Quiet Talks on Home Ideals

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... the finest friendship: the rhythmic living of two together. The Master Loomsman. Clear Thinking Helps Right Living. A Choosing Love. Love's Sure Marks. The Basis of Friendship. God's Ideal Friendship Plan. "Perfect Music Unto Noble Words.'. "Even as Christ." The Divine-Human Trinity. "Behold a Friend!" A Bit of Real Life. "But ye toil up hand in hand, and carry each other's burdens. Ye commune of hopes and aspirations, the fervent breathings of the heart, Ye speak with pleasant interchange the treasured secrets of affection, Ye listen to the voice of complaint and whisper the language of comfort, And as in a double solitude, ye think in each other's hearing." Martin F. Tupper. the finest friendship. The Master Loomsman. Friendship is unselfish love between two hearts. It is the highest born, and longest lasting, and finest woven of any tie that binds human hearts together. It is highest born, for its birthplace is the heart of God, where every bit of love known among men was born. It is longest lasted, because it is so strong. It won't break. It never does break. It can't break. It never yet has been broken. You might as well think of the unseen bands of Orion breaking, or, higher up, of a quarrel breaking out between God and His Son. For friendship is a bit of God's own self even as His Son is. It is longest lasted simply because there is no end to it. And it is the finest woven. No such bit of loom work was ever done. Its strands have been picked out with greatest care by the Master Loomsman. They have been intertwined by the same skilled hand that wove the bands that hold the earth true and steady to the sun; and that wove the ties that bind a mother's hea