before the days when communism foul in
Eastern Europe before the time when
people could meet legally in public
gatherings and enjoy the freedom of
religious worship before that time
Christians were often arrested and kept
in prisons in dark damp underground
cells or in labor camps where the
Communists went to great lengths to
break their faith or slowly let them die
it was in the midst of this darkness
away from any human comfort that the
love of Christ shown Savior
this is the story of a family that
endured
Richard worm Brad was born the youngest
of four sons in an Orthodox Jewish
family on March 24th 1909 in Bucharest
Romania when he was still a young boy
his father moved the family to Istanbul
Turkey passionate driven and gifted
intellectually Richard grew to be a
highly motivated young man fluent in
nine languages in time Richard met
sabina Auster a young chemistry student
also of Jewish descent soon thereafter
on October 26th 1936 they married
Richard began work as a stockbroker and
the young couple spent much of their off
hours enjoying the cosmopolitan life of
Bucharest as atheists religion was the
last thing on their minds they lived in
the words of high finance so of course
they were invited to all the parties he
is a high finance in Romania they
existed only to make money and to spend
money eventually something happened that
brought the high living couple to a
standstill
Richard was diagnosed with an illness
rampant in Eastern Europe tuberculosis
order to convalesce in the countryside
the worm brands made their way to a
small village very close to the city of
brasov where they soon met Peter wolf
keys an aged and unassuming carpenter it
was an encounter that would prove to be
life-changing
wolf keys was a dedicated Christian
whose lifelong prayer had been to share
his Christian faith with Jews the
challenge was that in the remote village
in which he lived he had never
encountered any that is until he met
Richard and Sabina so he challenged them
he said you're Jewish hardly any Jew has
read about this Jew called Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ was a greatest and most
famous of all Jews and he gives him the
gospel actually a New Testament in the
German language my father took the New
Testament to read
being pointed to the Gospel of John he
became extremely impressed I mean more
than impressed his whole thinking went
upside down
he realized that here was somebody who
like Jesus Christ who always spoke the
truth he spoke about love
he was ready out of love to sacrifice
himself sacrifice his life and this
turned my father around reading through
the Gospels Richard began to ponder his
own life and the emptiness that had
often tugged on him eventually
Richard worm brand the atheist
pleasure-seeker humbled himself and
opened his heart to God his life was
wonderfully affected and while he
experienced joy and excitement in his
newfound faith Sabina was equally
horrified she wanted to throw herself
from the window all her hopes to lead a
life of luxury and party and good life
we're dashed because the one of the
first thing my father did when he became
a Christian was to resign from this
stock brokerage it was only natural that
Richard would want his wife to share in
his newfound joy but Sabina would have
none of his religious talk
she was a young 23 year old woman and
the last thing she wanted to do was give
up her social events and entertainment
for what she anticipated would be a
boring religious life cunning as he was
Richard sought the best way to get his
point across he accepted an invitation
to a high society party so a lot of
people got drunk and rowdy
and it was not a pretty sight and my
mother said Richard let's go home and he
said no we came to party
and then there were all kind of stupid
jokes and the party became you know just
a drunken nonsense and my mother started
crying and begging my father to take her
home and she said if you take me home I
will be baptised in the morning the
party had been a fitting and vivid
illustration of the emptiness of their
social gatherings it seems clear that
Richards words and prayers had someone a
seed in Sabinas heart she soon embraced
the faith of her husband and came to
know Christ feeling the need for both
training and guidance they joined the
Anglican mission to the Jews in
Bucharest and Richard was eventually
ordained an Anglican Minister Richard
and Sabina were both active in
evangelism eventually becoming well
known dedicated Christians among the
religious circle of Romania rumors of
war caused their message of hope and
faith to be well received eventually in
1939 on the eve of World War two they
were blessed with a son a boy they named
me hi my earliest recollections as a
child the very earliest recollection is
my mother holding my hand and running
like crazy across a field into a bomb
shelter because it was 1 or 2 the reason
I was running with my mother by the hand
to this bomb shelter my father was
nowhere in sight was because my father
purposely during all these bombing raids
he had gathered a group of six or seven
Christians most of them Jewish Christian
and he was week visiting shelter by
shelter and praying with people
that's in no way that's how he became
known in Romania World War two was
cataclysmic the Germans invaded Romania
and life was soon quite difficult and
challenging rather than only being
concerned for the survival of their own
family Richard and Sabina gave
themselves wholeheartedly to meet the
needs of others people were scared and
many suffered loss of all sorts they
needed God and comfort more than ever
the worm brands fulfilled their ministry
by continuing to preach in the bomb
shelters and rescuing Jewish children
out of the ghettos Richard and Sabina
were repeatedly arrested and beaten and
at least once were nearly executed it
was a time of hardship Sabina lost her
Jewish family in Nazi concentration
camps as did many others Romania reeled
from internal political turmoil but the
worm brands did not shirk their
responsibilities rather than being
