Sing a Little Louder
After
a speech, pro-life activist Penny Lea was approached by an old man. Weeping,
he told her the following story:
"I lived in Germany during the Nazi holocaust. I
considered myself a Christian. I attended church since I was a small boy. We
had heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews, but like most people
today in this country, we tried to distance ourselves from the reality of what
was really taking place. What could anyone do to stop it?
A railroad track ran behind our small church, and
each Sunday morning we would hear the whistle from a distance and then the
clacking of the wheels moving over the track. We became disturbed when one
Sunday we noticed cries coming from the train as it passed by. We grimly
realized that the train was carrying Jews. They were like cattle in those
cars!
Week after week that train whistle would blow. We
would dread to hear the sound of those old wheels because we knew that the
Jews would begin to cry out to us as they passed our church. It was so
terribly disturbing! We could do nothing to help these poor miserable people,
yet their screams tormented us. We knew exactly at what time that whistle
would blow, and we decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed by the
cries was to start singing our hymns.
By the time that train came rumbling
past the church yard, we were singing at the top of our voices. If some of the
screams reached our ears, we'd just sing a little louder until we could hear
them no more. Years have passed and no one talks about it much anymore, but I
still hear that train whistle in my sleep. I can still hear them crying out
for help. God forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians, yet did
nothing to intervene.
"Their screams tormented us . . . If some of
their screams reached our ears we'd just sing a little louder."
Now, so many years later, I see it happening all
over again in America. God forgive you as Americans for you have blocked out
the screams of millions of your own children. The holocaust is here. The
response is the same as it was in my country - SILENCE!"
Have you ever wondered HOW people could have
stood by and let the holocaust just happen? Do you wonder why the Christians
in this story chose to just sing their praise to God a little louder to drown
out the victim's cries?
The old man's story is in the past. The past
cannot be changed. It is easy to think we would act differently now. But the
old man's last words are haunting "It's happening all over again in America
with abortion. The Holocaust is here."
As American Christians, we have become so
comfortable in our lovely buildings and padded pews. We have beautiful
fellowship halls for our many banquets. We have the latest sound equipment for
our praise and worship. We have computers to keep our records. We gather
together each week and shut ourselves inside our buildings. We raise our
voices as loud as we can, all in the name of God.
And yet, in the heavenly realm, our voices raised
in praise are drowned out by screams of agony from millions of babies who are
being executed before they are born. We can't see them. We can't hear them.
But it is happening right now!
Babies are being aborted UP UNTIL THE DAY OF
BIRTH in this country. Their organs and brains are "harvested" for use in
medical experimentation. In Wichita, Kansas, the smoke stack from the furnace
of Dr. Tiller's abortion clinic belches out black smoke and the sickening
smell of burning flesh. These are the bodies of 7th, 8th and 9th month old
babies being "disposed of".
If the Christians in the old man's church had
done something, they would have probably been killed. That is not the case
with us. We don't even have that as an excuse for our silence.
Years from now will you be like that old man
trying to explain your apathy as millions were led away to slaughter in
abortion clinics? Or will you raise your voice and cry out in protest for
those who have no voice! The choice is YOURS!
FACTS ABOUT ABORTION
Fact: In the United States it is legal to abort a
baby up until the day of birth.
Fact: In the D&X procedure babies are "partially
aborted" so the head is still in the cervix but the body is out. While in this
position the live baby is still considered an "abortion" therefore a
non-person. The live baby's brains are sucked out and the other organs are
harvested and sold to "researchers". The baby receives no anesthesia and is
alive until the procedure kills him.
Fact: Every day in America about 4,400 babies die
painful deaths by dismemberment, chemical poisoning, lethal injections into
the heart, being torn limb from limb and now, being partially delivered and
having their brains sucked out and their organs sold.
Fact: Abortion has two victims - the baby and the
mother. Many women who have abortions suffer both physically and mentally.
