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Two cannot walk together unless they be agreed; and, if we are faithful to the Lord, we shall find that it is impossible to maintain links of friendship with those in a path spiritually different from our own. This does not mean that we are to be ungracious or inaccessible to people. To be courteous is an exhortation to which we must give heed; but friendship implies, indeed it supposes, a mutuality and an intimacy and oneness quite impossible between two persons, one of whom is in the path of the will of God while the other is not. Let us again remind ourselves of the psalmist’s words, “I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts”, Psalm 119: 63 (A.V.).

M. W. Biggs (‘The Christian’s Blessings, p.99)

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