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O I was so happy. I told them I could stay until four or five in the evening. Then I would have to leave as I was scheduled to speak that night. We had a lovely meal. Afterwards the rabbi said, "If you will pardon me, I will lie down, for I am very weary. I preached twice this morning. You and my wife can talk." His wife and I went into the living room and sat on the sofa together. "You don't mind if I sit close to you, do you?" she asked me. "No, I surely don't. But why do you want to sit close to me, Margrit?" (We were speaking Hungarian and I immediately began to call her by her Hungarian name.) "O," she said, "I don't understand. I don't know why, but there's something about you that makes me feel so safe and secure when I'm near you. You have something about you that makes me feel so calm." I said, "Why? Do you not feel calm? Do you not feel safe or secure?" I was wanting to get something from her that would open the way for me to start witnessing. "No," she said, "I'm so frightened, so afraid. This morning my husband was preaching about life being similar to taking a ride on the train which has a long travel schedule. It stops at various stations until it reaches its destination. People boarding this train get off at various stations. He meant that people at various ages die. They get off the train at various stations. Some ride on it till old, old age. All the time I was so full of fears that I was crying in my heart, 'O God, I want to get off that train! I want to get off that train!'" "But, Margrit, why do you want to get off the train now? You are young, you have lovely children, you have a fine husband." "But, O," she cried, "I'm so distressed. The future worries me so." "Why, Margrit?" "Well, you see, we're from Hungary and in Hungary it was the Christian Democrats that turned against the Jews. It was the Christian Democrats that sold us over to Eichmann. It was the Christian Democrats that collaborated with the Communists. We suffered so much at their hands." She paused. "Just a moment," she said, "let me show you something." She went to the desk and brought me a newspaper published close to this city, almost on the border between Canada and the United States where we then were. "Just look at this paper," she said. "It's published by the Christian Democrats and is a Fascist newspaper. We escaped from Hungary, leaving everything there to come here where we thought we would be free from people like this, and right here under our noses are these same Fascists. O I want to get off the train. There's no place in this world where one can find peace."
"That's right, Margrit, no matter where in this world you would run, you would not find peace." "But you have it. Where did you find it?" "Ah," I thought to myself, "Ah, for this moment am I here." And from that moment I began to tell her of Jesus in whom I had come to trust, whom I had learned to love. "He is my peace," I told her. "It is He who gives me such peace. Now I fear nothing." She asked, "Do you think you will escape because you are a Christian when persecution comes to the Jews in America?" "No, I will not escape and I did not become a believer that I might escape. Some Jewish people think this. No, I will not escape, because in Hitler's Germany, Hitler hunted down the Jews even to the eighth and twelfth and sixteenth generation. If they had just that much Jewish blood in them, they were sent to the concentration camps. No, I will suffer gladly with my people when the time comes. But thank God! I know I have made my peace with Him and I know where my Neshuma [soul] is going when this carpre [body] goes back to the dust." I spent the rest of the afternoon with Margrit. She asked me if I had a Bible in Hungarian. I told her I would get her one. This I did and sent it to her. Later, I went to see her again. We had prayer together, and as she prayed softly, she whispered His name, the wonderful name of Jesus. Thank God for that dear soul! Since then she and her husband have returned to Israel. He is serving as a rabbi. As far as I know, he has not been saved. But I am trusting God to keep her just as devoted as she was when she committed herself to God in their small apartment in the little Canadian town. * * * * * * * 9 "BESIDE ALL WATERS" Early one morning I felt led to drive to some cities in southern Illinois and visit some Jewish people. Some I had visited before and some I had not. I called up Judy, a Jewish girl about fifteen years old who had been saved about a year. This child knew what it meant to suffer for Jesus' sake. She had taken a stand against the theater, against the dance, against drink. She had incurred the wrath of her parents because she refused to indulge in these things. I said, "Judy, would you like to travel with me today?" "I sure would, Auntie," she answered. "All right, I'll come down and get you about eight o'clock and we'll go roundabout southern Illinois. We'll be back tonight sometime. Ask your mother and daddy if it's all right." She did and obtained their permission to go.
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