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	Hope you don't just enjoy the following story but be inspired by it.

        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 aglow, said,
	"Mister, would you mind driving in front of my house?"

        Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew that the lad wanted. He
	wanted to show his neighbours 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....."