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THE ATHENAEUM 61 will enter into this season of Thanksgiving with grateful hearts, thanking our Creator that things are as well with us as they are. I recommend to you this simple poem by Marion Grace Connover which to my mind seems to express the correct thanksgiving spirit: For the inner light that makes me see In the rose thy perfect artistry'— I thank Thee. For the inner ear Thou gavest me To catch each passing harmony— I thank Thee. For the vision that sustaineth me To calmly greet eternity— I thank Thee. FRIENDSHIP p • m . an y kinds °f relations that exist among human beings friendly relation is one of the most important. There is not a singl® person in the world who has not a friend, .for even the leper who is supposed to be a man you do not want to have any dealings with has friends of his own. Without real friends no one can enjoy life’ as he likes or as he ought, for many a time you need friends to help you, to talk to you, to be merry with you, to comfort you, and to sympathize with you. Many a time we want to see our friends, especially when we are confused or perplexed. If in such a state of mind and confusion, we have no friends to whom we can tell what is in our heart or who will comfort us, we shall soon be dejected and perhaps weakened; and such a state of mind if long continued may result in mental disease So I strongly believe that if anyone has not any relation of that kind he will not enjoy life. At the beginning of the foregoing lines it was stated that there were many other relations among human be ings besides the friendly relation. We have relations and obligations to the society or the community to which we belong. We do not want / 1 theSC r ? lati ° ns with scrutiny now; as we have chosen friendship for our topic. Surely friendly relation is one of the means of transfenng individual personality and symbolical expression of our views to those we call our friends. Truly there are many kinds as friends if they are not alike in-some fundamental respect can deduce from Like and unlike friends. We only want to'think of these unlike friends in the differences of their conduct and action Accordmg to nature they are alike—breathing, eating and playing.* What makes them unlike was found in their opinions and views of the essence of objects and their attitude toward them It is a common saying in the Yoruba Language that a bird seeks for its equal, (Egle eiye I’eiye iwo le). In the same way and in the same sense I will say that man seeks for his eqaul. It is so strange, '