...Jewish boys and another Jewish family were sent to KZ Auschwitz. After being sent to several other Nazi camps, Jacques arrived at KZ Gusen I around July 1944. Here he was forced to engage in the most difficult labor constructing a water-reservoir. He also worked on the final inspection command of "Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG" at KZ Gusen I (Georgenmuehle), where he labored alongside Louis, Jean Cayrol and Professor Roger Heim.According to his comrades, "P re Jacques" was a most optimistic person in the KZ Gusen commands and motivated many of his comrads to share their food and to believe in liberation. So, like "Papa Gruber" , he helped many survive.P re Jacques also gave his comrades spiritual support and even baptized some of them in KZ Gusen I. Young Polish comrades of his also testify that P re Jacques celebrated illegal religious services at KZ Gusen and visited the poorest of his comradesin his "spare-time" every evening.On April 25, 1945, with some 800 French inmates of KZ Gusen, he was transferred back to KZ Mauthausen central camp some 9 months after his arrival. He was liberated on May 5, 1945 byAl Kosiek and his 23 men of the 41st Recon Squad, 11th Ard Div, 3rd US...
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...Bonhoeffer is not always viewed as a peaceful protestor because of his involvement in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Yet for most of his life, peaceful resistance was Bonhoeffer’s regular practice. He once arranged to meet with Mahatma Gandhi, the famous non-violent activist of India, but was unable to because of events in Germany. In 1933, when the Nazis took control of the country, Bonhoeffer was one of the few pastors who spoke openly against the government. He also refused Nazi demands to cease his work. He became a prominent voice in the “Confessing Church,” which was formed in opposition to the national church that had sworn allegiance to the Nazi party. Bonhoeffer further broke the law by leading an underground seminary for anti-Nazi church members. Bonhoeffer’s civil disobedience was a bit different than that of African Americans like Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks. The African Americans’ Civil Disobedience was that of a people publicly protesting against the injustice of their circumstances. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s peaceful resistance was not as public. He needed to follow his conscience to speak the truth and not let evil take over the church. His goal was not to get caught, but to courageously do right and lead the way for others to do the...
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...biblical Church Discipline 1 Mark Dever Mark Dever is pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Cambridge Universit y, Cambridge, England, he is the author of Nine Marks of a Healthy Church and a recent book on Richard Sibbes. He is a contributing editor to The Founders Journal. Emily Sullivan Oakey was born, educated, and then taught in Albany, New York. As with many other women of the mid-nineteenth century, she spent a good bit of time writing down her thoughts—sometimes as part of a journal, other times as part of articles, very often in poetry. She published many of her articles and poems in daily newspapers and in magazines. As a young woman of twenty-one, perhaps inspired by Jesus’ Parable of the Sower, she wrote a poem about sowing and harvesting. Some twenty-five years later, in 1875, the poem was set to music by Philip Bliss and appeared in print for the first time under the title “What Shall the Harvest Be?”2 The little group of Christians who formed what would become Capitol Hill Baptist Church selected that very song as the first song to be sung in their meetings together, in February of 1878: Sowing the seed by the daylight fair, Sowing the seed by the noonday glare, Sowing the seed by the fading light, Sowing the seed in the solemn night. O, what shall the harvest be? O, what shall the harvest be? Very appropriate words to ring off the bare walls and bare floorboards of the building they met...
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