It is worth while to make friends if they are worthy. It costs to do it; we can have friends only by giving our life for them and to them. Selfishness never wins a friend. We can make others love us only by truly loving them. The largest service, if we do not love, wins us no real friends. Then the friends we have made we should grapple with hooks of steel and keep for ever. No friendship should be formed which is not beautiful enough for heaven. God will never be jealous of the pure human affections we have in glory. Even the brightness of Christ’s radiance will not eclipse for our eyes the faces of the earthly friends we shall meet on the golden streets. Loving God supremely will not drive out of our hearts the love of dear ones knit to us along the years of fellowship in joy and sorrow. The better we love Christ, the deeper, purer, tenderer, and stronger will be our love for Christly human friends.