. For the best things. come wings to lift us and then bene-dictions to those to whom we minister. Thecross of Christ is saving the world. Just sofar as we take up our cross in the spirit ofour Master will we become blessings to theworld. Selfishness never made any spot holieror any life better. Accept your cross, take itup and bear it victoriously and there will bea new song in your own heart and you willstart songs in the hearts of many others. [ 146] po)a)tv of €W^V^ fxim^^l^iv [147] A friends bosomIs as the inmost cave of our own mind,Where we sit shut from the wide gaze of from the
. For the best things. come wings to lift us and then bene-dictions to those to whom we minister. Thecross of Christ is saving the world. Just sofar as we take up our cross in the spirit ofour Master will we become blessings to theworld. Selfishness never made any spot holieror any life better. Accept your cross, take itup and bear it victoriously and there will bea new song in your own heart and you willstart songs in the hearts of many others. [ 146] po)a)tv of €W^V^ fxim^^l^iv [147] A friends bosomIs as the inmost cave of our own mind,Where we sit shut from the wide gaze of from the all-communicating air, —Shelley. O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red, All things through thee take nobler form And look beyond the earth; The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair: The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair, —Ralph Waldo Emerson. [148] CHAPTER ELEVEN. ERHAPS we are payingtoo dearly for some ofthe boasted gains of ourmodern life. They tell usthat in an ordinary life-time a man really liveslonger now than Methusaleh did in his nearlyten centuries of antediluvian time. But in ourswift, intense life we are losing some thingsthat people used to enjoy in their more lei-surely days. Friendship is one of these. Thereis no time for it now, for friendship takestime. We touch each other only lightly andsuperficially in our crowded days. We havemany acquaintances, and we may give andreceive help and inspiration even in our hur-ried contacts. But in quieter, slower days,the people had time to live together, andenter into intimate relations in which theyimpressed each others life and did much in[ 149] shaping and coloring each others art of friendship is one we cannot affordto lose. Friendship means a great deal to us,not only as a source of pleasure and happi-ness, but in practical ways. We never canknow wha
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