One night he even beat her and it was then that she told him, “Now I am sure that I know what Leon ard Eilers was trying to tell me. I should have listened to him.” “Leonard Eilers! Who is he?” B. B. roared. “A cowboy I met a long time ago. A Christian cowboy,” Sue said reminiscently. “Christian cowboy?” B. B. rum bled. “What kind of a cowboy is that?” “A cowboy who believes in Jesus Christ and tries to live according to His teachings.” There was an emp t y s adnes s to h e r voi ce. “Sounds strange to folks like us, doesn’t it, B. B.?” “Yeah.” His voice was hard and thin like a piece of flint Sue once found on the range in Wyoming. “Yeah, it sure does.” B. B. later ran off with another girl and it was then that Sue felt a real urge to go back home. I’m sure that urge was in her heart as a result of her parents’ prayers, and mine too. But since Sue didn’t act upon t h a t u r ge those prayers
she rebelled because that was some thing she had never done in her life. But finally she gave in. Just one at first, and then it was so easy to take two, and all too soon it be came a habit. Not only drinking, but smoking. She knew from the very first that it was wrong, and every time she took a drink or smoked a cigarette, she wondered if that was the beginning of what I meant when I talked to her dur ing Frontier Days. Things went from bad to worse. More and more Sue became dis gusted with herself. She recalled what I had told her about having a Christian home back on the ranch. She wondered if Del ever married, and if he had, who was the lucky girl. The thought of all that she might have had, and what she might have been if she had listened to those who were inter ested in her, haunted her. At times she wished deep down in her heart that she had never taken that first drink to please B. B. He wasn’t nearly as thoughtful of her as time went on.
Sue. She is such a good girl, but this show business has got her all mixed up.” I assured her that I would, and I did continue to do so even though I didn’t see Sue again for a long time. About a year after Sue joined up with the show, she met B. B. Brutle. He was an alb around cowboy and top performer — a very handsome fellow who had a way with girls. Sue was flattered by his devoted attention and his praise. He finally won her heart and persuaded her to marry him. Only thing about him she didn’t really like was that he drank too much. That was the one thing that had prevented her saying yes sooner than she did. But she tried to overlook that one bad fault because he had so many nice ways about him. They made a great team together in the arena and were the main attraction of the show. It was hard work and a rough life. Many a time at the end of a day Sue would be utterly exhausted and irritable. It was at such times that B. B. per suaded her to take a drink. At first
whose Sunday school enrollment has grown steadily from about 100 to nearly 400 in just six years.
The actual experience o f M innetonka Community Church, Minnetonka M ills, Minnesota
Mr. Robert Jacobson, Sunday school Superintendent says ... “...Gospel Light Lessonshave stimulatedagreater interest inthestudyof God’sWord...”
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