A Brother Like That
Author Unknown
A friend of mine named 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 a glow, 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..."
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