concerned about themselves the worm
brands rushed in where the need was
greatest despite the risk and that's
exactly what they did when in 1945 the
Communists seized power and Romania was
invaded by 1 million Russian troops
Richard warned brands and he spoke Assam
8 9 10 11 languages when the Russians
invaded would walked into the Russian
army basis just walk in
and he would have a watch with him or
something and squat down on the ground
I've talked to all the Russian soldiers
like they were talking about this watch
for sale but actually down on the ground
squatting around with all of them he
would be talking about Jesus and the
Russians were incredibly hungry to know
anything about God he talked about God
about Jesus because by that time God had
been taken from their lives for 40 years
they'd been told there is no God and
they were very hungry to know what is my
life what is my life all about is there
a God and he would sit and just very
gently patiently start talking with him
about life about God and and all of them
would be very curious
although unauthorized religious meetings
were prohibited Richard and Sabina were
innovative in finding ways to gather
Christian believers on many occasions a
large get-together of families and
children would take place in a park the
worm brands would teach the adults while
the young children were given Sunday
School inevitably the police would
arrive and they were told that it was
someone's birthday the ruse worked and
the believer celebrated birthdays every
Sunday the passion the worm brands felt
for reaching their people with the
gospel was unstoppable
Sabeena rose to many on occasion
according to the need one night she rode
on the roof of a train this train was
carrying Russian troops and on the roof
of the train was Sabina with bags of
salt which the Christians could sell and
Bibles so the troops were down in the
Train to invade and take over political
control Sabina was on the roof of the
train to bring these spiritual freedom
all night on the roof she never behaved
with more love with more attention with
more dedication with more sacrifice then
with people who did her the greatest
harm
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in a difficult situation like under
communism in Romania we had many enemies
we had many people who would be mean and
do you was the most abject hardened I
mean without second thought this would
be the people who would be invited to
our home this would be the people when
we early we had something precious or
special this would be the gifts to these
people happy food is the greatest harm
such was an occasion when the worm
brands were visited in the middle of the
night by the very man who had been
responsible for the deaths of many
members of Sabinas family the man was in
terrible anguish of conscience he
started crying and all that and it was
late in the night maybe past midnight
and my father woke up my mother and
explained who this person was and my
mother passed midnight embraced him told
him she forgives him and started setting
up the table and they had some wonderful
meal
needless to say one cannot fathom how
difficult that must have been for her
but she poured all of God's love into
the man by daybreak he was kneeling with
the worm Brants in prayer having arrived
a tormented man he walked away a
forgiving Christian and she would say to
be a Christian he's not like you are a
weight lifter or a sportsman between
2:00 and 4:00 every afternoon you go to
the gym and you train to be a Christian
you have to take the opportunity right
when is the most difficult to be a
Christian that's when you have to be a
Christian
between 1945 and 1947 the worm brands
distributed 1 million Gospels to Russian
troops the books often disguised as
communist propaganda Richard also
smuggled Gospels into Russia
in 1945 Richard and Sabina attended the
Congress of the cult's organized by the
Romanian communist government and
attended by four thousand delegates
Congress was publicized but beyond being
published and was broadcast in the
entire nation and priest after priest
and pastor after pastor stood up and
explained how they obtained light from
Stalin and from the calmness and what
freedoms they enjoy and like that the
government was saying you can no longer
have Sunday school and many of these
Christian things and the hundreds or
maybe thousands of pastors sitting there
said nothing maybe they were afraid of
the government and Sabina told Richard
why don't you stand up and watch this
shame off the face of Jesus Richard took
the podium and to the dismay of the
communist officials began to denounce
communism as an evil not to be tolerated
communism has made martyrs of our
brothers how could it be praised by the
church he boldly proclaimed this was a
catalyst in arousing other believers to
take rise to their feet while some tried
to drown Richards message out others
were yelling let the pastor speak let
the pastor speak it was a chaotic scene
so the broadcast was interrupted the
company stood up asking that he be cut
from speaking the whole Congress was
finished rising in there
Richard was relentless and his zeal to
preach the gospel as well as denounced
the evils of communism eventually the
government made a move to silence him
it was a Sunday morning a winter Sunday
morning and my father lives the house
and he walked it was like eight minutes
ten minutes walk to the church the
church was not far from where we was
around the corner from where we live
some car of the secret police was
waiting for him and they overpowered him
and took him in a car and he disappeared
the first suit which came into my mind
when I was in the hands of the Communist
jurors was that in the Bible the words
don't be afraid of you 366 times once
for every day of the year and because
that is the extra day of the leap here
it is not 365 but 366 times
I knew that evening the ban of the
secret police I am in the hands of the
Almighty God and this gave quite to my
heart just after two weeks three weeks I
kept asking where is father
