The Interrogation

THE INTERROGATION
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"Your other activities, Miss Ten Boom. What would you like to tell me about them?"

"Other activities ? Oh you mean----you want to know about my church for mentally retarded people!"
And I plunged into an eager account of my efforts at preaching
to the feeble-minded.

The lieutenant's eyebrows rose higher and higher.
"What a waste of time and energy!" he exploded at last.
"If you want converts, surely one normal person is worth all the half-wits in the world!"

I stared into the man's intelligent blue-gray eyes: true Nationalist-Socialist philosophy, I thought....And then to my astonishment I heard my own voice saying boldly,
"May I tell you the truth?....The truth, Sir," I said, swallowing, "is that God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours---so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things."

I knew it was madness to talk this way to a Nazi officer. But he had said nothing so I plunged ahead.
"In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strength or our brains but simply because He has made us. Who knows, in His eyes a half-wit may be worth more than a watchmaker. Or----a lieutenant."

The lieutenant stood up abruptly. "That will be all for today."

Page 160 from THE HIDING PLACE by Corrie Ten Boom
(John and Elizabeth Sherrill) Spire Books

"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
and God hath chosen the weak things of the world
to confound the things which are mighty.
And base things of the world, and things which are despised,
hath God chosen, yea,
and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are:
That no flesh should glory in His presence."
1 Corinthians 1: 27-29

Salvation: www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm