Week 3 Day 4

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How to Gain a Loyal Friend

Ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Hebrews 10:36

I would submit to all thy will,

For thou art good and wise;

Let every anxious thought be still,

Nor one faint murmur rise.

Thy love can cheer the darksome gloom,

And bid me wait serene,

Till hopes and joys immortal bloom

And brighten all the scene.

Abraham Lincoln once had to deliver a secret message to Governor Sam Houston of Texas. A conflict had arisen there between the Southern party and Governor Houston. President Lincoln heard about the trouble and decided to try to get a message to the governor, offering United States support if he would put himself at the head of the state’s Union party. Lincoln told the messenger, “This is a secret message. No one besides my cabinet knows anything about it, and we all are sworn to secrecy. Raise your right hand, and I am going to swear you in as one of my cabinet.” The man, G. H. Giddings, became an official member of Lincoln’s cabinet that day, and he immediately delivered the message. Lincoln knew the best way to secure Giddings’s loyalty was to express confidence in him. Giddings felt proud that Lincoln would put so much trust in him. That’s how to gain a loyal friend.