Varis father I saw my mother crying you
know then I realized what had happened
Sabina continued trying to locate
Richard but to no avail
she now knew he had been taken by the
police but had little idea to where and
for how long
she would not see Richard for many many
years
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she never knew if I'm a life or death
she was totally that I am dead men were
sent to see the life that they are
released prisoners and that they have
attended my burial and my wife continued
to wait for me his rate dropped to 90
pounds in a matter of three months he
received four for long periods lice of
bread a day that was peaceful was my son
and the wonderful thing about it is my
father recalls that as he was angry and
like that his prayers he was praising
the Lord
Richard was interrogated and beaten
relentlessly hung upside down from
shackles his feet were beaten until they
bled then he was forced to walk in
circles around his small cell without
permission to stop or sit down to sit
just like this to close your eyes was a
crime 17 hours a day you have to sit
like this and he'll retreat suffered
unspeakable treatment from his captors
and their efforts to extract information
about other Christians the isolation and
physical and emotional torture were
grueling it went on for years he had
scarce in his body that you could put
your son
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so you can imagine the type of torture
at times he was angry he would shout and
beat on the door of his cell saying give
me back Mihai Mihai as his son they
would actually place children in cells
around them to make noises in the cells
around his wife also so they would miss
their children yes we will kept everyone
alone in a Cell never have you seen
never have you seen a man except the
interrogators who beat and tortured when
after many years I had to write again I
did not remember how to write a capital
V life had to continue and Sabina
perhaps hiding her own grief did her
best to continue to work among the
underground church she instructed Mihai
to do his best at school as a witness to
others I was studying and learning very
well so they came to make the first
communist organization among the
children they were called young pioneers
you were given a red tie you were given
a badge and as a child you had free
access to swimming pools hobby making
clubs lots of incentive for kids and I
said I will not wear the necktie awful
regime that keeps my father in jail and
who denies the existence of God and it
was total cost our nation I totally
destroys the whole festivities of
festivity at that moment was a journey
they wanted to throw me out of school
reisender think of it I was in fifth
grade
Richard continued to endure torture in
prison without a formal trial finally
approximately two and a half years after
his disappearance
a very ill Richard was brought into a
small room for a hearing when asked if
he had anything to say in his defense he
was so sick all he could answer was I
love God the hearing lasted ten minutes
Richard was sentenced to 20 years
outside the prison life had become
difficult for Sabina and Mihai soon
their small apartment was taken over by
the government and they were left to
live in only one small room not long
thereafter in 1950 a new incident
further affected his circumstances I was
not in Bucharest when six o'clock in the
morning seven eight secret policemen
came to my mother's home where we lived
by that time we were in one room they
asked my mother to dress in front of
them they took her straight out of bed
they made an inspection a house search
which was not much of houses was one
room searched and she disappeared Sabina
was taken prisoner and once later
assigned to work with other captives
building the Danube canal this they did
by carrying the rocks with their bare
hands in the freezing cold the prisoners
were provided no warm clothing only what
they came into prison with many
prisoners died she disappeared in the
communist prison system she was never
told whether she's in for a day for a
month for a year she was she never was
taken to a judge a few times they
in order to frighten her or frighten the
other people's is threw her into the
Danube River River and Fisher back up
and so Z turns a prison cell
we decided that Linds mornings when you
open your eyes preparing yourself for
the field to go to the work console ever
you see yoga waiting will be give thanks
to the Lord for he is good and His mercy
endures forever
dear dear sisters and deal veteran I
could not describe inverts Vance's new
greetings made in our prison cell
sometimes during the night
some political prisoner would come to
one of the Christians please teach me
your greetings they were ashamed to come
during the day thieves and troubles
have learned to repeat those words if
thanks to the Lord for his good and His
mercy endures forever
and the hell was changed completely
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by divert of God
by giving thanks to the Lord even in the
most difficult circumstances the hunger
in those prisons was incredible and
literally the women's US prison he'd
tree bark and in grass in order to
sustain themselves she fasted one day a
week through entire prison she always
fasted one day a week her entire life
but one day a week she fasted in prison
not content with a torture they were
inflicting on Richard and unsatisfied
with his lack of cooperation
Richard was placed in solitary
confinement in a small cell deeper
underground
the guards wore felt sold shoes and no
noise was permitted the silence being a
way to further destabilize the prisoners
who not long afterwards began to lose
notion of day or night and would long
for some familiar sound in this type of
situation with little food and oft
beatings men would despair it was mental
torture a situation he would have to
endure for several years my whole night
I passed walking to and fro through the
cell with I didn't have shoes every
night I began by meditating on the Word
of God the verses which I remembered by
