Do It Now!

There is a wonderful story about a horse-trader in the hills of West Virginia. He was a sharp dealer but he always justified his horse-trades by quoting the Bible. He knew just what passage to use in each case. On one occasion, he had a very sick horse on his hands. He tried to sell it but everybody in the area knew the horse was sick and they wouldn’t touch it. Then a stranger came along and it was’t long before he was riding out of town on the sick horse, as the horse-trader counted a thick wad of bills. This upset the horse-trader’s wife very much. “Don’t tell me you sold that sick horse to someone?” “Yeah,” he said. “A preacher passed through and I sold him the horse.” “Really, a man of the cloth! You would do this to a clergyman?” she asked. “Oh, it’s alright,” he replied. “As the Bible says, ‘He was a stranger and I took him in.'”

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