[00:06.55]Paul received an automobile from his brother as a Christmas present.
[00:11.14]On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office,
[00:14.87]a street child was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it.
[00:20.23]“Is this your car, Mister?”he asked.
[00:23.07]Paul nodded,“My brother gave it to me for Christmas.”
[00:27.45]The boy was astounded,
[00:29.86]“You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn’t cost you anything?
[00:34.67]Boy, I wish...”He hesitated.
[00:37.95]Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for.
[00:41.45]He was going to wish he had a brother like that.
[00:44.85]But what the lad said jarred Paul all the way down to his heels.
[00:51.08]“I wish,”the boy went on,“that I could be a brother like that.”
[00:55.78]Paul looked at the boy in astonishment, then impulsively he added,
[01:01.48]“Would you like to take a ride in my automobile?”
[01:04.75]“Oh yes, I’d love that.”
[01:07.27]After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes aglow, said,
[01:12.31]“Mister, would you mind driving in front of my house?”
[01:16.13]Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the lad wanted.
[01:21.28]He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big automobile.
[01:26.25]But Paul was wrong again.
[01:28.28]“Will you stop where those two steps are?”the boy asked.
[01:33.53]He ran up the steps. Then in a little while Paul heard him coming back,
[01:37.35]but he was not coming fast.
[01:39.53]He was carrying his little crippled brother.
[01:42.82]He sat him down on the bottom step,
[01:45.76]then sort of squeezed up against him and pointed to the car.
[01:49.37]“There he is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs.
[01:52.87]His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent.
[01:57.57]And some day I’m gonna give you one just like it...
[02:01.63]then you can see for yourself all the pretty things in the Christmas windows
[02:06.28]that I’ve been trying to tell you about.”
[02:07.97]Paul got out and lifted the lad to the front seat of his car.
[02:12.45]The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him
[02:16.72]and the three of them began a memorable holiday ride.
[02:20.44]That Christmas Eve, Paul learned what Jesus meant
[02:24.60]when he had said:“It is more blessed to give...”
[02:27.99]My Holiday Wish for the World Is That We all could Be Brothers Like That.
