The German pastor Martin Niemöller opposed to Nazism. For this reason, he was interned in 1937. He remained in a concentration camp until the end of the last war. He wrote:
"The Bible: that this book meant to me during the long years of solitary confinement and especially during the last four I spent in a cell at Dachau? The Word of God was everything to me - comfort, strength, guidance, hope, mistress of my days, the companion of my nights, the bread that feeds me and saved me of starvation, the water that refreshes my soul.
's more when I ceased to be alone in my prison. My top window was high to see outside but not too high to call and give some encouragement from the Bible, like seeds caught by the keeper. Later, when we allowed me to walk an hour a day in the yard, I found other windows too high to send the message of the Word of God to a brother in prison. "The Word of God is not bound. She becomes consolation, strength, guidance and hope for others like it should be.
And today, what happened to this book for me? I think exactly the same thing, only restrictions no longer exist and the opportunities are becoming rarer. The work is always placed before us, facing a world that expects God's life and peace. Our task is to reveal to him, to make him know by reading these pages and wonderful to announce a suffering humanity the message of peace that surpasses all understanding. We have a book given by God, take it, read it, do it in part to others and keep it, because it shows you the path of salvation. "
"The Bible: that this book meant to me during the long years of solitary confinement and especially during the last four I spent in a cell at Dachau? The Word of God was everything to me - comfort, strength, guidance, hope, mistress of my days, the companion of my nights, the bread that feeds me and saved me of starvation, the water that refreshes my soul.
's more when I ceased to be alone in my prison. My top window was high to see outside but not too high to call and give some encouragement from the Bible, like seeds caught by the keeper. Later, when we allowed me to walk an hour a day in the yard, I found other windows too high to send the message of the Word of God to a brother in prison. "The Word of God is not bound. She becomes consolation, strength, guidance and hope for others like it should be.
And today, what happened to this book for me? I think exactly the same thing, only restrictions no longer exist and the opportunities are becoming rarer. The work is always placed before us, facing a world that expects God's life and peace. Our task is to reveal to him, to make him know by reading these pages and wonderful to announce a suffering humanity the message of peace that surpasses all understanding. We have a book given by God, take it, read it, do it in part to others and keep it, because it shows you the path of salvation. "
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