I need that Cross. You need that Cross. We all need that Cross. Yes, all the wide world needs that Cross. If men are to retain their sanity; if any element of civilization is to escape this holocaust; if the world is to overcome the hell that this generation faces, we must come back to the Cross. In spite of burdens, in spite of experiences, in spite of every devil-whispered doubt, the blood-stained Cross of Calvary is and shall forever remain the unshakable proof that God is Love. Out of the darkness, the distress, the dismay, that assail every heart, it is for us Christians to glory in the Cross as never before, holding it up before a gainsaying world with the full assurance of God's concern, with an overwhelming conviction of the truth of Paul's contention, that all things must work together for good to them that love God.
Hyman Appelman (1902 - 1983)
Hyman Appelman was born in Russia to orthodox Jewish parents who moved to America in 1914. Appelman became a trial lawyer in Chicago. At age twenty-eight he was converted to Christianity, causing his parents to disown him. His father said to him, "When your sides come together from hunger and you come crawling to my door, I will throw you a crust of bread as I would any other dog."Feeling a definite call to preach, he attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and became one of the greatest evangelists of his generation. Dr. Appelman made eight or nine trips around the world and several trips to Russia as an evangelist. It was hard to find a day in his long ministry of fifty-three years that he was not preaching somewhere. He was the author of some forty books.
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