During the Second World War...
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During the Second World War, I was visiting a home of a young couple who were contemplating joining the church by baptism and confession of faith. As we talked, we suddenly heard the banshee moaning of the air raid sirens foretelling that German Heinkel bombers were approaching our town to complete the devastation of the previous six nights. We adjourned to the Anderson Air Raid Shelter in the garden: a hole in the ground in which were placed arched corrugated sheets of steel and the soil built on top. By oil lamp, we spoke about the things of the faith.
On the coastal road on the Mediterranean, the road to Gaza Philip suddenly came across a spacious carriage drawn up at the roadside and a stately gentleman sitting there reading aloud from the Book of Isaiah. When Philip asked, did he understand what he was reading he joined the man to explain. So this man of a royal court heard for the first time how the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah had been accomplished in the man Jesus of Nazareth.
-- Docherty
On the coastal road on the Mediterranean, the road to Gaza Philip suddenly came across a spacious carriage drawn up at the roadside and a stately gentleman sitting there reading aloud from the Book of Isaiah. When Philip asked, did he understand what he was reading he joined the man to explain. So this man of a royal court heard for the first time how the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah had been accomplished in the man Jesus of Nazareth.
-- Docherty