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Tragedies were everywhere. In a Jewish hospital I saw precious Jewish patients with a
whole hand taken off at the wrist, or with their fingers chopped off. I saw others whose hair had
been shaved and their skulls branded with their numbers. I talked with many about Jesus or about
the love of God and when I did, they would say, "Where was your God when all this took place?
We can't believe in God anymore. Why did He . . .? Why? Why? Why?"
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It was not easy to give an answer. All I could say was that God's cup of wrath is not yet
Many of the Jews now see that had persecution not come to pass in Germany, Israel would
not yet be a nation. There would have been no reason for these millions of Jews in Europe to want
their own country, even as American Jews do not feel the necessity of having their own country,
since, thus far, they have freedom and liberty in the United States. I pray God to bless our country
that we shall always have it so.
I was in the home of a young couple. They had lived in Hungary. (Because I know the
language so well, most of my contacts were with Hungarian Jews.) We were half reclining on the
floor, which is a very common Oriental custom, after a meal. My young host pulled out a mandolin
and while he strummed his instrument, he and his wife softly sang some of the Psalms. I glanced
toward the kitchen and saw his aged mother washing her hands at the sink. At first it did not bother
me. But when she kept it up for five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, I began to wonder.
I said to my young host, "Moshe [Moses], your mother -- she's washing her hands now
fifteen minutes."
He answered in a whisper, "Yes," and he pointed to his head. "She used to work in the
concentration camps and it was her task, because she was a big, strong woman, to pull the bodies
out of the gas chambers and with a chisel to take the gold fillings out of the teeth of the corpses.
She's been washing her hands ever since. But, Mrs. Hanley," he continued, "you ought to hear her
screaming in the night."
I said to him, "What should we do with Eichmann?"
"O," he answered with such compassion and mercy as only Jesus could give, "Let him live.
Let us pray for his soul."
With that, we tumbled to our knees, and he led in intercession for the soul of Eichmann.
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SOWING THE SEED IN ISRAEL -- 1968
My husband and I made the trip to Israel together in 1968. We went by faith. The Lord
marvelously supplied our need. We first stopped off in England and then we went to Germany