JUNIOR KING ’S BUSINESS edited by Martha S. Hooker
Another Western Adventure with Leonard Eilers
A Stranger Called FREDDIE
When Trapper Tom and his friend Leonard Eilers returned from Coyote Springs they found an unwanted visitor had paid a startling call H i, everybody! Here we are again at our story Round-up for another happy time around our campfire. Somebody throw
stopped in their community and one night there Trapper Tom ac cepted Christ as his Saviour. I’d spent the night with him on a couple of occasions when I had been looking for cattle in his area and daylight had run out on me. W ell, I hadn’t seen Trapper Tom for about two months when I ran into him at Coyote Springs. I was hungry as it was getting toward eating time so I invited him to go along with me and have a bite too. That he was glad to do. We cut across the street to China Sam’s place. The only restaurant within miles and miles. He put out good food, at least it always tasted good to me. Maybe that was because I’d been eating my own cooking so long. We were sitting at the far end of the short counter, putting it away and having a big time visit ing when in walked a rather husky and quite young man. He stopped at the other end of the counter and just stood there sort of undecided and acting as though he didn’t like to do what he came to do. Then CON TINUED 33
because Jesus said we should. I recall a fine example of forgive ness that took place back trail many years ago. I was working for the Ox Bow Outfit on their Big Tree Ranch that was only a whoop and a holler from the foothills of the Rocky Mountain range. There really wasn’t much to do there, just to see that the water holes on Bear Creek which flowed right through the middle of the place were kept open by chopping out the ice and that the cattle got some hay which was stacked and fenced off in the meadows. Coyote Springs, the nearest town, was about 15 miles by way of the wagon road which led around the mountains. The last time I’d gone that way I stopped at Trapper Tom’s cabin on the edge of Sand Lake. It was quite a large and very beautifully located body of water high up in the mountains. He’d been in that country a long time and was a real nice old man. Dur ing his boyhood days back in Kentucky he attended a preaching meeting carried on by a man who
on some more wood. Thanks! Now come in a bit closer so you can all hear. I’m going to read a few verses in Luke to get us started and to prepare us for the story. “ Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother trespass against thee, re buke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.” J esus was always trying to teach His disciples some very important lessons. Naturally, whatever les son was important for them to learn is important for us to learn. The oné for today is on forgiveness. I don’t know how it is with you but sometimes I find it difficult to for give anyone who has done me wrong. But even if it is difficult for me or anyone of us to forgive, we must do it because it is right and
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