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What Is , There Left to Be Thankful For? • [Continued from Page 407] by a German raider in the South At lantic on April 17, 1941. After a harrowing experience, we were rescued from the ocean by the raider, and later were transferred to an auxiliary prison ship. After five weeks of very hazardous sailing, dur ing which we endured great hardship, the Americans were landed at St. Jean de Luz in Occupied France, thence to go to Lisbon and on to America. The British members of the party were taken on to Bordeaux and from there to Germany. We suffered much in the interval before reaching the British Women’s Internment Camp in Southern Ger many on June 16. We had been defi nitely and finally separated from the men on June 5, and it was some time before we knew the fate and where abouts, the one of the other. At the time of our separation, for one awful instant the thought flashed into my mind, “God has forsaken us.” . But quickly the Lord Himself whispered to my heart, “Cast not away there fore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward” (Heb. 10:35). After b e i n g interned for three months, those of us women who were Canadians were released to go to Ber lin. This was due to the fact that German women are not interned in Canada, and our government pro tested our internment on this ground. We lived in Berlin for nine months as free as it is possible to be in Ger many at the present time. During these months we were longing and praying for repatriation, always alter nating between hope and despair. Exit permits were refused us, but our own government as well as the Swiss gov ernment, which was our protecting power after America went into the war, was working hard for our free dom so that finally on June 13, 1942, we left Berlin by a special transport train to join the Diplomatic Exchange Ship Drot’tnlngholm, and finally ar rived safely in New York on June 30. God’s grace was manifested to us in many marvelous ways. First of all, we saw it in His protection and care as our ship w,as shelled and we were rescued from sinking lifeboats. He gave us wonderful calm and peace and the sense of His presence as we realized that death was imminent. This was true also as We braved the dangers of the North Atlantic while running the British blockade, and later in Berlin where we experienced numerous air raids. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.” We would praise Him, too, for the
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physical strength He gave us, and the wonderful way in which our health was maintained. The food we were given was inadequate and of the poorest possible quality. We knew what it was to be hungry and to suf fer want, to suffer great privations and tests of physical endurance, --and to be prisoners for Christ’s . Sake. In all, we of the women’s group were in four different prisons and one refugee camp as we were taken from place to place on our !way through the country to the Internment Camp. The v a r i o u s jails in which we were incarcerated had been inhabited by the worst criminals, and we knew that germs of every kind abounded, but we were all kept in health, prov ing to us His Word, “As thy days, so shall thy strength Ve.” And no matter what the circumstance or what the hardship we were called upon to endure, His grace proved to be suf ficient. And in moments that seemed too hard even for that, we found that “he giveth more grace”! Then He supplied our needs in a Very wonderful way. After we got to the Internment Camp, we began hav ing Red Cross food parcels Which meant everything to us, the differ ence between almost starvation and an adequate, well-balanced diet. Most of us had lost our clothing when the ship was sunk, and even this need was taken care-of by Him whose. Word says, “My God shall supply all your ¿need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19). Our release from imprisonment, and finally from Germany, we feel we owe entirely to God’s own mighty working power. No power on earth could have delivered us out of the strong hands of Germany except His alone. My husband is still a prisoner in Germany. In April of this year, the month before I left Europe for Amer ica, the Lord opened a door that had been tightly closed before. I was granted permission on two occasions
to see my husband on the Polish bor der. The visits lasted only about two hours, and were of course in the pres ence of a German guard, but those times jpf fellowship we r e indeed blessed. Among the things “left to be thank ful for”, I am sure my husband would include his privilege of service as he ministers the Word of life to the 1,300 British civilian prisoners in the In ternment Camp in eastern Germany. He has been made the Nonconformist chaplain of the Camp, and thus has many opportunities to preach the gospel as well as for soul-winning and to minister the comforts of God’s pre cious Word to other believers. With everything falling to pieces around us, I praise God, th a t,“He re- maineth." He is a very present help in trouble. He will never ’leave us nor forsake us. Though all else may fail, “he abideth faithful.” We are most grateful for the faith, and pray ers of God’s believing children who stood behind us in prayer during our- time of suffering and trial,’ and who are still praying for us that my hus band may be released, and that we may #oon be able to return to our work in Africa. We are glad that the door of God’s mercy is still open and th,at souls out of, Christ may yet be saved by faith in the precious blood of Him who died for sinners. We are grateful for His gracious, comforting presence with us day by day as we walk this pilgrim way, ‘for-the blessed hope of His soon return and the certainty of an abun dant entrance into His glorious and eternal home. In conclusion, may I say in the words of the imprisoned Apostle Paul, “I would ye should understand, breth ren, that the things which happened unto me [us] have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel” (Phil. 1:12). With all my heart, I be lieve this is true. Clara Gulldinv
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