heart I meditated so much then I would
pass hours praying praying for the whole
bird I traveled in my spirit from one
country to other to another every night
I would pray for America for Britain for
Africa Australia New Zealand Germany
France every night I would deliver a
sermon there was no visible audience but
a French to God I preached to the Angels
they are also interested to know
what I think and what I have to say I
would prepare a regular sermon and they
deliver it then able to sit down
sometimes and out of a very primitive
think I had made a chess play and I
would play chess with myself and then
again I would walk around free and speak
to God this for the time but afterwards
a narcotics which we are putting our
food had effect upon our minds and we
could not really pray is usual sense of
the world anymore it was one of the most
desperate moments in my life when I
tried one evening to say the Lord's
Prayer that I found out that I had
forgotten it I said our Father which art
in heaven hallowed be thy name and I
didn't know what follows and then for a
long time I prayed only so much Jesus I
love you Jesus I love you
he seems that is fair enough and then I
could not concentrate my mind evening on
that and my only prayer would be the
beating of a loving heart sometimes we
would be overcome by such a joy of the
presence of the Lord that we would have
to dance and we danced like this this
shows this love of singing Don will
encounter Lysa
my multitouch am i free you would feel
that your heart-wrenching pieces if you
would not dance for joy so great was the
joy of the presence of the Brethren
sometimes we would be handcuffed to his
handcuffs like this to the back the
hands tied to the back we could not move
them food was brought to us we have to
lap it exactly like the dogs like it
we could not move our hands so the human
body has many necessities the hands were
tied to the back day and night but we
can tie a soul the soul can fly to the
Lord it has not even to fly because the
Lord is everywhere we forgot that we are
with our hands tied and repeated the
Communists they have killed many
Christians minions they have tried to
kill earth not stupid
they can kill only bodies we are not
bodies we are spirit and the spirit
can't be killed to die for Christ loving
Christ means to go to glory means to
Christ time during the present life we
won for Christ our fellow prisoners even
in the years of solitary confinement in
the great silence
you could hear during the night very
discrete noises through Morse code
through the wall from one cell to the
other we preach the gospel and souls
have been brought to Christ and the head
before me the impose declared communist
officer we confessed to them about
Christ and we converted them I myself
had before me a communist officer with a
rubber truncheon in his hand and they
told him about the love of Christ I told
him about
about God he put his rubber truncheon
aside he asked me mr. hood not how can
you love me I would never love somebody
who puts me in prison and beats me and I
told him about the new character about
the new heart which Christ gives to men
and they become embodied love and he
became our brother in prison for having
taken our defence Sabina endured her own
torture haven't been put into a car sir
on several occasions a small closet in
which one can only stand and which is
fitted with spikes so is not to allow
movement many prisoners were placed
there for an entire night
she was allowed to see me high just once
and only briefly enough to encourage him
not to abandon the faith but there was
also wonderful fruit in the midst of
suffering even though it would take
months or years the neighbor children
there mentioned immediately tears were
on the face of their mothers behind
locked doors behind iron bars we didn't
know anything about our children and
here the children we are mentioned you
sign a statement you deny your God and
you will be with your children who could
answer who could stand it
who could ever refuse to start to sign
the statement in order to be with the
child no mother could no mother could
ever but Jesus has promised I will be
with you always and Jesus keeps his
promise and just to mention in Hebrew
always means call young all the days but
it means all the days the whole day not
that he comes to visit us for 10 minutes
as we go to somebody visiting he
promised he will be with us all the days
the whole day eventually in 1953 after
three years of incarceration Sabina was
released but not before she was informed
by the authorities that Richard had died
in prison she went home in her mind a
widow to uncertainty however what Sabina
was told was not true Richard was alive
and remained in prison experiencing both
despair as well as glories of a God who
had not abandoned him
before in history just as a flower when
you bruise her under your feet rewards
you with her perfume the moment we were
mocked the more we were tortured repeat
it and beloved
those who torture us it must be clearly
understood
we hate communism from all our art this
devilish system of militant atheism
which must be defeated if the Christian
Church wishes to live but we loved the
man and we asked ourselves how to win
these men for Christ and when we were in
the depths of this remorse and of the
Spain at once words of the cell began to
shine like diamonds I have been open in
my life I've seen California I have seen
Napoli I have seen many beautiful things
never have I seen beauties which I have
seen in the dark cell beneath the earth
such beautiful music as a third day the
King of Kings Jesus was with us we saw
his understanding his loving eyes he
wiped away from our eyes our tears he
set wise words of love and words of
forgiveness we knew everything which had
been
in Our Lives has passed away being
forgotten by God now that came wonderful
days the bright rose in the arms of the
bridegroom we were with Christ we didn't
know that we were in prison sometimes we
were taken to interrogatories we were
beaten we were tortured just a st.
