'It is not good for the man to be alone,' said the Lord in His tenderness and His pity.
But a choice lies before us, a choice of friends.

Our relatives are given us by God, no man can choose who shall be his father, or mother, or brother, or sister.

But our friends are of our own choosing, and we do not sufficiently consider that upon that choice may hang our eternity.

Heaven with all its brightness, hell with all its darkness and misery, which shall be for me?
The answer may hang, it often does hang, on the choice of a friend.
For there are only two divisions in this world of ours, only two companies, only two flocks.

The kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light, the Lord's people and those who are none of His, the sheep and the goats.