Posted on 01/25/2003 1:13:53 PM PST by LadyShallott
The death train had songs to the gas camp
After her speech, a lady by the name of Penny Lea had a very old man make his way to her weeping. She relates his early boyhood eyewitness account, "Each Sunday morning we would hear the whistle of a death train from the distance and then the clickety clack of the wheels moving over the track.
"We became disturbed one Sunday," he tearfully blurted, "when we noticed cries coming from the train as it passed by. We grimly realized that the train was carrying Jews to a gas camp. They were like cattle in those cars.
"Week after week that train whistle would blow," he dolefully continued. "We decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed was to start singing our hymns. By the time the train came rumbling past the church yard, we were singing at the top of our voices. If some of the screams reached our ears, we'd just sing a little louder until we could hear them no more."
In contrast, sometimes there is more concern and compassion for animals. A New Jersey journalist Yvonne S. Sanborn faxed me her analysis of how The Washington Post had filled its front page with frames of cows being slaughtered. The living animals were pictured blinking and in a conscious state while being carved up into marketable chunks of meat. She noted Ken Connor in The Washington Watch raised the conscience-searing question of why even more importantly no large circulation newspapers ever publish pictures of pre-born human babies who die blinking, sometimes sucking their thumbs, shocked, brain-vacuumed and dismembered piece by piece when they are aborted.
Dreadfully as that report and pictures bestir animal activists, Jesus beyond that reasons, "How much better is a man than a sheep" (Matthew 12:12) or any animal.
The cries of those Jews railroaded to gas chambers haunted that weeping old man to this day. But just as hauntingly, concerning the far worse abortion holocaust that continues in America, Proverbs 24:24 asks:
"If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth he not know it?"
The nationwide Planned Parenthood organization admits abortions are now in their lowest level since 1976. Its own Alan Guttmacher statistical arm says abortions have dropped near 40 percent since 1991. The Gallup Poll says there has been a 13 percent increase in pro life since 1995.
Ten years apart, the Summer of Mercy I and II demonstrations in Wichita and elsewhere, and our own prevailing prayers and constant testimonials, have made progress. Even Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) and Sandra Cano (Mary Doe) are both professing, confessing Christians in spite of the fateful Roe versus Wade decree Jan. 22 30 years ago. They intimately and thankfully know what the life-changing power of the gospel is where it says, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." (Acts 16:31)
If only the sleeping giant of the church universal would fully awaken to the outcries -- there are still more than 3,500 abortions daily in this country. If only somehow we ourselves, individually, could hear the silent screams of live, pre-born babies being taken, sometimes while still sucking their thumbs and the like. While being dismembered, remember these are no cows still blinking their eyes.
Clickety clack. Clickety clack. Clickety clack clack. Shall we sing a little louder?
Vern Bender is pastor of the People's Bible Baptist Church.
I heard this story years ago while sitting in a Pro-life meeting.
I have no doubt of its merit.
It touched me then.....it still does today.
A few years ago, I was a volunteer in a Crisis Pregnancy Center.
We gave free pregnancy tests....and listened to the hearts of the women who came in.
I will never forget this beautiful 20 something young professional lady who came in in her crisp, businesslike suit.
She sat there for an hour.....tearful and heartbroken because her pregnancy test was negative.
She was married and successful.....but feared the 'so-called legal' abortion she had in her younger years had robbed her of the ability to have future children.
That can & does happen....
We also had women come in who had had multiple abortions already.
For years, every time I heard about the Holocaust and the 6 million Jews who were murdered, it seemed like a tremendous number of souls.
There were also Christians murdered with them....many who had tried to shelter & protect them.
Nowadays, we have a new number......40 million.
40 million souls.......40 million ....oh the possibilities.....doctors, nurses, explorers, pastors, research scientists, engineers, mommys, teachers.....the list is endless.
Sacrificed on the altar of expediency.
May God have mercy.
This is the challenge to all of us. We must speak up and do what IS in our power to do.
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