Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Friendly Endeavor (Quakers) 2-1927 Friendly Endeavor, February 1927 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "Friendly Endeavor, February 1927" (1927). Friendly Endeavor. 68. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor/68 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Friendly Endeavor by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Friendly Endeavor Vo l u m e 6 , N u m b e r 2 . PORTLAND, OREGON. February, 1927. FRIENDSHIP IVITH CHRIST. comfortable existence in this world as Be careful of old friends. We have food and drink. A man may say he is heard that King James used to call "Ye are My friends if ye do whatso satisfied with his own company and shun for his old shoes, because they were ever I command you." Our friendship all advances of friendship and live a easier on his feet. We can unload on with Christ is based upon obedience to recluse, but it is _ only a miserable old friends what we couldn't on new. the commands which He has given unto passing of time and living a life shorn of "They call back experiences of our youth u s . J e s u s s a i d , " W h o s o e v e r i s n o t f o r real happiness, plea.sure and joy. and memories come in a flood when we me is against me." We can only have He \vho would be happy here must meet an old friend of other years. true friendship with Christ by separat have true friends. Every sorrow is Emerson says: ing ourselves from the things which lightened when we can pour it out into "He who has a thousand friends do pot glorify Him, as has been com the ear-s of a sympathetic friend; every Has not a friend to spare manded us. To obtain this friendship joy is doubled when we share it with While he who has one enemy does not only mean a separation from a close companion; every decision seems Shall meet him everywhere." sin, but a compliance with God and to be easier made when we talk it As we look through our little group Holinep. We mu.st do His bidding. over with a truly interested friend. One we know that God evidently did not Jesus has promised to be a friend that of the blessings which comes from intend many of us to be rich or powerful sticketh closer than a brother, and sorrow, affliction and sickness is finding or great, but we can stick together and thank God, it is true. how many friends we really have. Many be good friends. True friendship is a thing to he have said, when passing through deep G R A C E H A D L E Y . desired. Friendship with Christ is much trials, "We didn't realize how many more to be desired. It is our privilege f r i e n d s w e h a d . " A F R I E N D I N J E S U S . to be the friends of Christ. We all have many acquaintances, and The greatest title ever conferred upon There is One who's watching o'er us men was the one used by Jesus when many of them ripen into true friendship, ne addressed His disciples as "My if the opportunity is given. We are O n e w h o k n o w s o u r e v e r y c a r e . .surprised sometimes when a passing He who bids us come and seek Him friends." No other honor will ever come H e w h o w i l l o u r b u r d e n s s h a r e . our way which for a moment can be acquaintance of years will .suddenly and unexpectedly be thrown close to us and compared with this. there begins a friendship and fellowship Tho we oft' forget to praise Him _ Who is He that calls us friends? He T h o w e f a l t e r b y t h e w a y. is Jesus Christ the Son lof God of whom and understanding which we hadn't It IS written, "All things were made by dreamed could exist. Yet He ever loves and guides us film and without Him was not anything Some people seem to make friends Let us go where'er we may. made that hath been made." "He is easier than others, but it is an art before all things and in Him all things which can be cultivated. If we envy the He, it is, the Blessed Jesus consist He it is that came to befriend free and easy way of someone in meet He who is a Friend in-need. ing and greeting people we can try it He will keep us till the morrow u | > t o s e e k o u r f r i e n d . s h i p i n t u r n out ard practice it by trying to show F o r H e i s a F i - i e n d i n d e e d . "Ye are My friends." ourselves friendly. The other fellow Our friendship with Je.sus is charac H T H O M A S . may be more backward and timid than terized by openness of disposition. We we arc and it is a Christian grace as meet those whose lives seem closed, and well as duty to be friendly. You will FRIENDSHIP WITH BOOKS. incapable of friendship. We can never find tliat you cannot be a friend without An Allegory. their doorstep. While on the having one. other hand there are those whose lives Long ago in a land far away, was a open as doth a bud, these we say are No one has yet been able to ade quately define friendship. The ones country called the Kingdom of Books. capable of friendship. So it is with who can talk the loudest and longest are This wondrous Kingdom was ruled by a Christ, He unfolds Himself to us, and King whose name was Good Author and not always the best friends. It is an his Queen whose name was Printing Know.k?ow There us mustthat be wea similar need opening to encouragement to the quiet ones to Press. know that. To each one it means some The geography of the Kingdom was theZ ®art door of I willman. come "If inany and man sup open with thing different. peculiar in some ways; the Classic A ti-ue friend can never be replaced. Mountains were on one side with a They may be separated by death, illness plain of Mediocre Books; then there was with cZ-f fi, enjoy true friendship or absence, but their place is always the Newspaper Plateau made of very f^llowsh i sympathetic vacant. No child in the home can take shifting sands. The river of Poetry, must bo existing between us. His aim the place of another. Each has his own with bright musical ripples ran the anda??l His nf willHis ourdesires will. We our must desires, have place to fill. Just so, no friend can take the place of another. The quality which whole len^h of the land, giving beauty and sunshine all along its coui'se. wb P^fect unity which Jesus described attracts belongs to that one particular- Sad to say, the Kingdom had some ? n e " " ^ ® t h e r a r e person, for no two are alike. ugly -spots too, for there was the Dime- Jesus is seeking our friendship. He A man said once that the more he Novel Slough, and the Trashy Magazine lived with men the better he liked dogs. |?^es to make friends of the failure quicksands. These dangerous places Me bruised, and him that hath no helper' He must have had a group of friends made the King very sad, and he tried He wants to befriend us in all the who lived a dog's life, for we are told h i s b e s t t o i n d u c e a l l h i s s u b j e c t s t o that we are known by the books we read son-ows and disappointments of life. and the friend.ships we make. avoid these places. Some of his subjects Friendship witi Jesus transforms the Life holds few sadder experiences than persisted in haunting these localities (arkness into light and unfolds to us the dissolving of long friendships that and soon lost desire to be with the the glories of God. Through this most have yielded inspiration and kindliness King, Good Author, or to live in the blessed friendship we will be enabled to and mutual profit. The loss of a friend other parts of the Kingdom such as the know some of the things that God hath is rightly counted as one of life's Classic Mountains. In fact, they said the altitude was too high on the prepared for them that love Him." tragedies.