FRIENDSHIP THE MASTER-PASSION Scribner's Popular Religious Series

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St. Paul's Conception of Christianity

By Prof. A. B. BRUCE, D.D.
The Place of Christ in Modern Theology

By Prof. A. M. FAIRBAIRN, M.A., D.D.
The Beginnings of Christianity

By Prof. GEORGE P. FISHER, D.D.
Life and Letters of Erasmus

By Prof. J. A. FROUDE
The Unity of the Book of Genesis

By Prof. WILLIAM H. GREEN, D.D., LL.D.
The Life of Martin Luther

By JULIUS KOSTLIN
What Is the Bible?

By Prof. GEORGE T. LADD, D.D.
The Problem of the Old Testament

By Prof. JAMES ORR, D.D.
The Theory of Preaching

By Prof. AUSTIN PHELPS, D.D.
The Evidence of Christian Experience

By Prof. Louis F. STEARNS, D.D.
The Pauline Theology

By Prof. GEORGE B. STEVENS, Ph.D., D.D. Bernard of Clairvaux

By Rev. R. S. STORRS, D.D., LL.D., L.H.D. Friendship the Master Passion

By Rev. H. CLAY TRUMBULL, D.D. The Conflict of Christianity and Heathenism

By Dr. GERHARD UHLHORN In Scripture Lands

By EDWARD L. WILSON

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THE NATURE AND HISTORY OF FRIENDSHIP, AND

ITS PLACE AS A FORCE IN THE WORLD

BY

H. CLAY TRUMBULL
Author of “The Blood Covenant,” “ Kadesh-Barnca, "

“The Knightly Soldier,” etc.

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NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

TO THE MEMORY

OF
MY DEAR WIFE

WHO WAS THE BEST ILLUSTRATION I EVER KNEW

OF

A LIFE OF SELF-FORGETFUL FRIENDSHIP

AND WHO WATCHED WITH SYMPATHETIC INTEREST

THE PROGRESS OF THESE PAGES

TO THEIR VERY CLOSE

BEFORE CLOSING HER EYES TO EARTH

I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME

IN
GRATEFUL AFFECTION