Last of all, abiding friendship is grounded in virtue. Says a famed
writer on Friendship: "There is a pernicious error in those who think
that a free indulgence in all lusts and sins is extended in friendship.
Friendship was given us by nature as the handmaid of virtues and not
as the companion of our vices. It is virtue, virtue I say . . . that both
wins friendship and preserves it." And closing his remarks on this
immortal subject, Cicero causes Laelius to say: "I exhort you to lay
the foundations of virtue, without which friendship can not exist, in
such a manner, that with this one exception, you may consider that
nothing in the world is more excellent than friendship."



IX.

TRAVEL.

A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.


We have set in order some facts, incidents, and lessons gathered from
a hasty trip to the old country during the summer of 1899. The journey
was made in company with Rev. C.F. Juvinall, for four years my room-
mate and fellow-student, and my estimable friend. On Wednesday,
June 21st, we sailed from Boston Harbor; reached Liverpool, England,
Saturday morning the 1st of July; visited this second town in the British
kingdom; stopped over at the old town of Chester; took a run out to
Hawarden Estate, the home of Gladstone; changed cars at Stratford-on-
Avon and visited the tomb of Shakespeare; staid a half day and a night
in the old university town of Oxford, and reached London on the evening