Stephen while they threw stones at him
did not see his murderers did not see
the stones so heaven open and Jesus
standing at the right hand of the Father
so we didn't see any more succumbing
torturers we didn't see that we are in
prison we were surrounded by angels we
were with God
after years of barbaric treatment
Richard became extremely ill and was
transferred to a room known as the death
room the area were those without any
hope of recovery were simply sent to die
but Richard prayed and little by little
to the amazement of his captors he began
to recover he used the opportunity of
being with other prisoners to minister
to and help them the men would pray
together they would sing hymns while
using their shackles and chains as
instruments and one by one each man came
to Christ then one day in 1956 eight
years after Richard had been taken there
was a news after eight years
it so happened that he turned around a
very high official in the secret police
my team Lucretia
he's so witness to this guy he came back
from one of the interrogatories and told
his wife this well said I met today a
man like I didn't think that existed on
the surface of this earth I am sick I
want to go into bed and he went to bed
and then he made a plan how to free my
father from prison and this secret
policeman happened to be the immediate
helper or secretary of the top secret
police leader or if he was called the
Minister of the Interior and this meant
that my father turned around him and
witness to abort the love of Christ and
like that and said you live hate your
whole life is full of hate you torture
people you hate us you hate me you hate
everybody one day you will turn around
you'll hate your own wife your hate your
own children what kind of life is that
you and he witness about Jesus Christ
and he was Jewish he turned the Jewish
secret policeman into a Christian he
made a plan how to free my father
so what he did he he introduced and
there's a hundreds of paper he usually
gave to the Minister of Interior to sign
every morning he was the guy who would
give him hundreds of papers to sign
official stuff he introduced one paper
that said free Richard Wurman it was a
dick a degree a decree of pardon for
each of them he had no idea what he was
saying
hundreds of papers he's saying that and
one day my father was freed out of
prison after eight years of prison a
frail Richard suddenly found himself out
of prison he had nothing no clothes no
money but he had his freedom a blessing
he could not but praise God for it was
through the help of local people who
recognized him as a freed prisoner and
took pity that he got enough coins to
take buses back to his old home seeing
Richard again was a shock for Sabina she
thought he was dead it was a joyous
reunion
the first thing Richard did was to kneel
with his family and give thanks to God
not long thereafter he began to minister
again he was re-arrested in 1959 through
the conspiracy of an associate and
sentenced to 25 years he was accused of
preaching ideas
contrary to communist doctrine due to
increased political pressure from
Western countries
Richard was granted amnesty and released
in 1964 some churches in the West had
paid a ransom for their family of ten
thousand dollars and letters from
different officials I think this was
from a group in Norway and during this
time after one of his releases from
prison and it was felt he would be more
valuable in the West in the free
countries to share the message of
persecuted Christians sort of tried to
keep him alive and get him out of
Romania at that time and so they flee
from Romania to a refugee camp in Italy
and eventually made their way to America
God had a plan for him but after having
tuberculosis bones broken many things in
prison he continued to live perhaps to
bring that message out to to the rest of
the world
Richard began his ministry of being a
voice for persecuted Christians in
England with Reverend Stewart Harris
where he also wrote his testimony in the
book tortured for Christ
later the worm brands moved on to the
United States and in 1965
Richard appeared before a US Senate
Internal Security subcommittee he took
his shirt off in front of the Senate
showing them the scars that that these
different forces around the world that
opposed Christians in his case communism
are real they tried to do physical
damage to their body out in the West we
will reward us by creating a mission to
the community his story spread rapidly
leading to more and more speaking
engagements in 1967 the worm brand's
officially began a ministry committed to
serving the persecuted Church called
Jesus to the Communist world and later
named the voice of the martyrs the worm
brands poured their heart and soul into
the ministry which in turn helped to
open the eyes of many people to the
plight of persecuted Christians around
the world
Richard and Sabina never forgot their
