True Friendship - Laying Down Your Life - Philip P Stevens - May 1984

Philip P Stevens

A young girl's compelling example poignantly illuminates God's definition of friendship. Rachel de Beers was a young girl who lived in South Africa during the 19th century. Her family was poor, and Rachel and her younger brother Jamie worked as shepherds tending the family's cattle. One day Rachel and Jamie noticed that a calf was missing, and they began to look for it. In the course of searching they wandered farther and farther away from their home pastures. It soon got dark, and they realized they were lost. It was winter and it began to snow. The snowstorm reached a height during the night and then blew itself out the next morning. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library