The Man From God’s Underground

In the spring of 1965 I was asked by a newspaper editor to see a Rumanian pastor who had just reached the West, and although Iron Curtain refugees make little splash in the news these days there was something about this man, apparently, that lifted him above the ordinary. The editor had received a letter from a friend, a successful author, who had met him. He passed ittometo read.

“I attach a few notes on Pastor Wurmbrand’s experiences as he told them to me over two hours. They cannot do anything like justice to the personality of this remarkable man . . . I must say I have never been more moved by any account of the human spirit.” There was a lot more in the same vein. It is unlike this author to be easily impressed, least of all in spiritual concerns; but he suggested that the newspaper should run a series of articles (a series!) on the pastor’s life and struggles, and ended, “I regret that I cannot write it myself, much as I would like to do so, because I am off to New York tomorrow to do the book of a musical comedy.”

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In the spring of 1965 I was asked by a newspaper editor to see a Rumanian pastor who had just reached the West, and although Iron Curtain refugees make little splash in the news these days there was something about this man, apparently, that lifted him above the ordinary. The editor had received a letter from a friend, a successful author, who had met him. He passed ittometo read.

“I attach a few notes on Pastor Wurmbrand’s experiences as he told them to me over two hours. They cannot do anything like justice to the personality of this remarkable man . . . I must say I have never been more moved by any account of the human spirit.” There was a lot more in the same vein. It is unlike this author to be easily impressed, least of all in spiritual concerns; but he suggested that the newspaper should run a series of articles (a series!) on the pastor’s life and struggles, and ended, “I regret that I cannot write it myself, much as I would like to do so, because I am off to New York tomorrow to do the book of a musical comedy.”