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A Friend that sticks closer than a Brother – Proverbs 18:13 – 18:24

Charles Dickens- Example of Ultimate in Friendship

A story is told about Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton who become friends. Darnay, a young Frenchman, is thrown into a dungeon and faces the guillotine. Carton, a wasted lawyer is finishing his life as a loose-living individual in England. Carton hears of Darnay’s imprisonment and through a chain of events gets into the dungeon and changes garments with Darnay who escapes. The next morning Sydney Carton makes his way up the steps that lead to the guillotine. As the writer tells his story he says, “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friend” (John 15:13). A classic example of the ultimate in Friendship. (Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities).