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Title: Friendship

Author: Hugh Black

Release Date: March 20, 2007 [EBook #20861]

Language: English

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FRIENDSHIP

_By_ HUGH BLACK

_With an Introductory Note by_

W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, D.D.

Chicago--New York--Toronto

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

London--Edinburgh

Copyright, 1898, 1903, by

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

To MY FRIEND

HECTOR MUNRO FERGUSON

AND TO MANY OTHER FRIENDS WHO HAVE MADE LIFE RICH

_Equidem, ex omnibus rebus, quas mihi aut Fortuna aut Natura tribuit,
nihil habeo quod cum amicitia Scipionis possum, comparare._

CICERO.

_Intreat me not to leave thee,
And to return from following after thee:
For whither thou guest, I will go;
And where thou lodgest, I will lodge;
Thy people shall be my people,
And thy God my God:
Where thou diest, will I die,
And there will I be buried:
The Lord do so to me, and more also,
If aught but death part thee and me._

BOOK OF RUTH.

APPRECIATION

BY SIR WM. ROBERTSON NICOLL, D.D.

Mr. Hugh Black's wise and charming little book on Friendship is full of
good things winningly expressed, and, though very simply written, is
the result of real thought and experience. Mr. Black's is the art that
conceals art. For young men, especially, this volume will be a golden
possession, and it can hardly fail to affect their after lives. Mr.
Black says well that the subject of friendship is less thought of among
us now than it was in the old world. Marriage has come to mean
infinitely more. Communion with God in Christ has become to multitudes
the primal fact of life. Nevertheless the need for friendship
remains.--"British Weekly."

_Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it, not for what can
be gotten out of it. When two people appreciate each other because
each has found the other convenient to have around, they are not
friends, they are simply acquaintances with a business understanding.
To seek friendship for its utilit