time in prison and prayed desperately
for those who continue to experience
hardship in Romania the Beloved Country
they had never expected to return to
until a change of events opened a door
in 1989 a revolutionary wave that began
in Poland swept across the communist
countries of Central and Eastern Europe
resulting in the fall of Soviet style
regimes one by one countries once under
the rule of communism began to collapse
the Romanian head of state Nicolae
Ceausescu a dictator since 1965
stubbornly clung to power until an
unprecedented revolt by his own
countrymen toppled him in Timisoara the
people gathered in the public square and
prayed the Lord's Prayer the gathering
itself was considered illegal and even
much more so the fact that so many
people were praying in public and
chanting communism is dead God is alive
the cry was heard across the country and
not long thereafter the suppressive
communist government of Romania came to
an end what a time of jubilation it was
and what a triumph for those who had
endured such torment for so long after
25 years of exile and continually
upholding their country in prayer
Richard and Sabina returned to their
beloved Romania the country where they
had given their hearts to Christ and
labored so fervently for him it was a
memorable and emotional occasion and
they were warmly received Christians met
him at the airport with flowers saying
he spoke in many large churches they
returned two maybe three times the
Christians the government the media they
had opened doors across the country many
things in Romania had changed since the
worm brand's departure constructed on
top of the deep underground cell where
Richard had suffered the tortures of
solitary confinement there stood a new
building the thousand room palace that
the former dictator Ceausescu had built
for himself it now stood empty The
Dictator now dead
but beneath in some of the areas where
the cells had once stood Richard and
Sabina were now able to store Bibles and
Christian literature which would be
openly available to their countrymen
Richard's place of torture where he had
labored quietly in prayer was now used
for the service of his Savior arrogant
communism was gone and in its place God
now began his work
although happy to be back in Romania the
worm brands did not settle they had a
mission to continue when we lived in the
same house with him for some seven eight
years we only really saw them about two
months a year because they lived out of
a suitcase they had five or six
suitcases and they spoke in 10,000
churches in America they stayed active
as long as they could even editing and
writing from their hospital beds so they
lived their faith their love right up
until the last moment on earth Sabina
went to be with her Lord in August 11th
2002 months later in February 17th 2001
both left a legacy rich in devotion to
Christ and His Church
their talks books instant form of
witnessing and their courage in the face
of so much spiritual and physical
adversity remain a lasting example for
Christians everywhere
they brought a depth of love and mercy I
think to many Christians in America that
were unused to this aggressive love in
the face of evil this was something that
caused many people to say what where
does this strength come from well the
first time for me to a large extent I
understood how we went through it was
when I saw the Sequoias in the Sequoia
National Park it turns out to be that
the secret of the non gvt of this
Sequoia and it says that these trees
have very thin bark extremely thin bark
it's very easy for insects and for pests
to penetrate this part but this bark
excretes a substance called tanning that
kills all these insects and all these
pests they cannot penetrate this thick
bark because unlike other trees it has
this substance that would kill the moans
on touch and that's the nature of the
Christian faith you have seen skin like
everybody else and you suffer if you
have the face and the knowledge from the
gospel no communist propaganda thing
no no idea can penetrate tell you my
last confirmation class in Romania I am
a Lutheran pastor and I took a group of
10 15 boys and girls on Sunday morning
to the zoological garden before the den
of lions and tigers and there I told
them your forefathers in face the throne
before the
beasts for the love to Christ and they
died gladly for their Savior you also
may be arrested maybe beaten or killed
decide here and now if you wish to be
Christians or not they had tears in
their eyes when they said yes and then
we didn't bother them anymore
asking them Bible verses they didn't
know them we have no Bible then they
they are arrested every scene was taken
from us everything everything even our
clothes we were put in a prisoner
uniform but what we had gathered in our
heart nobody could take it away nobody
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