That My Children May Remember
The Chosen People | Vol. 53, No 2 | Joseph Hoffman Cohn
The Stephens are not all dead. Here is proof. The martyr in this
case is with the Lord, but the widow carries on. To her six children,
Mrs. Lydia Spoerri Feinstein leaves a legacy priceless, a writing
down of those memory-seared days when, in the crucible of the
Jew extermination orgies of 1941 in Roumania, Isaac Feinstein in
his 38th year of life, gave bold testimony for the Lord Jesus Christ,
and then cried out, “Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit!” And we have an
idea that the gates of heaven opened wide, that Jesus bent over
the ramparts, and that all the heavenly trumpets sounded.
We print this story because we know it will be a blessing to our
friends; it was to us. Then, too, because this is one of the families
we have been supporting month by month, for now over six years,
with your money. And sometimes it is a welcome dividend to our
precious friends to behold in vivid image how the Lord honors
and uses your treasure and sacrifice. Weep, you may. But they will
be tears of gratitude for such a testimony as this. Is not this easily
and properly one of the illustrious imperishables of World War II?
In Budapest, in 1938, I begged Mr. Feinstein to leave Roumania and
come to New York. But he said he would be a coward to run away from
his duty in the face of danger. So, this epic of Christian martyrdom finds
its setting in Jassy, Roumania, with its closing scene in Switzerland,
where the good wife, with the six children, escaped by miracle. I saw
them on my European trip, and I prevailed upon the mother to write
this memorial for the children, before it would be too late. So read on!
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