As Christ's friendship been to you as close, personal, tender, constant, as the human friendships that have been dearest? The close friends of Christ have found no other influence so strong as his precious friendship in forming and transforming their lives. Continually before them in all its purity and spotlessness, in all its strength and heroism, in all its gentleness and beauty, that fair life has shone, a pattern in the mount let down from heaven for mortals to fashion their lives upon, brought don close to them and winning them by its loveliness. No one who has had Christ for friend in any true, real sense has failed to be blessed by him in the way of growth into nobler, richer life.