Author Unknown
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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..."
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