JUN IOR K ING ’S BUSINESS
edited by Martha S. Hooker
just a I few minutes
by F rances P hair
H ow late is m y train?” asked the young woman traveler. “ Oh, just a few minutes,” the station agent answered carelessly. And then to her next question he replied, “ Yes, you ’ll have time for a walk. Your train w ill be here in about an hour or maybe an hour and a half.” Ruth Lee smiled to herself at the statipn agent’s idea of “ just a few minutes” as she stepped out of the stuffy waiting room into the bright sunshine. She had not counted on this delay but had learned that God runs His children’s timetables, and she lifted her heart to H im asking that He would bless the few minutes she was to spend in the little town. Meanwhile a block down that street a woman Ruth had never ¡seen bent over her ironing board
with a worried frown on her face. The woman, M a ry Dale, was think- ing how hard and unhappy life had become since her little child, Kay, began to lose her eyesight a year ago. This morning she was thinking how their happy home had changed in that time. She could see the strain in her hus band’s face grow deeper as the days passed. Suddenly outside the house there was the sound of hurrying feet and voices. The gang was com ing across the side porch. M ary heard .her 12- year-old daughter N ancy’s voice raised above the rest calling, “ W e don’t want you. You can’t s'ee.” The cruel words hurt Mary. Quickly setting her iron down, she rushed to the front door, on ly to see the children tearing down the street with little Kay’s flying fig
ure racing after them. In terror, M a ry called, “ Kay, remember the high curb.” But Kay could not hear her. She had forgotten everything but her wish to catch up with the others. N ow the mother sensed a new danger as she saw a sw iftly moving car com ing down the cross street. W ou ld it reach the com er the mo ment Kay fell over the high curb into its path? “ Oh God , s a v e h e r,” M ary sobbed. Her heart and feet seemed heavy as lead, for even as she rushed after her child she knew she would be too, late to help her. Then before her misty eyes, there was a flash of blue; she heard the sound of screeching brakes, and in one glad instant she had Kay and a slender woman dressed in blue in her arms. The woman was Ruth
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