Anointed One
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Carol: Joy to the World Hymn #201
Story: A Boy Learns a Lesson
A Boy Learns a Lesson
In about my
tenth year, as Christmas approached, I longed for and electric train. The times
were those of the economic depression, yet my mother and dad purchased for me a
lovely electric train.
Christmas
morning bright and early I thrilled when I noticed my train. The next few hours
were devoted to operating the transformer and watching the engine pull its cars
forward - then backward around the track.
Mother said
that she had purchased a windup train for the widow Hansen's boy, Mark, who
lived down the lane at Gale street. As I looked at his train, I noted a tanker
car which I so much admired. I put up such a fuss that my mother
succumbed to my pleadings and gave me the tanker car. I put it with the train
set and felt pleased.
My mother
and I took the remaining cars and the engine down to Mark Hansen. The young boy
was a year or two older that I . He had never anticipated such a gift. He was
thrilled beyond words. He wound the key in his engine, it not being electric or
as expensive as mine, and was overjoyed as the engine and the three cars, plus
caboose went around the track.
I felt a
horrible sense of guilt as I returned home. The tanker car no longer appealed
to me. Suddenly, I took the tanker car in my hand, plus an additional car of my
own, and ran all the way down to Gale Street and proudly announced to Mark,
"we forgot to bring two cars which belong to your train."
I don't know
when a deed has made me feel any better than that experience as a ten-year-old
boy.
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Thomas S. Monson
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