Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1920 — Real Test of Friendship. [ARTICLE]

Real Test of Friendship.

The loftiest test of friendship—understood as companionship—is the power to do without it. And In this world of external confusions and separations, there is often such need. We do not yield the friendship, but must forego the companionship. Then come* the-proof of our capacity for sacrifice, our loyalty to the highest of all. We turn our faces from each qther, but never our hearts, and walk bar opposite ways. Gradually the teavens widen and deepen above us; we find ourselves breathing new,, yet strangely familiar atmospheres, sweet with the breath of the v old affection; We see ourselves —each sees the-Other r •—met once more in a Presence which han never forsaken us—the presence of one who puts his cross into the hands of all holiest friendship saying “Conquer by this I” There 1* no danger of losing love, here or hereafter, If it is only real; for love is tte one. indestructible element in the universe. —lnicy Larcom.