Depression, anxiety, grief, infection, sterility and even death are not
uncommon as a result of the abortion.
Fact: Only 1% of abortions are performed as a
result of rape or incest. Most abortions are done as a form of birth control
because the baby is "inconvenient", "too expensive", or a "burden".
THE PASSENGER
written by: Penny Lea
I found myself in danger, I cried out in despair
I prayed, "Lord let them hear me! Let just one person care!"
I raised my voice to heaven as the train kept moving on.
As we passed behind the church yard I could hear the worship songs.
I cried out all the louder to the Christians there inside
but they raised the chorus louder not hearing me outside.
I knew they heard the whistle and the clacking of the tracks
They know that I was going to die and still they turned their backs.
I said, "Father in heaven how can your people be
so very hard of hearing to the cry of one like me?"
I shouted, "please have mercy! Just a prayer before I die!"
But they sang a little louder to the Holy One on High.
They raised their hands to heaven but blood was dripping down
The blood of all the innocent their voices tried to drown.
They have devotions daily, they function in My name
And they never even realized it was I upon that train.
"For as much as you've done it to the least of my
brethren, you've done it unto Me."
-Jesus Christ
Penny Lea, author of the poem and story, is a well known Pro-Life speaker and
writer. As director of the ministry I Believe in Life, she travels across the
country sharing her story and education people about the reality of abortion.
Penny Lea
P.O. Box 3226
Boone, NC 28607
Telephone: 828-265-2663
BUT WHAT CAN I DO?
1. Educate yourself! Research and study about the
worldwide abortion holocaust, which is only taking place because of our
silence and apathy.
2. Pray daily and ask God to show you how to help
in awakening the church from its sleep.
3. Challenge your pastor to take a stand with you
in preaching on and mobilizing your church to be active in fighting abortion.
4. Locate the abortion clinics nearest you, find
out when they kill babies, and go there to minister by holding a sign exposing
the reality of abortion and to distribute life-saving literature. Countless
numbers of women have decided not to go through with the abortion when they
met Christians at the doors and outside the clinics with open arms and
compassionate hearts. Babies are saved when Christians act like Christians!
Meet Amber and Allison who both were saved from
the murdering hands of an abortionist—thanks to Denny Green of Life and
Liberty Ministries by ministering outside of an abortion clinic in Richmond,
Virginia.
5. Volunteer at a local center helping young
women in crisis pregnancies. Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Birthrights need
help in every area - from sorting and mending baby and maternity clothes to
counseling. These organizations can be found in the yellow pages under
"Abortion Alternatives”.
6. Please plan to come on REPENT
AMERICA’S yearly anti-abortion tour at the end of September each year.
It is when we expose the reality of abortion in the Philadelphia and
surrounding areas using photographs of the murdered pre-born, have open-air
preaching and evangelism, and when we distribute thousands of pieces of
literature exposing the reality of abortion. Please e-mail us at
repent@repentamerica.com and let
us know that you are interested in coming. We will then send you information
on the tour.
7. People need to see the truth of abortion.
Leave literature in restrooms, Laundromats, lobbies, waiting rooms, airports -
anywhere it will be read. Put it in every bill you pay. Please contact us for
information on organizations which can provide you with this literature.
EVERY CHRISTIAN HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO RAISE
THEIR VOICE AND DO SOMETHING TO SAVE THESE UNBORN CHILDREN FROM BEING KILLED
BY THE HANDS OF AN ABORTIONIST. IF YOUR HEART IS NOT GRIEVED AFTER READING
THIS AND NOT MOVED TO DO SOMETHING TO FIGHT AGAINST THE MURDER OF THESE UNBORN
CHILDREN, YOU CAN BE ASSURED THAT YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN.
To order copies of this true
account in tract
format to distribute to others, please contact:
Heritage House ‘76, Inc.
919 South Main Street
Snowflake, AZ 85937
Tel: 1-800-858-3040
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