He transformed his cell into a sanctuary.
The story of Herbert Schmidt in Nazi prison is returning to print after more than fifty years. The paperback price is $14.99.
“This book should be in every Pentecostal home.”
The Pentecostal Evangel
Herbert Schmidt was the first Assemblies of God missionary to eastern Europe and founded the region’s first Pentecostal Bible school. When he returned from furlough in 1939, little did he know that a Nazi prison cell awaited him. But in the midst of tragedy and war, God preserved his life and filled his heart with songs of praise in prison. This is a story of hairbreadth escapes and answers to prayer that you will not want to put down.
“In my heart a desperate cry rang out for deliverance, but I seemed to lack a strong grip in the prayer for my liberation. It was because the Holy Spirit did not back up that prayer at all, still I prayed and cried to God for my release. He however was not to deliver me but manifest his power and his great love which would transform my cell into a sanctuary. I was destined to learn to know my God from an entirely new angle.”
Herbert Schmidt’s prayer from the Gestapo prison (Danzig)
This is a testimony of God’s faithfulness in suffering. It was lost in the sands of time and has been recovered and reprinted thanks to missionaries currently serving in central Europe.
The original advertisement from the 1940s compares the story to “a modern detective story”!
“It is as thrillingly interesting as a modern detective story, with heartbreaking separations, hair-breadth escapes, and breathtaking times when discovery and death seem momentarily ready to happen. One cannot lay the book down until it has been read from cover to cover.”
Gospel Publishing House
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