A familiar story of E...
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A familiar story of E. Stanley Jones reveals the heart of a father. A man traveling on a train noticed a teenager who seemed in great distress. The boy looked out of the window, got up, walked up and down the aisle, looked anxiously out of the window again, and repeated the process over and over. Finally, the man said, "Son, you seem to be worried about something." "It's about my father. We had a violent quarrel a few weeks ago; he told me to leave home and never return. My mother has written me that Dad shows some signs of wanting me to come back. She said for me to look out of the window as the train goes by our farm. If Dad is ready to be reconciled, she will have a big white rag tied to the branch of the pear tree nearest the tracks. I can't bear to look. Our place is just around the next bend; and if there is no white rag on the tree, I am going on by, and will never return." The boy's fellow passenger put his hand on the boy's shoulder, and said, "Son, sit down and close your eyes. I'll be watching; and I'll tell you what I see." The boy sat down. In a moment, the train rounded the bend. The man shook the boy by the shoulder and cried out, "Look! There's a white rag on every branch of that tree!" -- Keller
