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amount. “If you pray and I pray,
we’ll have it Have faith because
faith without works is dead.”
When Victor returned home that
afternoon, he found a check for
$2,000 —exactly what he
needed—from a guy to whom he
had sold some worthless stock
seven years earlier. At the time, the
guy had said, “If these stocks ever
get to be worth anything. I’ll split
the money and give half of it to you
to give to a ministry.” Victor jubil
antly reports, “God is faithful
every time.”
It isn’t that Victor’s faith isn’t
tested or that it doesn’t run into
some snags. Some years ago, he
decided to trust God for his posses
sions and cancel all his insurance
but liability and lire insurance. As
a step of his faith, Victor gave the
$5,000 premium to charity. Within
weeks, lightning struck six of his
cows. People expected Victor to
become discouraged, but he did
not. He recalls, “Even though we
lost six cows, our milk check stay
ed as big as ever. We didn’t even
miss them.”
Victor enjoys traveling and his
travels are often intertwined with
visits to both the biggest failure
and the biggest success in the
farming community. “I like to hear
their stories and analyze why one
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failed and the other succeeded.”
The Zeiglers’ attorney some
times complains of all the paper
work flying around from their
. many transactions. He said, “If you
passed away, I don’t know what
I’ll do.”
Of his endeavors, Zeigler
admits, “As long as I break even,
it’s a terrific education and I’m
ready for the next. I like to juggle
The banker admonished,
“You had six great years in form
ing and you were going great
guns—you can’t quit now.”
money and get $2 out of $l.”
Zeigler has applied conserva
tion practices on many of his prop
erties. He likes to buy and fix up
farms. He isn’t one merely to dele
gate work; instead, he rolls up his
sleeves and gets into the job
whether it is bulldozing, plowing
or milking cows.
His days start at 4 a.m. and he
stops working at 8 or 9 at night and
he retires at 10 p.m. “I like to
work,” he said, “there is not much I
don’t like to do. I’d rather smell
fresh-mowed hay than go golfing.”
He also enjoys organizing
events such as 30 farm companies
going to Germany together and
they visited Russia, singing in an
octet and choir, and serving as a
Cowtown, N.J.
church deacon.
His wife keeps as busy as he
does. She teaches both a class of
mentally handicapped children in
the Eastern Lebanon County
school district and a Sunday
School class. She is president of
the Lebanon Valley Brethren
Home Auxilary, serves on the
committee for the annual Disaster
Relief Auction and other church
functions.
limited to farming and giving. He
tells of a brief physical showing up
a heart problem. Two additional
doctors confirmed that his heart
was indeed blocked to the extent
that they felt he had already had a
heart attack. They scheduled him
for surgery, but before Victor
entered the hospital, he requested
that die elders of his church anoint
him with oil in accordance to a
scripture in James S. The next
night, Victor could not sleep. His
chest got so itchy, he kept scratch
ing. Then he started sweating so
much his feet left footprints on the
floor. “I knew God was healing
me,” he said. At 3 a.m., he heard a
cow having trouble with calving so
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he went out to help. Then he went
to the hospitalfbr his scheduled
tests. “Every test came out nega
tive,” Victor gloats. “They kept
saying, “We can’t find anything
wrong.”
He continued, “I might die
tomorrow from a heart attack, but I
had six good years in the
meantime.”
And, in the meantime, Victor is
keeping a former vow that he, after
reaching SO years of age, would
spend one-half of his time working
for charitable institutions. He’s
kept that vow, whether he’s help
ing a farmer in need or serving on
one of seven boards for places such
as Teen Challenge, COBYS and
Jubilee Prison ministries.
He has sat down with many peo
ple in financial trouble and advised
and helped them. He rejoices that
some of those he helped get a head
start are now “worth more than I
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The Zeiglers’ faith is conta
gious. They add to their faith com
mon sense, for they advise, “Don’t
jump into deep water when you
can’t swim. Try swimming in
water you can stand in at first.”
Although they’d like to help many
more persons than they do, they
concede that they need to be more
cautious and watch their cash flow.
While they admit that it’s diffi-
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nothing to buy a farm unless they
buy at a lower price, they maintain,
“if they are ambitious and honest,
they can make it”
Part of failing, Victor believes,
happen because people try to imi
tate each other. He said, “We need
to work with the talents we have.”
He explained,“One time I talked
with a guy who was so depressed
he was about to commit suicide. It
turned out that although he was a
successful farmer, he was compar
ing himself with his millionaire
neighbor. I told him, “You can’tdo
that; otherwise, it will destroy your
potential. We’re not all gifted the
same way. We need to exercise the
talent we have; otherwise pressure
builds up and we destroy
ourselves.”
Victor enthusiastically reports,
“In the beginning my wife and I
never dreamed we could cover so
much ground. There’s so much
bad news being published every
day, I like telling about the good
news.”
That’s why Victor tells how liv
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fanning—not to impress people
with his own talents but to chal
lenge others to combine faith with
hard work and honesty. He asserts,
“With God, you can make it.”
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