Emphasis Preaching Journal

Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian clergyman, was an army chaplain in World War II. On a troopship with a thousand marines, he was leading a Bible study as they passed the days until they would be home in America again. They came to the eleventh chapter of John and moved through the rising of Lazarus account. When the class was finished, all left but one. He wanted to talk, so the Chaplain went to his room where they could be alone, and the marine told his story. "Everything in that chapter is pointing to me," he said.