Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — Sunday Thoughts. [ARTICLE]

Sunday Thoughts.

Sunday National. The fundamental qualities of true friendship are constancy and fidelity. The present constitution of human nature can not hear uninterrupted prosperity Without being corrupted by it. * - At whatever period of life friendships are formed, as long as they continue sincere aud affectionate, they form undoubtedly one of the greatest blessings we can enjoy. The maxim that has been laid down by certain crooked politicians, to behave to a friend with the same guarded caution as we would , to an enemy, because it is possible that he may one day become such, discloses a mind that was never made for the enjoyment of friendship. •