FAVORITE PUPIL
I find Sunday Sermons to be an excellent source of stories, although they actually publish whole sermons. In a recent issue they share a story they adapted from B. P. Roth’s, “Tears and Joy.” The story tells about a United States Ambassador to Greece who had a son who was a spastic. He could not coordinate between his brain and the rest of his body, and he suffered much from this affliction. But, in his own way, he was able to play with the children of the Greek royal family. One day, the little Greek prince said to the handicapped lad, “You must have been the favorite pupil of the Lord Jesus.” The crippled boy protested, “Why do you call me a favorite? Look at me! Look at how he made me.” To which the prince replied, “No, it is just like in school. There the teacher always gives the hardest problem to her favorite because she knows he will have the…
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