Outside the Old City, Seeking the New

Outside the Old City, Seeking the New
Hebrews 13.9-16

I mentioned earlier that I had been reading the diary of a clergyman who had been a prisoner of war from 1940 to 1945. It was both fascinating and frustrating. Fascinating as a firsthand, day-by-day account of the life such people had to endure. Frustrating because the Germans, not unnaturally, wouldn’t let people write things in diaries which they thought might be subversive. Just as all letters coming in or going out of the camp had to be screened by censors, so all diaries – and many prisoners kept them – were regularly checked, and would have been confiscated or destroyed if they had been saying anything too explicit about the progress of the war. This was so especially in the last year or two, when the Allies invaded Europe and the prisoners were eager for news, rumours, anything which might tell them how soon they would be liberated...

Taken from Hebrews for Everyone – by Tom Wright