D&C
43:34 34 Hearken ye to these words. Behold, I am
Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. Treasure these things up
in your hearts, and let
the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds.
Carol: Angels We Have Heard on High
Hymn #203
Story: A Brother Like That
Dan Clark
Paul
received an automobile from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas
Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the
shiny new car, admiring it.
"Is
this your car, Mister?" he asked.
Paul nodded. "My brother gave it to me
for Christmas." The boy was astounded. "You mean your brother gave it
to you and it didn't cost you nothing? Boy, I wish..." He hesitated. Of
course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he had a
brother like that. But what the lad said jarred Paul all the way down to his
heels.
"I
wish," the boy went on, "that I could be a brother like that."
Paul looked
at the boy in astonishment, then impulsively he added, "Would you like to
take a ride in my automobile?"
"Oh
yes, I'd love that."
After a
short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes aglow, said, "Mister, would
you mind driving in front of my house?" Paul smiled a little. He thought
he knew what the lad wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride
home in a big automobile. But Paul was wrong again.
"Will
you stop where those two steps are?" the boy asked. He ran up the steps.
Then in a little while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast.
He was carrying his little crippled brother. He sat him down on the bottom
step, then sort of squeezed up against him and pointed to the car. "There
she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for
Christmas and it didn't cost him a cent. And some day I'm gonna give you one
just like it...then you can see for yourself all the pretty things in the
Christmas windows that I've been trying to tell you about."
Paul got out
and lifted the lad to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed older brother
climbed in beside him and the three of them began a memorable holiday ride.
That
Christmas Eve, Paul learned what Jesus meant when he had said: "It is more
blessed to give..."
The Speak
Easy Volume 6
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