.” How sweet, how lovely, how Christlike, how encouraging! Oh, for more like Barnabas I “May his tribe in crease.” It took courage and faith for Barnabas to sponsor this new recruit, this object of deep suspicion. He did not do it in his own strength. He was full of the Holy Spirit —that explains it. From his life there emanated the strength and fragrance o f the fruit o f the Spirit—“love, joy, peace, gentleness, good ness," etc. The friendship thus begun in Jerusalem continued through the years, through missionary journeys over land ahd sea. While the two differed in later years over a certain member in their missionary party, John Mark, they no doubt continued as personal friends. We feel sure that Paul never ceased to be grateful to Barnabas for his friendly ministry in time of need. A real Christian friend is faithful, intelligent, encouraging, natural, and devoted. Between Jonathan and David existed an ideal friendship. They are forever an in spiration and pattern for all friendships. “ The soul o f Jonathan was knit with the soul of David.” Their souls were inter woven into a, complete texture o f friend ship. “And Jonathan loved him as his own soul.” This love in its highest perfec tion, mother love and bridal love, is the finest type and illustration of the love of God to His children, as often expressed in the Scriptures. II. J o n a d a b V e r s u s J o n a t h a n Some years later than this friendship with Jonathan, there came into David’s family another friend, of very similar name, but very different character. His name was Jonadab, and his story is told in the thirteenth chapter of 2 Samuel. David’s son, Amnon, was tempted to commit a crime. He might have overcome, “but,” saith the Scripture, “ he had a friend,” Jonadab, who aided him in the crime, in Illustrations I. J o n a t h a n a n d D a v id — A n I deal F r ie n d s h ip
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