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By Richard Wurmbrand

Imprisoned by way of the Romanian Communists for his paintings within the Christian Underground, and subjected to medieval torture, Wurmbrand saved his faith—and bolstered it. For fourteen years, he shared that religion with affliction cellmates and gave them solace. In solitary confinement, he tapped out his message of wish and Christian love. In Room 4, the “death room”, he helped loss of life sufferers even supposing his lungs have been riddled with tuberculosis and his physique lacerated and bloody from whips and kicks. Anguished over the destiny of his spouse and son, he may possibly nonetheless inform jokes and tales to make despairing prisoners snigger. Sorely tempted through the promise of free up and reprieve, he refused to turn into a Communist collaborator.

And the miracle is that he survived.

With humble gratitude to God and Christ, he tells his own tale. It’s an inspiring drama of positive religion.

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I had passed hours in noisy places of amusement among half-naked women and exciting music; but I also liked to take lonely walks through cemeteries, sometimes on winter days when snow lay heavy on the graves. I said to myself, “One day I too will be dead, and snow will fall on my tomb, while the living will laugh, embrace, and enjoy life. I shall be unable to participate in their joys; I shall not even know them. I will simply not exist anymore. After a short time, nobody will remember me. ” In considering social and political problems, I thought that perhaps one day mankind would find some system that would provide freedom, security, and wealth for all.

I had studied the lives of Christians who had faced similar pains and temptations to surrender and thought how I might adapt their experiences. Many who had not so prepared themselves were crushed by suffering, or deluded into saying what they should not. ” For my part, since I was certain of being found guilty whatever I said, I decided that under torture I might incriminate myself, but never betray friends who had helped me to spread the gospel. So I planned to leave my interrogators more confused at the end of their investigation than at the start.

Nobody was allowed to speak the word “death” in his presence. He divorced his wife because she told him about the death of a nephew. He had everything, but was unhappy because he knew that happiness could not last, that he would have to leave it behind and rot in a tomb. Although I had read the Bible for its literary interest, my mind closed at the point where the adversaries challenge Christ, “Descend from the cross if you are the son of God,” and, instead, He dies. It seemed to prove His foes were right, and yet I found my thoughts going spontaneously to Christ.

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