Thierry reads, PG56: “One night, when confined in a hospital, he was approached by an alcoholic who had known a spiritualexperience. Our friend’s gorge rose as he bitterlycried out: “If there is a God, He certainly hasn’t doneanything for me!’’ But later, alone in his room, heasked himself this question: “Is it possible that all thereligious people I have known are wrong?’’ Whilepondering the answer he felt as though he lived inhell. Then, like a thunderbolt, a great thought came.It crowded out all else:“Who are you to say there is no God?’”

“BLT” Tom is reading from Pg 55:6 – “Our friend was a minister’s son. He attended church school, where he became rebellious at what he thought an overdose of religious education. For years thereafter he was dogged by trouble and frustration. Business failure, insanity, fatal illness, suicide— these calamities in his immediate family embittered and depressed him. Post-war disillusionment, ever more serious alcoholism, impending mental and physical collapse, brought him to the point of self-destruction.”