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by James W. Alexander

Section LXVI

Intimate Friends

As Christianity does not forbid particular attachments, you will find great advantage in having a special circle of religious friends. Some or most of these will naturally be of your own age. But they should be selected upon a principle of mutual benefit. Absolute insulation is unfavourable to piety. Let the abundance of the heart sometimes flow forth to these persons, in discourse upon the great truths of the Gospel; and where circumstances favour it, join with them in acts of devotion. “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”f

* James 2: 1-9. f Prov. 27 17.

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