Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian...
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Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian clergyman, was an army chaplain in World War II. On a troopship with a thousand marines, he was leading a Bible study as they passed the days until they would be home in America again. They came to the eleventh chapter of John and moved through the rising of Lazarus account. When the class was finished, all left but one. He wanted to talk, so the Chaplain went to his room where they could be alone, and the marine told his story. "Everything in that chapter is pointing to me," he said. He explained that he had been in hell for six months, having been in deep trouble. Nobody knew about it but God, but he felt his life was ruined. "It was," as he put it, "like I was a dead man." Then, after reading about what Christ did for this dead man, he felt as though he had come alive again, too. "For me, the resurrection is for me," he said, "for I feel that Jesus has raised me from death to life, and I can live again."
-- Kettlewell
-- Kettlewell
