What Can We Do?
The Chosen People | May 1943
“What can we do?” Over and over again our friends are asking
us frantically the above question. Many of them have been
horror struck and sickened at heart beyond their own power to
describe when they have been reading of the almost unbelievable
savageries to which the Jews in the Nazi occupied lands are being
subjected. “It makes my heart sick to the very core,” wrote one
of our friends, “and I find myself driven to my knees as I implore
God to have mercy. But what else can I do? It does seem that
something can be done and something should be done to stop this
orgy of massacre and torture. Tell me what to do and I will do it.”
And from the saddest depths of our heart we can only answer the
dear child of God, this is the most important thing you can do—
pray! And keep on praying, for God wants us to be importunate in
our prayer to Him on Israel’s behalf.
For the moment, nothing material can be done; there is no possible
way to get money into the hands of these miserable victims of
demon hate; there is no way whereby we can rescue even one
family from the clutches of Hitler’s maw. But we can leave Hitler
and his horde to the hands of a just God. There must be a day of
reckoning for this unspeakable fury of hate and brutality.
WHEN HITLER COLLAPSES
But, there is coming a day, and it may be sooner than now looks
possible, when Hitler will collapse, the Nazi regime will come to its
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