Emphasis Preaching Journal

Nicky Cruz, the Puerto Rican author of the book, Run Baby Run tells how his early years were empty of love and filled with hate. He had overheard his mother, who was a pseudo-spiritualist, say to a group of similar soothsayers, that she believed Nicky was the son of an evil one. Describing his feelings, Nicky wrote as follows: "I ran to my room and threw myself on the bed. Not her child! Child of the evil one. No one loves me. No one cares. Hate welled up inside me. I hated my mother. God!